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Is natural deodorant really safer?	19.5.2013	Seattle Times: Top stories
People’s Pharmacy on aluminum in deodorants, constipation, cold sores and travel.
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Yuck! What's in your pool water	17.5.2013	CNN: Top Stories
Chlorine is supposed to take care of most of the microbes floating around in pools, but human waste, it seems, is stubbornly resistant to being sanitized.
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GAO says we'll pay a high price for lack of climate preparedness	16.5.2013	Switchboard, from NRDC
Aliya Haq, Water and Climate Policy Advocate, Washington, D.C.: The thoughtful and wonky gang over at the Government Accountability Office quietly released a major study this week that makes climate change a little more concrete regarding our nation’s infrastructure. According to the GAO, federal agencies are doing a poor...
Meet the Alaskans poised to become 'America's first climate refugees'	16.5.2013	MinnPost
If we think of them at all, Americans still tend to think of "climate refugees" as remote —far away and off in the future somewhere, driven by rising sea levels to flee Pacific islands or the plains of south Asia, places of which we know next to nothing. The 100,000 people of Kiribati, say, who are imploring Australia and New Zealand ( so far without success ) to accept them as displaced persons before the ocean erases the 10 feet now separating their homes from sea level. A crisis much closer to home, in both time and territory, is documented in a remarkable series published this week in Britain's Guardian: Climate-driven havoc in nearly 200 native villages across Alaska, whose residents are positioned to become, probably within the decade, "America's First Climate Refugees." Richly illustrated and highly interactive, the project portrays the communities' approaching doom with an intimacy that may border on unbearable for some. But it's a story we need to know. Suzanne Goldenberg, ...
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Managing water with natural infrastructure: win-wins for people and wildlife	14.5.2013	EcoTone
Managing water with natural infrastructure: win-wins for people and wildlife
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Minnesota firms go wild for oil equipment	12.5.2013	Star Tribune: Business
Manufacturers including 3M and Ecolab are betting on specialty equipment for the booming energy sector.
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Man attacked by gator describes fight for life	11.5.2013	Yahoo: US National
PINELLAS PARK, Florida (AP) — The man attacked by an alligator after fleeing police in Florida says he was in a fight for his life with the croc.
Man attacked by gator describes fight for life	11.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Man attacked by gator describes fight for life
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Man attacked by alligator while fleeing deputies	10.5.2013	Seattle Times: Top stories
Authorities say a Florida man ran from the law and into an alligator's jaws.
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Man attacked by alligator while fleeing deputies	10.5.2013	Yahoo: US National
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a Florida man ran from the law and into an alligator's jaws.
Man attacked by alligator while fleeing deputies	10.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Man attacked by alligator while fleeing deputies
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Man attacked by alligator while fleeing deputies	10.5.2013	Twincities.com: Nation
PINELLAS PARK, Fla.—Authorities say a Florida man ran from the law and into an alligator's jaws. The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office says
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Man attacked by alligator while fleeing deputies	10.5.2013	Seattle Times: Nation & World
Authorities say a Florida man ran from the law and into an alligator's jaws.
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Transport Company Penalized For Pollution Violations After 2008 Fuel Spill	8.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana trucking company will pay penalties of $83,500 to settle pollution violations stemming from a fuel tanker crash that spilled...
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New portable water filter uses nanoparticles to remove biological and heavy metal pollutants	7.5.2013	TreeHugger
Using a simple and low-cost technology, researchers have built a point-of-use water filtration device that produces potable water at a cost of less than $3 per year per family.
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Mapping the travel of invasive marine species	7.5.2013	TreeHugger
Scientists map how marine creatures steal rides in hopes of developing better prevention against invasive species
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Ordinary Ballast Water	6.5.2013	Sustainable Ecosystems and Community News - ENN
Everything we do can affects something else. Globalization, with its ever increasing demand for cargo transport, has inadvertently opened the flood gates for a new, silent invasion. New research has mapped the most detailed forecast to date for importing potentially harmful invasive species with the ballast water of cargo ships. Scientists from the Universities of Bristol, UK, and Oldenburg, Germany, have examined ship traffic data and biological records to assess the risk of future invasions. Their research is published in the latest issue of Ecology Letter.
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Ordinary Ballast Water	6.5.2013	Wildlife and Habitat Conservation News - ENN
Everything we do can affects something else. Globalization, with its ever increasing demand for cargo transport, has inadvertently opened the flood gates for a new, silent invasion. New research has mapped the most detailed forecast to date for importing potentially harmful invasive species with the ballast water of cargo ships. Scientists from the Universities of Bristol, UK, and Oldenburg, Germany, have examined ship traffic data and biological records to assess the risk of future invasions. Their research is published in the latest issue of Ecology Letter.
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Ordinary Ballast Water	6.5.2013	Environmental News Network
Everything we do can affects something else. Globalization, with its ever increasing demand for cargo transport, has inadvertently opened the flood gates for a new, silent invasion. New research has mapped the most detailed forecast to date for importing potentially harmful invasive species with the ballast water of cargo ships. Scientists from the Universities of Bristol, UK, and Oldenburg, Germany, have examined ship traffic data and biological records to assess the risk of future invasions. Their research is published in the latest issue of Ecology Letter.
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Using sound waves to clean water waves	4.5.2013	Seattle Times: Nation & World
The age-old practice of ships unloading their ballast water is blamed for spreading aquatic stowaways — plants, clams, mussels — that can overwhelm a new ecosystem. A New Jersey professor has hit upon a novel way to wipe out the hitchhikers: with ultrasound.
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