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2005 - 2008

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• Aging Systems Releasing Sewage into Rivers & Streams - USA Today 8may2008
• U.S. Closes Most of West Coast to Salmon Fishing - Reuters 2may2008
• "Fishery Failure” Declared for West Coast Salmon Fishery - Declaration Clears Path for Congressional Action / NOAA Fisheries Service (w/ Fed. Reg. Notice) 1may2008
• Mary Gade: EPA Regional Chief Resigns After Dispute Over Dow's Dioxin Pollution - Wall Street Journal 3may2008
• Wet Winter in West Eases Raft of Problems - (w/ maps) Wall Street Journal 11apr 2008
• Aging US Water Pipelines are Breaking - AP 8apr2008
• Wilkins Ice Shelf: Slab of Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses - Reuters 25mar2008
• How Shipping Containers Shortened the Life Span of Petro-Civilization - Culture Change 23feb2008
• Ocean Dead Zone:  Scientists Fear 'Tipping Point' in Pacific Ocean: Coast Has Seen Deadly Drop-off in Oxygen Levels for Sea Life - Seattle Post-Intelligencer 15feb2008
  • Ocean Dead Zone: 41 Percent of Seas Heavily Affected by Human Activity, Researchers Report: Map shows how oceans suffer in graphic detail - MSNBC 14feb2008
• Has Earth Entered a New Epoch? - Christian Science Monitor 7feb2008
  • Are We Now Living in the Anthropocene? - Zalasiewicz / GSA Today 1feb 2008
• DNA Found in Drinking Water Could Aid Germs - LiveScience 23oct2008
• Lake Mead and Lake Powell stand a 50 percent chance of running dry by 2021 - Christian Science Monitor 13feb2008
• Bush Cannot Exempt Navy from Laws Banning Sonar: Judge Rules - AP 4feb2008
• Until All the Fish Are Gone - Editorial  / New York Times 21jan2008
• Empty Seas Europe’s Appetite for Seafood Propels Illegal Trade - New York Times 15jan2008
• Collapse: WalMart and Waiting for the Shoe to Drop - Culture Change 20jan2008
• Is Plastic Making Us Fat? Obesity Epidemic - Boston Globe 14jan2008
• How Much Water Goes Into a Burger? Studies Find Different Answers - Wall Street Journal 11jan2008

2007

• Ominous Arctic Melt Worries Experts - AP 12dec2007
• Three Gorges Drama: Why Chinese Dam Is Forcing Yet Another Mass Exodus Pollution, Poverty Spur Relocation of 4 Million; Death in a Demolition - Wall Street Journal 6nov2007
• Plastic Trash in the Ocean as Far as One Can See: Feds Want to Survey, Possibly Clean Up Vast Garbage Pit in Pacific - San Francisco Chronicle 30oct2007
• Drought-Stricken South Facing Tough Choices - New York Times 16oct2007
• Polluter Defiant Despite Jail Time for Dumping Toxic Waste: Gary Reopelle of Monsen Plating - Berkeley Voice 10oct2007
• Melting Ice Pack Displaces Alaska Walrus - USA Today 6oct2007
• Arctic Ice Melt Opens Northwest Passage - AP 15sep2007
• Federal Court Says Navy's Sonar Testing More Important Than Whales: Whales Get Blown Off - San Francisco Chronicle 1sep2007
• Ruling to Protect Delta Smelt May Force Water Rationing in Bay Area -  San Francisco Chronicle 1sep2007
• Dead Sea, Jordan River Valley Face Ecological Disaster - San Francisco Chronicle 12aug2007
• Atrazine: Minnesota Hydrologist Fired and Barred From Testifying at Legislative Committee on Levels of Herbicide Atrazine in State's Waters - Press Release 7aug2007
• Louisiana-Texas Dead Zone Largest Since Records Kept - Press Release / Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium  (LUMCON) 28jul2007
• Aquafina Bottled Water is Only Tap Water. . . Plus the Plastic that gets into it from the bottle  - AP 27jul2007
• Danger Feared from Chemicals Getting into Bay: They Come From the Stuff Put On Your Body and Used to Clean Your House - San Francisco Chronicle 11jul2007
• Nuclear Power Plant Delayed Reporting Radioactive Water Leaked Into Sea - New York Times 17jul2007
• Drought Saps the Southeast, and Its Farmers - New York Times 4jul2007
• Plastic Beverage Container Waste Soars - American Recycler 1apr2007
  • Water, Water Everywhere: The Growth of Non-Carbonated Beverages in the United States - Container Recycling Institute 1feb2007
• Antwerp: Activists Choke Growth Of European Shipping Space: Ms. Apers's Crusade - Wall Street Journal 18may2007
• Navy Rejects Calif. Sonar Limits Protecting Marine Mammals - AP 13feb2007

2006

• Warmer Oceans Storing Climate Change Dangers - The Guardian (UK) 29nov2006
• Ross Ice Shelf: Scientists Fear Results of Collapsed Ice Shelf - The Press (New Zealand) 29nov2006
• The Olive Oil Paradox: Americans consume olive oil for their health, but in Morocco, the residue is fouling the water - Boston Globe 14aug2006
• Dead Zone Reappears Off the Oregon Coast -  New York Times 6aug2006
• Plague of Plastic Chokes the Seas: On Midway Atoll, 40% of albatross chicks die, their bellies full of trash - LA Times 2aug2006
  • Dark Tides, Ill Winds: With sickening regularity, toxic algae blooms are invading coastal waters - LA Times 1aug2006
  • Sentinels Under Attack: Toxic algae that poison the brain have caused strandings and mass die-offs of marine mammals - LA Times 31jul2006
  • A Primeval Tide of Toxins: Runoff from modern life is feeding an explosion of primitive organisms - LA Times 30jul2006
• More Than 60 Percent of U.S. Now Has Abnormally Dry or Drought Conditions; Dakotas at 'Epicenter' -  AP 29jul2006
• Coca-Cola: Sucking Communities Dry - War On Want 11apr2006
• Paleoclimatic Evidence for Future Ice-Sheet Instability and Rapid Sea-Level Rise -  Science 24mar2006
• Salmon: Imagine a Year Without Local Salmon - San Francisco Chronicle 3mar2006
• Global Warming 30 Times Quicker Than It Used To Be -  The Independent (UK) 18feb2006
• Sea Levels Likely to Rise Much Faster Than Was Predicted -  The Independent (UK) 17feb2006
• Greenland Ice Cap Breaking Up Twice the Rate of Five Years Ago - The Independent (UK) 17feb2006

2005

• Polar Bears Drown as Ice Shelf Melts -  The Times (UK) 18dec2005

• Failing Ocean Current Raises Fears of Mini Ice Age - New Scientist (UK) 30nov2005

  • Slowing of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation at 25° N  -  Nature 1dec2005

  • Alarm Over Dramatic Weakening of Gulf Stream - The Guardian 9UK) 1dec2005

  • What causes the Gulf Stream? USA Today 24sep2005

• PetroChina: Harbin in China Digs Wells as Contaminated River Freezes Over -  Bloomberg 25nov2005

• Warming Threatens Ocean Wildlife -  The Guardian (UK) 19oct2005

• Global Warming Study Forecasts More Water Shortages: Climate change already affecting Sierra snowpack  -  San Francisco Chronicle 17nov2005

• Malawi: Drought Heightens Hunger's Ravage of Children: Rural Village Tracks Malnutrition's Toll on Young -  Washington Post 4nov2005

• Kenya: Anti-Desertification Schemes Dry Up In Arid Kenya -  Agence France-Presse 29oct2005

• Thousands Feared Drowned in New Orleans -  AP 31aug2005

• Louisiana Governor: Everyone Must Leave New Orleans -  AP 31aug2005

• Bush Economics of Disaster: Email Attributed to New Orleans LA (NOLA) Rescue Worker - 30aug2005

• Katrina's Real Name -  Boston Globe 30aug2005

• Wave of Marine Species Extinctions Feared - Washington Post 24aug2005

• Fluoridation: EPA Unions Call for Nationwide Moratorium on Fluoridation, Congressional Hearing on Adverse Effects, Youth Cancer Cover Up - Press Release 19aug2005

• Drought Threatens Crops and Shuts River in Midwest -  New York Times 15aug2005

• NanoWater: The Evolution of Frankenfoods? - AlterNet 18jul2005

• Handling of Fisheries Report Criticized: Audit Says the Agency Violated Rules in Making Revisions - Sacramento Bee 14jul2005

• Plankton Vanishing: Usual seasonal influx of cold water isn't happening -  San Francisco Chronicle 12jul2005

• Lake Washington's Ecosystem in Trouble: Rise in Water Temperature Having Profound Effects -  Seattle Post-Intelligencer 11jul2005

• Few Sockeye Returning to the Ballard Locks - Seattle Post-Intelligencer 8jul2005

• Continued Freshening of the North Atlantic Could Slow the Conveyor in the 21st Century - Press Release / WHOI 16jun2005

• Coca-Cola in India: Indian Village Refuses US Cola Giant Licence to Exploit Ground Water - Agence France-Presse 14jun2005

• Hunters Point Shipyard: Don't Drink the Water - Dennis Kyne / San Francisco Bay View 30mar2005

• India: Is Privatisation and Water Pricing a Sensible Policy? Community Rights are Vital for Ecology and Democracy - Vandana Shiva / Financial Times (India) 22mar2005

• India: Soft Drinks, Hard Cases - Vandana Shiva / Le Monde diplomatique March 2005 14mar2005

• India: Parched Village Sues to Shut Tap at Coke: Drought-hit Indians say Plant Draining Groundwater - SF Chronicle 6mar2005

• $7 Million Panamax Cranes Clear Bay Bridge by 5 Feet on Trip to Oakland -  SF Chronicle 6mar2005

• Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS) Low Frequency Active (LFA) sonar: Defending the Silence of the Seas -  Berkeley Daily Planet 4mar2005

• Great Lakes: Resource at Risk: 21% of the Earth’s and about 84% of United States’ surface freshwater  -  Environmental Health Perspectives v.113, n.3, 1mar2005

• Tsunami-Spawning Quake Leaves Geophysical Changes -  Scientific American 1mar2005

• EPA's Ruling On Perchlorate Draws Criticism  - Wall Street Journal 22feb2005

• Tsunami: Knowledge of Natural World Saves Primitive Tribes of Andaman and Nicobar Islands From Tsunami - The Hindu (India) 5jan2005

 

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