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Category Archives: Environment
Alaska Oil Spill Takes Toll on Animals and Fisheries
A rare break in rough Bering Sea weather is allowing officials to gain a better sense of damage from a large spill in the Aleutian Islands.
Where Are All the Dead Animals? Sri Lanka Asks
Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned — the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island’s coast, but they can’t find any dead animals.
Originally from Reuters
Md. Plan for Asian Oysters Runs Into Opposition
Scientists in Delaware and New Jersey believe more research needs to be done before Maryland introduces a nonnative species into the bay.
Originally from WTOP Radio
New maps highlight vanishing E. Shore
Coast: Technology provides a stark forecast of the combined effect of rising sea level and sinking land along the bay.
After 30 Years of Animal Research, Bronx Zoo to Close Island Preserve
The Bronx Zoo is closing a large animal preserve on a 14,000-acre undeveloped island off the coast of Georgia.
Island Woes Stark Warning for Land Dwellers
The extinction of whole species, once specific to isolated islands, is becoming a trend across continents.
Originally from Reuters
Komodo Dragon Dies of Blood Vessel Rupture at Nat’l Zoo
One of the Zoo’s Komodo dragons died in its exhibit at the Reptile Discovery Center.
Originally from WTOP Radio
Persistence Turns Island into Refuge
Garrett Island is now set up as a bird sanctuary where the Chesapeake Bay begins.
Originally from WTOP Radio
Florida’s Eagle Habitats Limited by Hurricanes
This year’s busy hurricane season has had a lasting effect on bald eagle populations in Florida. Central Florida has the largest concentration of bald eagles in the continental United States. NPR’s Ari Shapiro continues his series on the long-term impact of several powerful storms of 2004.
New coal plants bury ‘Kyoto’
Emissions from planned coal-fired plants in China, India, and the US would swamp the treaty’s emissions cuts.
Mars Photos Find Volcanoes May Be Active
Photographs taken by a spacecraft orbiting Mars indicate that active volcanoes may still exist on the planet, a finding that further erodes its image as a dead world.
Santa Workshop Said Under Threat from N.Pole Thaw
Santa may have to move his workshop from the North Pole because global warming is thawing the ice beneath his elves’ and reindeers’ feet.
Originally from Reuters
As the Seas Warm, Algae Help Some Coral Stand Up to the Heat
Some coral reefs are proving surprisingly resilient to global warming because of heat-tolerant algae that live with them.
As fish drift south, New England boats bump Dixie docks
The apparent shift in tuna migration patterns is melding two disparate fishing fleets.