A worker mopping up oil from a pipeline break in July in the Yellowstone River near Laurel, Mont.
Exxon Mobil predicts it will pay $135 million for the cleanup of the Silvertip pipeline spill in the Yellowstone River in Montana, nearly three times its original estimate. The company is now removing parts of the damaged pipeline to analyze what caused the leak. [The Wall Street Journal]
Scientists set out from Cape Town on a research expedition to determine how deep-sea fishing is affecting marine life along the peaks rising from the floor of the southern Indian Ocean. [Associated Press]
Chinese state news media reports say that 10 percent of China’s farmland is heavily contaminated by heavy metals that seeped into the soil from contaminated water and poisonous waste. [Agence France-Presse]
Four North Carolina men face jail terms for illegally harvesting ginseng rootin the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The root, which is thought to treat problems like impotency and lethargy, sells for a retail price of about $800 an ounce, a park employee says. [The Knoxville News Sentinel]
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