Construction is halted on a $15.1 million highway underpass project in San Antonio, Tex., after an endangered spider species is spotted for the first time in more than three decades. [The Houston Chronicle]
The world?s only global system of carbon trading, known as the clean development mechanism, is in dire need of a rescue, a United Nations panel reports. [The Guardian]
Combining the photosynthetic protein in spinach with silicon, researchers create a solar cell that produces considerably more electrical current than any previous solar biohybrids. [Clean Technica]
A federal judge rules that the Navy can build a $100 million submarine training range off the coast of southern Georgia and northern Florida. Environmental groups had sued, claiming the project would harm the already endangered North Atlantic right whale; the judge says the Navy complied with federal law in analyzing the potential environmental impacts of the range on the whale and its calving grounds. [Reuters]
Pope Benedict XVI now has his own electric car. The pope, who is 85, will use the customized white Renault Kangoo to motor around the gardens of the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo. [Associated Press]
Source: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/on-our-radar-a-rare-spider/?partner=rss&emc=rss
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