"Aquarium Dumping Linked To Giant Tahoe Goldfish"
"You're going to need a bigger fishbowl.
Source: NPR, 02/25/2013
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"Sequester Spending Cuts Will Hurt the Environment"
"WASHINGTON, DC -- If Congress does not act this coming week, automatic federal spending cuts, called the sequester, will go into effect March 1 that will impact the environment. Funding for parks, energy development, travel, clean air and water, fish and wildlife protection, pollution prevention, and disaster readiness will be cut."
Source: ENS, 02/25/2013
"Secret Climate Report Calls for Action In SC"
"A team of state scientists has outlined serious concerns about the damage South Carolina will suffer from climate change – threats that include invading eels, dying salt marshes, flooded homes and increased diseases in the state’s wildlife."
Source: The State, 02/25/2013
Interior Nomination Becomes Embroiled in Fight Over Alaska Refuge
"Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge is a 315,000-acre stretch of eelgrass and tundra pockmarked with lakes and lagoons, a site where the geese called Pacific black brants stop off to feed before they begin their journey to wintering grounds in Mexico."
Source: Wash Post, 02/25/2013
Mouse Airdrop: "Plan To Rid Guam of Snake Invaders"
"ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- Dead mice laced with painkillers are about to rain down on Guam's jungle canopy. They are scientists' prescription for a headache that has caused misery to the tiny U.S. territory for more than 60 years: the brown tree snake."
Source: AP, 02/25/2013
"Land Grab Cheats North Dakota Tribes Out of $1 Billion, Suits Allege"
"Native Americans on an oil-rich North Dakota reservation have been cheated out of more than $1 billion by schemes to buy drilling rights for lowball prices, a flurry of recent lawsuits assert. And, the suits claim, the federal government facilitated the alleged swindle by failing in its legal obligation to ensure the tribes got a fair deal."
Source: ProPublica, 02/25/2013
"The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food"
The U.S. food industry's response to the emerging obesity problem has often put its own profits ahead of public health.
Source: NY Times, 02/25/2013
Japan: "Survey: No Nuclear Plants Meet New Safety Standards"
"None of Japan’s 16 nuclear power plants has satisfied the government's proposed new safety standards, making them ineligible to be restarted in the near future, according to an Asahi Shimbun survey."
Source: Asahi Shimbun, 02/25/2013
"Billions at Stake As BP Oil Spill Trial Opens"
"NEW ORLEANS -- Billions of dollars will be at stake Monday at the opening of a complex trial to determine how much BP should pay for the devastating 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill."
Source: AFP, 02/25/2013
"Study: Colorado Forests Not Doomed"
"Intensive research shows vigorous regrowth in beetle-killed tracts."
Source: Summit County Voice, 02/22/2013
