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Living In | Carmel, N.Y.: A Quiet Hamlet, Loyally Defended
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22.5.2013 |
NY Times: Real Estate |
| Living In | Carmel, N.Y.: A Quiet Hamlet, Loyally Defended |
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PHOTO: LARGEST Python Ever Caught In Florida!
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20.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| A Miami man captured, killed, and reported the largest Burmese python ever caught in Florida, according to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials. Jason... |
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Minnesota lakes anything but pristine, PCA testers find
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20.5.2013 |
MinnPost |
| This article was produced by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism .
On a midsummer morning last year at popular Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, Mark Ferrey dipped a brown glass bottle into the water. His hands were gloved, he had drunk no caffeine, he wore no insect repellent. The slightest contamination would ruin the sample.
Below the sparkling surface swam muskies and walleye. Triathletes would be swimming there the next day. But Ferrey, a Minnesota Pollution Control Agency researcher, knew his sample would most likely turn up a cocktail of chemicals at trace levels.
According to results released last week, the Nokomis water was contaminated that day with a component of plastic, ibuprofen, a disinfectant used in hand soap, an antibiotic used on swine, a breakdown product of cocaine, an antidepressant, a fungicide and a drug used to treat Parkinson’s disease.
Some of the Nokomis cocktail’s most worrisome ingredients, the plastic component bisphenol A (BPA) and the ... |
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Hewlett-Packard Employees In Fear Of Geese Attacks?
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18.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Hewlett-Packard has enough problems dealing with angry shareholders without having to deal with angry geese. A visitor to the tech giant's Boise, Idaho, office recently... |
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NH Fish & Game offers 'weed wrenching' tools
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18.5.2013 |
Boston Globe: New Hampshire |
| NH Fish & Game offers 'weed wrenching' tools |
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San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf - yet another reason to support endangered species protections (VIDEO)
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17.5.2013 |
Switchboard, from NRDC |
| Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC:
Happy Endangered Species Day! To cap off our week-long series on farmers and fishermen who support endangered species protections for salmon and other fish in the Bay Delta, we present a video of Jacky Douglas, captain of the Wacky Jacky,... |
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WATCH: Deer Crashes Through Bus Windshield, Escapes Through Door
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16.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Silly deer, that's not how you board the bus! In an amazing piece of raw footage taken Tuesday from a CamTran city bus in Johnstown,... |
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NRDC Advocate Named "Hero of the Seas" for Creating Underwater Parks
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15.5.2013 |
Switchboard, from NRDC |
| Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City:
Imagine if you had a chance to hold the pen when the boundaries of Yosemite National Park were drawn. Or imagine if you were able to protect mountain goats and big horn sheep by establishing Glacier National Park. In a... |
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Franklin farmers upset by wildflower protection
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15.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Local |
| Franklin County commissioners voted Tuesday to hire a lawyer to look into suing the Fish and Wildlife Service over plans to designate critical habitat for an endangered wildflower, the White Bluffs bladderpod. |
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Franklin farmers upset by wildflower protection
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15.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Top stories |
| Franklin County commissioners voted Tuesday to hire a lawyer to look into suing the Fish and Wildlife Service over plans to designate critical habitat for an endangered wildflower, the White Bluffs bladderpod. |
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GOOD COD! Record Breaking Fish Could Feed Hundreds
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15.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| You've cod to be kidding! German fisherman, Michael Eisele, 44, landed what is "thought to be" the largest cod ever caught, according to the Telegraph... |
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Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths
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15.5.2013 |
Yahoo: US National |
| CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. (AP) — Wind farms in this corner of Wyoming have killed more than four dozen golden eagles since 2009, one of the deadliest places in the country of its kind. ... |
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Latest Mississippi River Delta News: May 14, 2013
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14.5.2013 |
Main Feed - Environmental Defense |
| The Louisiana Coast: Last Call — How We Got This Way, Part 1
By Bob Marshall, WWNO (New Orleans). May 14, 2013.
"Anyone flying into New Orleans on a clear day now looks down on a panorama of delicate marsh floating like green lace on the brown waters of the Mississippi delta. Those wetlands seem endless — stretching to the horizons…" ( Read more )
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation fund is launched to restore Louisiana, Gulf Coast natural resources
By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans). May 13, 2013.
"The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation on Monday announced the creation of a fund that will administer $2.5 billion from criminal plea agreements approved earlier this year between BP and Transocean and the federal government concerning the companies’ roles in the blowout of BP’s Macondo oil well, the fire and explosion aboard Transocean’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that killed 11 crew members, and the ensuing three-month uncontrolled release ... |
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AP: Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths
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14.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Nation & World |
| It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground. |
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AP IMPACT: Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths
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14.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Business & Technology |
| It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground. |
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AP IMPACT: Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths
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14.5.2013 |
AP National |
| CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. (AP) -- It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground.... |
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Optimizing Stream Water Mercury Sampling for Calculation
of Fish Bioaccumulation Factors
(Cached)
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14.5.2013 |
pubs.acs.org |
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Environmental Science & Technology DOI: 10.1021/es303758e  |
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Managing water with natural infrastructure: win-wins for people and wildlife
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14.5.2013 |
EcoTone |
| Managing water with natural infrastructure: win-wins for people and wildlife |
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Bay Delta Salmon Population Just One-Fifth its Target Size
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13.5.2013 |
NRDC: News/Media Center Feed |
| Bay Delta Salmon Population Just One-Fifth its Target Size |
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WATCH: Eagle Steals Fish
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13.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| A fisherman got a winged surprise when a bald eagle swooped in and stole a fish right in front of him. Small problem, the fish... |
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