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The microbeads in your body wash are slowly filling the Great Lakes with plastic
2013-06-26 17:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Sigh. You think the world would have caught on by now that plastic is one of the most incidentally destructive inventions the human race has ever come up with. Sure, L.A. just banned plastic bags, which is great. But meanwhile those tiny microbeads - the little bits of plastics in body wash that cosmetics companies invented for no real reason except to have a new thing to sell their customers - are slowly accumulating in the Great Lakes, where fish eat them. Scientific American reports: They...
St Johns | 5-31-13 | Multiple Properties @ Smith & Bybee Lakes | Comprehensive Natrual Resource Plan | LU 12-167334 CN
2013-06-20 00:38:17| PortlandOnline
PDF Document, 5,598kbCategory: North Portland Neighborhood Services Decisions
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Warming bad for life in freshwater lakes and rivers
2013-06-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Austria's alpine lakes are warming, and that's bad news for the region's fish and economy, according to new research in the journal Hydrobiologia. The Alpine valleys are warming: From 1980 to 1999 the region warmed three times the global average. Martin Dokulil of the Institute for Limnology at the University of Innsbruck studied data from nine lakes larger than 10 square kilometers, or about 2,500 acres. The largest, Bodensee or Lake Constance, touches Austria's border with Germany and Switzerland;...
Great Lakes Water Levels Rising Due to Rainfall
2013-06-12 10:14:04| Chemicals - Topix.net
"We've had some pretty good rainfall over all the Great Lakes over the last couple of weeks," said George Cotroneo, chief of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo division.
Water levels fall in Great Lakes, taking a toll on shipping
2013-06-11 15:36:17| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Aboard the Dorothy Ann, in Lake Erie near Fairport Harbor, Ohio As Capt. Jeremy R. Mock steered this 711-foot combination of tug and barge toward a harbor berth, a screen of red numbers indicated the decreasing depth of water under the vessel: 6 feet, 3.6 feet, 2 feet. Suddenly the numbers gave way to a line of red dashes: . It was a signal that there was not enough water to measure. Drought and other factors have created historically low water marks for the Great Lakes, putting the...
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