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NGN Daily: Another Gulf Explosion and BP’s Progress

Another oil rig explosion rocks the Gulf of Mexico about 100 miles off the Louisiana coast…BP is set to remove the cap plugging the oil leak in order to replace the damaged blowout preventer.

NGN Daily: Arctic Travel, Salmon, and Glacier Water

A Russian tanker passes safely through the Northern Sea Route…Alaskan salmon return in surprising numbers…Water trapped beneath a glacier in France is being drained in order to prevent a catastrophe.

NGN Daily: Solar Power, Green Products, and Bald Eagles

California approves solar thermal power plant in Mojave Desert…San Francisco compiles list of green products…Flame retardants and pesticides found in blood of bald eagle nestlings.

NGN Daily: Floods, Honeybees, and Fire Whirls

Pakistan slowly recovering from worst floods in over 80 years…Beekeeper in UK may have found parasite-resistant strain of honeybee…Rare fire tornado caught on tape in Brazil.

NGN Daily: LEED and Ivory

A LEED building in Salem, Oregon is being evacuated from structural concerns…Conservation officers seized more than 2 tons of illegal ivory in Kenya.

NGN Daily: Disappearing Oil, Oceanic Garbage, and Plastic Bags

New study says deep-sea plume of oil in the Gulf is likely gone…After 22 years of research one of the oceanic garbage patches hasn’t grown in size…Mexico City implements a citywide fee on plastic bags.

NGN Daily: BP, Vampire Bats, and Volcanoes

BP to transfer Gulf legal claims to an independent facility…Peru is struggling to control rabies outbreak from vampire bats…The aviation industry will meet in Iceland to coordinate volcanic eruption protocol.

NGN Daily: BPA, Mercury, and Whisky

Study finds that 91% of Canadians have traces of BPA…Thawing permafrost could be large source of mercury and CO2 emissions…Researchers made biofuel from whisky waste by-products in Scotland.

NGN Daily: BP, Tidal Energy, and Snow Leopards

BP to pay $50 million for safety violations in Texas City oil refinery explosion…Scotland prepares to deploy the world’s largest tidal turbine…One man works to bring snow leopards back from the brink of extinction.

NGN Daily: Salmonella, Aldicarb, and Nature

Nationwide recall on Wright County Eggs is in effect after a salmonella outbreak…EPA bans highly toxic insecticide Aldicarb…New study finds that nature is good for the mind.