"California 'Inventing New River' To Lure Salmon Back"
Federal water managers open valves this week for an ambitious effort to restore salmon from the San Joaquin River.
Source: AP, 10/05/2009
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"Scarcity of King Salmon Hurt Alaskan Fishermen"
"Just a few years ago, king salmon played an outsize role in villages along the Yukon River....But this year, a total ban on commercial fishing for king salmon on the river in Alaska has strained poor communities and stripped the prized Yukon fish off menus in the lower 48 states."
Source: NYTimes, 10/05/2009
"Walruses Suffer Substantial Losses as Sea Ice Erodes"
"Half a century after Pacific walruses began recovering from industrial-scale hunting, marine biologists are growing worried that they face a mounting threat from global warming."
Source: NYTimes, 10/05/2009
"Poor Hit Back At Rich Over New Carbon Emission Demands"
"Developing countries are standing their ground against demands by rich nations to add steps to curb carbon emissions into a formal registry or appendix as part a broader pact to fight climate change." Hopes dim for nations to reach a climate pact in Copenhagen in December.
Source: Reuters, 10/05/2009
"Obama Aide Concedes Climate Law Must Wait"
"President Obama’s top climate and energy official said Friday that there was virtually no chance Congress would have a climate and energy bill ready for him to sign before negotiations on a global climate treaty begin in December in Copenhagen."
Source: NYTimes, 10/05/2009
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"1,000 U.S. Mayors Have Signed Climate Protection Pledge"
"U.S. Conference of Mayors President Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels says that by Friday, 1,000 mayors, representing 85 million Americans, will have signed the U.S. Conference of Mayors' Climate Protection Agreement."
Source: ENS, 10/02/2009
"Troubled Waters, Part II: On the Trail of the Lost Data"
"In 2004, CDC scientists published a reassuring report about lead contamination in Washington’s water even though they knew that thousands of blood lead measurements had been lost. Now Congress wants to know why."
Source: AAAS Professional Ethics Report, 10/02/2009
"Seeing Snakes As Worth Saving"
"As kids, many of us come to see snakes as frightening, evil creatures. In some places, that ingrained fear has taken a toll on the snake population. ... Some folks ... are trying to improve one snake's image - before it disappears."
Source: Environment Report, 10/02/2009
"Even More E. coli Tests at the Lake of the Ozarks Were Withheld"
Missouri "allowed tourists at the Lake of the Ozarks to swim in waters that officials knew were infested with harmful E. coli bacteria for two weeks at the beginning of the summer tourist season, Gov. Jay Nixon said Wednesday."
Source: St.Louis Post-Dispatch, 10/02/2009
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