Spring 2014
The mysterious mass die-offs of honeybees that have wiped out roughly a
third of commercial colonies each year since 2006 may be linked to a
rapidly mutating virus that jumped from tobacco plants to soy plants to
bees, according to a new study.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/us/bee-deaths-may-stem-from-virus-study-says.html?_r=0
As public pressure builds to dig up coal ash from waste lagoons in North Carolina, Duke Energy is facing a potentially massive cleanup bill that the Charlotte electric utility has been trying to dodge.
Early indications suggest Duke’s price tag could approach $1 billion, based on ash removal expenses in South Carolina. Deciding who pays the bill – Duke’s customers or its shareholders – would pose another challenge.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/03/08/3682139/duke-energys-1-billion-cleanup.html
An area of extraordinarily high temperature stretching more than half way around the globe helped propel this past March into the record books as the fourth warmest since historical record-keeping began in 1880, according to NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
The global average temperature for March was warmer only in 2002, 2010 and 1990.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/2014/04/14/massive-sea-of-warmth/#.U01TJfldXZJ
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