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- Researchers from California and Hawaii have analyzed 25 factors and developed a map that reflects the relative cumulative magnitude of their effects on the waters extending for about 250-350 miles off the shores of Washington, Oregon, California, and the Baja Peninsula.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Visibility:
Platte River At The Crossroads: SEJ Regional Focuses On Spectacular Wildlife Migration
There we were, 21 environmental reporters, freelancers, students and professors, all huddled and shivering in an unheated blind on the Platte River.
We were waiting in the breezy, 20-degree cold for thousands of lesser sandhill cranes to return from feeding in the corn fields and roost for the night on protective sandbars. Each spring, the cranes leave their southwest wintering spots and stop in central Nebraska to rest and eat before heading out to their Arctic nesting grounds.
Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:"The Unnatural History of the Sea"
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SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Visibility:A River Close To Home Flows Through His Work
SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Visibility:EPA Moves To Cut Shipping Emissions at US Ports
Proposed emission standards in a proposed control area around the US coastline would cut sulfur in fuel by 98 percent, particulate matter emissions by 85 percent, and nitrogen oxide emissions by 80 percent from the current global requirements.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:Water Utilities Get Huge Increase in Federal Funding
The Obama administration pumps up support for thousands of drinking water systems in the US with about $2B.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:Investigating Water: So What Happens When Water Turns Black?
By RON SEELY
Water, of all the natural resources upon which we rely, is perhaps the one that we take most for granted. We turn on our faucets and out it comes, clear and cool and always there.
Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:Undersea Reporting: Reporting Live From Inside Aquarius
By JEFF BURNSIDE
When I heard the anchor in my earpiece introducing me reporting live from an undersea research lab, I could hardly believe all the technical aspects were working.
But they were. So I figured I'd better stop being amazed and actually start talking. On Sept. 20, I was the first reporter ever to broadcast live from Aquarius, the world's only undersea lab, nine miles off Key Largo, Fla. next to a coral reef about 60 feet deep. Don't screw it up, I told myself.
Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:"Most Endangered Rivers" List To Be Released April 7
The conservation group American Rivers publishes an annual list of rivers endangered by dams, pollution, mining projects, and other threats they believe require urgent action.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:Feds Revising Bush Offshore Energy Development Plan
After years of effort, and despite a last-minute gambit by the outgoing President Bush, US policy for offshore energy development is going back to the drawing board. DOI is extending by six months the public comment period on the country's 5-year plan.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility: