Today on The Environment Report... Cities heating up. Rebecca Williams looks at some new science behind the 'heat island effect' in urban areas. The effect is stronger in different parts of the country. And... the first part in our three part series on a new type of gas drilling. Natural gas that was once left behind as inaccessible is now gettable with a new drilling technique. But it's not regulated and some say it should be. Today's Daily Show: ______________________________________________ Heat Island "> Today's News Spot: ______________________________________________ Heat Island Science [1] ______________________________________________ Please check your local public radio station for air times. You can also hear and read our stories on The Environment Report website at http://environmentreport.org [2]. The report can be downloaded to your iPod automatically each day. See the RSS feed on our homepage for details. Jessi Ziegler Production Coordinator The Environment Report 734.763.8981 Links: ------ [1] http://environmentreport.org/story.php?story_id=4804 [2] http://environmentreport.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.great-lakes.net/lists/glin-announce/attachments/20091228/9c6dbce6/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.gif Type: image/gif Size: 27378 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.great-lakes.net/lists/glin-announce/attachments/20091228/9c6dbce6/attachment.gif