by faster | Dec 6, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Scientific American DATE: December 6, 2018 SNIP: Salts that de-ice roads, parking lots and sidewalks keep people safe in winter. But new research shows they are contributing to a sharp and widely rising problem across the U.S. At least a third of the rivers...
by faster | Dec 6, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: University of Maine DATE: December 6, 2018 SNIP: Children in Alaska whose diet includes a lot of fish from rivers fed by the Eastern Alaska Mountain Range may have a long-term elevated risk for cancer because of insecticides — including DDT — in the meltwater....
by faster | Dec 5, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: December 5, 2018 SNIP: Half of Canada’s chinook salmon are endangered, with nearly all other populations in precarious decline, according to a new report, confirming fears that prospects for the species remain dire. The report by the...
by faster | Oct 31, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: Scottish Association for Marine Science DATE: October 31, 2017 SNIP: Cod, herring and haddock may vanish from Scotland’s west coast waters by the turn of the century because of global warming. Researchers at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS),...
by faster | Jan 21, 2016 | Blog
SOURCE: Science Daily DATE: January 20, 2016 SNIP: UNSW Australia researchers have found that carbon dioxide concentrations in seawater could reach levels high enough to make fish “intoxicated” and disoriented many decades earlier than previously thought,...
