By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent Harbours around Britain are being ‘suffocated’ by algae according to the Government’s environment watchdog. The green seaweed saps oxygen from water – meaning other marine life cannot survive – and spreads, taking over hundreds of acres of mudflats and estuaries. The Environment Agency (EA) is so concerned about the problem […]
By Jeremy Hance The state of Idaho has set a quota of 220 individuals for the wolf hunting season which begins on September 1st. If the quota holds, a quarter of Idaho’s estimated 880 wolves will be killed. The 220 quota is actually a reduction from an earlier proposal that called for a quota of […]
By JOHN F. HILL, The Press-Enterprise An estimated 10 million to 15 million tiny baitfish went belly up at Lake Elsinore last weekend, the worst fish die-off since 2002, officials said. Piles of dead threadfin shad still clogged the lake’s shoreline Tuesday. In some spots, the stench was overpowering for drivers who had the misfortune […]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, 2009 — They say there’s no place like home. But scientists are reporting some unsettling news about homes in the residential areas of California. The typical house there — and probably elsewhere in the country — is an alarming and probably underestimated source of water pollution, according to a new study reported […]
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The graphs show Iceland Sea winter surface water changes in pH, and the saturation state of aragonite. The anthropogenic increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide affects the Nordic Seas both at the surface and at depth. In the surface, the pH has decreased from 8.13 to 8.08 between 1985 and 2008, and the aragonite saturation, which […]
By Jerry Hirsch Leaders of California’s $1.6-billion citrus industry said Monday that a disease that was killing orchards worldwide was now rooted in Mexico, and experts warned that it was headed toward the state. Citrus greening disease has infected six citrus trees on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, spread by an infestation of the Asian citrus psyllid. […]
Sonar survey spies mysterious, 1.4-kilometer-tall feature in the depths off California By Sid PerkinsAn oceanographic survey has discovered a 1,400-meter-tall plume rising from the seafloor off the coast of California. Water samples taken at the site, about 32 kilometers northwest of Cape Mendocino, indicate that the feature isn’t mineral-rich water spewing from a hydrothermal vent, […]
United States Private sector funded, with more than half from private sources. Private health insurance available through employer, government or private schemes. 15.3% of population (45.7 million people) do not have health insurance. Federal government is largest healthcare insurer – involved in two main schemes, Medicaid and Medicare, each covering about 13% of population. Medicaid […]
PARIS (Reuters) – France is facing an invasion of bee-eating Chinese hornets which could hasten the mysterious decline in the honey-bee population and threaten bee-keepers’ livelihoods, researchers said on Tuesday. Colonies of Asian hornets, or Vespa velutina, have spread rapidly in southwestern France, a region popular with tourists, and are likely to reach other European […]
