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1 hr ago | Recent EPA Catalog Records

Anthropogenic Influences on Estuarine Sedimentation and Ecology:...

Anthropogenic Influences on Estuarine Sedimentation and Ecology: Examples from Varved Sediments of the Pettaquanscutt River Estuary, Rhode Island Contact Citation: Hubeny, J., J. W. King, AND M. G. CANTWELL.

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Related Topix: Science

Mon Dec 07, 2009

The Huffington Post

Alemayehu G. Mariam: The Toxic Ecology of African Dictatorships

The inconvenient truth about Africa today is that dictatorship presents a far more perilous threat to the survival of Africans than climate change.

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Related Topix: Science, World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia, Global Warming

Sun Dec 06, 2009

The West Australian

Pests threaten Australia's islands: WWF

The greatest threat facing native animals on Australia's islands is introduced pests, the WWF has warned, as experts gather for an island symposium.

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Related Topix: Science

Voice of America

Lax Enforcement, Rules On Farm Waste Imperil Chesapeake Bay

Agricultural runoff from fertilizers, chemicals and animal waste is responsible for about half the pollution in the Chesapeake Bay.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Law, Law

Sat Dec 05, 2009

Recent EPA Catalog Records

Non-Navigable Streams and Wetlands

WIGINGTON JR, P. J. Non-Navigable Streams and Wetlands. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/F-09/008, 2009.

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Related Topix: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Law, Law, US Supreme Court, US News, Science

Fri Dec 04, 2009

Science Blog

Greenhouse gas carbon dioxide ramps up aspen growth

The rising level of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be fueling more than climate change.

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Related Topix: University of Wisconsin Madison, University of Minnesota Morris, Science

Thu Dec 03, 2009

The New Nation

Impact of global warming: French parliament discusses Bangladesh's vulnerability

UNB, Paris Bangladesh's vulnerability to global warming was eloquently discussed in French National Assembly here Wednesday as France and Brazil are poised to make a joint push at the Copenhagen climate change conference for adopting a financial framework to address the adverse impacts of the climate change on the most risky countries in Asia and ...

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Related Topix: Global Warming, Science, Louis Borloo, Nicolas Sarkozy

Wed Dec 02, 2009

Virgin Islands Daily News

BVI: New incinerator will quell complaints of Coral Bay residents

U.S. Virgin Islands officials met with their British Virgin Islands counterparts recently to discuss the black smoke and toxic fumes that travel from a garbage incinerator on Tortola to the Coral Bay area of St.

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Related Topix: World News, Virgin Islands, Central America, British Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands Travel, Travel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Jersey County, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, Science

WPTY

Toxic Toys Test High for Lead, Cadmium, Arsenic, or Mercury

ANN ARBOR, Michigan , December 2, 2009 - One-third of the nearly 700 children's toys tested by a nonprofit organization this holiday season contained one or more toxic chemicals, including lead, cadmium, arsenic, and mercury.

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Related Topix: Ann Arbor, MI, Ann Arbor Metro, Detroit Metro, Science, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Frank Lautenberg

Mon Nov 30, 2009

Recent EPA Catalog Records

Death by 1000 Docks? Linking Landscape Ecology, Habitat, and Coastal Fisheries.

Death by 1000 Docks? Linking Landscape Ecology, Habitat, and Coastal Fisheries. Contact Debbie Janes email: janes.deborah@epa.gov Citation: JORDAN, S. J., T. O'HIGGINS, L. M. SMITH, J. NESTLERODE, AND V. D. ENGLE.

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Related Topix: Science

Pravda

Green and Meatless McDonald's Will Not Work in Russia

McDonald's restaurants in Europe will all turn dark-green following the fashion of ecology-friendly production and healthy food.

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Related Topix: World News, Russia, Asia, Science

Sun Nov 29, 2009

Tulsa World

Group seeks to halt Ark. sewage treatment plant

An Oklahoma environmental group has filed a petition to stop a new northwest Arkansas sewage treatment plant that it believes will violate the federal Clean Water Act.

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Related Topix: Arkansas, Arkansas Government, Environmental Law, Law, Science, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Sat Nov 28, 2009

Wimbledon Guardian

Government needs to clean up its act over River Wandle

Urgent action is needed to improve the ecology of the River Wandle, environmental campaigners warned last week.

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Related Topix: Science

Fri Nov 27, 2009

University of Otago News

Ecologists sound out solution for monitoring birds

Ecologists have at last worked out a way of using recordings of birdsong to accurately measure the size of bird populations.

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Related Topix: Science, Technical Services, Laurel, MD

Thu Nov 26, 2009

RedOrbit

Ecological Speciation By Sexual Selection On Good Genes

Darwin suggested that the action of natural selection can produce new species, but 150 years after the publication of his famous book, 'On the Origin of Species', debate still continues on the mechanisms of speciation.

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Related Topix: Science

Salt Lake Tribune

Dino find may change thinking on migration

The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument has yielded new fossilized treasures that a scientist says could help rewrite what is known about paleontology in North America.

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Related Topix: Science, Paleontology, Escalante, UT, Dinosaur, Sundance Film Festival, Garfield County, UT

Wed Nov 25, 2009

CiteULike

Spawning salmon disrupt trophic coupling between wolves and ungulate prey in coastal British Columbia

Here we examine whether this marine resource can influence a terrestrial wolf-deer predator-prey system in coastal British Columbia, Canada.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, Science

Tue Nov 24, 2009

KNDO - Yakima

Washington considers new irrigation water rights

The Washington Ecology Department is trying to find a way to allow farmers who conserve water to use part of it to irrigate new land.

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Related Topix: Science

The Ecologist

Gathuru Mburu: Kenya has already had a Green Revolution

Forget trying to grow hybrid maize - Africa already has all the crops, storage systems and knowledge that it needs to grow itself out of poverty After working for many years for Professor Wangari Maathai , and then with the African Biodiversity Network , Kenyan ecologist Gathuru Mburu wanted to share his learnings with his own local community who ...

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, World News, Kenya, Africa, Life, Food, Vegetables, Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought

Mon Nov 23, 2009

KMSB-TV Tucson

Review: Book explores global warning battle

"Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate" , by Stephen H. Schneider: Stephen H. Schneider, winner of one of those $500,000 genius grants, has written a witty, informative and impassioned account of perils he sees in global warming and what to do about them.

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Related Topix: Global Warming, Science, Entertainment

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