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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: U.S. Geological Survey, Chemical Industry, Engineering, Lakes and Ponds, Seafood and Fishing Industry
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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: Energy Saving, Belief and Faith, Religion and Belief, Global Change, Weather
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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: Joe McCarthy, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Weather, Google Inc., Meteorological Disasters
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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: Stanford University, Health, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Science, DNA
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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: Lakes and Ponds, Conservation, Environmental Issues, Sweetwater
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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: Health, Petroleum Industry, Genes and Chromosomes, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
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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: Food Industry, Walmart, Smithfield, Companies and Corporations, Lifestyle and Leisure
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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: Government, James V. Hansen, Global Warming, Galileo Galilei, National Government
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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: Tourism and Leisure, Travel, Conservation, Gardens and Parks, State Parks
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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: Health, Tourism and Leisure, Botulism, Lakes and Ponds, Weather
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It Is Serious Now
Now a brief check of news from overseas. In France this has been the driest March through May in 50 years. And the warmest in 110 years. Several European Nations are rapidly preparing emergency plans to conserve water, give farmers millions of dollars...Tags: France, Europe, Disasters, Water Restrictions, Agriculture
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GOP presidential hopefuls shift on global warming
WASHINGTON (AP) — For Republican presidential contenders who once supported combatting global warming, the race is heating up.
Most of the GOP White House hopefuls have stepped back from their previous positions on global warming. They're...Tags: Government, Newt Gingrich, Executive Branch, Global Warming, Weather
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