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 Stories About: toxics AND water pollution AND wildlife
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Cyanide Cynthia's flack attack
Mining behemoth responds to Gristmill |
Glenn Hurowitz |
13 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| A mine similar to the one proposed for the Bristol Bay area. Photo: Ben Knight. This past Christmas, I named Anglo-American Mining Company CEO 'Cyanide' Cynthia Carroll the 'world's biggest scrooge' for planning to plop one of the world's biggest gold mines right atop the richest salmon fishery in the world in Alaska's Bristol Bay -- and wreaking massive devastation to the landscape, wildlife, and economy of Alaska (you can see pictures of this landsca ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, fishing, mining, toxics, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Loony behavior
Mercury pollution is driving loons crazy |
Erik Hoffner |
31 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| This year I spent some lazy late-summer days watching loons patrol a wilderness area lake I'd backpacked to. I should have been totally relaxed and enjoying this gorgeous and remote spot in the Adirondacks, but I couldn't help wondering if these birds had succeeded in hatching a brood, with no sign of little ones about. A friend at the Biodiversity Research Institute had told me of a paper they were soon publishing, which demonstrated the negative impacts of methyl merc ... |
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| Topics: wildlife, water pollution, air pollution, toxics, mercury (all these topics) |
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Iguana Be Alone!
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06 Jun 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Iguana Be Alone! Eighteen months ago, a grounded tanker spilled 150,000 gallons of diesel and bunker fuel into the waters around the famed Galapagos Islands. Luckily, shifting winds sent most of the fuel out to sea rather than into shore, so sea lion and bird deaths numbered in the dozens rather than the hundreds. At the time, biologists and conservationists breathed a sigh of relief, believin ... |
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| Topics: Galapagos Islands, health, toxics, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Hopping Mad
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16 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Hopping Mad Atrazine, the most popular herbicide in the U.S., appears to cause a wide range of sexual abnormalities in frogs, according to a study by biologist Tyrone Hayes published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Seventy-five million pounds of atrazine are used in the U.S. every year, and it is the most common contaminant in the nation's waterways. Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Norwa ... |
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| Topics: toxics, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics) |
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