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We Are Killing Our Great Salt Mother
Environment  (tags: oceans, oceanic dead zones, fish kills, nitrogen, algae blooms, fertilizer )

Ombretta
- 58 days ago - nytimes.com
Alarming article about the rise of world-wide coastal oceanic dead zones, exacerbated by human activity, especially fertilizer run-off. The number of oxygen-starved oceanic areas has doubled every 10 years since the 1960s. We cannot kill our oceans!
LifeStraw : The Most Humanistic Gadget Ever
Environment  (tags: africa, water, pollution, gadgets, science, humans )

Esra
- 58 days ago - vubx.com
LifeStraw is an instrument which instantly purifies the water and makes it ready to drink with the chromatographic techniques and other well-known filter methods. Great for African people who are fighting with the diseases because of dirty water sources
DMS: The Climate Gas You'Ve Never Heard Of
Environment  (tags: oceans, greenhouse gases, natural systems )

Pekka
- 69 days ago - whoi.edu
Made by tiny plants in the ocean, dimethylsulfide helps make clouds in the sky.If DMS production is speeded up by global climate change, as many scientists believe it will be, then it could provide a cooling effect. That means DMS could help offset greenh
Giant Chunks Break Off Canadian Ice Shelf
Environment  (tags: climate, climatechange, ecosystems, environment, greenhousegases, pollution, habitatdestruction, destruction, CO2emissions, globalwarming )

Katrianne
- 74 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Giant sheets of ice totaling almost eight square miles broke off an ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic last week and more could follow later this year, scientists said on Tuesday.
Strange Storm in Iowa [PIC]
Environment  (tags: nature )

Ivica
- 81 days ago - nature-spot.com
On a recent crisp autumn afternoon in Iowa, video cameras captured an unusual and visually dramatic result of two air masses colliding. Clouds split into a series of stripes and swept across the sky.
Humans Blamed for Sharp Drop in Wildlife
Environment  (tags: environment, ecosystems, wildlife )

Katrianne
- 149 days ago - edition.cnn.com
The world's wildlife has declined by 27 percent since 1970 because of the human impact on the environment, the World Wildlife Fund said Friday.
Researchers Find Key to Deadly Bee Disease
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, climate-change, habitatdestruction, nature, government, destruction, forests, ecosystems, Sustainabililty )

Laurie
- 149 days ago - prisonplanet.com
A key discovery by researchers at the Free University of Berlin may help beekeepers treat a deadly bee infection.
Red, Black, (But Not) Green - Toxic Sludge In Our Front Yards
Environment  (tags: habitatdestruction )

Michael
- 154 days ago - blackvoices.com
you'll probably take offense to a report that is soon to go before a U.S. Senate Committee hearing on government funding of sewer sludge being used in black communities to test whether it is a remedy for lead poisoning.
States Remove Local Barriers to Eco-Friendly Homes
Environment  (tags: eco-friendly, greenliving, society, architecture, interesting, humans, globalwarming, energy, government, politics, habitat )

Katrianne
- 154 days ago - usatoday.com
Since 2005, eight states -- including four last year -- have enacted laws to abolish stringent rules imposed by some homeowners associations and local agencies on residents who want to power their homes with the sun or wind.
Tiger Reserve in Andhra Made to Shrink Legally
Environment  (tags: )

June
- 274 days ago - wildlifewatch.in
The only tiger project in Andhra Pradesh, Nagarjuna-Srisailam Tiger Reserve (NSTR) which lost about 40 big cats in the past 20 years, has now been forced to surrender over 1,000 sq km of its territory, all under legal cover
 
 
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