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Veteran journalist and SEJ co-founder Rae Tyson writes about the prolific and voracious Indo-Pacific lionfish, which has spread as far north as Rhode Island and as far south as the Caribbean Sea. A Washington, DC chef offers one tasty solution to the problem.

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Features [10]

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Fish & Fisheries [12]

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National (U.S.) [4]

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Public [5]

Read more about The New Invader, Lionfish, Raises Major Concerns for Ocean Reef Systems [11]

Try a Little Carp Humor To Woo More Traffic to Your Online News Site [13]

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Features [10]

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Journalism & Media [3]

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National (U.S.) [4]

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Public [5]

Read more about Try a Little Carp Humor To Woo More Traffic to Your Online News Site [13]

Gulf Oil Leak Shrouds Climate Change But Still Holds Key Issues [14]

For journalists covering major energy- and environment-related stories and natural disasters, the visually gushing BP Gulf of Mexico oil leak easily supplanted climate change and other national stories in the steadily shrinking news hole. Yet there are striking parallels between the sudden and in-your-face Gulf BP spill and the incremental and nonlinear climate change issue.

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Backgrounders [15]

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Climate Change [16]

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National (U.S.) [4]

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Public [5]

Read more about Gulf Oil Leak Shrouds Climate Change But Still Holds Key Issues [14]

"Red Dust Worries Residents Near US Metals Plants" [17]

The alumina dust that coats a Texas Gulf Coast town is a sign of risks like those in the Hungarian villages recently buried in a spill of toxic red sludge.

Chemicals [18]

Environmental Health [19]

Natural Resources [20]

Public [5]

National (U.S.) [4]

Source: AP [21], 10/22/2010

Read more about "Red Dust Worries Residents Near US Metals Plants" [17]

"Food Inspection Is Often Flawed" [22]

"The voluntary quality control system widely used in the nation's $1 trillion domestic food industry is rife with conflicts of interest, inexperienced auditors and cursory inspections that produce inflated ratings, according to food retail executives and other industry experts."

Agriculture [23]

Consumer [24]

Disasters [8]

Food [25]

Public [5]

National (U.S.) [4]

Source: Wash Post [26], 10/22/2010

Read more about "Food Inspection Is Often Flawed" [22]

"Release of Divisive EPA Ozone Regs Seen as Unlikely Before Election" [27]

"With Election Day less than two weeks away and Republicans rallying around their opposition to U.S. EPA regulations, the agency is expected to wait before it tightens the nationwide limit on ozone pollution."

Air [28]

Environmental Politics [29]

Public [5]

National (U.S.) [4]

Source: Greenwire [30], 10/22/2010

Read more about "Release of Divisive EPA Ozone Regs Seen as Unlikely Before Election" [27]

"Red, White, and Blue, but Not Green" [31]

"Remember the 2008 presidential campaign, when candidates and voters alike couldn’t seem to get enough of energy and climate issues during the good ol’ days of $4 per gallon gasoline? Politically and at the pump, those days are long gone."

Environmental Politics [29]

Journalism & Media [3]

Public [5]

National (U.S.) [4]

Source: CJR [32], 10/22/2010

Read more about "Red, White, and Blue, but Not Green" [31]

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