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Mercury Fingerprint of Pacific Fish Points to Asia Coal Power Plants
2013-08-29 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Mercury found in high levels in deep Pacific Ocean fish such as swordfish has a chemical fingerprint, and it implicates coal-burning power plants in Asia, according to a new study. A research team from the universities of Hawaii and Michigan looked at mercury in the flesh of nine species common to the massive North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, the largest ecosystem on the planet, at 7 million square miles. Four years ago, the team found that mercury levels in such fish as tuna increased with the depth...
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Mercury Levels In Pacific Fish Likely To Rise In Coming Decades
2013-08-26 07:27:01| pollutiononline News Articles
University of Michigan researchers and their University of Hawaii colleagues say they've solved the longstanding mystery of how mercury gets into open-ocean fish, and their findings suggest that levels of the toxin in Pacific Ocean fish will likely rise in coming decades
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London fined for fish kill
2013-08-24 18:24:19| Chemicals - Topix.net
A mid-July fish kill in Oak Run Creek will cost the London Board of Public Utilities $7,871 and prompt new procedures for handling out-of-town waste at the city's sewage disposal plant on South Main Street.
North Shore: Historic wooden fish house saved for at least 5 more years
2013-08-23 05:00:26| Agriculture - Topix.net
A wooden fish house built on northeastern Minnesota's Beaver Bay more than a century ago apparently will remain standing for at least five more years, thanks to a new deal.
GO FISH
2013-08-22 18:00:59| PortlandOnline
Letters: Nancy Hedrick in The Portland Mercury, August 22, 2013
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