Why Trashing the Oceans is More Dangerous Than We Imagined: Degrading plastics may cause serious toxic risk to ocean dwellers and, eventually, us. [Popsci]
Chestnuts to sprout from Appalachian strip mines: In a double-barreled approach to environmental restoration, Appalachian mountains scarred by strip-mining are being planted with American chestnut trees, a species that has been all but wiped out in the U.S. by a fungus. [LA Times]
New Rule Lets Builders ‘Bank’ Efforts to Restore Wetlands: Although the regulation establishes standards for lost wetlands, it emphasizes a preference to “bank” alternative wetlands. Environmentalists worried that the policy could encourage wetlands destruction and overall loss. [NYT]
Global warming felt more in Western U.S.: The American West is heating up faster than any other region of the United States, and faster than the Earth as a whole, according to a new analysis of 50 scientific studies. [LA Times]
Does Turning Fluorescent Lights Off Use More Energy Than Leaving Them On?: Incandescent lightbulbs are lumbering toward extinction. Now, how best to use their energy-efficient replacements? [Scientific American]
As Fight for Water Heats Up, Prized Fish Suffer: “The biggest worry for trout is that smaller streams will simply run dry in late summer and temperatures in the remaining pools will exceed lethal levels,” said Steven W. Running, a climate scientist at the University of Montana in Missoula who is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. [NYT]
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