Beltline a test site for air pollution study. Researchers with the U.S. E.P.A. are using Raleigh, N.C.'s, Beltline as a staging area for a nationwide study of pollution from vehicles and how it may affect people living near busy highways. [News Source]

Mumbaikars warned against Mahim water. The Chief Minister in Maharashtrathe, India, has appealed to the people in Mumbai not to drink seawater at the Mahim creek. [News Source]

The middle ground. We tend to think of nature and modern agriculture as competing, often in conflict. But in West Marin County, California they're closing the divide. That's because people who live in West Marin decided decades ago that nature and agriculture can coexist and even flourish. [News Source]

Greenbrier is ground zero in fight over wind power. The battle over wind energy continues to divide West Virginia's environmental community. [News Source]

Toxic soot from China arrives at Mt. Tam.

Pollutants from China have been showing up in the air above West Marin, California, according to recent scientific findings.

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Cornwall may be hub of wave-power venture. The Government offered up to £4.5 million yesterday to help fund the world's first wave-energy farm off north Cornwall. [News Source]

Pollution, warming hurting Joshua trees. Global warming and air pollution are threatening to take Joshua trees right out of Joshua Tree National Park, according to a national conservation group. [News Source]

Don’t count on forests to keep us cool. New research suggests that boreal forests might not help curb global warming as scientists once thought. [News Source]

State to cut carbon dioxide. Connecticut and seven other states have agreed on a framework for a first-in-the-nation plan to reduce carbon dioxide -- one of the major causes of global warming -- from the region's power plants. [News Source]

Device quickly tests for liquid bombs. Scientists and engineers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland have created a device that they say could be used to rapidly and accurately identify any suspicious liquids carried onboard by airplane passengers. [News Source]

1,800 sites cut from DEP list with no notice. Statewide, more than 1,800 polluted properties quietly vanished from New Jersey's official contaminated site list last year without being cleaned or contained. [News Source]