Carbon storage bills advance quickly - Wyoming

CHEYENNE -- A series of bills aimed at protecting the state's coal and encouraging a carbon storage industry in Wyoming are off to a quick start in the Legislature.
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Officials hope that by capturing and storing CO2 underground, major power consumers such as California will continue to buy power generated with Wyoming coal.

Also, geologic structures such as the Rock Springs uplift are thought to be good candidates for CO2 storage sites, and could spark a lucrative carbon storage industry in Wyoming.

Arctic sea ice has been building rapidly

The latest value : 13,338,281 km2 (January 16, 2009)

Woman fails to enjoy Earth Hours: 'My body just doesn't produce enough heat'

Christina Nowak sat hunched in her chair staring straight ahead at a darkened television set, wearing a white tuque, gloves and sweater, and shivering under a blanket. She'd been in the same position for hours, ever since she woke to find the lights and heat had gone off in her building.

"I'm cold and hungry," she said. "My body just doesn't produce enough heat."

Frail and alone at 89, Ms. Novak was among the most vulnerable of the 250,000 people affected by the power outage that swept across west Toronto Thursday night after a broken pipe caused a flood at a hydro station....
By late yesterday afternoon, the lights in Ms. Nowak's apartment had come back on, and she stood by the stove warming herself, relieved that her ordeal was near an end. She said she was surprised to still be alive.

Spokesman.com | Moose crashes into N. Spokane basement bedroom

A north Spokane couple that’s expecting a baby got an early arrival Thursday evening when a moose calf dropped into a bedroom through a basement window.

Tony Mantese reported the moose-entry incident around 4:30 p.m. from his home on Stevens Street just north of Francis Avenue. The moose apparently had been taking advantage of the shallower snow around the neighborhood buildings when it fell into a deep window well. As is struggled to get out and rejoin its mother and sibling, it kicked through the window and fell into the house.
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•The number of moose, deer and elk being killed in collisions on railways and roads appears to be soaring, area wildlife biologists say.

“Tough winters will force wildlife into places where we don’t normally seem them,” said Chip Corsi, Idaho Fish and Game Department Panhandle Region manager.