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Notre Dame researcher: Asian carp may have reached Great Lakes
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — At least some Asian carp probably have found their way into the Great Lakes, but there's still time to stop the dreaded invaders from becoming established and unraveling food chains that support a $7 billion fishing...Tags: Nature Conservancy, Biotechnology Industry, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Chemical Industry, Justice System
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'Faith response to climate change' -- Churches work to reduce carbon footprint
KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — Indiana churches are cutting down their carbon footprint as part of a statewide initiative to promote "a faith response to climate change." The goal is to not only help the environment, but also save money. Hoosier Interfaith...
Tags: Belief and Faith, Global Change, Religion and Belief, Environmental Issues, Conservation
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As Rome Burns
At least Nero played the fiddle while rome burned. But us? Apparently we can’t even read a thermometer. While evidence of climate change piles up around us like withering piles of corn stalks our esteemed leaders are only allowing us to head...
Tags: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Google Inc., Rome (Italy), Global Change, Environmental Issues
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Study: 6 pounds of bacteria live on 200-pound person
WASHINGTON (AP) — They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut — enough bacteria, fungi and other microbes that collected together could weigh, amazingly, a few pounds. Now scientists have mapped just which critters normally live in or...
Tags: Cesarean Section, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Biotechnology Industry, National Institutes of Health, Health and Safety at School
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Program gives birds of prey protected perches
PRINCE'S LAKES, Ind. (AP) — A national effort to keep eagles and other birds of prey off electrical lines could lead to safer perches for the raptors and a more diverse ecosystem in Indiana. The South Central Indiana REMC has launched a raptor...Tags: Sweetwater, Environmental Issues, Lakes and Ponds, Conservation
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2 years later, fish sick near BP oil spill site
BARATARIA BAY, La. (AP) — Open sores. Parasitic infections. Chewed-up-looking fins. Gashes. Mysterious black streaks. Two years after the drilling-rig explosion that touched off the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, scientists are...
Tags: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Symptoms, Fishing, Shrimp, Genes and Chromosomes
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Burger King makes cage-free eggs, pork promise
In a boost to animal welfare activists looking to get livestock out of cramped cages, Burger King will be the first major U.S. fast-food chain to give all of its chickens and pigs some room to roam. On Wednesday, the world's second-biggest burger chain...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Food Industry, Walmart, Environmental Issues, Consumer Goods Industries
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The American 'allergy' to global warming: Why?
NEW YORK (AP) — Tucked between treatises on algae and prehistoric turquoise beads, the study on page 460 of a long-ago issue of the U.S. journal Science drew little attention.
"I don't think there were any newspaper articles about it or anything...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., NASA, Global Change, Barack Obama, The Associated Press
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Prairie seed collectors needed in Michigan
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The state is looking for volunteers who can help harvest native prairie seeds at state parks and recreation areas in southern Michigan. The Department of Natural Resources says volunteers on needed on weekends throughout...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Travel, Tourism and Leisure, Conservation, State Parks
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Schuette plans to continue Asian carp legal fight
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's new attorney general said Thursday he will continue the state's court fight to close off waterways into the Great Lakes to keep out invasive Asian carp. Michigan is one of five states that have sued the U.S. Army...Tags: Michigan, Lawyers, Litigation, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Justice System
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Report says climate change harms Great Lakes parks
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Some of the Great Lakes' treasured national parks are showing ill effects of climate change that are likely to worsen in coming decades, from shoreline erosion to decline of certain wildlife and plant species, a former...Tags: Weather Statistics, Botulism, Michigan, U.S. Department of the Interior, Gardens and Parks
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New report exonerates climate researchers
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Commerce Department investigation has found no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of federal climate researchers whose e-mails were leaked in the debate over global climate change. The report from the department's inspector...Tags: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington, DC, Global Change, Science and Technology, Conservation
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