A private fish hatchery released trout infected with whirling disease
into rivers in New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. The hatchery released infected fish into rivers in Colorado at least 125 times between 1997 and 2003.
Read (AP via WTOP)
A private fish hatchery released trout infected with whirling disease
into rivers in New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. The hatchery released infected fish into rivers in Colorado at least 125 times between 1997 and 2003.
Read (AP via WTOP)
A new study suggests natural gas development in western Wyoming is
forcing mule deer into less suitable winter range and affecting the
animals’ movements in an area known as the Pinedale Anticline. The number of mule deer on the Mesa winter range dropped 46% from 2002 to 2005.
Read (AP via WTOP)
Nearly three decades after PCB’s were discovered in the upper Hudson River, General Electric made a binding agreement yesterday to dredge them from the river in one of the largest and most expensive industrial cleanups in history.
Read (New York Times)
Water levels in the Amazon fall to a 30-year low, threatening to isolate a region dependent on river transport.
Read (BBC)
Too much rain and high water caused a drop in wading bird nests this year, according to a new survey.
Read (AP via WTOP)
Alaska’s dramatic warming trend seems to be affecting human health. A bacterium that plagues oysters has moved some 1,000 kilometres northwards into the warming waters of Prince William Sound, causing an outbreak of diarrhoea on a 2004 Alaskan cruise.
Read (Nature)
From cutting the Capitol Christmas tree to minor forest thinning, the U.S. Forest Service has put hundreds of small projects across the country on hold while it reviews a judge’s ruling throwing out limits on the public’s right to participate in forest decisions.
Read (Washington Post)
This prevents them from cutting the Capitol Christmas tree????
The Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge, near Theodore Roosevelt’s summer White House, is among the nation’s 10 most endangered wildlife refuges, according to a new report from an environmental group.
Read (AP via WTOP)
Beaches that are now home to the western snowy plover, a bird on the threatened list, may lose their protected status if a plan to revise the Endangered Species Act is approved.
Listen (NPR)
Conservation groups call for a United Nations moratorium on fishing practices which destroy deep sea ecosystems.
Read (BBC)
The mystery of how deer and elk spread chronic wasting disease from one animal to another may be solved: their tongues are infectious.
Read (New York Times)
This summer was the worst for oxygen levels in the Chesapeake Bay since scientists started measuring them more than 20 years ago.
Read (AP via WTOP)
Insects harness surface tension to climb out of ponds.
Read (Nature)
Europe’s thriving ivory retail market is threatening an increase in elephant poaching, conservationists warn.
Read (BBC)
Katrina’s destructive power reached beyond New Orleans into small towns on Louisiana’s southern shores. Damage to oyster beds has sunk the regional economy, but not the spirit of the locals.
Listen (NPR)