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Scientists tie ancient warming to 'belch'
A vast belch of gas from beneath the North Atlantic 55 million years ago may have warmed the planet and hold clues to threats from an even faster modern surge in greenhouse gases, scientists reported in the journal Nature. • FULL STORY

MORE ENVIRONMENT NEWS & FEATURES

• Inquiry finds no crimes at nuclear site
Some concerns noted; activists dismayed overall

• 'Biopharming' is back, report finds
Controversial practice aims to grow drugs in crops

• NAFTA panel: Pollution drops 10 percent
Levels decline 10 percent over three years, commission finds

• Most oil leases on public lands go unused
Industry pays little to hold rights, critics see land grab

• Worries over chemical in Arctic wildlife
Norway to raise deca-BDE concerns before European Union

• Judges uphold snowmobile pollution rule
Panel asks EPA to explain why rule shouldn't be tougher

• WP: Quenching the thirst of a century
Los Angeles may restore river it diverted years ago

• Northeast warned on hatchery fish
Limit salmon, trout to half serving a month, agency says

• Pacific salmon to stay on endangered list
Agency reviews data after controversy over hatchery fish

• Army about-face on environmental shields
Environmental protection programs will stay in place

• Science and fiction of 'Day After Tomorrow'
Federal lab and nonprofit provide 'Warming 101'

• Organic farmers fought label changes
Law's author also upset at USDA revisions

• 'Pesticide drift' a worry to farm workers
California experience shows little help, compensation

• U.S. ship rules planned to aid right whales
Atlantic species in 'critical' condition, NOAA says

GREEN MACHINES

• ENERGY AGENCY: NATIONS MUST THINK RENEWABLE
Governments must spend more on research and development of renewable energy before such secure and clean power can make a real contribution, the International Energy Agency said Monday.

• Auto buyers not shying away from trucks, SUVs• Army shows off green fighting machines• Hybrid buses take to roads, using diesel• Nine ways to cut gas bill

ENVIRONMENT FEATURES

• DO WARMING DANGERS LIE UNDER SEAS?
Dozens of global warming tests on trees and plants have been held worldwide, but not one has been conducted on marine life under the ocean, even though the seas are major factors in climate change. Miguel Llanos reports.

• New British invasion sings of warming• Place your bets in albatross race• Looking for the right set of 'green wheels'• Democrats seeking presidency aren't environmental clones• Stealing the Nile: Falls now a trickle• Ebola blamed in decline of great apes• Reality meets road to hybrid heaven• U.S. takes hard line on Greenpeace• Will Gov. Schwarzenegger be green?

OTHER ENVIRONMENT NEWS

• Health: Air pollution tied to heart disease
Traffic is one of the worst sources, American Health Association says

• Health: Sprawl lifestyle tied to obesity
Researchers examine link between the environment and obesity

• Business: Gas price pressures enviro rules
Bush team mulls removing some requirements

• President's record
• Ocean attitudes
• Seafood menu
• Green/mean cars
• Climate factors
• Greenhouse effect
• Population issues
• Whale watching
• Invasive species
• Wildlife in danger
• Fuel cells
• Water cycle

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• Readers' questions about environmental issues are answered in this periodically updated column. The latest issues: babies and cargo ships.

Local environment stories

•	Md. : Alert to public: Beware Giant African Land Snail
•	Wash. : Nuclear-waste talks being held in private
•	Mass.: Siberian help for water test
•	Ill.: Bog's new boogeymen
•	Wis.: Dumping of sewage second-largest ever
•	Mass.: New coyote hunt shields shorebirds
•	Ariz.: 'Stalking' mountain lion slain
•	Colo.: Conservation efforts paying off at reservoirs
•	Alaska: Railroad agrees to full EPA pollution survey
•	Wash.: Tribe's whalers await chance to hunt again
•	Colo.: Ruling won't end Preble's problems
•	Tenn.: Stoking energy debate

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