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"What a Scientist Didn't Tell NY Times About His Study on Bee Deaths" [1]

A New York Times article on research implicating a fungus-virus combination as a cause of bee colony collapse failed to mention that the lead author received funding from a company making a pesticide that is also a leading suspect.

Biodiversity [2]
Economy & Business [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: CNN [7], 10/12/2010
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White House 'Asian Carp Czar' Plans Eradication of Species [8]

In an interview, White House "Asian Carp Czar" John Goss outlines his plans for removing the invasive species from the threatened Great Lakes ecosystem.

Biodiversity [2]
Public [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [9]
Source: NPR [10], 10/11/2010
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"Scientists and Soldiers Solve a Bee Mystery" [11]

A fungus tag-teaming with a virus seem to be the cause of the colony collapse disorder decimating domestic honey bees, according to a newly published paper by Army scientists in Maryland and bee experts in Montana.

Biodiversity [2]
Public [5]
International [12]
Source: NYTimes [13], 10/07/2010
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"Monsanto’s Fortunes Turn Sour" [14]

"As recently as late December, Monsanto  was named 'company of the year' by Forbes magazine. Last week, the company earned a different accolade from Jim Cramer, the television stock market commentator. 'This may be the worst stock of 2010,' he proclaimed."

Agriculture [15]
Biodiversity [2]
Economy & Business [3]
Environmental Health [16]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: NYTimes [17], 10/05/2010
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"Overcrowded Oceans a Threat To Wild Salmon, B.C. Researchers Say" [18]

"Wild salmon stocks in the north Pacific are being eroded as the fish are forced to compete for food and shrinking habitat with billions of hatchery fish released in to the oceans each year, a new study by scientists in B.C. and Washington state says."

Biodiversity [2]
Fish & Fisheries [19]
Public [5]
Canada [20]
Source: Vancouver Sun [21], 10/05/2010
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"Toiling to Save a Threatened Frog" [22]

Amphibian species all over the world are being decimated by hytridiomycosis, a deadly fungal disease. One California scientist working in the Sierras thinks a specific bacterium may help frogs survive.

Biodiversity [2]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: NYTimes [23], 10/05/2010
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"Navy Airdrops Dead, Drugged Mice in Battle With Snake Species" [24]

"In its effort to rid the island territory of Guam of an invasive snake species, the US Navy has enlisted the help of an unlikely set of allies: Dead mice stuffed with a common painkiller."

Biodiversity [2]
Public [5]
Australia & Oceania [25]
Source: Raw Story [26], 10/05/2010
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"Census Shows Connectedness of World's Marine Life" [27]

"The world's oceans may be vast and deep, but a decade-long count of marine animals finds sea life so interconnected that it seems to shrink the watery world."

Biodiversity [2]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [5]
International [12]
Source: AP [29], 10/04/2010
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Disappearance of Inyo Chipmunks From Sierra Nevadas Alarms Researchers [30]

"With button-brown eyes, striped cheeks and a bushy orange-black tail, the Inyo chipmunk has darted among the gnarled pines of the Sierra Nevada for centuries. But it has apparently vanished."

Biodiversity [2]
Public [5]
California [31]
Source: Sacramento Bee [32], 10/04/2010
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"Dolphins Escape as Nets Are Cut During Japan's Annual Hunt" [33]

"Japanese police have launched a probe after nets on holding pens for dolphins in the coastal town of Taiji were cut during an annual hunt, possibly by foreign activists, a press report said Wednesday."

Activism [34]
Biodiversity [2]
Disasters [35]
Fish & Fisheries [19]
Water & Oceans [28]
Wildlife [36]
Public [5]
Asia [37]
Source: AFP [38], 09/30/2010
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