"Is Your Face Wash Damaging the Oceans?" [1]
"Tiny but powerful forces are invading our seas, and your daily hygiene regimen is likely implicated."
"Tiny but powerful forces are invading our seas, and your daily hygiene regimen is likely implicated."
"California’s historic drought is in its fourth year and gloom-and-doom scenarios of its impact on everything from killing the state’s vegetation and triggering bug infestation to destroying farming jobs have been trickling in daily."
"Coal ash sitting dormant in an unlined portion of the landfill near the Cayuga Power Plant has been seeping into groundwater for nearly 30 years and has flowed into nearby Milliken Creek, potentially contaminating drinking water, a geologist said in a meeting with Tompkins County officials Wednesday afternoon."
"The U.S. Navy has agreed to limit its use of sonar and explosives training that harms whales, dolphins and other marine mammals off Hawaii and California in a settlement with environmental groups."
"FORT BRIDGER, Wyo. — The sun was sinking and the brook trout were biting, so Andy Johnson and his daughter Aspen, 6, stepped onto their sun-bleached pier, hooked some mealworms and cast their lines into the most infamous pond in the West."
"Clout can be defined in many ways. In California's parched Central Valley farmlands, it's the ability to secure water."
"The federal government has settled a decades-old lawsuit with the nation's largest irrigation district, which has agreed in a tentative deal to clean up contaminated water in California's fertile Central Valley."
"Researchers knew California’s drought was already a record breaker when they set out to find its exact place in history, but they were surprised by what they discovered: It has been 500 years since what is now the Golden State has been this dry."
"The Navy agreed to limit its use of sonar and other training that inadvertently harms whales, dolphins and other marine mammals off Hawaii and California in a settlement with environmental groups approved Monday."
"Over the weekend, boats, helicopters and airplanes searched up and down the southern California coast, hoping to rescue an 80ft blue whale spotted entangled in a 200ft fishing line. Exact numbers are unknown, but the National Marine Fisheries Service reported an average of 11 entangled large whales per year from 2000 to 2012 along the US west coast."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/your-face-wash-damaging-oceans
[2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/consumer
[3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution
[4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water
[5] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81
[6] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national
[7] http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0920/Is-your-face-wash-damaging-the-oceans
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/california-drought-and-impending-el-ni%C3%B1o-raise-fears-levee-breaks
[9] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change
[10] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster
[11] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/california
[12] http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/9/22/california-drought-raises-fears-of-levee-breaks.html
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/report-ny-landfills-coal-ash-contaminating-groundwater
[14] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy
[15] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/northeast
[16] http://www.ithacajournal.com/story/news/local/2015/09/17/coal-plant-contamination-outlined/32524307/
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/court-orders-whale-protection-us-navy-restrict-sonar
[18] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/military
[19] http://ens-newswire.com/2015/09/21/court-orders-whale-protection-u-s-navy-to-restrict-sonar/
[20] https://www.sej.org/headlines/family-pond-boils-center-%E2%80%98regulatory-war%E2%80%99-wyoming
[21] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics
[22] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws
[23] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/mountain-west
[24] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/us/regulatory-war-fought-over-a-wyoming-familys-pond.html
[25] https://www.sej.org/headlines/how-rich-water-district-beat-federal-government-secret-deal
[26] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/agriculture
[27] http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-20150920-column.html
[28] https://www.sej.org/headlines/irrigation-district-clean-water-milestone-settlement
[29] http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/irrigation-district-clean-water-milestone-settlement-33790408
[30] https://www.sej.org/headlines/scientists-say-california-hasn%E2%80%99t-been-dry-500-years
[31] http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/09/14/scientists-say-its-been-500-years-since-california-was-this-dry/
[32] https://www.sej.org/headlines/navy-limit-use-sonar-protect-whales-dolphins-california
[33] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/wildlife
[34] http://www.presstelegram.com/environment-and-nature/20150914/navy-to-limit-use-of-sonar-to-protect-whales-dolphins-off-california
[35] https://www.sej.org/headlines/ghost-gear-abandoned-fishing-nets-clogging-oceans
[36] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/fisheries
[37] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international
[38] http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/sep/10/fishing-industry-vows-to-tackle-wildlife-deaths-from-ghost-gear?CMP=share_btn_tw
[39] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water?page=499
[40] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water?page=496
[41] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water?page=497
[42] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water?page=498
[43] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water?page=501
[44] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water?page=502
[45] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water?page=503
[46] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water?page=504
[47] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water?page=734