Mother nature network has an end-of the year list of the Top 9 non-climate environmental stories of 2009, with links to coverage of each:

1. The danger lurking inside your baby’s bottle
2. Carping about Asian carp
3. Awash in coal ash
4. Fix my plumbing
5. The global water shortage
   (Extras: Climate affects Bolivia and Australia? Culture thwarts conservation in Yemen and California. Americans are using less water.)
6. The mysterious deaths of bats
7. The mysterious disappearance of bees
8. The garbage vortex
9. Food, the way nature intended