The Paradox of Plurals — More Than One, or Less?
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"It Took A Musician's Ear To Decode The Complex Song In Whale Calls"
"Humpback whales don't just sing songs — they compose with the whales around them, singing a song that evolves over time. Scientists didn't know that until they started recording whale sounds in the 1960s and spent years listening."
Source: NPR, 08/07/2015
"Half a Billion Dollars Gets You a Gentler Climate Plan"
"There could be half a billion reasons for the concessions President Barack Obama’s clean-power plan made to a defiant energy industry."
Source: Bloomberg, 08/07/2015
Uniontown, Alabama Landfill Battle a Modern Civil Rights Struggle
"Alabama's biggest waste dump inflicts misery on residents of Uniontown, whose complaints to the EPA have gone unheeded".
Source: NBC News, 08/07/2015
"Freight Trucks at New Jersey Port Must Curb Idling"
"The air in Newark, New Jersey’s largest city, is expected to clear up now that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized agreements with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and port terminal operators that will cut air pollution caused by idling diesel trucks at the port."
Source: ENS, 08/07/2015
"Ten Years On, Hurricane Katrina's Scars Endure for Black New Orleans"
"A decade after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans seems to have found its rhythm again: the French Quarter is choked with tourists, construction cranes tower over the skyline, and hipsters bike to cafes in gentrifying neighborhoods."
Source: Reuters, 08/07/2015
EPA Spills Millions Of Gallons Of Waste, Turning River Orange
"DENVER — A million-gallon mine waste spill that sent a plume of orange-ish muck down a river in southwest Colorado on Thursday was caused by a federal mine cleanup crew."
Source: AP, 08/07/2015
"U.S. Agencies Petitioned To Inspect Offshore California Pipelines"
"An environmental group petitioned the federal government on Thursday to immediately inspect more than 200 miles (320 km) of undersea oil pipelines off California's coast."
Source: Reuters, 08/07/2015
Prairie Chicken Revival Fuels Push To End Bird’S Threatened Status
"The lesser prairie chicken population appears to be on the rebound a year after the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife placed the bird in threatened status."
Source: McClatchy, 08/07/2015
"Firefighters Turning Corner in Northern California's Big Rocky Blaze"
"The battle to tame California's fiercest wildfire this year, the big Rocky blaze north of Napa Valley wine country, neared a turning point on Thursday as ground crews fighting the flames for an eighth day steadily extended their control lines."
Source: Reuters, 08/07/2015
