Daily Roundup: August 4, 2011

Pulling the Plug: Revolutionary technology will charge electric cars without a cable. Reuters

Tick, Tack, Uh-Oh: Ehrlichia joins Lyme disease as a virulent tick-borne illness, and it's spreading due to environmental change. Huffington Post

Our Bad: Shell finally accepts responsibility for the massive 2008 oil spills in Nigeria, though it will take them 30 more years to clean up. TreeHugger

Tainted Turkey: Cargill is recalling 36 million pounds of turkey contaminated with antibiotic-resistant salmonella. Mother Jones

Lost Child: In the past 90 days, drought and famine in Somalia have killed more than 29,000 young children. Huffington Post

--Christa Morris