http://www.dailyindependent.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Thu, 08 May 2008 08:07:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_129080402.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_129080402.html The United States' reliance on foreign oil is increasing because of limits on where companies can search for resources, the president of Shell Oil Co. says. Thu, 08 May 2008 07:57:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_129075909.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_129075909.html The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $61.1 million to a Midwest multistate environmental partnership including Indiana to develop new ways of capturing and storing greenhouse gases. Thu, 08 May 2008 07:55:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_129075119.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_129075119.html Koalas are threatened by the rising level of carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere because it saps nutrients from the eucalyptus leaves they feed on, a researcher said Wednesday. Sun, 04 May 2008 10:48:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_125104819.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_125104819.html The glowing amber dot on a light switch in the entryway of George Tsapoitis' house offers a clue about the future of electricity. Sun, 04 May 2008 10:33:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_125104053.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_125104053.html Conservationists are shifting the debate over oil and gas development across the West from the preservation of a single species here or there to the potential impacts that development could have on entire landscapes due to climate change. Sun, 04 May 2008 10:31:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_125103241.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_125103241.html A scientific poll by Dakota Wesleyan University indicates that 77 percent of South Dakotans and 71 percent of North Dakotans are concerned about global warming. Sun, 04 May 2008 10:28:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_125103003.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_125103003.html Sweden's national weather service said Saturday that the ice-winter in the Baltic Sea region was the mildest on record, with the lowest levels of ice since measurement began more than a century ago. Sun, 04 May 2008 10:27:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_125102731.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_125102731.html A legislative panel agreed Thursday to draft a bill to specify that owners of the surface of the land also own the right to store gas or other substances in the ground underneath the property. Sun, 04 May 2008 10:23:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_125102054.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_125102054.html Soaring food prices have consumers grumbling, but don't blame farmers and ranchers: They're just passing along huge increases in the cost of fuel, feed and petroleum-based fertilizers and pesticides. Sun, 04 May 2008 10:13:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_125101637.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_125101637.html Environmentalists have announced an ambitious plan to make a badly polluted waterway safe for swimming, fishing and shellfishing by 2020. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:47:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_120144644.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_120144644.html A federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to decide within 16 days whether polar bears should be listed as a threatened species because of global warming. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:40:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_120143743.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_120143743.html The U.N. will set up a top-level task force to tackle the global food crisis that threatens to touch off a "cascade" of crises affecting trade, the global economy and even political security around the world, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:34:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_120143423.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_120143423.html A bill sought by the Department of Agriculture to end small headaches in regulating grocery stores and vending machines didn't get much attention as it slipped quietly through the Legislature this year. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:28:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_120143022.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_120143022.html A key investor in a planned coal-fired power plant near Great Falls has backed out of the project, citing financial and environmental uncertainties. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:25:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_120142731.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/scienceenviro/local_story_120142731.html Australia's government promised Tuesday to spend about $2.9 billion to buy river water from farmers in a bid to address the country's worst drought in a century.