Tag: Biodiversity
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Vicious Cycle Links Loss of Pollinators to Diminishing Grasslands
The report lays the blame for this decline at the feet of intensifying agricultural activities on easy to cultivate land and the abandonment of cultivated grasslands, used for livestock grazing and growing hay …
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Proposed Budget Cuts Target the Great Lakes
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies introduced legislation today to cut funding for the Fiscal Year 2014 Interior and Environment Appropriations budget by 18 percent …
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U.S. Cities Are Getting Water Smart
In the U.S., our infrastructure isn’t designed to handle the increased floods and droughts that come with global warming. Many cities are already getting a jump start on smart water solutions …
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New Pipeline Threatens Wetlands in Gulf Coast Communities
In a region still scarred by the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Plains Southcap LLC is building a pipeline meant to carry conventional crude oil from Alabama to Mississippi, threatening waterways in both states.
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Treatment Plants Accused of Illegally Disposing Radioactive Fracking Wastewater
A Pennsylvania industrial wastewater treatment plant has been illegally accepting oil and gas wastewater and polluting the Allegheny river with radioactive waste and other pollutants …