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Yellow Tail co-founder Maria Casella dies

2014-08-13 15:01:52| Waste Management - Topix.net

Born Maria Patane in Sicily on 21 January 1927, Casella married her childhood sweetheart, Filippo Casella, in 1947 soon after he returned from the war.

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Chinese illegal coal mines threaten Yellow River water supply

2014-08-08 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: An investigation by Greenpeace has found two Chinese coal mines are breaching environmental protection laws and nature reserve regulations. The organisation says the mining operations are destroying alpine meadows on the foothills of Chinas Qinghai mountains and are a potential threat to the countrys second longest waterway. In a report released on Thursday by Greenpeace East Asia, undercover campaigners found coalfields 14 times larger than London in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau. The mines are...

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Ancient Chinese anti-flooding efforts blamed for deadly Yellow river flooding

2014-06-20 12:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: A combination of human-caused environmental degradation and efforts to control the great Yellow river in China, made almost 3,000 years ago, may be responsible for flooding that killed millions and led to the fall of an empire, according to new research. In what could be considered a grim lesson from history of the importance of responsible land use, archeologists in China have found evidence that societies changed their environments much earlier than previously believed. "Human intervention...

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