So long, Trojan — hello, more nuclear plants. The enormous cooling tower that marked Oregon's sole venture into nuclear power will come crashing down next Sunday--even as a resurgence of interest in nuclear plants is spreading through the country. [News Source]

Does dirt keep allergies at bay? Our obsession with cleanliness and fighting bacteria may be making us sick. [News Source]

The great coral reef disaster. Global warming is killing coral reefs, the Bush administration has formally admitted. And the admission means that, under US law, it will finally be obliged to take action against climate change. [News Source]

Japan rated as no. 1 buyer of carbon credits. Japan bought 38 percent of the carbon dioxide credits offered worldwide between January 2005 and last March, making it the world's largest buyer, according to a tally by the World Bank. [News Source]

On climate, Pittenger turns contrarian. North Carolina Sen. Robert Pittenger (R) has emerged as the Legislative Commission on Global Climate Change's reigning skeptic. [News Source]

Green power is good business. Oregon's future lies in renewable energy and conservation, not with our costly dependence on imported oil and gas. [News Source]

Global warming is about to hit high gear. We are called to read the signs of our times and there is no more obvious sign of our times at the moment than the fact that the temperature is going up and going up sharply and it's going to devastate human communities around the world. [News Source]

How to kill two birds with one wind farm. The General Land Office last fall signed a deal to create a $220 million wind farm near Galveston. This operation would consist of 50 huge turbines with 250-foot-wide rotors that together could power 40,000 homes — and knock off God knows how many tufted titmice. [News Source]

With spring comes sprawl’s toxic runoff. We rarely speak of what may be the most harmful aspect of sprawl, and that is how it affects our water supply. [News Source]

Climate change a threat to low-lying B.C.: study (CTV.ca) Some waterfront properties in B.C. could be under water in a few hundred years, warn some climate change analysts. "We just sort of say, 'Oh yeah, don't worry about it, it'll never happen, it's just prediction'," Shawn Leahy told CTV News. [News Source]

Climate change a threat to low-lying B.C.: study (CTV.ca) Some waterfront properties in B.C. could be under water in a few hundred years, warn some climate change analysts. [News Source]