By Edward McAllister (Reuters) - U.S. regulators said on Thursday they will perform water tests at about 60 homes in the small town of Dimock in Pennsylvania where residents say natural gas drilling has polluted wells.
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By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's governments and relief agencies need to plan now to resettle millions of people expected to be displaced by climate change, an international panel of experts said on Thursday. [More]
Read More »Mysterious Disease Killed Scores of Seals in Alaska
By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A mysterious disease, possibly a virus, has afflicted ring seals along Alaska's coast, killing scores of them since July, local and federal agencies said on Thursday. [More]
Read More »Gulf oil spill claims should work fast: Holder
By Verna Gates ORANGE BEACH, Alabama (Reuters) - The fund BP set up to deal with compensation claims after last year's Gulf of Mexico oil spill is working too slowly, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Thursday
Read More »U.S. may see record number of tornadoes this year
By Kevin Gray MIAMI (Reuters) - A rare and potent combination of cool air clashing with warm, humid weather and extreme winds at varying altitudes ignited the deadly tornadoes that ravaged the U.S. South this week, meteorologists said on Thursday. [More]
Read More »Ozone hole dominates shifting Southern Hemisphere climate
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Climate policymakers and scientists need to look beyond global warming emissions of carbon dioxide and take the loss of stratospheric ozone into account, researchers said on Thursday.
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