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- More than 500 students across metropolitan Detroit will continue a long-standing tradition of collecting water quality data for the Rouge River.
- The latest edition of Minnesota Sea Grant's online newsletter, The Seiche, is now available online. Topics covered include beach advisories, lake sturgeon, microplastics in Lake Superior, and more.
- On the shore of Lake Superior, the Keweenaw Bay Indians are raising walleye in addition to the traditional trout at their hatchery. They need to keep pace with their changing lake.
- The upper Great Lakes continue to edge closer to normal water levels, including during their seasonal decline, continuing a trend this year that has Lake Superior more than 1 foot above last year's level and Lakes Michigan-Huron more than 2 feet...
- ROME (Reuters) - Global food prices are not expected to fall much further after dipping to their lowest level in three years in September, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday, trimming its estimate for 2013/14 world cereals production.
- Send your question to Umbra! Q. Dear Umbra, Although I set up our town’s recycling system and have followed updates in the waste management field with interest, I was at a loss when my neighbor asked me what to do with dog doo-doo. I know it’s not...
- ROME (Reuters) - Global food prices are not expected to fall much further after their fifth consecutive monthly decline in September, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday, trimming its estimate for 2013/14 world cereals production.
- Dr. Bronner Perhaps it’s no surprise that a company famous for filling every available inch of its product labels with words favors adding more words to labels. The inevitable next step: Creating labels that campaign for more labeling. Dr. Bronner’s...
- OSLO (Reuters) - The world's oceans are under greater threat than previously believed from a "deadly trio" of global warming, declining oxygen levels and acidification, an international study said on Thursday.
- (Reuters) - Tropical depression Jerry is forecast to become a remnant low on Friday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory.
- "Walk through a health food store and you'll find amaranth, sorghum, quinoa — heritage grains that have been staples around the world for generations. Americans are just discovering them. There's another age-old grain that grows...
- "California scientists are reporting a pair of victories in the epic struggle between man and mosquito. A team at the University of California, Riverside, appears to have finally figured out how bugs detect the insect repellent known as DEET....
- "Fujairah is emerging from its status as a back-water. The United Arab Emirates, led by Abu Dhabi, is turning the little emirate into an export hub for its oil in case of trouble from Iran." Read more
- "BP's manager in charge of controlling the Macondo blowout in 2010 was never trained to permanently plug a ruptured oil well and said in court on Wednesday the British company was not fully prepared for the worst offshore oil spill in U.S....
- "The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said on Tuesday that four tonnes of rainwater contaminated with low levels of radiation leaked during an operation to transfer the water between tank holding areas." Read more
- "Among the hundreds of new laws taking effect Tuesday (Oct. 1) is one meant to help the Chesapeake Bay by limiting when, where and how Marylanders should feed their lawns. One scientist, though, suggests homeowners could help the bay better by...
- "Minnesota's dwindling moose herd has a year off from human hunters in 2013, but that doesn't mean life for the big north woods critters is a walk in the park. Moose are still being hit hard by disease, injury and parasites, and they...
- TOKYO (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said on Thursday another tank holding highly contaminated water overflowed, probably sending the liquid into the Pacific Ocean, in the second such breach in less than two...
- "Fracking may be contaminating a Pennsylvania river with radioactive waste, a Duke University study to be published this week shows." Read more
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