http://compasslumber.com/aggregator Compass Lumber Products, Inc. - aggregated feeds en http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011122153536/National-news/logging-in-the-wild-west.html Phnom Penh Post: Illegal logging of staggering proportions abetted by military personnel is decimating stocks of luxury rosewood in the Central Cardamom Protected Forest, while the conservation group tasked with protecting the area and its government counterparts deny the trade is even happening. In a period of several hours beginning late on Sunday night, the Post witnessed at least nine industrial transport trucks, seven pick-up trucks and one Land Rover packed with timber drive out of Koh Kong province’s Thma... Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:11:00 -0600 http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/201202/s3421800.htm Radio Australia: One of the world's leading tropical biologists says clear felling of forests on Papua New Guinea's controversial Special Agricultural and Business leases is likely to have profound impact on PNG's environment. As you heard earlier in the program, logging on SABLs has pushed PNG's log exports into record territory. In 2011, 650,000 cubic metres of logs were exported from SABLs. A prominent scientist in tropical biology says the environmental impact of this sort of logging is very significant.... Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:57:00 -0600 http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/environment/ssssscotland-here-we-come.1328411185 Scotland Herald: The first firm evidence that the grass snake is now living in the wild north of the Border has been uncovered by a naturalist, upsetting decades of conventional wisdom. It was believed the grass snake, a non-poisonous creature native to England, has never colonised Scotland. A few kept as pets had escaped, but there was no proof that any lived here in the wild, or had spread north naturally. But now Chris Cathrine, a member of the Clyde Amphibian and Reptile Group and director of the Caledonian... Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:00:00 -0600 http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/local/cutting_carbon_is_one_way_of_creating_jobs_1_4213849 Halifax Courier: THE council is ready to endorse an ambitious £366 million scheme to create 450 jobs, slash energy costs and help save the planet. If the Energy Future Strategy works properly, it should pay for itself and slash Calderdale’s carbon emissions by 40 per cent by 2020. Senior Lib Lab councillors have already given the strategy the green light and Calderdale Council as a whole will be asked to back the plan at its meeting on February 15. Economy and environment spokesman Barry Collins (Lab, Illingworth... Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:00:00 -0600 http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/02/05/height_of_wind_turbine_planned_for_moon_island_questioned_by_some_quincy_residents/ Boston Globe: As Wednesday’s public hearing on the joint Quincy-Boston plan to build a nearly 400-foot wind turbine on Quincy’s Moon Island draws near, some Quincy residents are questioning the value of the project to their city and the cost in intangibles they may have to pay for it. Quincy Planning Board member William Geary said his panel doesn’t have a good idea of how big the turbine will appear from the city’s Squantum neighborhood, complaining at an information session last month that the simulation... Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:00:00 -0600 http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20120205_A_solar_farm_s_slow_going.html Philadelphia Inquirer: When Bob Keares proposed building Pennsylvania's largest solar farm in the heart of Chester County, he expected a warm reception, certainly from environmentalists. With 35,000 panels arrayed on a steep slope in Caln Township, the farm would generate 10 megawatts of energy, pollution-free. It could power 2,000 homes, he asserted, while reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 200,000 tons over 40 years - equivalent to planting eight million trees. Keares' green dream did not end there. He envisioned... Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:00:00 -0600 http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/x123147680/Report-Power-plants-pollute?zc_p=0 MetroWest Daily News: Power plants throughout eastern Massachusetts are the largest industrial sources of greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change in the state, according to new data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The information comes from a website the EPA unveiled in January, publicly detailing for the first time emissions reported by the largest producers of carbon dioxide and related greenhouse gases in nine major industries. All the top 10 sources of carbon dioxide emissions... Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:00:00 -0600 http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report_why-jog-falls-have-been-reduced-to-a-trickle_1646006 Daily News and Analysis: "It should be called Joke Falls, not Jog Falls,' says a disgusted Yoav Masiach. The 31-year-old Israeli tourist had visited India's largest waterfall in the Western Ghats around the same time in the mid 90s and was enthralled by the four waterfalls -- Raja, Roarer, Rocket and Lady. This year, he brought his 22-year-old girlfriend Dianne Solares all the way from Goa on a motorcycle, but they were shocked to see what had become of one of the top ten falls in the world. Locals like Siddhaiah Gowda,... Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:00:00 -0600 http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=12-P13-00005&segmentID=2 Living on Earth: Congressman John Mica(FL-R)(in shirt sleeves) chairs the House Transportation Committee.(Courtesy of the House Transportation Committee) The chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has proposed a sweeping, new transportation bill. The legislation would encourage private companies to build their own toll roads and pay for infrastructure with money from oil companies. The author of the 800 page-long bill, Congressmen John Mica, highlights some of the bill's biggest proposals... Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:00:00 -0600 http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=12-P13-00005&segmentID=1 Living on Earth: The House transportation bill currently on the table cuts bicycling and walking infrastructure. Democrat Congressman Earl Blumenauer is an avid cyclist. He tells host Bruce Gellerman why he believes the bill is an assault on twenty years of progress. Transcript GELLERMAN: From the Jennifer and Ted Stanley Studios in Somerville, MA, it's Living on Earth, I'm Bruce Gellerman. [MUSIC: THEME to LEAVE IT TO BEAVER] GELLERMAN: The "Hi Mom, hi Dad, hi Beaver,' era wasn't all that long ago...... Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:00:00 -0600