May 2013:

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• "Water trapped for 1.5 billion years could hold ancient life":  NPR, 5/16/13
  
• "Meteorologist: Expect earlier, hotter than usual fire season":  Missoulian, 5/15/13
  
• "Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's David Bowie cover is an important moment for science":  TreeHugger.com, 5/14/13
• "US shale oil supply shock shifts global power balance":  BBC, 5/14/13
• "Earth's rotating inner core shifts speeds":  NBC News, 5/13/13
  
• "Atop a Hawaiian mountain, a constant sniff for carbon dioxide":  NPR, 5/10/13
  
• "Carbon dioxide level passes long-feared milestone":  New York Times, 5/10/13
  
• "Congress considers patch to keep helium supply afloat":  NPR, 5/8/13
  
• "Data show Bakken counties growing faster than Montana metro areas":  Missoulian, 5/8/13
  
• "NASA study projects warming-driven changes in global rainfall":  NASA, 5/3/13
  
• "Fleeing the flames in Southern California":  Los Angeles Times, 5/3/13
• "Faster drilling, diminishing returns in shale plays nationwide?":  ThinkProgress.org, 5/1/13
• "U.S. Geological Survey: 7.4B barrels of oil possible in North Dakota, Montana":  Missoulian, 5/1/13
  

April 2013:

• "Graphic: Nearly twice as much oil to be had":  Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), 4/30/13
• "US House passes bill that would head off massive helium shortage":  ScienceMag.org, 4/26/13
  
• "World's oldest hamburger? McDonald's burger from 1999 almost looks new [video]":  USA Today, 4/23/13
  
• "Tomorrow's ride [infographic]":  The Economist, 4/23/13
  
• "U.S. shows rapid rise of temps since first Earth Day":  ClimateCentral.org, 4/22/13
• "Death spiral video: Arctic sea ice minimum volume 1979-2012":  ClimateProgress.org, 4/22/13
  
• "10 tips to make every day Earth Day":  Treehugger.com, 4/22/13
• "For Earth Day: Feasting on low-carbon food":  OPB, 4/19/13
  
• "The cost of owning your car?  $9,000 a year":  USA Today, 4/16/13
  
• "Portland urban forager Becky Lerner's 'Dandelion Hunter' explores city's edible weeds":  OregonLive.com, 4/13/13
  
• "Let's stop hiding behind recycling and be honest about consumption [blog]":  The Guardian, 4/12/13
• "The fossil fuel resistance":  Bill McKibben, in Rolling Stone, 4/11/13
  
• "Nearly 80 percent of Americans hit by extreme weather disaster since 2007, report finds":  ThinkProgress.com, 4/9/13
• The report:  "In the path of the storm: Global warming, extreme weather and the impacts of weather-related disasters in the United States from 2007 to 2012":  EnvironmentAmerica.org
• "Fatbergs: Burning fat and oil to generate London power [+audio]":  BBC, 4/8/13
  
• "What happens to recycled batteries?":  OPB, 4/4/13
  
• "Eco-driving index: Average wales-weighted fuel-economy rating of purchased new vehicles for October 2007 through March 2013":  UMTRI, April 2013
  
• NASA Earth Month 2013 home page:  Lots of great images and videos!
• "Americans are driving less [viodeo]":  Streetfilms.org, 4/2/13
  
• "No April Fool's joke: Samoa air charges passengers by weight":  NPR, 4/2/13
• "Mammoth tunnel drilling machine arrives in Seattle":  Seattle Times, 4/2/13 + video and slides
  
• "Idaho dust storm speeds up snowmelt: 'Nobody on our staff has ever witnessed anything similar'":  ThinkProgress.org, 4/1/13
• "Melt may explain Antarctica's sea ice expansion":  BBC, 4/1/13
  

March 2013:

• "Scientists say oil industry likely caused largest Oklahoma earthquake":  National Geographic, 3/29/13
  
• "Back from the abyss, WHOI gets James Cameron's submarine":  ScienceMag.com, 3/28/13
• "Glacial legacy set stage for Washington landslide [+video]":  LiveScience, com, 3/28/13
• "Global warming predictions prove accurate":  Guardian, 3/27/13
  
• "Millennials spur capitalism with a conscience":  USA Today, 3/25/13
• "New research confirms global warming has accelerated":  SkepticalScience.com, 3/25/13
  
• "Unwrapping the new Twinkie":  Aljazeera, 3/25/13
• "Asteroid killed off dinosaurs? New study suggests comet instead caused extinction event [video]":  Huffington Post, 3/23/13
  
• "Drought that ravaged US crops likely to worsen in 2013, forecast warns":  Guardian, 3/21/13
  
• "Firm to halt oil work near park":  Daily InterLake, 3/20/13
  
• 3/20/12:  Happy spring!!
• "Curiosity breaks rock to reveal dazzling white interior":  BBC, 3/19/13
  
• "US oil production is booming.  Here's the catch.":  Washington Post, 3/19/13
  
• "Oregon could ban genetically engineered fish, require labeling of genetically modified foods":  OregonLive.com, 3/18/13
• "Earthquakes deposit gold in fault zones":  ScienceMag.org, 3/17/13
  
• "Mariana Trench: Deepest ocean'teems with microbes'":  BBC, 3/17/13
• "New EPA report: Initial data shows significant gains in fuel economy for 2012":  EPA, 3/15/13
  
• "Tiny pika petering out with waning snow and rain":  Idaho Statesman, 3/15/13
• "Scientists warn Oregon legislators of cataclysm when earthquake, tsunami strike":  OregonLive.com, 3/14/13
  
• "Similarities to Missoula megaflood seen on Mars, elsewhere on Earth":  Missoulian, 3/12/13
• "Can I see your violin's paperwork?":  Marketplace.org, 3/12/13
  
• "In America, food is getting cheaper... unless you're poor":  The Atlantic Cities, 3/8/13
  
• "Where to find comet PanSTARRS":  Sky and Telescope, 3/1/13
  
• "Recent heat spike unlike anything in 11,000 years":  Seattle Times, 3/7/13
• "Past century's global temperature change is fastest on record":  NPR, 3/8/13
  
• "Winter weather linied to rare event above North Pole":  ScienceNow, 3/6/13
  
• "Interactive: Compare your commute to the nation's longest":  NPR, 3/5/13
• "2012 rise in CO2 levels second-highest in54 years":  Huffington Post, 3/4/13
• "Interactive: The changing climate":  USA Today, 3/1/13
  

February 2013:

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• "U.S. inflation--Graphic of the day":  Thomson Reuters, 2/28/13
  
• "Fiennes's evacuation from Antarctica under way":  Phys.org, 2/27/13
• "Physicist proposes in science paper":  BBC, 2/26/13
  
• "Portland could generate renewable power in city water pipes":  OPB, 2/25/13
  
• "Etna paroxyysm 23 February 2013 [videos] ":  SwissEduc.ch (Stromboli Online), 2/25/13
  
• "2012 US coal exports reach record high":  ThinkProgress.org, 2/21/13
  
• "US Latino population up 47% in 11 years":  The Seattle Times, 2/20/13
• "Halve meat consumption, scientists urge rich world":  The Guardian, 2/17/13
  
• "How the rock hyrax's toilet habits left climate scientists a 55,000-year trail":  The Guardian, 2/16/13
• "Once again, US lawmakers move to head off helium crisis":  ScienceMag.org, 2/15/13
  
• "Pay-per-mile car insurance woos Portlanders":  OPB, 2/14/13
• "Asteroid's closest pass--Graphic of the day":  Thomson Reuters, 2/15/13
  
• "Outdoor recreation economy":  OutdoorIndustry.org, February 2013
  
• "Danger of death! How you are unlikely to die [infographic]":  The Economist, 2/14/13
  
• "Breaking: huge meteor blazes across sky over Russia; sonic boom shatters windows [+videos]":  Slate.com, 2/15/13
  
• "LHC switches off for two-year break":  BBC, 2/14/13
  
• "Cryosat reveals major loss of Arctic sea ice":  European Space Agency, 2/13/13
  
• Animation of monthly sea ice volume:  ESA, February 2013
  
• "UM professors, activists warn of global warming's effects on wildlife, lands":  Missoulian, 2/13/13
  
• "Amazing footage of a satellite deployment in space":  NASA (via Slate.com), 2/12/13
  
• "Understanding peer review":  ScienceBlogs.com, 2/11/13
• "Assessing science on the internet":  Sense About Science (SenseAboutScience.org)
  
• "U.S. fertility rates fall to all-time low":  NPR, 2/11/13
  
• "Second lives sought for Kalispell's dying trees":  Daily InterLake, 2/9/13
  
• "State of the Climate: 2012 global temperatures 10th highest on record":  NOAA, February 2013
• "This is what a melting glacier sounds like":  ClimateDesk.org, 2/7/13
  
• "Close-call asteroid is half-size of football field [video]":  USA Today, 2/6/13
  
• "Quake off Solomon Islands triggers deadly tsunami":  BBC, 2/6/13
• "Report: Climate change could devastate agriculture":  USA Today, 2/5/13
  
• "Two cities set up drop boxes for unwanted medications":  Daily InterLake, 2/5/13
• "Study: Big game is getting smaller":  KPLU, 2/4/13
  
• "Richard III dig: DNA confirms bones are king's":  BBC, 2/4/13
  
• "In China, a breath of fresh air (in a can)":  NPR, 2/3/13
  
• "Letter from Secretary Steven Chu to Energy Department employees announcing his decision not to serve a second term":  Energy.gov, 2/1/13
  
• "Feds say wolverines need protection, cite climate change":  Missoulian, 2/1/13
  

January 2013:

• "Once extinct here, wolverines on the rebound":  The Seattle Times, 1/31/13
  
• "Portugal's monster: The mechanics of a massive wave":  NPR, 1/31/13
  
• Full moon video shot in Wellington, New Zealand:  Vimeo (Mark Gee), January 2013
  
• "Pale blue blobs invade, freeze, then vanish":  NPR, 1/30/13
  
• "Supermassive black hole weighed using new scale":  BBC, 1/30/13
  
• "China's energy appetite bodes will for big coal":  USNews.com, 1/29/13
  
• "Missoula City Council passes plan to be carbon neutral by 2025":  Missoulian, 1/29/13
  
• "Bird, plane, bacteria? Microbes thrive in storm clouds":  NPR, 1/29/13
• "Tidal power project in Puget Sound one step closer to approval": OPB, 1/28/13
• "Explained in 90 seconds: It's cold. That doesn't mean global warming is fake":  ClimateDesk.org, 1/25/13
  
• "Toyota Prius hybrid was top-selling car in California":  USA Today, 1/23/13
  
• "Chilling! Arctic air invasion seen in animation":  Discovery.com, 1/25/13
  
• "Brrr! 'Dead of winter' sets in; coldest air in nearly two years":  NPR, 1/22/13
  
• "Nebraska governor approves Keystone pipeline":  USA Today, 1/22/13
• "Nations agree on legally binding mercury rules":  BBC, 1/21/13
• "Oxfam says world's rich could end poverty":  Al Jazeera, 1/20/13
• "Long-term global warming trend continues":  NASA, 1/16/13
• "2012 among 10 warmest years [infographic]":  Thomson Reuters, 1/16/13
  
• "A mysterious patch of light shows up in the North Dakota dark":  NPR, 1/16/13
  
• " Draft climate assessment warns of devastating 9-15 degree warming over most of U.S.":  ThinkProgress.org, 1/11/13
• "Picture: Look how much natural gas gets flared at oil fields in North Dakota":  ThinkProgress.org, 1/10/13
  
• "State of the climate":  NOAA, January 2013
• "2012 was hottest year on record for U.S. lower 48 states, says NOAA":  Treehugger.com, 1/9/13
• "Australia's Climate Bureau: Get used to record breaking heat":  Scientific American, 1/8/13
• "Eco-driving index: Average sales-weighted fuel economy of purchased new vehicles for October 2007 through December 2012":  Transportation Research Institute at the University of Michigan, 1/3/13
  
• "Video on 2012's extreme weather: 'A jawdropping year'":  ThinkProgress.org, 1/3/13
  
• "Plastic bottle ban in Concord, Massachusetts goes into effect":  Huffington Post, 1/2/13
  

December 2012:

• "How many gigatons of carbon dioxide...? [infographic]":  Information Is Beautiful, December 2012
  
• "Award-winning PV cell pushes efficiency higher":  NREL, 12/28/12
• "Phew! Asteroid to miss Earth in 2040, NASA says":  CNN.com, 12/24/12
  
• "Mealworms beat meat for a place on the menu in environmental study":  NPR, 12/19/12
• "NOAA announces astounding planetary heat record":  AGU, 12/18/12
• "Coal to equal oil as world's top energy wource within 10 years":  BBC, 12/18/12
  
• "A first: State recycles more than it throws away":  The Seattle Times, 12/18/12
• "New route picked for planned Montana coal railroad":  The Missoulian, 12/18/12
• "Lake Ellsworth: Drilling effort runs into trouble":  BBC, 12/17/12
  
• "Mother Nature is just getting warmed up: Record-smashing early December assures 2012 will be hottest in US history":  ThinkProgress.org, 12/13/12
• "Twin NASA probes prepare fro Dec. 17 mission-ending Moon impact":  NASA, 12/13/12 + Graphic of the Day from Reuters, 12/17/12
• "Land footprint--an introduction":  Seattle Transit Blog, 12/17/12
• "Relax: Santa unaffected by Arctic ice loss":  Discovery.com, 12/13/12
• "ScienceCasts: Why the world didn't end yesterday [YouTube video]":  ScienceAtNASA, 12/11/12
  
• "Dallas beats Chicago for first snow of the season; record snowless streak in Chicago":  Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog, 12/11/12
• "How green is that Christmas tree?":  The Washington Post, 12/10/12
  
• "Smoke from Arctic wildfires may have caused Greenland's record thaw":  The Guardian, 12/7/12
• "NOAA sees sea level rise of up to 6.6 feet by 2100":  USA Today, 12/6/12
• "Arctic Report Card: Update for 2012":  NOAA, December 2012
  
• "Astronauts will spend a year in space testing effects on body and mind":  The Guardian, 12/5/12
• "Ghana solar energy plant set to be Africa's largest":  BBC, 12/4/12
  
• "Greenland ice sheet continues to thin":  Discovery.com, 12/4/12
  
• "Oil trains on the rise in the Northwest":  OPB, 12/4/12
• "Portland General Electric tests biofuel options to replace coal at Boardman plant":  OregonLive.com, 12/3/12
• "'Giant reed' Arundo donax--miracle biofuel or invasive menace?":  OregonLive.com, 11/28/12
  
• "Canada ranked as worst performer in the developed world on climate change":  ClimateActionNetwork.ca, 11/3/12
• "Emissions study: 2 million pounds of carbon dioxide released into air every second":  OregonLive.com, 12/2/12
• "Bicycle traffic signals get a green light":  USA Today, 12/2/12
  

November 2012:

• "Washington scientists study mystery mounds under Hood Canal":  OregonLive.com, 11/30/12
  
• "Pictures: Bakken shale oil boom transforms North Dakota":  National Geographic, 11/30/12
  
• "First marine wilderness in continental US is designated":  The Los Angeles Times, 11/29/12
• "Understanding the Doha climate talks, in three easy charts":  The Washington Post, 11/28/12
• "Infographic: The politics of climate change":  Aljazeera, 11/18/12
  
• "Thawing of permafrost expected to cause significant additional global warming, not yet accounted for in climate predictions":  0United Nations Environment Programme, 11/27/12
  
• "Choked up (Twilight of the Twinkies)":  The Economist, 11/23/12
  
• "Climate change evident across Europe, says report":  BBC, 11/21/12
  
• "Stop the parade! Should we be wasting our dwindling supply of helium on floating cartoon characters?":  Slate.com, 11/20/12
  
• "Golden oldie: Maine 'Twinkie' stands test of time":  WCVB.com, 11/19/12
  
• "Northwest's second geothermal power plant enters service":  KPLU, 11/19/12
  
• "If you're 27 or younger, you've never experienced a colder-than-average month":  Grist.com, November 2012
• "The Big Apple's mayor makes a very scary video [video]":  NPR, 11/17/12
  
• "Catching up on climate change in Idaho":  The Idaho Statesman, 11/16/12
  
• "From field to fork [infographic]":  1000 Friends of Oregon, November 2012
  
• "Rare solar eclipse causes two minutes of darkness [video]":  USA Today, 11/14/12
• "Break free from the carbon confusion [book review]":  The Center for a New American Dream, 11/14/12
  
• "Federal scientists uncover evidence that oilsands contaminants travel further than expected":  The Edmonton Journal, 11/13/12
  
• "LED replacements hit stores empty of 100W bulbs":  Mercury News (San Jose, CA), 11/13/12
  
• "World 2011 CO2 emissions up 2.5 percent: German institute":  Reuters, 11/13/12
• "Global CO2 emissions hit record in 2011 led by China: IEA":  Reuters, 5/24/12
  
• "60 percent of women in Congress were Girl Scouts":  Mother Jones, 11/12/12
  
• "Bad news for salmon: Streams warmer and lower":  Seattle Times, 11/6/12
• "Stunning NASA visualizations: Sandy vs. Katrina":  ClimateCentral.org, 11/6/12
  
• "What we can learn from the Bay Area's sea rise [+videos]":  Oregon Public Broadcasting, 11/6/12
• "Geoengineering is th eanswer to climate change.  Unless it isn't":  The Washington Post, 11/5/12
• "Bat research around Idaho desert caves prepares for disease":  Idaho Statesman, 11/5/12
  
• "ISS crew 'Vogue' before spacewalk":  BBC, 11/1/12
  

October 2012:

• "Experts warm of superstorm era to come [+photos]":  CNN,10/31/12
  
• "US, NZ resolve Antarctica stand off":  The West Australian, 10/29, 12
  
• "The making of a superstorm: Part hurricane, part nor'easter and all trouble [+infographic]":  AP, 10/28/12
• "Hurricane Sandy: After landfall [photos]":  The Atlantic, 10/30/12
  
• Teaching about hazards in geoscience, Hurricane Sandy--October, 2012:  SERC, 10/29/12
  
• "The web's best visualizations of Hurricane Sandy":  Slate.com, 10/29/12
  
• Hurricane Sandy page:  National Hurricane Center
• "Overnight view of Hurricane Sandy":  NASA Earth Observatory, 10/29/12
  
• "Frankenstorm: has climate change created a monster?":  NPR, 10/28/12
• "The science of why Sandy is such a dangerous storm":  NPR, 10/29/12
• "Camelina researchers on cutting edge of biofuel, nutraceutical, livestock possibilities":  Daily InterLake, 10/27/12
• "Oregonians sent less trash to landfills in 2011; per person disposal hit record low":  OregonLive.com, 10/25/12
  
• "Why 'singing' sand dunes hum certain notes":  ScienceDaily.com, 10/24/12
• "US may soon become world's top oil producer":  AP, 10/23/12
  
• "How fly farming may help more fish stay in the sea":  NPR, 10/23/12
  
• "Lorca earthquake 'caused by groundwater extraction'":  BBC, 10/22/12
  
• "Video: haunting time-lapse of Seattle without people":  KPLU.org, 10/22/12
• "Scientists link deep wells to deadly Spain quake":  AP, 10/21/12
• "Elusive El Nino challenges NOAA's 2012 US winter outlook":  NOAA, 10/18/12
  
• "Americans' global warming beliefs and attitudes in September 2012":  Yale University, 10/18/12
  
• "Keystone XL construction draws opposition from Texas landowners":  Huffington Post, 10/17/12
• "Antiscience beliefs jeopardize U.S. democracy":  Scientific American, 10/17/12
  
• "Anyone want to ride a cardboard bike? [+video]":  Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 10/16/12
  
• "Running a marathon: How green are our two legs?":  The Washington Post, 10/16/12
• "CA greenhouse gas rules face major court test":  The Mercury News (San Jose, CA), 10/15/12
• "Did you see this? The Lego Stratos jump [video]":  Slate.com, 10/15/12
• "Time-lapse video: Space shuttle Endeavour's trek across LA":  The Los Angeles Times, 10/15/12
• "An illustrated guide to the science of global warming impacts: How we know inaction is the gravest threat humanity faces":  ThinkProgress.org, 10/14/12
  
• "NOAA: Around world, September tied record for warmest temperatures":  NPR, 10/15/12
  
• "Report: Climate change behind rise in weather disasters":  USA Today, 10/10/12
  
• "Bikes aren't just good for you, they're good for the economy, too [infographic]":  FastCoExist.com, 10/9/12
  
• "Watch supersonic skydive live: Video of Felix Baumgartner's jump":  National Geographic, 10/8/12
• "If you're moving faster than the speed of sound, can you hear yourself scream?":  Slate.com, 10/11/12
  
• "Felix Baumgartner skydive: Supersonic parachute jump attempt raises serious scientific question [+slideshow]:  Huffington Post, 10/5/12
• Red Bull Stratos home page (with blog, current status, etc.)
  
• "Oceans' rising acidity a threat to shellfish--and humans":  LA Times, 10/6/12
  
• "California gas prices surge: 20 cents overnight in some places [+video]":  The Christian Science Monitor, 10/5/12
  
• "Does your gas tank hold enough food to feed 22 people?":  NPR, 10/5/12
  
• "Oregon volcano power project gets green light":  New Scientist, 10/3/12
  
• "High food prices forecast more global riots ahead, researchers say":  NPR, 10/2/12
• "Gregoire orders state offices to reduce energy use":  Seattle Times, 10/1/12
• "World faces ageing population time bomb says UN":  The Telegraph, 10/1/12
  

September 2012:

• "Must-see video on Arctic sea ice":  From Dan's Wild Wild Science Journal (D. Satterfield's AGU blog), 9/30/12
• "USA Today analysis: Water costs gush higher":  USA Today, 9/29/12
  
• "Map of the day: Where Americans use the most oil":  The Atlantic Cities, 9/27/12
  
• "Bee parasite found here, and it really is scary":  The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA), 9/25/12
• "Satellites trace sea level change":  BBC, 9/24/12
  
• "As Arctic ice melts, so does the snow, and quickly":  NPR, 9/24/12
  
• "Asian energy boom threatens Montana ranches":  Seatlle Post-Intelligencer, 9/21/12
  
• "Fuel efficiency could jump 50 percent by 2040":  The Christian Science Monitor, 9/21/12
• "Coal-fired power plant in Montana to shutter in 2015":  OregonLive.com, 9/20/12
  
• "Study: Western wildfires burning bigger, season lasting longer":  The Missoulian, 9/19/12
• "MIT study: For every 1 degree C rise in temperature, tropical regions will see 10 percent heavier rainfall extremes":  ThinkProgress.org, 9/18/12
• "Shell abandons plans to drill in the Arctic this year: Oil giant still ill-equipped to handle extreme Arctic conditions":  Sierra Club, 9/17/12
  
• "The Arctic's record breaking ice melt [video]":  NOAA via YouTube, 9/17/12
  
• "Good Food On A Tight Budget"
  
• "Curiosity finishes self-inspection, photographs Phobos":  GizMag.com, 9/16/12
• "Not just any day job: Te view from 11,000 feet":  Seattle Times, 9/16/12
• "Wildfires in Idaho":  NASA Earth Observatory, 9/14/12 
  
• "Fisheries declared disasters on 4 coasts":  Mother Jones, 9/13/12
• "Warmer temperatures make new USDA plant zone map obsolete":  The City College of New York, 9/12/12
  
• "Wildfires in Washington":  NASA Earth Observatory, 9/11/12
  
• "In U.S., 2012 so far is hottest year on record":  Reuters.com, 9/10/12
  
• "Enough wind to power global energy demand: New research examines limits, climate consequences":  ScienceDaily.com, 9/9/12
  
• "Whitefish hydro plant goes online":  Daily InterLake, 9/8/12
• "Global groundwater use outpaces supply":  ScienceNews.com, 9/8/12
  
• "Climate change: How the wet will get wetter and the dry will get drier [+ video]":  ThinkProgress, 9/5/12
  
• "Americans waste historic aounts of food while one in six lacks food security":  FarmPlate.com, 9/5/12
  
• "Why organic food may not be healthier for you":  NPR, 9/4/12
  
• "Must-see video: What if a TV weather forecaster told the truth [video]":  ThinkProgress.org, 9/4/12
  
• "Climate chnage breaks the ice: 3-man sailboat makes record voyage":  The Los Angeles Times, 9/3/12
  

August 2012:

• "Shifting distribution of northern hemisphere summer temperature anomalies, 1951-2011 [animation]":  NASA, August 2012
  
• "Study: Oregon, Washington drivers' gas consumption at lowest level in nearly 50 years":  OregonLive, 8/29/12
  
• "Judge recommends approving Utah tar sands mine":  Salt Lake Tribune, 8/29/12
  
• "Isaac reaches hurricane strength, approaching landfall in SE Louisiana":  The Washington Post (live blog), 8/28/12
• "New mileage standards would double fuel efficiency":  NPR, 8/28/12
  
• "This is the worst summer ever for Arctic Sea ice [+video]":  Motherboard.vice.com, 8/27/12
• Also check out the Arctic Sea Ice blog
• "Arctic sea ice shrinks to new low in satellite era [+images]":  NASA, 8/27/12
  
• "Media advisory:  Arctic sea ice breaks lowest extent on record":  National Snow and Ice Data Center, 8/27/12
  
• "Park Service rewrites naturalness manifesto":  Idaho Statesman, 8/25/12
• "Neil Armstrong, 1930-2012:  Made 'giant leap' as first man to step on Moon":  New York Times, 8/25/12
• "Thanks to student activism, Los Angeles schools have banned Styrofoam":  Good.is, 8/24/12
  
• "Willing to play the dating game with your food?  Try a grocery auction":  NPR, 8/23/12
  
• "Why do taxpayers subsidize farmers' insurance?":  NPR, 8/23/12
• "Tar sands videos greatest hits":  Vancouver Observer, 8/21/12
  
• "Arctic sea ice set to hit record low":  BBC, 8/21/12
• "Curiosity's dirty little secret":  Slate.com, 8/20/12
  
• "How much does a hamburger cost?  That depends":  NPR, 8/20/12
  
• "Emergency oil stocks--Graphic of the day":  Thomson Reuters, 8/17/12
  
• "U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, 2011" ("U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from energy use fell in 2011"):  U.S. Energy Information Administration, 8/14/12
• "NCDC releases July 2012 U.S. monthly climate report: July 2012 marked the hottest month on record for the contiguous United States.":  National Climate Data Center, 8/9/12
• "The laziness of the short-distance runner: Performing daily chores can use up more calories than winning gold medals [infographic]":  The Economist, 8/8/12
  
• "How hot was it? July was warmest month on record for U.S.": NPR, 8/8/12
• "Alaskan Arctic villages hit hard by climate change":  The Washington Post, 8/7/12
• "What a big bunch of garbage: but Roosevelt Landfill turns it into power":  The Seattle Times, 8/6/12
• "Watch 131 years of global warming in 26 seconds [video]":  ClimateCentral.org, 8/6/12
• "Climate change study ties recent heat waves to global warming":  Huffington Post, 8/4/12
  
• "Mars rover's 'crazy' landing, step by step [pictures]":  National Geographic, 8/4/12
• NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity) home page
• "Can Facebook show how to reduce the growing energy use of the Internet?":  Scientific American, 8/3/12
• "Put a bird on it: Oregon farmer uses falcons to protect valuable blueberries":  The Oregonian, 8/2/12
• "The secrets frackers are allowed to keep":  The Atlantic Cities, 8/1/12
• "Curiosity's Mars landing--Graphic of the day":  Thomson Reuters, 8/1/12
  
• "Major earthquake in Oregon could be in next 50 years, infrastructure not ready":  The Oregonian, 8/1/12
  

July 2012:

• "Air pollution--Graphic of the day":  Thomson Reuters, 7/31/12
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• "U.S. drought--Graphic of the day":  Thomson Reuters, 7/20/12
  
• "Global warming's terrifying new math":  Rolling Stone, 7/19/12
• "Exurbs, the fastest growing areas in the US":  The Atlantic Cities, 7/19/12
  
• "Global resources stock check [infographic]":  BBC, 7/18/12
  
• "Interactive: Mapping the US drought":  NPR, 7/18/12
  
• "'The Dust Bowl of 2012': Drought covers majority of U.S. and 'might be a $50 billion event for the economy'":  ThinkProgress.org, 7/17/12
  
• "How good were climate models 30 years ago?":  NPR, 7/17/12
• "WATCH: Epic mudslide caught on camera":  The Vancouver Sun, 7/16/12
• "Charts: What your trash reveals about the world economy":  Mother Jones, 7/16/12
  
• "Infographic: Extreme weather and climate change":  Union of Concerned Scientists, 7/16/12
• "Must-see: Best news report this year on link between climate change and extreme weather":  ThinkProgress.org.7/15/12
• "Inside Story Americas--Extreme weather: Linked to climate change?":  Al Jazeera English, 7/11/12
• "From coal to gas: The potential risks and rewards":  NJPR, 7/15/12
  
• "Micro-apartments next for S.F.?":  SF Gate, 7/13/12
• "How do feces get fossilized? The crappy origins fo the archaeology of North America's first people":  Slate.com, 7/13/12
  
• "The natural gas boom: Doing more harm than good?":  NPR, 7/12/12
  
• "The Greendex: Green, grow or guilt?":  The Economist, 7/12/12
  
• "Temperatures climbing, weather more unstable, a majority says in poll":  The Washington Post, 7/12/12
• "Pedestrian power: A million pairs of feet to light sustainable walkway to London 2012 Olympic Park":  London 2012 Olympics (London2012.com), 7/11/12
  
• "Condit Dam removal nearing completion, possibly safe for boaters in September":  OregonLive.com, 7/11/12
• "Listen: You can hear the northern lights, researchers say":  NPR, 7/10/12
  
• "Welcome to the rest of our lives":  YouTube, 7/9/12
• "Analysis: Northwest on track with energy-saving goals":  OPB, 7/9/12
• "Green gyms focus on high-power workouts, low-power usage":  Los Angeles Times, 7/7/12
• "The Higgs particle--graphic of the day":  Thomson Reuters, 7/6/12
  
• "City by city, Northwest bans plastic shopping bags":  OPB, 7/6/12
• "Has the U.S. reached 'Peak Car'?":  Scientific American, 7/5/12
  
• "Official: More in US convinced of climate change":  Seattle Times, 7/5/12
• "Live and let live: The best city in the world":  The Economist, 7/3/12
  
• "72 percent of the US is experiencing dry or drought conditions":  Mother Jones, 7/2/12
• "100 years of earthquakes on one gorgeous map":  Smithsonian [blog], 7/2/12
  

June 2012:

• "State of the climate: National overview, June 2012":  NOAA, 6/30/12
• "Blackfeet women join together to oppose oil, gas 'fracking'":  Missoulian, 6/30/12
  
• "A 'land hurricane' strikes states from Midwest to East; New storms predicted":  NPR, 6/30/12
  
• "How do plants know which way is up and which way is down?":  NPR, 6/22/12
• "Global carbon emissions rise is far bigger than previous estimates":  The Guardian, 6/21/12
• "All the water it takes to produce a burger [video]":  FastCoExist.com, 6/21/12
• "Fox thought extinct in Oregon possibly photographed on Mt. Hood":  OregonLive.com, 6/20/12
• "Eating disorder: If the whole world had the same proportion of overweight and obese people as America, its biomass would rise by 20% [infographic]":  The Economist, 6/19/12
  
• "Visualization of the day: The population growth of 590 cities":  The Atlantic Cities, 6/19/12
• "Updated rankings for pesticide levels in produce":  OregonLive.com, 6/18/12
• 2012 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce:  Environmental Working Group
  
• "A state-by-state climate map":  The New York Times (blog), 6/13/12
• "The heat is on: U.S. temperature trends":  Climate Central, 6/15/12
• "NOAA: Second hottest May on record globally, hottest for northern hemisphere":  ThinkProgress.org, 6/14/12
  
• "Strip malls and big box stores linked to increased traffic deaths among seniors":  The Atlantic Cities, 6/12/12
• "Study: Climate change will cause more wildfires":  USA Today, 6/12/12
  
• "The top 10 U.S. cities with quality outdoor space":  FastCoExist.com
• "While Harper dithers, provincial CO2 imbalance problem burns":  The Vancouver Observer, 6/11/12
• "Poll: Americans know how to save energy, but balk":  The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 6/9/12
• "What America spends on groceries":  NPR, 6/8/12
  
• "Earth may be near tipping point, scientists warn":  The Los Angeles Times, 6/7/12
• "Beneath Arctic ice, scientists find an ecosystem never imagined (+ video)":  The Christian Science Monitor, 6/7/12
  
• "The melting north":  The Economist, 6/16/12
  
• "Viewing the transit of Venus from space":  NASA, 6/6/12; here's the Astronomy Picture of the Day and the image gallery from SpaceWeather.com
  
• "LIVE NOW: Venus transits the face of the Sun":  NPR, 6/5/12
• "10 infographics on energy":  EcoSalon.com, 6/3/12
  

May 2012:

• "Massive economic growth does little for happiness in China":  Mongabay.com, 5/29/12
  
• "Supercomputer will help researchers map climate change down to the local level":  The Washington Post, 5/28/12
• "California smog threatens world's oldest trees":  Atlanta Jornal-Constitution, 5/28/12
  
• "Consumer Reports survey: American say fuel economy most important car buying factor":  MarketWatch.com, 5/22/12
  
• "Ring of fire: Rare annular solar eclipse over parts of North America and Asia [photos]":  Telegraph, 5/20/12
• "Photos: Annular solar eclipse of May 20, 2012":  Space.com, 5/20/12
  
• "The end of fish, in one chart":  The Washington Post, 5/20/12
• "U.S. bottled water sales are booming (again) despite opposition":  National Geographic, 5/17/12
  
• "Vermont fracking ban: Green mountain state is first in U.S. to restrict gas drilling technique":  Huffington Post, 5/16/12
  
• "Partial solar eclipse to be visible from western United States":  The Telegraph, 5/16/12
• "How large stars die [animation]":  Scientific America, 5/16/12
  
• "Evolution of Portland's bikeway network: 1980-future [animation]":  BikePortland.org, 5/15/12
• "America's most endangered rivers for 2012":  American Rivers, 5/15/12
  
• "US coal generation drops 19 percent in one year, leaving coal with 36 percent share of electricity":  ThinkProgress, 5/14/12
• "Russian satellite takes incredibly detailed 121MP photos of the entire planet [+ video]":  PetaPixel.com, 5/14/12
  
• "Climate change accelerating, complicating Idaho's spring runoff":  Idaho Statesman, 5/8/12
  
• "Salazar 'flips the switch' on first large-scale solar energy project on public lands to provide power to the grid":  Department of Interior, 5/7/12
  
• "Photos from Climate Impacts Day: The links between climate change and extreme weather":  ThinkProgress.org, 5/7/12
  
• "Exporting coal presents myriad health, environmental concerns" [Opinion]:  OregonLive, 5/7/12
  
• "Perigee 'Super Moon" on May 5-6":  NASA, 5/2/12
  
• "Track where your stuff comes from, down to the tiniest part":  Fast.Co.Exist.com, 5/2/12
• "Energy developers eye new grid-stabilizing hydro projects":  EarthFix/OPB, 5/1/12
  

April 2012: 

• "Multinational food companies [map]":  Convergence Alimentaire, 4/30/12
  
• "Report: World progress too slow on climate control":  The Washginton Post, 4/30/12
  
• "Most polluted cities":  From the State of the Air 2012 report by the American Lung Association
• "Data: Glacier National Park getting both hotter and drier":  Missoulian, 4/21/12
  
• "Welcome to the Anthropocene":  A new web page with short film
  
• "Videos probe climate/extreme weather puzzles":  Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media, 4/17/12
  
• "If the food's in plastic, what's in the food?":  The Washington Post, 4/16/12
  
• "How happy is Oregon?  Governor Kitzhaber joins Portland State University class that aims to find out":  OregonLive.com, 4/16/12
  
• "Over 100 tornadoes in 24 hours":  TheReadyStore.com, 4/16/12--Here are some photos from Yahoo News
  
• "CHARTS:  Just how big is Walmart?":  Mother Jones, March/April 2012
  
• "The societal costs of car use [video]":  Copenhagenize.com, 4/12/12
• "Gas mileage, CAFE performance up 20% since late 2007":  University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, 4/12/12 (report)
• "Astronomers discover sandstorms in space":  ScienceDaily, 4/11/12
  
• "Indonesia earthquake:  WHy no tsunami this time?":  The Christian Science Monitor, 4/11/12
• "Why learning leads to happiness":  Huffington Post, 4/10/12
  
• "Wind at sea is strangely Van Goghish, says NASA":  NPR, 4/10/12
  
• "What America buys":  NPR, 4/5/12
• "Newberry geothermal project gets a green light":  OPB, 4/5/12
  
• "Titanic wreck gets UNESCO protection":  BBC, 4/5/12
• "Infographic: United States of the Environment"  Mother Nature Network, 4/4/12
  
• "Why are gas prices so high?  A multimedia explanation":  Slate.com, 4/3/12
  
• "March weather 2012:  Month was warmest on record across half of US, expert says":  Huffington Post, 4/3/12
• "Gold miners dig deep--to the ocean floor":  NPR, 4/2/12
• "Global warming began in oceans 135 years ago, suggests study":  The Christian Science Monitor, 4/2/12
  

March 2012:

• "Earth Hour 2012--in pictures":  The Guardian, 3/31/12; also photos from the Vancouver Sun
• "Portland's sharing economy:  Borrowing, swapping and sharing":  NeighborhoodNotes.com, 3/30/12
  
• "Where the green jobs are":  The Atlantic, March 2012
• "Filmmaker James Cameron completes solo dive to bottom of the ocean":  NPR, 3/26/12
  
• "Stuck with high gas prices, drivers just pump less":  Idaho Statesman, 3/23/12
• "Warming causing polar bear-human conflicts, Alberta professor says":  Missoulian, 3/23/12
  
• "Fred Meyer will no longer carry beef with 'pink slime'":  OregonLive.com, 3/22/12
• "How big is space? [infographic]":  BBC, 3/22/12
  
• "US intel:  Water a cause for war in coming decades":  Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 3/22/12
• "Honda successfully pulls off large-scale hybrid battery recycling":  Gas2.org, 4/20/12
  
• "Strong, long 7.6 quake shakes Mexico City":  New York Times, 3/20/12--Washington Post photo gallery
  
• "Legalize used pickle jars":  Sightline Daily, 3/19/12
  
• "Birds and the bees (and ginkgo trees!)":  KUOW, 3/19/12
  
• "Skydiver Felix Baumgartner on track for super jump":  BBC, 3/16/12
  
• "Bio station examines netting, cascading effects": The Daily InterLake, 3/15/12
  
• "What's behind these high gas prices?  [infographic]":  NPR, 3/15/12
  
• "Surging Seas [interactive map]":  ClimateCentral.org, March 2012
• "Carbon bomb? [graphic]":  Vancouver Observer, 3/13/12
  
• "Widespread record warmth to continue next 7-10 days; Midwest severe weather possible next week":  Washington Post, 3/13/12
  
• "The Obama energy agenda:  Gas prices [infographic]": White House presentations channel (slideshare.net), 3/12/12
• "NW tsunami preparedness still shaky":  The Seattle Times, 3/10/12
• "March 2012 becomes warmest on record [animation]":  ClimateCentral.org, 4/9/12
  
• "Umatilla chemical depot employees, nearby communities, celebrate its end":  OPB, 3/8/12
• "Entire nation of Kiribati to be relocated over rising sea level threat":  The Telegraph, 3/7/12
• "Thin ice:  Outdoor rinks face meltdown":  The Gazette (Montreal), 3/5/12
  
• "Driving is a dying activity in America":  BusinessInsider.com, 3/5/12
  
• "Indiana tornado updates [photo gallery]":  IndyStar.com, 3/4/12
• "Deadly storms continue in Midwest and South [photo gallery]":  Time.com, 3/3/12
  
• "Study finds Glacier park visitors add almost $110M to Flathead's economy":  The Missoulian, 3/3/12
  
• "Oil boom and teacher's kidnapping change town of Sidney":  The Missoulian, 3/2/12
  
• "Growth of Himalayas slowing down, study finds":  The Christian Science Monitor, 3/1/12
  

February 2012:

• "World's cheapest gas:  Top 10 countries":  The Christian Science Monitor, 2/29/12
• "NASA finds thickest parts of Arctic ice cap melting faster":  NASA, 2/29/12
  
• "See 5 bright planets in night sky--first time in 8 years":  National Geographic, 2/28/12
  
• "Reduction in U.S. carbon emissions attributed to cheaper natural gas":  ScienceDaily.com, 2/27/12
• "Deadly fire incinerates Brazil's Antarctic base":  Discovery News, 2/27/12
• "Walmart to sell Monsanto GMO corn this summer":  Care2.com, 2/25/12
  
• "What is a Saskatchewan Screamer?":  LiveScience.com, 2/24/12
• "Japan earthquake:  Before and after":  The Atlantic, 2/23/12
  
• "Rain sucks energy out of world's wind":  New Scientist, 2/23/12
  
• "Oregon's sea sanctuaries":  OregonLive.com, 2/22/12
  
• "Picky eaters need not apply:  NASA seeks taste testers for Mars simulation":  Time, 2/21/12
• "Plant blooms after 30,000 years in permafrost":  New Scientist, 2/20/12
  
• "Big bucks attract high school grads to mining":  NPR, 2/17/12
  
• "San Francisco Bay:  A garbage can for 7 million people":  Mercury News, 2/16/12
• "Pollan's food rules, animated.  With vegetables":  Grist.org, 2/15/12
  
• "Climate change may increase risk of water shortages in hundreds of US counties by 2050":  ScienceDaily.com, 2/15/12
• "Europe's deep freeze: Why climate change is not (entirely) to blame":  Time, 2/14/12
  
• "An octopus blind date!  (photos)":  The Seattle Times, 2/14/12
• "Why Mt. Hood never erupts with a bang":  OregonLive.com, 2/13/12
  
• "Canada dropping the ozone ball, scientists warm":  CBC, 2/13/12
• "4 takeaways from Seattle's composting experience":  KCTS9, 2/9/12
• "Ice caps not shrinking as much as once thought, new data show":  The Christian Science Monitor, 2/8/12
  
• "America and Eurasia 'to meet at north pole'":  BBC, 2/8/12
• "Mediterranean seagrass could be hundreds of thousands of years old":  The Guardian, 2/7/12
  
• "Skydiver Felix Baumgartner planning 36km record bid":  BBC, 2/6/12
  
• "Recycling the televisions of Super Bowls past":  OPB, 2/2/12
  

January 2012:

• "Texas heat wave caused by global warming, NASA's Hansen says":  InsideClimateNews.org, 1/31/12
• "Map of earthquake risks is updated":  New York Times, 1/31/12
  
• "Volcanic origin for Little Ice Age":  BBC, 1/30/12
• "Adventure paddling:  Stevensville adventurer Tyler Bradt to sail kayak into Sea of Cortez":  Missoulian, 1/29/12
• "Watch 131 years of global warming in 26 seconds":  ClimateCentral.org, 1/28/12
  
• "Some Wash. wheat farmers back labels for GM foods":  Seattle Times, 1/26/12
• Nyamuragira Volcano, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been erupting.  Check out some recent photos!
  
• Check out this stunning high-resolution image of Earth:  NASA, 1/25/12
  
• "Want to make a giant telescope mirror?  Here's how":  NPR, 1/26/12
• "Watts next:  What will be fueling the world in 2030":  The Economist, 1/25/12
  
• "New aurora pictures:  Solar storms trigger northern lights":  National Geographic, 1/25/12
• "USDA unveils new plant hardiness zone map":  USDA, 1/25/12  Here is the new map
  
• "Energy outlook: Your carbon emissions will fall (a wee bit)":  OPB, 1/23/12
• "Low-carbon cement paves a development path (or sidewalk)":  The Daily Climate, 1/23/12
  
• "The man who crushed the Keystone XL pipeline":  The Boston Globe, 1/22/12
• "NASA finds 2011 ninth-warmest year on record" (+ video!):  NASA, 1/19/12
  
• "Here's exactly how much you'll save doing laundry in cold water":  The Christian Science Monitor, 1/19/12
• "Problems plague cleanup at Hanford nuclear waste site":  USA Today, 1/19/12
  
• "US rejects Keystone XL Canada oil sands pipeline":  BBC, 1/18/12
• "How long do greenhouse gases stay in the air?":  The Guardian, 1/16/12
• "Olympic National Park glaciers are shrinking, study says":  The Olympian, 1/16/12
• "Project to pour water into volcano to make power":  Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1/11/12
  
• "EPA details the carbon pollution from power plants for the first time"--check out #8!:  E2 Wire, 1/11/12
  
• "Study:  How societies can stave off climate change, save lives and boost agricultural output":  NASA GSFC, 1/10/12
  
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December 2011:

• "The 45 most powerful images of 2011":  December 2011
  
• "LHC reports discovery of its first new particle":  BBC, 12/22/11
• "Pictures:  Satellite views of Canada's oil sands over time":  National Geographic, 12/22/11
  
• "In pictures:  Rare lenticular clouds over West Yorkshire":  BBC, 12/22/11
  
• "The most important graphs of 2011":  The Atlantic, 12/21/11
  
• "Two new planets are most Earth-like ever seen--but hot as hell":  The Guardian, 12/20/11
  
• "Infographic:  Santa's carbon footprint":  EthicalOcean.com, 12/17/11
  
• "Melting glaciers reveal future alpine world":  ScienceDaily.com, 12/14/11
• "Climate change may bring big ecosystem changes":  NASA, 12/14/11
  
• "Infographic of the day:  How bikes can solve our biggest problems":  FastCoDesign.com, 12/14/11
• "Canada pulls out of Kyoto protocol":  Guardian, 12/12/11
• "Lunar eclipse pictures:  See last weekend's red moon":  National Geographic, 12/12/11
  
• "Durban deal may do little to cool heating planet":  Reuters, 12/12/11
  
• "Picures: "Scary" volcano erupts in Ecuador":  National Geographic, 12/7/11
  
• "Dynamo maker ready to roll":  Nature, 12/7/11
• "'Big Three' polluters oppose binding climate deal":  Reuters, 12/6/11
• "At climate talks, back-room deals begin in earnest":  NPR, 12/5/11
  
• "China's consumers emit more than US for the first time":  New Scientist, 12/4/11
  
• "Carbon emissions show biggest jump ever recorded":  New York Times, 12/4/11
  
• "UM biomass project on hold as natural gas prices dip":  Missoulian, 12/2/11
• "Algae helps explain Antarctic ice sheet formation":  The Christian Science Monitor, 12/2/11
  
• "Periodic table to welcome two new elements":  The Wall Street Journal, 12/2/11
• "Astronomers catch final moments before star explodes":  The Telegraph, 12/1/11
  
• "High winds cause damage in the Bay Area, Southern California (+photos)":  San Jose Mercury News, 12/1/11
  

November 2011:

• "Road fatalities USA (map)":  ITO,
  
• "Climate change: 2011 temperatures the hottest ever during La Nina":  The Washington Post, 11/29/11
• "Antique Stradivarius violin 'replicated' by radiologist":  BBC, 11/28/11
  
• "Climate summit sees Canadian strike on Kyoto treaty":  BBC, 11/28/11
• "NASA launches 'Curiosity' rover to Mars":  Time, 11/26/11 (plus video of the launch)
  
• "Supercool: Water doesn't have to freeze until -48 C (-55 F)":  ScienceDaily.com, 11/23/11
  
• "A cartography of the Anthropocene":  Globaia, November 2011
  
• "Can that be real?  Trees covered in spider webs?":  NPR (blog), 11/17/11
• "Massive volcanoes, meteorite impacts delivered one-two death punch to dinosaurs":  ScienceDaily.com, 11/17/11
  
• "British Columbia OKs law protecting Flathead Basin":  Missoulian, 11/16/11
  
• "Shake it! How dogs, cats, even hummingbirds keep dry":  NPR, 11/16/11
  
• "Richer Canadians emit far more greenhouse gases":  CBC, 11/15/11
• "Freshwater use by U.S. power plants: Electricity's thirst for a precious resource (report)":  Union of Concerned Scientists, 11/15/11
• "Lessons from America's surprising No. 1 bike town":  The Christian Science Monitor, 11/14/11
  
• "Trash volume down at Flathead Country landfill":  Daily InterLake, 11/13/11
• "200 years worth of temperature data compiled in one alarming video":  BEST (via Treehugger.com), 11/10/11 
  
• "From college major to career (interactive)":  The Wall Street Journal, 11/8/11
• "What a trip!  Time-lapse video captures 12,225-mile road journey across America... in just FIVE minutes":  The Daily Mail, 11/8/11
  
• "Recyling plant among top Northwest polluters":  OPB, 11/7/11
  
• "Biggest jump ever seen in global warming gases":  AP, 11/3/11
• "Secret to a long, healthy life:  Bike to the store":  NPR, 11/2/11
  
• "NBC's must-see TV:  "Today no one can deny that extreme weather is here to stay" thanks to fossil-fuel driven warming":  NBC, via Climate Progress, 11/2/11
  
• "Some glaciers, snowfields in Rockies see gains":  Missoulian, 11/2/11
• "Secrets to a long, healthy life: Bike to the store":  NPR, 11/2/11
  
• "Confused about Thailand's floods?  Watch the Blue Whales":  The Wall Street Journal, 11/1/11
  
• "As population, consumption rise, builder goes small":  NPR, 11/1/11
  

October 2011:

• "Visualizing how a population grows to 7 billion":  NPR, 10/31/11
• "Cold, snowy winter in store for western Montana, National Weather Service says":  Missoulian, 10/31/11
  
• "Bones of ancient marine predator found in central Montana":  Missoulian, 10/30/11
  
• "Spectacular time lapse video of historic dam removal":  National Geographic, 10/28/11
• "In pictures:  Waters threaten Bangkok":  BBC, 10/28/11
• "A new geothermal map of the United States":  GoogleGreenBlog.com, 10/25/11
  
• "The world at seven billion (special series)":  BBC, 10/26/11
  
• "Now showing: Anatomy of a disaster in 3-D":  MSNBC, 10/18/11
  
• "279 reported dead in Turkey earthquake; 1,300 more hurt":  CNN, 10/24/11
• "Warming could exceed safe levels in this lifetime":  Reuters, 10/23/11
  
• "Last of Northwest's chemical weapons headed to incincerator":  Oregon Public Broadcasting, 10/20/11
• "Home washing machines:  Source of potentially harmful ocean 'microplastic' pollution":  10/20/11. ScienceDaily.com
  
• "Skeptic talking point melts away as an inconvenient physicist confirms warming (blog)":  New York Times, 10/20/11
• "Halloween cuisine:  Sweet or savory specimen jars":  EvilMadScientist.com, 10/19/11
  
• "Why the U.S. needs to learn more science (blog)":  NPR, 10/19/11
  
• "Cooking-oil theft:  Arlington police charge two with increasingly common crime":  Washington Post, 10/13/11
  
• "New legistlation to protect the Flathead watershed 'a great first step' but groups want more":  Vancouver Sun, 10/10/11
• "Satellite eye on Earth:  September 2011 in pictures":  The Guardian, 10/10/11
  
• "Battle rages to save western Montana forests from pine beetles":  Missoulian, 10/8/11
• "'Carbon footprint' info can lead to wiser choices":  The Seattle Times, 10/7/11
  
• "Oregonians set new garbage recovery, recycling record in 2010, state says":  OregonLive.com, 10/5/11
  
• "Surprise in your sewage:  Lots of exotic viruses":  NPR, 10/4/11
• "Nobel Prize for physics:  Universe expansion accelerating, not slowing down":  The Christian Science Monitor, 10/4/11
  
• "U.S. is energy-rich, but most of that wealth lies in potentially toxic coal":  Washington Post, 10/3/11
  
• "California motorists leading the way on using less gasoline":  Los Angeles Times, 10/2/11
• "Arctic ozone loss at record level":  BBC, 10/2/11
• "7 billion:  What to expect when you're expanding (series)":  Grist.com, October 2011
  

September 2011:

• "Surprise!  U.S. might meet its climate targets" (blog):  Washington Post, 9/30/11
  
• "NASA's UARS satellite fell far from major landmass":  BBC, 9/29/11
• "7 billion:  What to expect when you're expanding (special series)":  Grist.org, 9/22/11--includes a video, "7 billion in 7 minutes"
  
• "UM researcher receives $926,000 to study effects of melting Arctic ice":  Missoulian, 9/21/11
  
• "Italy scientists on trial over L'Aquila earthquake":  BBC, 9/20/11
  
• "Weird sky spirals, explained":  NPR, 9/20/11
• "Swimming grizzly bear makes lengthy trips across Flathead Lake":  Missoulian, 9/19/11
• "The sound of a glacier--Wind Horse by Stephanie Spray":  Guardian, 9/19/11
  
• "Climate change boon to UK seafood":  BBC, 9/15/11
• "New atlas shows extent of climate change":  Guardian, 9/15/11
• Followup:  "Times Atlas 'wrong' on Greenland ice":  BBC, 9/19/11
  
• "Easy-Bake loses its bulb with 100-watt phase-out":  Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 9/14/11
  
• "UO draw the line on energy use":  Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), 9/12/11
• "ScienceShot:  A crystal a million years in the making":  Science, 9/12/11
  
• "Your choices can cut gas cost up to 45% in any car":  USA Today, 9/12/11
• "Chart:  This is what you eat in a year (including 42 pounds of corn syrup)":  The Atlantic, 9/11/11
  
• "2011-09-09:  M + 6.3 - 91 km WSW of Gold River, BC":  Natural Resources Canada, 9/9/11
• "Vancouver Island earthquake":  Simon Fraser University, 9/9/11
  
• "Warning over global cancer levels":  BBC, 9/7/11
  
• "Why are college textbooks so expensive?":  Good.is, 9/6/11
• "A more progressive tax system makes people happier":  Psychological Science, Association for Psychological Science, 9/6/11
  
• "Cities now compete on how well they plan for biking-walking-transit":  Crosscut.com, 9/5/11
• "Bolivia bans cars for "Day of the Pedestrian'":  BBC, 9/4/11
• "Calm down:  WIth a very few exceptions, America is no place for cyclists":  The Economist, 9/3/11
  
• "School's out forever:  If you live on the equator, when does summer vacation end?":  Slate.com, 9/2/11
  
• "Report says space debris past 'tipping point,' NASA needs to step up action":  Washington Post, 9/1/11
  

August 2011:

• "Consumption of sugar drinks in the United States, 2005-2008":  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, August 2011
  
• "Why the government should invest in clean energy":  Good.is, 8/31/11
  
• "$12B may not be enough to finish Hanford vit plant":  The Seattle Times, 8/30/11
• The Hanford Vitrification Plant
  
• "Largest day of arrests yet at White House pipeline protest":  TarSandsAction.org, 8/29/11
  
• Hurricane Irene:
• Photos and videos of Hurricane Irene:  NASA Goddard flickr page
• "The U.S. electric grid vs. extreme weather":  Scientific American blog, 8/29/11
  
• "Irene:  Wet, deadly and expensive as cleanup begins":  NPR, 8/29/11
  
• "Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog":  Weather Underground, 8/28/11
• "Mosquitoes 'disappearing' in some parts of Africa":  BBC, 8/26/11
• "UPS to use 100 electric delivery vehicles in state":  The Sacramento (CA) Bee, 8/25/11
• "What's all the fuss about the Keysone XL pipeline?":  Mother Jones, 8/24/11
• "Suriname addresses climate threat with new agency":  Reuters AlertNet, 8/25/11
• "Suriname follows Guyana in climate change policy making":  DemeraraWaves.com, 8/21/11
  
• "Earthquake rattles Washington area":  Washington Post, 8/23/11
• Magnitude 5.8 in Virginia:  USGS
  
• "Species count put at 8.7 million":  BBC, 8/23/11
• "What tar sands and the Keysone XL pipeline mean for climate change":  Guardian, 8/23/11
  
• "Solar panels will make campus' power 100 percent renewable":  Bend Bulletin, 8/18/11
• "Which eco-friendly food labels are meaningful, and which are just hot air?":  Grist.org, 8/18/11 (from the Audubon Magazine)
  
• "Portland gets ready to adopt curbside composting in all neighborhoods":  OregonLive.com, 8/17/11
• "Earth:  Underwater volcano erupts as predicted":  Discovery.com, 8/16/11
  
• "College organic, sustainability programs growing":  Seattle Times, 8/15/11
  
• "NW power group:  Gas glut to cut electricity prices":  Seattle Times, 8/11/11
• "What it'll take to make seattle carbon neutral":  Mother Jones, 8/11/11
  
• "Census tracks 20 years of sweeping change":  USA Today, 8/10/11
• "Oregon's public universities plan to go solar":  OPB, 8/9/11
  
• "Oil sands expected to undo carbon cuts":  The Globe and Mail, 8/7/11
  
• "Oil, gas dilemma for Blackfeet Tribe:  Revenue versus environment":  Missoulian, 8/7/11
  
• "New study finds that earning power is increasingly tied to education; The data is clear:  A college degree is critical to economic opportunity":  Georgetown University, 8/5/11
  
• "Texas town to recycle urine":  Discovery.com, 8/5/11
• "Texas drought officially the worst ever":  Texas A&M, 8/4/11
• "Falling lake levels raise concern":  Houston Chronicle, 8/4/11
  
• "New map shows July heat wave sizzled from coast to coast":  Yahoo.com, 8/4/11
  
• "Japan earthquake vibrations nearly reached space":  National Geographic, 8/3/11
  
• "Arctic sea ice at record low for July":  National Snow and Ice Data Center, 8/3/11
• "As sun storms ramp up, electric grid braces for impact":  National Geographic, 8/3/11
  
• "Earth may once have had two moons":  BBC, 8/3/11
  
• "New widget tracks record-breaking high temperatures":  PBS, 8/1/11
• "Wolverines update:  Three confirmed in Oregon":  OPB, 8/1/11
• "Ramadan 101:  Five facts about the holy month of Ramadan":  Christian Science Monitor, 8/1/11
• "How saving energy means conserving water in U.S. West":  Scientific American, 8/1/11
  

July 2011:

• "Engen pushes for city of Missoula to buy Mountain Water Co.":  Missoulian, 7/27/11
  
• "Feel the burn:  How do scientists count calories?  [blog]":  Scientific American, 7/25/11
• "Why Chile is an astronomer's paradise":  BBC, 7/24/11
  
• "Higgs boson 'hints' also seen by US lab":  BBC, 7/24/11
  
• "Drought is taking toll on Texas aquifers":  The Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX), 7/24/11
• "Caltech-led astronomers discover the largest and most distant reservoir of water yet":  Caltech.edu, 7/22/11
• "Space shuttle Atlantis's final flight in pictures":  ZDNet, 7/27/11
  
• "The agony of the heat":  NPR, 7/21/11
• "Interctive:  Mapping the census":  Washington Post, 7/21/11
  
• "Why 107-degree overnight temperatures should freak you out":  Grist.org, 7/21/11
• "What's work like around the world?  [Infographic]":  Psfk.com, 7/21/11
  
• "Portland adopts ban on plastic bags that takes effect Oct. 15":  OregonLive.com, 7/21/11
• "MIT's Backtalk project/art exhibit traces the unseen life of discarded gadgets":  Engadget.com, 7/20/11
• "Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida lead list of "Toxic 20" states with most toxic air pollution from power plants":  NRDC, 7/20/11
  
• "Billionaire candy man strikes deal in eastern Montana coal railroad fight":  7/21/11
• "Famous or obscure, our rivers are priceless":  High Country News, 7/19/11
• "Carmadgeddon's lessons":  The Los Angeles Times, 7/19/11
  
• "Study of soil effects from March 11 Japan earthquake could improve building design":  ScienceDaily.com, 7/18/11
  
• "Mint data shows where the gas money goes":  Mint,.com, 7/18/11
• "20 longest-living cities":  The Daily Beast, 7/17/11
• "Group of boaters begins own survey of Yellowstone oil spill":  Billings Gazette, 7/16/11
  
• "House increases money to review application for Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository":  The Washington Post, 7/14/11
• "Keepin' it cool:  How the air conditioner made modern America":  The Atlantic, 7/14/11
  
• "IThe impacts of bottles vs. cans:  Further analysis":  OPB, 7/13/11
• "To curb driving, cities cut down on car parking":  National Geographic, 7/13/11
• "Global warming: A guide for the perplexed":  NPR, 7/13/11
  
• "Why it's so hard to reform the food system, explained in one chart":  Grist.org, 7/12/11
• "Our new 'normal' weather:  wetter and warmer":  The Seattle Times, 7/7/11
• "Exhaust-ing ride for cyclists:  Air pollutants trigger heart risk":  Environmental Health News, 7/6/11
  
• "New source of deadly asbestos found in Libby":  The Missoulian, 7/5/11
  
• "We are approaching peak car use":  FastCompany.com, 7/5/11
• "California has record year for rooftop solar":  MercuryNews.com, 7/5/11
• "Lessons from the Amish:  How to do more with less":  Medford (OR) Mail Tribune, 7/3/11
• "Spokane trying to find uses for its recycled glass":  The Seattle Times, 7/3/11
  
• "Making a difference:  Students must rally against global warming":  OregonLive.com, 7/1/11
  

June 2011:

• "San Francisco tops list of 'green' cities in survey":  USA Today, 6/30/11
  
• "How industrial farming 'destroyed' the tasty tomato":  NPR, 6/28/11
• "More cars' engines will shut off at stops":  USA Today, 6/28/11
• "If baby boomers stay in suburbia, analysts predict cultural shift":  Washington Post, 6/27/11
  
• "Local diver captures octopus birth on video":  Seattle Times, 6/25/11
• Here is a link to the video
• "Experts say an earthquake surely will devastate the Northwest":  The Oregonian, 6/25/11
• "Study:  Want jobs?  Build bike lanes":  Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 6/24/11
• "Minorities now make up a majority of U.S. babies, Census shows":  The Oregonian, 6/23/11
• "Americans doing more work on weekends":  USA Today, 6/22/11
• "Electric vehicle charging stations rolled out in Vancouver":  CBC News, 6/21/11
  
• "Clouds appearing suddenly, suddenly explained":  NPR (blog), 6/20/11
• "How Ghana has more than halved its HIV/AIDS rate":  NPR, 6/20/11
  
• "Powerful cosmic blast as black hole shreds star":  BBC, 6/16/11
• "China is world's largest energy consumer":  The Daily Reckoning, 6/16/11
• "US gas is artificially cheap:  What we don't pay for at the pump":  CaliforniaWatch.org, 6/13/11
  
• Better Life Index, OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), 6/11
  
• US lags behind top nations on lifespans":  NPR, 6/15/11
• "Observers viewing lunar eclipse":  BBC, 6/15/11
• "US gas is arificially cheap:  What we don't pay for at the pump":  CaliforniaWatch.org, 6/13/11
• "Are the world's women disappearing?":  Salon.com, 6/12/11
  
• "Clark Fork could reach 3 feet above flood stage in Missoula by Thursday":  Missoulian, 6/8/11
  
• Map of real-time streamflow compared to historical streamflow for the day of the year (Montana):  USGS
  
• "Scientists 'trap' and study elusive anti-matter":  Telegraph (UK), 6/6/11
• "High-speed Euro train gets green boost from two miles of solar panels":  Guardian (UK), 6/6/11
  
• "Amid severe drought, Chinese government admits mistakes with Three Gorges Dam (+ photos)":  Washington Post, 6/4/11
• "California Senate votes to ban foam takeout containers":  LA Times, 6/3/11
  
• "World record for BMX triple back flip (+video)":  BBC, 6/1/11
  
• "Which states are most vulnerable to rising gas prices?":  Good.is, 6/1/11
  

May 2011:

• "Global carbon emissions reaqch record, says IEA":  BBC, 5/30/11
• "School cuts out food waste, with help of hungry pig":  Bend (OR) Bulletin, 5/29/11
  
• "Ash cloud particles examined by Aberdeen scientists":  BBC, 5/26/11
• "Exploring fuel efficiency:  How much are you spending on gas?":  ClimateCentral.org, 5/26/11
  
• "Electronic waste--Where does it all end up? (infographic)":  WellCom.com, May 2011
  
• "Wind industry demands NW grid overload solution":  Seattle Times, 5/23/11
• "A link between climate change and Joplin tornadoes?  Never!" (op-ed):  The Washington Post, 5/23/11
• "Americans work 3.84 minutes each day to pay for their bicycles":  TheUrbanCountry.com, 5/23/11
  
• "China warms of 'urgent problems' facing Three Gorges dam":  Guardian, 5/20/11
• "Canada's greenhouse gas emissions dip":  CBC, 5/19/11
  
• "Montana DEQ director:  Drinking water wells tainted with sewage, drugs":  Missoulian, 5/17/11
  
• "Rising resource use threatens future growth, warns UN":  BBC, 5/12/11
• "World wastes 1 billion tons of food a year":  CNN.com, 5/11/11
  
• "Here comes the melt:  Rivers, streams rising":  Daily InterLake, 5/11/11
• "Flooded river stakes aim at Mississippi delta (with slide show)":  NPR, 5/11/11
• "How does the Army Cops handle flooding?":  NPR, 5/9/11
• "The Mississippi River flooding, explained":  Mother Jones, 5/9/11
  
• "In Oregon, it seems to be easier to be green (or, at least, to use green power)":  OregonLive.com, 5/9/11
  
• "Renewable energy can power the world, says landmark IPCC study":  The Guardian (UK), 5/9/11
  
• "As oil prices fall, what's happening to gas prices?":  NPR, 5/8/11--Also check out the National Gas Price Heat Map from GasBuddy.com
• "Do you know how many people are in the world today?  (VIDEO)":  Grist.org, 5/7/11 
  
• "Are you typical?  (VIDEO)":  National Geographic,
  
• "American work 2 hours each day to pay for their cars":  TheUrbanCountry.com, 5/6/11
• "Climate change hardly visible in North America":  The Vancouver (BC) Sun, 5/6/11
  
• "Would $12,000 convince you to move closer to work?":  FastCompany.com, 5/5/11
  
• State of the Air report:  American Lung Association, 5/5/11
• "War dog (photo essay)":  Foreign Policy, 5/4/11
  
• "EPA:  After $330M cleanup, Libby remains contaminated with asbestos":  Missoulian, 5/4/11
  
• "World population to reach 10 billion by 2100 if fertility in all countries converges to replacement level":  United Nations, 5/3/11
  
• "Heatwave sees warmest UK April for more than 100 years":  BBC, 5/3/11 (also see the video "Driest March in the UK for 50 years")
  
• "Global warming won't harm wind energy production, climate models predict":  Indiana University, 5/2/11
  
• "Stradivarius to be sold to raise money for Japan quake":  BBC, 5/2/11
  

April 2011:

• "Boom and bust signals ecosystem collapse":  BBC, 4/28/11
  
• "Video:  Scientists still don't know how tornadoes form":  GOOD.is, 4/28/11
• "Chilling:  The tornadoes' paths as viewed from space":  NPR, 4/28/11
• "What determines the price of gas:  A visual guide":  The Atlantic, 4/27/11
• "What costs more in 2011" (graphic):  FlowingData.com, 4/27/11
• "Why Californians will soon be drinking water from Mexico's ocean":  GOOD.is, 4/26/11
• "Volcanic ash air shutdown the 'right' decision":  BBC, 4/25/11
  
• "Urban buildings unplug from water grid":  Seattle Times, 4/24/11
  
• "The worst cars on the road--be wary of domestic rides":  MSNBC, 4/24/11
• "Switzerland:  Smelly corpse flower draws thousands":  BBC, 4/23/11
• "Chart of the day:  The US energy mix in 2035":  Grist.org, 4/22/11
• "Infographic:  What's an LED?":  GOOD.is, 4/22/11
  
• "Gold prices spur six-fold spike in Amazon deforestation":  ScienceDaily.com, 4/21/11
• "Unsure about nuclear power?  Here's the five questions you must answer to decide":  The Guardian (UK), 4/21/11
  
• "Air quality permit"  UM biomass boiler will double nitrogen dioxide emissions":  Missoulian, 4/20/11
• "Cash incentives spur bike commutes at OHSU":  BikePortland.org, 4/19/11 
  
• "Selected Bureau of Reclamation reservoirs... and how they've shrunk" (infographic):  High Country News, 4/18/11
• "Time-lapse Milky Way video captures nature form a unique perspective (HD video)":  The Huffington Post, 4/18/11
  
• "At the foot of the Bonneville Dam, researchers track voracious sea lions feeding on spring chinook":  OregonLive.com, 4/18/11
• "Future of proposed solar-power plant looks dim":  Seattle Times, 4/16/11
• "BPA, wind developers argue over looming problem of too much power from renewables":  OregonLive.com, 4/14/11
• "When it comes to carbon footprints, location and lifestyle matter":  UC Berkeley, 4/13/11  (Find their online carbon footprint calculator here)
• "Paying more, driving less":  The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA), 4/12/11
• "The Corn Belt debate:  Crops or cattle?":  NPR, 4/12/11
  
• "Girls hit puberty earlier than ever, and doctors aren't sure why":  USA Today, 4/11/11
  
• "Japan, in wake of nuclear crisis, orders summer energy cutbacks":  Washington Post, 4/9/11
  
• "Happiness map:  Just how happy is Washington?":  Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 4/7/11 
  
• "Montana snowpack above average, streamflows expected to be double last year":  Missoulian, 4/7/11
• "Where will the debris from Japan's tsunami drift in the ocean?":  Eurekalert.org.  Also check out this animation, which shows the probable pathways of the debris that entered the ocean on March 11, 2011, as estimated from historical trajectories of drifting buoys. From Nikolai Maximenko, International Pacific Research Center.
• "The hot seat:  A photographer's descent into a volcano":  NPR blog, 4/5/11
  
• "Will buying an electric car make an environmental difference?":  Mercury News (Silicon Valley, CA), 4/4/11
• "Infographic:  United States of the Environment":  Mother Nature Network, 4/4/11
  
• Live webcam on Decorah, Iowa eagles' nest--watch for the eggs to hatch!
  

March 2011:

• "In the land of the northern lights":  A video by Ole Christian Salomonsen from northern Norway, 3/24/11
  
• "Annual maximum ice extent reached":  National Snow and Ice Data Center, 3/23/11--"This year's maximum tied for the lowest in the satellite record."
  
• "Germany's solar panels produce more power than Japan's entire Fukushima complex":  Grist.org, 3/22/11
  
• It's World Water Day today, 3/22/11
• Read about how Kevin Freedman, a Canadian, is celebrating this month--"Peak water has already come and gone":  Inter Press Service, 3/22/11
• Check out the Water Conservation Challenge
  
• Check out this video:  "The Incident at Tower 37"
• Here's a short interview with its creator, Chris Perry
  
• "Chart:  Wh $4-per-gallon gas is damn cheap":  Good.is, 3/21/11
• Here's a similar chart from The Economist, 2/16/11
  
• "From bombs to $800 handbags:  Trouble stalks America's biggest clean-up":  The Economist, 3/17/11
  
• "Decontamination after radiation exposure: Simpler than you may think":  NPR (blog), 3/17/11
  
• "Japan has shifted 13 feet!  Does that mean GPS doedsn't work anymore?":  Slate.com, 3/15/11
  
• "Primer:  Japan's nuclear crisis":  NPR, 3/14/11
• Visualizations:  Japan's nuclear emergency, March 2011
  
• "The destructive power of water":  New York Times, 3/12/11
• "Japan earthquake":  The latest news from BBC, 3/13/11
• "Animated guide:  Tsunamis":  BBC, 9/8/08
  
• "Devastation as tsunami crashes into Japan":  New York Times, 3/11/11
• Map of the damage from the Japanese earthquake
• Live coverage from BBC (look at the "wave map")
  
• Interactive map (from NPR)
  
• Tsunami energy map (from NPR)
• The National Weather Service's estimated tsunami arrival times for North America
  
• "Crescent City, Santa Cruz hit hard by tsunami from Japan quake" (includes video):  LA Times, 3/11/11
  
• "Tsurvival:  What to do if a tsunami hits":  Slate.com, 3/11/11
• "Satellite photos of Japan, before and after the quake and tsunami":  New York Times, 3/13/11
• NOAA's Center for Tsunami Research, March 11, 2011 tsunami event
  
• "Gas prices too high?  Obama may not think so.l  he's pumped to use high oil prices" (editorial):  The Christian Science Monitor, 3/7/11
  
• "Christchurch quake mapped from space":  BBC, 3/7/11
  
• "Discovered:  The happiest man in America":  New York Times, 3/6/11
  
• "Drinking from a bottle instead of the tap just doesn't hold water":  Scientific American EarthTalk blog, 3/4/11
  
• "Officials:  Signs point to flooding in western Montana":  Missoulian, 3/4/11
  
• "Will a bike ride a day keep the doctor away?":  Portland (OR) Tribune, 3/3/11
  
• "How to pay 80 cents a gallon (or less) for gas":  The Daily Green (blog), 3/2/11
• "NZ quake unearths 'time capsules'":  BBC, 3/1/11
  

February 2011:

• "Bill would dilute water quality, says Missoula":  Missoulian, 2/28/11
  
• "How bicycling will save the economy (if we let it)":  Grist.org, 2/28/11
  
• "Water worries draw study of Willamette":  Gazette Times (Corvallis, OR), 2/28/11
  
• "Amur tigers in population crisis":  BBC News, 2/28/11
  
• Soaring food prices hit poor countries, spur farmers":  NPR, 2/27/11
• "The mile-high camera:  A unique glimpse of Discovery's last launch":  NPR, The Picture Show blog, 2/25/11
  
• "Scores killed in New Zealand earthquake":  New York Times, 2/22/11
• "In pictures:  Earthquake rocks Christchurch":  BBC News, 2/22/11
• "Ice breaks off glacier after Christchurch quake":  ABC (Australia), 2/22/11
  
• Data page from the USGS
  
• "Arkansas is shaking:  50+ earthquakes in past week; 700+ in last six months":  NPR blog, 2/18/11
• "A new spider species discovered in Seattle?":  Crosscut (Seattle, WA), 2/18/11
• "Rare photo shows 8 cougars on game trail"  Seattle Times, 2/17/11
  
• "On 'Jeopardy,' Watson's a natural":  New York Times, 2/16/11
• "Ask Pablo:  What is in our bottled water?":  Treehugger.com, 2/16/11
• "Montana governor grants reprieve for Yellowstone bison":  Reuters.com, 2/15/11
  
• "Agreement to protect North Fork of Flathead from gold, coal mining finalized":  Missoulian, 2/15/11
  
• "Why is gas cheaper in Midwest?  Thank Canada":  NPR, 2/14/11
• "Crazy kisses (slide show)" (Happy Valentine's Day!):  Life.com, 2/14/11 
  
• "Stress of sliding plates builds near Chile":  New York Times, 2/7/11
  
• "One photographer's harrowing journey to the world's most remote active volcano" (Mount Erebus in Antarctica; the exhibit is currently at The Annenberg Space for Photography:  Treehugger.com, 2/7/11
  
• "University plans solar panel field":  The Daily Princetonian, 2/4/11
  
• "'Killer storm' slams into Australia's coast":  NPR, 2/2/11--here's NASA's Earth Observatory image of the day and an article from Australia's Herald Sun, "How Cyclone Yasi compares in size to countries" 
• "Feast your eyes:  The United States is no longer the fattest country" (infographic):  GOOD.is, 2/9/11
  

January 2011:

• "Infrastructurist:  Suburbs pollute more than cities":  Publicola (Seattle, WA), 1/31/11
  
• "Gazing afar for other Earths, and other beings":  New York Times, 1/30/11
• "Lake Vostok drilling in Antarctic 'running out of time;":  BBC, 1/27/11
  
• "Happiness:  There's something about Northwest communities":  Crosscut.com, News of the Great Nearby (Seattle, WA), 1/26/11
• "Polar bear's epic nine day swim in search of sea ice":  BBC, 1/25/11
  
• "A physicist explains why parallel universes may exist":  NPR, 1/24/11
• "Living in the Anthropocene:  Toward a new global ethos":  Environment 360, 1/24/11
  
• "Can America successfully build a small car?":  Washington Post, 1/23/11
  
• "Some Himalayan glaciers advance, despite warming":  Reuters, 1/23/11
  
• "Is China's economy already No. 1?":  NPR, 1/21/11
  
• "People in need offered free bikes":  Portland (OR) Tribune, 1/20/11  
• "To really learn, quit studying and take a test":  New York Times, 1/20/11
  
• "7.2 magnitude earthquake shakes southwestern Pakistan":  NPR blog, 1/18/11
• Here's the USGS page on it
• "At Portland food carts:  Reusable to-go boxes":  Oregon Public Broadcasting Ecotrope, 1/18/11
  
• "A new era for Tibet's rivers":  ChinaDialogue.net, 1/17/11 
  
• "U.S. Starbucks to one-up Venti with new, larger size:  the 'Trenta'":  National Post (Canada), 1/17/11
  
• "Climate secrets of Marianas Trench probed":  BBC, 1/16/11
  
• "If quakes weren't enough, enter the 'superstorm'":  New York Times Green blog, 1/15/11
  
• "Melting in Andes reveals remains and wreckage":  New York Times, 1/15/11
• "Obscure full moon names of 2011":  Space.com, 1/14/11
  
• "Welcome to the zodiac, Ophiuchus.  But who are you?":  Time, 1/14/11
  
• "2010 tied for warmest year on record":  NOAA, 1/12/11
• "A photo finish for warmest year on record":  New York Times Green blog, 1/12/11
  
• "Montana fish, river projects may gain Bonneville Power Administration funding":  Missoulian, 1/11/11
• "Haiti earthquake anniversary:  Pictures show slow recovery":  National Geographic, 1/11/11
  
• "Toutle sediment-control measures are being put to the test":  The Daily News Online (Lower Columbia, WA), 1/10/11
• "Harvesting energy:  body heat to warm buildings":  BBC News, 1/9/11
  
• "Steve Murawski:  Overfishing to stop in U.S. for first time in a century":  The Huffington Post, 1/8/11
  
• "In China's icy north, outfitting buildings to save energy":  National Geographic, 1/7/11
  
• "Rare bottlenose dolphin reported in Puget Sound":  Kitsap (WA) Sun, 1/7/11
  
• "U.S. population growth slowed, still envied":  USA Today, 1/6/11
• "Photos:  Unprecedented, 'biblical' floods inundate Australia":  National Geographic, 1/6/11
  
• "Talking trash--and recycling":  Yakima (WA) Herald, 1/6/11
• "Empire State Bulding goes greener with wind power":  USA Today, 1/6/11
  
• "Bottled water labels lack key data, group says":  San Francisco Chronicle, 1/6/11
• Environmental Working Group:  Bottle Water 2011 Scorecard
  
• "Reports of Pacific Ocean's plastic patch being Texas-sized are grossly exaggerated, Oregon State University professor says":  OregonLive.com, 1/4/11
  
• "Battle heats up over Alaskan Petroleum Reserve":  NPR, 1/3/11
• "Fewer plastic shopping bags handed out":  CBC (Canada), 1/3/11
• "Sen. Tester to reintroduce forest bill, seek more support":  Missoulian, 1/3/11
• "Special Series:  7 billion":  National Geographic, 1/11
  

December 2010:

• "Four ways to look at global carbon footprints":  From National Geographic's "The Great Energy Challenge"
  
• "More U.S. cities dimming the lights":  USA Today, 12/30/10
  
• "The Simple Dollar:  Make your home more energy efficient":  Christian Science Monitor, 12/29/10
• "Behavior frontiers:  Can social science combat climate change?":  Scientific American, 12/28/10
  
• "Simple rebuttals to denier talking points--with links to the full climate science":  ClimateProgress.org, 12/28/10
• "The hunt is on:  Massive collider churning out data":  NPR, 12/28/10--you might also want to check out the ATLAS Boogie, and I hope you've already heard the Large Hadron Rap?
  
• "Happiness 101:  Less tweeting, more meeting":  Christian Science Monitor, 12/24/10
  
• "Census data show more New Yorkers opting for transit instead of driving":  StreetsBlog.org, 12/21/10
  
• "Ethanol:  A corn-fueled debate":  NPR special series (2 articles), 12/21/10
  
• "2010 census:  Montana didn't grow enough to gain 2nd representation in Congress":  Missoulian, 12/20/10
  
• "Solstice lunar eclipse":  NASA, 12/17/10  (The winter solstice is Tuesday, December 21!)
  
• "San Jose officials approve plastic bag ban":  KTVU.com (San Jose, CA), 12/15/10
  
• "Dishes still dirty?  Blame phosphate-free detergent":  NPR, 12/15/10
• Followup:  "If your detergent isn't doing the job, what do you do to get clean dishes?"  NPR blog, 12/15/10
  
• "Using waste, Swedish city cuts its fossil fuel use":  New York Times, 12/10/10
  
• The year in Google searches (video):  From Google, on Good.is, 12/9/10
  
• VolcanoHeaven:  This is a photo blog about volcanoes by the O'Mearas.  On 12/7/10, they posted some photos of new activity at Kilauea's Halemaumau caldera. 
  
• "Lead in most U.S. holiday tree lights poses hazard for kids, group says":  Bloomberg.com, 12/8/10
• "Transparency:  What is the easiest way to power a lightbulb":  Good.is, 12/7/10
  
• "Researchers dressed as giant pandas prepare panda cub for the wild in Chinese reserve":  The LA Times , 12/7/10
  
• "Philosophy professor says saving Earth is a moral cause":  Missoulian, 12/6/10
• "Mercury mark:  2010 among hottest 3 years":  Time.com, 12/2/10
  
• "Nutria fur:  From Louisiana swamps to New York catwalks":  BBC News, 12/2/10
  
• "Pope Benedict is keen on solar-powered popemobile":  USA Today, 12/1/10
• "Starry, starry, starry night:  Star count may triple":  AP, 12/1/10
  

November 2010:

• Merapi 2010:  Photos from MontserratVolcano.org
  
• "Plastic bags BANNED in parts of Los Angeles County":  The Huffington Post, 11/16/10
  
• "Diesel, cleaner, is set to make a comeback":  New York Times, 11/16/10
  
• "Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe exhumed to solve mystery":  BBC, 11/15/10
• "Murder!  Intrigue!  Astronomers?":  New York Times, 11/29/10
  
• "Bicycling in Portland is good for you--except when you crash, study says":  Oregonian, 11/14/10
  
• "Energy Secretary Chu in sprint to put stimulus to work on renewable innovations":  The Washington Post, 11/13/10
• "Drought in the Amazon, up close and personal":  New York Times, 11/12/10
  
• "Rain feeds plants instead of sewers:  Portland offereing subsidies to funnel water from rooftops":  Portland (OR) Tribune, 11/11/10
  
• "US dodges bullet in busy hurricane season":  New York Times Green blog, 11/10/10
• "Charting China's energy explosion":  New York Times Green blog, 11/9/10
  
• "Cliamte scientists plan campaign against global warming skeptics":  LA Times, 11/8/10
• "Large Hadron Collider generates a 'mini-Big Bang'":  BBC, 11/8/10
  
• "Study identifies three different types of cyclists:  City officials hope improvements will encourage more people to bike":  Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR), 11/6/10
  
• "Cigarette companies sponsor volcano rescue efforts":  NPR, 11/5/10
• NASA Earth Observatory image of Mount Merapi
  
• "Radioactive rabbit trapped near Richland":  Tri-City Herald, 11/5/10
  
• "EPOXI spacecraft encounters comet":  ScienceNews.org, 11/4/10
• NASA's EPOXI Mission
• Photos, from SpaceWeather.com
  
• "Law curbs McDonald's Happy meal toys":  11/3/10
• "Impact 'catastrophe calculator' updated":  BBC, 11/3/10
  
• "Can a volcano spawn salmon?":  KUOW News (Puget Sound), 11/2/10
• "January-to-October tied for hottest in satellite record:  New US daily high temperature records in October outpace record lows by nearly 5-to-1":  ClimateProgress.org, 11/2/10
  
• "FWP plans to restore mountain goast in Whitefish Range":  Missoulian, 11/1/10
• "From farm to fridge to garbage can":  New York Times, 11/1/10
  

October 2010:

• 
  
• "Effort to keep big rigs off Montana highways continues to spread":  Missoulian, 10/31/10
  
• "Global warming seen as threat to state's parks":  San Francisco Chronicle, 10/27/10
• "Glacier National Park's glaciers:  Going, going...":  ScienceNews.org, 10/25/10
  
• "Volcanic eruption led to B.C. salmon boom:  scientist":  CBC News, 10/25/10
  
• "Measuring a country's health by its height":  NPR, 10/25/10
• "How a comet can cause a meteor shower":  Christian Science Monitor, 10/25/10
• This article is referring to the Orionid meteor shower
  
• "'Cash for caulkers' seals savings for homeowners":  NPR, 10/23/10
  
• "Oil sands effort turns on a fight over a road":  New York Times, 10/21/10
• "First full range test of Nissan LEAF yields 116.1 miles":  PluginCars.com, 10/21/10
• The Nissan LEAF is an all-electric vehicle
  
• "Global warming endangers rare Glacier stonefly":  Missoulian, 10/21/10
• "Has the Earth run out of any natural resources?":  Slate.com, 10/20/10
• "California ordered to consider protection for American pika":  LA Times, 10/2/10
  
• "At Harvard, the kitchen as lab":  New York Times, 10/19/10
  
• "Sorting myth fromfact as Volt makes it debut":  New York Times, 10/15/10
  
• "Multnomah County becomes first in Oregon to ban bottled water from functions":  Oregonian, 10/14/10
  
• "University of Montana plans to construct biomass boiler to heat, light campus":  Missoulian, 10/12/10
• "Slowing population:  Would it curb climate change?":  LA Times blog, 10/11/10
  
• "Mountain Water Co. sues to block divulging salaries of top execs":  Missoulian, 10/6/10
  
• "Kimchi crisis leaves South Koreans in a pickle":  NPR, 10/6/10
  
• "Toxic slidge floods several Hungarian towns":  New York Times, 10/5/10
  
• "Japan recycles minerals from used electronics":  New York Times, 10/4/10
• "Passat BlueMotion enters record books after going 1,527 miles without refueling; that's 75.8 mpg":  AutoBlog.com, 10/4/10
  
• "Climate change target 'not safe', researchers say":  ScienceDaily.com, 10/3/10
• "Missoula city council considers urban windmills":  Missoulian, 10/3/10
• "Colleges use car-sharing to cut down congestion":  Seattle Times, 10/3/10
  

September 2010: 

• "Are American homes more energy efficient?  Not exactly.":  Washington Post, 9/30/10
• "Water map shows billions at risk of 'water insecurity'":  BBC News, 9/29/10
  
• "New planet may be able to nurture organisms":  New York Times, 9/29/10 
  
• "'Goldilocks' plant's temperature just right for life":  NPR, 9/29/10
  
• "Gliese 581G or Bust!  Scientists have found an Earthlike planet.  Can we go there?":  Slate.com, 9/30/10
  
• "MSU study:  Hunt would cut Montana wolf population in half":  Missoulian, 9/30/10
  
• "Energy company aims for biomass facility":  Missoulian, 9/29/10
• "Cambridge-MIT study attributes ~8,000 premature deaths per year to aircraft cruise emissions":  GreenCarCongress.com, 9/28/10
  
• The original press release:  "A link between air travel and deaths on the ground":  MIT, 9/28/10
  
• "Mudslide in Mexico buries homes":  New York Times, 9/28/10
• "Autumnal equinox:  Why first day of fall 2010 is different":  National Geography, 9/22/10
  
• "Carrot vending machines a surprise success":  Grist.org, 9/21/10
  
• "Camas Prairie tour examines Ice Age ripples":  Missoulian, 9/19/10
  
• "Cleaner for the environmenta, not for the dishes":  New York Times, 9/18/10
  
• "Stillwater Mining facility boosts recycling of spent catalytic converters":  Missoulian, 9/18/10
  
• "Beaverton's (OR) pilor solar program came close to reaching its goal of 50 homes":  OregonLive.com, 9/17/10
  
• "Ozone layer depletion has stopped, scientists say":  Agence France-Presse, 9/16/10
  
• "The urge to purge:  A new breed of young minimalist is just saying 'no' to stuff":  Vancouver Sun, 9/15/10
• "2010 tied with 1998 as warmest global temperature on record":  NOAA, 9/15/10
  
• "Hungry population falls but remains large, U.N. says":  New York Times, 9/14/10
• "The worst summer ever?":  NRDC.org, revised 9/14/10
  
• "Utah agency approves oil-sands project":  AP, 9/14/10
  
• "Preparations underway for biggest dam removal in U.S. history":  Oregon Public Broadcasting, 9/13/10
  
• "Huge fish kill reported in Plaquemines Parish":  NOLA.com (New Orleans, LA), 9/13/10
• "School buses get greener in Bluegrass State":  EnergyEmpowers.gov, 9/10/10
  
• "Scientists find thick layer of oil on seafloor":  NPR, 9/10/10
  
• "Good dancing may be sign of male health, scientists say":  BBC, 9/7/10
  
• "Twisted history:  The wily Mississippi cuts new paths":  NPR, 9/7/10
• "Missoula County officials target tough Japanese knotweed":  Missoulian, 9/6/10
  
• "Hurricanes:  Destructive forces of nature":  NPR, 9/3/10
• "Geomagnetic field flip-flops in a flash":  ScienceNews.org, 9/2/10
  
• "Oil sheen seen near damaged platform in Gulf of Mexico":  New York Times, 9/2/10
  

August 2010:

• "US weighs grades for car fuel economy":  NPR, 8/31/10
• "It adds up:  This was New York's hottest summer":  New York Times, 8/31/10
  
• "El Nino is intensifying, report says":  LA Times, 8/26/10
• "San Francisco shares its long list of green vendors":  New York Times, 8/26/10
  
• "BC sockeye salmon returns best in nearly a century":  Vancouver Sun, 8/25/10
• "France drains lake under Mont Blanc glacier":  BBC News. 8/25/10
  
• "Huge wind project breaks new ground for Idaho":  Idaho Statesman, 8/25/10
• "Why aren't Americans recycling their old gadgets?":  Retrevo.com (blog), 8/24/10
  
• "What frugality has taught me:  48 things":  The Christian Science Monitor, 8/22/10
• "The most isolated man on the planet":  Slate.com, 8/20/10
  
• "Highway 530 going solar":  HeraldNet (Snohomish County, WA), 8/20/10
• "Pakistan's floods:  Is the worst still to come?":  Nature.com, 8/17/10
  
• "Experiment to store wind energy in home water heaters":  OPB, 8/16/10
• "Judge bans Monsanto's genetically modified sugar beets":  Change.org, 8/16/10
• "July 2010--What global warming looks like":  NASA, 8/12/10
  
• "UW:  Cost of healthy food outpaces supermarket price hikes":  Seattle PI, 8/3/10
  

July 2010:

• "Can science feed the world?" (special):  Nature.com. 7/29/10
  
• "Disaster in the Gulf:  Tracking oil washing ashore on beaches":  NRDC.org, 7/13/10
• "Oregon lawmakers in 2011 may ban plastic bags, charge for paper bags in 2012":  OregonLive.com, 7/13/10
  
• "Global population study launched by Royal Society":  BBC News, 7/12/10
• "Total eclipse thrills South Pacific skywatchers":  MSNBC.com, 7/11/10
• "Rising sea drives Panama islanders to mainland":  Reuters.com, 7/11/10
  
• "Researchers winess overnight breakup, retreat of Greenland glacier":  NASA.gov, 7/9/10
• "Cheap food is not cheap to produce, and easy to throw away":  OregonLive.com, 7/9/10
• "An oil pipeline from Canada?  Some say 'no way'":  NPR, 7/8/10
  
• "OSU researchers make cheap, eco-friendly glue":  Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), 7/7/10
• "Losing an owl but saving a forest":  OregonLive.com, 7/6/10
  
• "S2C Global announces India world water hub:  S2C Global securing sales of its Alaskan water from company's first strategically located distribution center":  S2CGlobal.com, 7/7/10
  
• "Baltimore gets one of the country's first food czars":  Good.is, 7/1/10
• "Gas taxes give us a break at the pump":  USA Today, 7/1/10
  

June 2010:

• "F as in fat:  How obesity threatens America's future 2010":  HealthyAmerican.org, 7/10
  
• "Bicycle highways:  Should cities build specialized roadways for cyclists?":  Slate.com, 6/30/10
• "Switching off your lights has a bigger impact than you might think, says new study":  ScienceDaily.com, 6/30/10
  
• "Land-based oil spills add up, too":  USA Today, 6/29/10
• "DOE sees long road ahead for algae fuels":  New York Times, 6/29/10
  
• "Does America have a water crisis?" [video]:  OrganicNation.tv, 6/29/10
• Check out Desktop Earth!  And the FEMA Flood Map Viewer!
  
• "Oregon salmon rates as 'avoid' on Monterey bay Aquarium's seafood watch guide":  OregonLive.com, 6/28/10
• "Antibiotics in animals need limits, FDA says":  New York Times, 6/28/10
• "Antarctic garbage patch coming?":  DiscoveryNews.com, 6/25/10
  
• "Honda new hybrid to be cheapest one in Japan":  Reuters, 6/24/10
  
• "High water surrounds U.S. 2 homes":  Daily InterLake, 6/24/10
• Check out the USGS hydrographs (from the Whitefish River nears its mouth at Kalispell) from the past week or so
• "Supreme Court overturns ban on Monsanto's genetically modified alfalfa seeds":  Los Angeles Times, 6/22/10
• "Burrowing owls make comback at Umatilla depot":  Tri-City Herald, 6/21/10
  
• "German TanDEM-X satellite seeks 3D view of Earth":  BBC News, 6/21/10
  
• "7th-graders discover mysterious cave on Mars":  MSNBC.com, 6/21/10
  
• "By 2016, Boeing jets may be 90% recylable":  HeraldNet.com (Snohomish County, WA), 6/20/10
  
• "As oil gushes in Gulf, eyes are on sands to north in Alberta":  Missoulian, 6/20/10
• "Northwest Montana gets record rain, but avoids flood stage":  Flathead Beacon, 6/19/10
• "Can painting a mountain restore a glacier?":  BBC News, 6/17/10
• "Oregon gets taste of living with wolves":  OregonLive.com, 6/17/10
  
• "Fish farms, low oxygen levels and wild salmon:  A troubled coexistence":  Seattle Post Globe, 6/16/10
  
• "More cold and snowy winters to come in Europe, Eastern Asia and Eastern North America":  ScienceDaily.com, 6/15/10
• "Ikea to phase out incandescent lighting in all US Ikea stores beginning August 1, 2010:  Ikeao to be the first US retailer to phase out incandescent bulbs":  Idea.com, 6/15/10
  
• "Connell organic farmer using 'beetle banks'":  Tri-City Herald (Kennewick, Pasco and Richland, WA), 6/14/10
• "Swollen Columbia River churns so much electricity BPA is giving some away":  OregonLive.com, 6/11/10
• "Researchers:  Pine beetles change raindrop physics when they kill trees":  Missoulian, 6/11/10
  
• "Can whiter clouds reduce global warming?":  USA Today, 6/10/10
• "Country Natural Beet co-op works on sustaining Oregon cattle ranchers":  OregonLive.com, 6/9/10
• "City aims to chop locally":  Ashland Daily Tidings, 6/8/10
• "Before the Mississippi, minerals show ancient rivers flowed west":  ScienceNews.org, 6/7/10
  
• "New use for big homes:  Summit explores future of housing in Missoula":  Missoulian, 6/6/10
• "Going green on a budget":  Yakima Herald (WA), 6/6/10
  
• "Scientists seek former students in toxic MT town":  Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 6/4/10
• "Oasis near Death Valley fed by ancient aquifer under Nevada Test Site":  ScienceDaily.com, 6/4/10
  
• "Vigorous exercise linked with better grades":  New York Times, 6/3/10
  
• "NW cellulosic-ethanol plant breaks ground":  Seattle Times, 6/3/10
• "Biomass generates 32% of all energy in Sweden":  RenewableEnergyWorld.com, 6/2/10
  

May 2010: 

• "Landscaping Missoula:  Straw an alternative to digging up boulevard":  Missoulian, 5/31/10
• "Is digital revolution driving decline in US car culture?":  Advertising Age, 5/31/10
• "Fewer and fewer young people are driving--but why?":  Grist.com, 8/30/10
  
• "High and wild:  Diverse groups band together to save Rocky Mountain Front":  Missoulian, 5/29/10
  
• "Student uses pedal power to create novel machine":  ScienceDaily.com, 5/28/10
• "Volcano chasers have a red-hot passion for eruptions":  USA Today, 5/27/10
  
• "Governor says wind turbine plant still coming to Butte":  Missoulian, 5/27/10
• "Transparency:  How much oil do we get from offshore drilling?":  Good.is, 5/26/10
  
• "Ductless heat pumps could replace baseboard heaters":  KPLU, 5/26/10
• "Wood-powered 'biomass' plants have critics barking":  NPR, 5/26/10
  
• "To avoid possibloe exposure to bisphenol A, choose frozen or fresh vegetables":  OregonLive.com, 5/25/10 
  
• "Small towns struggle to fix aging sewage systems":  GazetteTimes.com (Corvallis, OR), 5/22/10
• "Hanford land has potential after cleanup, leaders say":  TriCityHerald.com, 5/22/10
  
• "Energy group urges doing more with current power through efficiency":  :Missoulian, 5/21/10
• "A new source of dioxins:  Clean hands":  ScienceNews.org, 5/18/10
  
• "War on tap:  America's obsession with bottled water":  NPR, 5/17/10
• "LED bulbs for the home near the marketplace":  New York Times, 5/16/10
  
• "FWP decision:  Montana to at least double '09 wolf-hunt quota":  Missoulian, 5/14/10
• "In pictures:  The ocean in a laboratory":  BBC news, 5/14/10
  
• "Gulf oil spill far greater than thought, some experts say":  NPR, 5/13/10
  
• "Garden starts:  Volunteers help Missoulians ditch grass for veggies":  Missoulian, 5/10/10
• "Swarms of grasshoppers predicted to plague the West this year":  OregonLive.com, 5/10/10
  
• "Finland's 100,000-year plan to banish its nuclear waste":  New York Times, 5/10/10
  
• "Could another Icelandic volcano erupt soon?":  BBC News, 5/10/10
  
• Massachusetts town votes to ban the sale of bottled water":  Care2.com, 5/6/10
  
• "Upcoming ban on plastics causing restaurants and retailers problems":  Seattle Times, 5/6/10 
  
• "FAQ:  How oil-covered birds are cleaned":  AudobonMagazine.org, 5/4/10 
  
• "A grolar?  A pizzly?  Scientists confirm grizzly-polar bear cross":  Vancouver Sun, 5/2/10

April 2010:

• "Private water suppliers poised to grow as demand set to surge":  The Guardian, 4/28/10
  
• "California seismic map is updated to include newly found fault lines":  New York Times, 4/28/10
  
• USGS:  2010 Fault activity map of California
  
• Emergency Response news from NOAA:  Deepwater Horizon Incident (big oil leak following an oil rig explosion), Gulf of Mexico:  Includes satellite images, map (as of April 30), a fact sheet about the animals in the area and updated news
• A view of the area from the International Space Station (from NASA)
• Coverage from PlanetGreen
  
• "Found alive:  The Loch Ness monster of the Northwest Prairie.  Alas, it disappoints":  New York Times, 4/27/10
  
• "Scientists capture elusive giant Palouse earthworm":  NPR, 4/27/10
  
• "US losing trees faster than other heavily forested nation":  USA Today, 4/27/10
• "Japan to search seafloors fo rare metals":  New Straits Times, 4/26/10 
  
• "MSU scientists show off solar shots":  Missoulian, 4/23/10
  
• ]"For Earth Day, 7 new rules to live by":  New York Times, 4/22/10
  
• Earth Day is April 22!
• Do you know what your ecological footprint is?
• Web site for "Fuel"
• April 24:  Nourish the Flathead event at FVCC
  
• Volcanic eruption in Iceland:  Eyjafjallajökull
• Photos from The Big Picture
  
• Video from 4/20/10 (the link is from the European Volcanological Society web site)
• More videos (copyright N. Fischer) from April 17 and 19
  
• ASTER (NASA satellite) images from M. Ramsey
  
• April 21 update:  BBC, 4/21/10
• Aerial photos from 4/19/10
  
• "Chaos persists as Europe flights resume":  BBC, 4/20/10--check out the maps!
  
• "Could aircraft dodge the volcanic ash cloud?":  BBC, 4/20/10
  
• "Inside the plume, a volcano tells its secrets" (audio):  NPR, 4/19/10
  
• Ask Pablo:  What impact will the volcano in Iceland have on climate change?
  
• "Volcanic ash to curtail air traffic into midday Friday":  New York Times, 4/15/10
• Images from IAVCEI
• Images from StromboliOnline
• SO2 monitoring images
  
• "Magnitude 3.4 quake shakes Dillon":  Missoulian, 4/15/10
  
• "Cluster of strong earthquakes:  Coincidence or trend?":  NPR, 4/14/10
  
• "Parched western Montana could see 'record low streamflow'":  Missoulian, 4/14/10
• "World oil demand to hit record high this year:  IEA":  Reuters.com, 4/13/10
  
• "Europe finds clean energy in trash, but US lags":  New York Times, 4/12/10
  
• "Should the US burn or bury its trash?"  New York Times, 4/13/10
  
• "How to motivate people to make homes energy-efficient":  The Washington Post, 4/10/10
  
• "New hominid species discovered in South Africa":  New York Times, 4/8/10
• "Montana sees more and more geotourists":  Missoulian, 4/8/10
• "Costs of driving shift up for 2010":  USA Today, 4/7/10
  
• "Regulators approve cow manure power deal":  Idaho Stateman, 4/6/10
• "Vast amounts of food trashed despite incentives":  San Francisco Chronicle, 4/5/10
• "How green is my iPad?" (op-chart):  New York Times, 4/4/10
  
• "Great Barrier Reef oil disaster fear from stricken ship":  BBC News, 4/4/10
  
• "From fields to food banks, Montana wheat growers help feed state's hungry":  Missoulian, 4/3/10
• "Plan outlines Snake Dam removal steps":  Tri-City Herald, 4/1/10
• "Idaho's wolf-hunting season proclaimed a success by wildlife officials":  Missoulian, 4/1/10

March 2010: 

• Video:  "End idling":  AngrySue blog, 3/10/10
  
• "Green and clean:  Innovators hope to build plant in Montana to turn trees, shoes into fuel":  Missoulian, 3/27/10
• "Interactive map:  The real seismic threat to our nation's nuclear power plants":  Good.is, 3/24/11
  
• "Hard plastics decompoase in oceans, releasing endocrine disruptor BPA":  ScienceDaily, 3/24/10
  
• "U.S. bolsters chemical restrictions for water":  New York Times, 3/22/10
  
• "Volcano erupts in south Iceland":  BBC, 3/21/10--It's in the Eyjafjallajoekull area
• YouTube video, 3/21/10
  
• "Groups says gas price spike could cost Montanans 10 percent of income":  Missoulian, 3/18/10
  
• "If it does matter where CO2 is released, cities are in trouble":  Grist.com. 3/17/10
• "Can smiley faces (and a 14-step program to stop overconsumption) save the global climate?":  Scientific American, 3/16/10
  
• "Earthquake observatory in northern Chile to monitor the last seismic gap":  ScienceDaily.com, 3/16/10
  
• "Do big quakes increase global seismic activity?":  NPR, 3/12/10 
• "Made in the USA:  Efficiency materials":  New York Times, 3/12/10
  
• "In Northwest waters, scientists track 'dead zones'":  The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA), 3/11/10
  
• "Biking directions added to Google Maps":  The Official Google Blog, 3/10/10
  
• "Increased solar radiation requires additional CO2 reduction of 50 million tonnes, analysis finds":  ScienceDaily.com, 3/9/10
  
• Don't Lose It.  AltUse It.  A fun site--useful!
  
• "Snowpack at 'very low' levels":  Daily InterLake, 3/5/10
• Current water year data (updated monthly or weekly):  USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
  
• "Waste could general up to 7 percent of electricity in Spain":  ScienceDaily.com, 3/5/10
• "The newest hybrid model":  New York Times, 3/4/10
  
• "For pennies, a disposable toilet that could help grow crops":  New York Times, 3/2/10
  
• "A lesson in energy use":  The Bulletin (Bend, OR), 3/1/10
  
• Information on the M8.8 earthquake in Chile:
• "Did the Chilean quake shift Earth's axis?":  Science@NASA, 3/11/10
  
• "Chilean earthquake rattled Montana monitors":  Missoulian, 3/3/10
• Tsunami maps for recent events:  NOAA Center for Tsunami Research, 3/2/10
  
• "Chilean quake may have shortened Earth days":  NASA, 3/1/10
  
• "Are the Haitian and Chilean earthquakes related?":  Slate.com, 3/1/10
• Latest updates on Chile's earthquake:  New York Times, 3/1/10
• "Why did fewer die in Chile's earthquake than in Haiti's?":  BBC News, 3/1/10
• Chile quake tsunami (map):  BBC News, 2/28/10
• Tsunami model for Chilean earthquake:  Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo
  
• Earthquake details:  USGS, 2/27/10

February 2010:

• "Evergreen bluff section slides":  Daily InterLake, 2/25/10
  
• "Salmon count raises hope":  Eugene Register-Guard, 2/25/10
  
• "Bill O'Reilly--Global warming hot air?":  YouTube, 2/22/10
• "Deap-ocean low-osygen zones spreading to shallower coastal waters":  Scientific American, 2/23/10
  
• "Three films that would make Einstein blush":  BBC News, 2/23/10
  
• "Geologists simulate ancient Lake Missoula floods":  The Missoulian, 2/21/10 
• OregonLive.com has a nice graphic to illustrate
  
• "Schweitzer signs Flathead drilling ban in B.C.":  The Flathead Beacon, 2/18/10 
• "An illustrated guide to the latest climate science":  ClimateProgress.org, 2/17/10
  
• "Yemen's water crisis eclipses al Qaeda threat":  Reuters, 2/17/10
  
• "Global weirding is here" (Op-ed article):  New York Times, 2/17/10
  
• "Americans favor conservation, but few practice it":  LabSpaces.net, 2/16/10  
  
• Here's the study:  "American' actions to conserve energy, reduce waste, and limit global warming, January 2010" [pdf file] from the Yale Project on Climate Change and the George Mason
  University Center for Climate Change Communication
  
• "Tester pays visit to power-producing landfill in Flathead":  Daily InterLake, 2/16/10
  
• "British Columbia formalizes order banning Canadian Flathead mining, energy development":  Missoulian, 2/11/10
  
• "Canada's mild climate leaves Winter Olympics short of snow":  The Guardian, 2/10/10
  
• "Thirty-eight percent of world's surface in danger of desertification":  ScienceDaily.com, 2/10/10
  
• "A mission to study the Sun":  New York Times, 2/9/10
• "Imagining 'The next hundred million' Americans":  NPR's Talk of the Nation, 2/8/10
  
• "Black carbon driving Himalayan melt":  SpaceDaily.com, 2/8/10
  

January 2010: 

• Biomass in the news!
  
• "Biomass option still on the table for Flathead Electric":  Daily InterLake, 2/2/10
  
• "Boardman (OR) coal-burning power plant may have a future after all:  biomass":  Oregonion, 2/1/10 
  
• "Is biomass the brave new world of energy?":  Flathead Beacon, 1/26/10
• "Stoltze sees opportunity for biomass power plant":  Daily InterLake, 1/24/10
  
• "Hundreds of quakes are rattling Yellowstone":  New York Times, 1/31/10
  
• "Kepler telescope finds its first extrasolar planets":  ScienceNews.org, 1/30/10
• "Could an asteroid slam Earth without warning?":  NPR.org, 1/29/10
  
• "Diamonds become stronger when squeezed rapidly under extreme conditions":  ScienceDaily.com, 1/27/10
  
• "A wild black bear has given birth live on internet":  BBC News, 1/26/10
• Lily Den Cam at the North American Bear Center
  
• "More than 1,200 tiny quakes hit Yellowstone Park, but jitters are few":  Missoulian, 1/25/10
  
• "Congo receives help from space after volcano eruption":  ScienceDaily.com, 1/22/10
  
• "2009: Second warmest year on record; end of warmest decade":  NASA, 1/21/10
• "Cameras catch underwater volcano in the act":  ScienceNews.org, 1/16/10
  
• "Frozen in France?  Thank the Arctic Oscillation":  NPR.org, 1/16/10
  
• Satellite photos of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti:  NASA Earth Observatory, 1/15/10
  
• Earthquake summary:  USGS, 1/17/10
• "Scientists scramble to analyze Haiti quake":  ScienceNews.org, 1/16/10
• "The anatomy of a Caribbean earthquake":  NPR.org, 1/13/10
• "Haiti earthquake FAQ":  Slate.com, 1/13/10
  
• "Are there more big earthquakes than there used to be?  How human activity affects the tectonic plates":  Slate.com, 1/14/10
  
• Magnitude 3.9 earthquake reported Wednesday morning in Seeley Lake:  Missoulian, 1/14/10
• "Science must end climate confusion (Viewpoint)":  BBC News, 1/11/10
  
• "Climate change trends:  Carbon emissions giants":  NPR.org, 12/09
  

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