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We Hope the Russians Love Their Tube Worms Too Russians plan to drill into untouched Antarctic lake		13 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
We Hope the Russians Love Their Tube Worms Too Russians plan to drill into untouched Antarctic lake The world's seventh-largest freshwater lake is locked under a giant Antarctic ice sheet and has never been exposed to human contact -- but Russian scientists have drilled within 425 feet of it, and, despite pleas from scientists and environmentalists, intend to drill in all the way over the next two sum ...
Topics: Antarctica, lakes, mining and drilling, news, Russia (all these topics)

Let's Baikal the Whole Thing Off Russian president changes route of Siberian pipeline to protect lake		27 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Let's Baikal the Whole Thing Off Russian president changes route of Siberian pipeline to protect lake Last month, we reported that a Siberia-to-Asia oil pipeline backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin was set to be built half a mile from the world's deepest lake, home to hundreds of unique species. Well, we've been Putin our place: yesterday, the Russian prez ordered the pipeline rerouted to avoid Lake Baikal by at l ...
Topics: energy, lakes, news, oil, Russia (all these topics)

Fools Russia In Russia to build oil pipeline within half-mile of world's deepest lake		07 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Fools Russia In Russia to build oil pipeline within half-mile of world's deepest lake A 2,550-mile-long oil pipeline is set to be built within 900 yards of the world's deepest lake. And really, what could go wrong? Lake Baikal -- home to a variety of unique species of flora and fauna and over 20 percent of the planet's unfrozen freshwater -- has the misfortune to lie along the cheapest route for Russian pipeline monopoly ...
Topics: energy, lakes, news, oil, Russia (all these topics)

Have Your Lake and Deplete it Too U.N. urges decisive action to save Africa's lakes		02 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Have Your Lake and Deplete it Too U.N. urges decisive action to save Africa's lakes Africa's 650-plus lakes are degrading at an astonishing rate, says the U.N., and protecting them is crucial to restoring the continent's health and boosting its prosperity. The U.N. Environment Program's new "Africa's Lakes: An Atlas of Environmental Change" compares recent and past satellite images of the water bodies, reveal ...
Topics: Africa, lakes, news, United Nations (all these topics)

Reservoir Hogs Norton won't reduce water releases from Lake Powell		03 May 2005	Daily Grist
Reservoir Hogs Norton won't reduce water releases from Lake Powell Following a year's worth of unsuccessful negotiations between governors of seven parched Western states, Interior Secretary Gale Norton stepped in yesterday to make a decision on how to divvy up the much-coveted water of the Colorado River. A winter of heavy precipitation and subsequent spring thaws have made the debate over how much water to d ...
Topics: Colorado River, lakes, news, politics, West (all these topics)

What's the Time? It's Time to Get Iliamna Proposed Alaskan mine may threaten salmon wonderland		26 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
What's the Time? It's Time to Get Iliamna Proposed Alaskan mine may threaten salmon wonderland Near the shores of vast Lake Iliamna in southern Alaska, locals are worried that a huge proposed open-pit mine at the region's headwaters could imperil legendary salmon runs. The story is familiar enough: an economically depressed, mineral-rich area gets courted by slick mining-company officials promising jobs ...
Topics: Alaska, fishing, lakes, mining and drilling, news (all these topics)

Je Syracuse Onondaga Nation sues for land rights in New York state		31 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Je Syracuse Onondaga Nation sues for land rights in New York state The Onondaga Nation earlier this month filed a lawsuit claiming ownership of some 3,100 square miles of New York state, including Onondaga Lake in northwest Syracuse -- a large body of water to which the community claims to have ancestral connection. That lake also happens to be one of the most polluted in the country; once a source of trout and ...
Topics: lakes, New York, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Lake and Bake Photos of the once-mighty, now-drained Owens Lake	David Maisel	19 Jan 2005	Main Dish
Owens Lake, on the eastern flanks of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in southeastern California, was, at its peak, a 200-square-mile perennial lake. Located at the terminus of the Owens River, it held water continuously for at least 800,000 years. It is now an extreme example of the destabilizing effect of surface-water extraction in desert regions. Click here to start slide show. Beginning in 1913, the Owens ...
Topics: California, lakes, water pollution (all these topics)

The Powell and the Glory Lake Powell is drying up; Glen Canyon is coming back		05 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
The Powell and the Glory Lake Powell is drying up; Glen Canyon is coming back Lake Powell is dropping by a foot every four days, thanks to ongoing drought in the West -- and many enviros couldn't be happier about it. Veteran conservation leader David Brower called the completion of Glen Canyon dam in 1963, and the subsequent drowning of the canyon and its many side canyons to create Lake Powell, the greatest disappoin ...
Topics: Arizona, dams, energy, lakes, Utah (all these topics)

The Glass Is Half Full -- Just Don't Drink From It Most U.S. Lakes and Waterways Contaminated with Mercury, EPA Says		25 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
The Glass Is Half Full -- Just Don't Drink From It Most U.S. Lakes and Waterways Contaminated with Mercury, EPA Says U.S. EPA head honcho Mike Leavitt struggled yesterday to put a positive spin on the agency's annual report on fish advisories, despite the grim news that virtually every body of freshwater in the country may be contaminated with mercury, which poses health risks to fetuses and children. Every state except Alaska a ...
Topics: lakes, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Do Good Tell Bush and Co. to Keep Their Hands Off the Clean Water Act		25 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Do Good Tell Bush and Co. to Keep Their Hands Off the Clean Water Act If you appreciate clean waterways and coastlines, you have the Clean Water Act to thank -- and President Bush to fear. Earlier this year, the Bush administration unveiled a proposal that would make it easier for polluters and developers to contaminate or destroy non-navigable wetlands, streams, ...
Topics: lakes, marine life, politics, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

Shrink Rap Great Salt Lake Is Shrinking, and Some ATV Owners See a New Playground		23 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Shrink Rap Great Salt Lake Is Shrinking, and Some ATV Owners See a New Playground If you're feeling a little low today, just consider the fate of Utah's Great Salt Lake -- which is feeling even lower, we guarantee. Following five years of drought, the famed lake is experiencing near-record lows and is dropping at a rate of about an inch per week. As a result, the surrounding wetlands -- prime insect an ...
Topics: lakes, outdoor recreation, Utah, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

Thirsty Hungary Central Europe's Largest Lake Is Shrinking		03 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Thirsty Hungary Central Europe's Largest Lake Is Shrinking According to legend, Hungary's Lake Balaton is constantly replenished by a young girl weeping in a church in the middle of its waters. Now, though, Central Europe's largest lake is shrinking, and experts say the problem isn't a happier lake lady; it's global warming. Following four hot summers in a row and lower-than-average annual rainfalls, millions of gallons ...
Topics: business, climate, Hungary, lakes (all these topics)

Global Warming, I Presume? Lake Tanganyika Under Threat from Climate Change		14 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Global Warming, I Presume? Lake Tanganyika Under Threat from Climate Change The ecology of Lake Tanganyika -- Africa's second-largest body of water and site of the famed encounter between Henry Stanley and David Livingstone -- is under siege due to global climate change, according to studies by two independent teams of scientists. The scientists have found that rising air temperatures have reduced the lake's nutrient load a ...
Topics: Africa, climate, health, lakes (all these topics)

Zuni Side Up Zuni Tribe Member Pablo Padilla Talks About Beating Back a Strip Mine		07 Aug 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: lakes, mining and drilling, New Mexico (all these topics)

Power to the Pueblo Enviros Rejoice as Utility Drops Plan for Strip Mine in N.M.		05 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Power to the Pueblo Enviros Rejoice as Utility Drops Plan for Strip Mine in N.M. After a bitter 20-year fight, enviros and members of the Zuni Pueblo tribe had cause to celebrate yesterday, when an Arizona utility abandoned plans to build a large coal strip mine and railroad near a salt lake in western New Mexico that the Native Americans hold sacred. Most members of New Mexico's congressional delegation wrote to fed ...
Topics: lakes, mining and drilling, New Mexico (all these topics)

Lake Woe-be-here		01 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Lake Woe-be-here The pristine environment around Lake Baikal in Siberia, the world's deepest freshwater lake, is endangered by a joint Russian-Chinese plan to build an oil pipeline through the region, Greenpeace warned yesterday. A month ago, Russian and Chinese oil companies signed a 25-year deal to pump 30 million tons of Russian crude oil to China every year, alo ...
Topics: China, commercial and industry organizations, Greenpeace, lakes, Russia, United Nations (all these topics)

Paddle-tale		02 Jun 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: lakes, rivers and watersheds, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Sturgeon General Warning		22 May 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: lakes, marine life, wildlife, Wisconsin (all these topics)

When You Dish Upon a Star		07 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
When You Dish Upon a Star Minnesota would become the first state in the U.S. to effectively ban phosphorus in automatic-dishwashing detergent if a bill working its way through the state legislature gets the eventual thumbs-up. Phosphorus, which helps to remove those oh-so-unsightly spots from glasses and dishware, ultimately g ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, lakes, Minnesota, politics, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Invasion of the Habitat Snatchers		06 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Invasion of the Habitat Snatchers Invasive species are wreaking havoc on African wetlands to the tune of billions of dollars per year, according to a new study by the World Conservation Union (IUCN). For example, the water hyacinth, introduced from the Amazon Basin as an ornamental plant, has spread to most of Africa's lakes and rivers, choking out ...
Topics: Africa, lakes, marine life, rivers and watersheds, Texas, wetlands, wildlife, World Conservation Union (all these topics)

Mongoose Step		05 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Mongoose Step Invasive species are a problem throughout the world -- but in Japan, with its fragile island ecosystems, the problem is particularly severe. The most prominent Japanese battle to protect native species is raging in Lake Biwa, the nation's largest freshwater lake and a cultural icon frequently referenced in literature, theater, and film. There, voracious Ameri ...
Topics: Asia, globalization, Japan, lakes, marine life, rivers and watersheds, wildlife (all these topics)

Where Raindrops Fall Like Lemon Drops		30 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Where Raindrops Fall Like Lemon Drops Lakes and streams in New England have been slow to recover from the ill effects of acid rain, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. EPA. The regional reduction in acid rain lagged 10 percent behind the national rate of 40 percent in the 1990s; more worrisome, the number of "acidic systems" in ...
Topics: lakes, land degradation, Midwest, New England, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, US EPA (all these topics)

No Room at the Inn		14 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
No Room at the Inn Banff National Park is the jewel of the Canadian Rockies -- and its most sparkly facet is Lake Louise, famous for emerald waters, dense forests, and glittering reflections of Victoria Glacier. But the peaceful-looking spot is actually a battleground between a large Canadian hotel chain and environmentalists who want to put a stop to a proposed $45 million, six-story addition to the ...
Topics: Canada, lakes, national parks, placemaking, wildlife (all these topics)

Canada Drier		13 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Canada Drier Global warming could spell big trouble for Canada's freshwater supply, according to a report from the government agency Natural Resources Canada. The predicted global surface-air temperature increase of between 2.5 and 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century would sap some of the country's hydroelectric power potential, lower lake levels, and pave the way for severe drought on the Canadian prairies ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, climate, lakes (all these topics)

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