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Great Blue Heron loving the look of Lake Erie on a summer day. Lake Erie is low and getting lower by the year. One day thousands of years from now it will fall into Lake Ontario and disappear. (Photo by Richard Hudson)

In China, public anger over secrecy on environment

Many in China were already critical of the government for poor air and water quality. Now they are also expressing disquiet over the scarcity of information about the environment that’s made available to them.

Reuters

China wrestles with cost of cleaner environment

U.S. News & World Report

Social bees mark dangerous flowers with chemical signals

Researchers have demonstrated that social bees use chemical signals to mark flowers where they have previously been attacked.

ScienceDaily

Melting Arctic makes way for ships and species invasions

A new study shows immense increases in shipping are likely over the North Pole and Arctic Ocean in the coming years, alerting scientists who study invasive species.

Scientific American

Melting Arctic opens avenues for India

Business Standard

Arctic may have influenced superstorm Sandy

Live Science

Fukushima radiation proves less deadly

Japan’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake caused a shutdown of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Remarkably, outside the area of Fukushima, radiation release has hardly been a problem.

Bloomberg

Inside Fukushima’s abandoned towns – in pictures

Guardian

Man writes guide for backyard farmers

Colin McCrate, a Dayton area high school graduate, is transforming gardeners into farmers with a book that sprouted from a desire to create an effective tool to potential backyard farmers.

Dayton Daily News

Photo slideshow: go green fair

Yorkville Patch

NATION

A recommitment to the American ideal that labor rights are human rights

The makers of "We Are Wisconsin,” the documentary about the 2011 Wisconsin Uprising and its aftermath, are sponsoring screenings of the film in communities across the country.

The Nation

Seavey becomes oldest Iditarod champ

Former champion Mitch Seavey became the oldest person to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.The 53-year-old Seavey and 10 dogs finished the trek in nine days, seven hours, 39 minutes and 56 seconds.

Kansas City Star

Mush! Mush! Mush! Oldest champion of the 2013 Iditarod Great Sled Race

Baltimore Sun

Americans increase spending, and it wasn’t just on gas

Americans spent last month at the fastest pace in five months, boosting retail spending compared with the previous month. Half the jump reflected higher gas prices, but retail sales rose as well.

HeraldNet

BUSINESS

Job Openings Increase as US Labor Market Improves

Job openings have rebounded, showing employers are gaining confidence. The U.S. expansion will be sustained even as lawmakers battle to further trim the federal budget deficit.

Bloomberg

Japan becomes first nation to extract ‘frozen gas’ from seabed

Japan has successfully extracted natural gas from frozen methane hydrate deposits under the sea, in the first example of production of the gas offshore.

Guardian

US stocks climb on jobless data as S&P 500 nears record

U.S. stocks climbed, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index toward a record high, as jobless claims unexpectedly dropped.

Bloomberg

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

World Ports and Trade Summit to open

The World Ports and Trade Summit (WPTS) will begin in the coming week in Abu Dhabi. Participants will be exchanging information on a key networking platform for the maritime industry.

Gulf News

Five shark species win protection against finning trade

The millions of sharks killed every year to feed the vast appetite for shark-fin soup in Asia now have greater protection, after 178 nations at the world’s biggest wildlife summit voted to crack down on the trade.

Guardian

Why sharks join kids in Florida for spring break

NBCNews.com

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Philadelphia Mayor Nutter stops budget speech amid protests

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter was forced to stop his budget address on after loud protests drowned out his speech. Three of the city’s four biggest unions have been without contracts since 2009.

ABC News

Shaping our economic destiny

A local Transition Initiative aims to mold the future instead of waiting to let it happen. They focus on local resources, including food from farms and gardens, local goods, services and know-how.

Hudson Valley Times

Paradise under pressure

Scott and Colin Ladley are making furniture and converting horse floats into temporary accommodation to help make ends meet on the farm that has been home for decades.

Nelson Mail

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Tony Katigbak):

Time to focus on the environment

Phillipine Star

Column (William R. Wootton):

Fire Your Food Service and Grow Your Own

Chronicle of Higher Education

Column (Stamps Howard and Guy Stevens):

Thailand can offer a ray of light to an endangered species

The Nation

Column (Stephen R. Kelly):

China vs. Keystone in Canada oil sands

Des Moines Register

Column (John Steele Gordon):

Why jobs still aren’t coming back

NY Daily News

Column (Andrew Ross):

Strong jobs report belies lingering pain

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Babette Zoumara):

China In Africa: ‘Imperial Power’ Or ‘Altruist’?

Eurasia Review

Blog (Bianca Jagger):

Women: The Unsung Heroes of the Environment

(Huffington Post)

The Blog

Editorial:

Death penalty undermines U.S. vision as great defender of human rights

NJ.com

Site edited by: Amy Marie Phillips

GOOD NEWS

Apps intended to help Red Cross provide lifesaving advice

The Red Cross has unveiled a series of apps to help people get ready for earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires, and now tornadoes. The apps have been downloaded more than 2 million times.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Researchers discover evidence of rainforest resilience to global warming

Researchers have discovered more evidence of rainforest resilience to global warming. Their findings reveal that tropical forests are less likely to lose biomass due to global warming than previously thought.

Science Recorder

Japan may revive carbon trading discussion after elections

The Japanese government may revive discussions about a carbon market that would reduce pollution levels after elections for the Upper House of parliament, a government adviser said.

Bloomberg

WORLD

A decade after Hussein, Iraq still grapples with human rights abuses

Long after Saddam Hussein, Iraq remains in a grim cycle of human rights abuses, Amnesty International reported. Iraqis enjoy greater freedoms but basic human rights gains have failed to materialize.

CNN

Middle East in photos

National Geographic

Hungry China sets sight on Central Asia

China may have a stranglehold on Kyrgyzstan‘s economy, so much so that, in the words of a former Kyrgyz cabinet member, the country’s economy would collapse without its giant neighbor.

The Atlantic

People of Kygyzstan

fotopedia

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Mars rover Curiosity confirms habitable environment in distant past

Analyzing samples from the sedimentary rock, the Curiosity Mars rover has detected traces of chemicals compounds necessary for a habitable environment in the red planet’s distant past

CBS News

Physicists try to find how much heat Earth holds

Scientists have identified several particles lurking deep inside the Earth’s mantle that could reveal how much heat the planet produces and confirm that the Earth formed from materials from the sun.

NBCNews.com

ENVIRONMENT

Amplified greenhouse effect shaping north into south

As the cover of snow and ice in the northern latitudes has diminished, temperatures over the northern land mass have increased.

ScienceDaily

Climate change is turning Earth’s northern latitudes green

Science Recorder

Global warming pushing trees north

Discovery News

Surge in renewable energy as solar panel prices plummet

The global deployment of renewable energy from wind, solar and biofuels grew in 2012 but the income from the sector remained flat due to the plummeting costs for solar photovoltaic panels.

Guardian

SPECIAL TOPIC: GROWING OUR OWN FOOD

Growing pains for curbside farming

Carla Russell long lived Los Angeles, where fast food is plentiful and fresh produce hard to find. Recently she stumbled on vegetables growing in city-owned strip of land between the street and the sidewalk.

Wall Street Journal

Eating for health locally: Organic food growers offer tips

In spite of what you see outside, spring will be here soon and with it, visions of fresh vegetables from your garden. To improve environment and community wellness, many gardeners are going pesticide-free.

Midland Daily News

Most beautiful botanical gardens in the world

xinhuanet.com

Photo of the Day

An Ethiopian Jewish man prays during the “Sigd” holiday in Jerusalem. The prayer is performed by Ethiopian Jews every year to celebrate the biblical union between the Jewish people and God. (Photo by Sebastian Scheiner / AP)

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