rising waters impact on florida
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creation myths
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/magazine/all-is-fair-in-love-and-twitter.html?ref=magazine&_r=1&
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Sunday, September 29, 2013
Golden Eagle Attacks Deer, A Photo Of An Epic Confrontation : The Two-Way : NPR
Golden Eagle Attacks Deer, A Photo Of An Epic Confrontation : The Two-Way : NPR
For decades, circumstantial evidence has shown that golden eagles do indeed attack large mammals like deer and even bear cubs.
But in a paper published Monday in the Journal of Raptor Research, Linda Kerley of the Zoological Society of London and Jonathan Slaght of the Wildlife Conservation Society unveiled stunning images of an adult golden eagle attacking and killing a young sika deer, weighing 88 to 100 pounds.
The images were captured by a camera trap the researchers set up to study Siberian tigers in the Russian Far East.
Instead, the cameras captured what the authors of the paper say may be the first "documentation" of such an attack.
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Residents warned to avoid shoreline areas of Cazenovia Lake due to harmful algae | syracuse.com
Residents warned to avoid shoreline areas of Cazenovia Lake due to harmful algae | syracuse.com
Swimmers and their pets are being advised to avoid shoreline areas of Cazenovia Lake where blue-green algae blooms are visible.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has confirmed the presence of blue-green algae blooms in the lake, according to its website.
Not all shoreline areas area affected; there are patches here and there and they can move from day to day, said Cazenovia Town Councilor Liz Moran, who runs Ecological LLC, a water quality consulting firm. People and their pets should avoid areas of discolored water or surface scum.
The DEC says these blooms can be harmful to people and animals when they come into contact with them. They can cause symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and skin or throat irritation.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
As other cities remove elevated highways, our 'better idea' is to keep one in place? Your letters | syracuse.com
As other cities remove elevated highways, our 'better idea' is to keep one in place? Your letters | syracuse.com
This letter is in response to a letter written by representatives of the Save81 group. Most, if not all, decisions involving public funds require a balancing of interests. The goal is to achieve something that comes closest to the "common good". The state of New York is about to make a decision that will affect not only today's citizens but the citizens of future generations. The group advocating to maintain the 81 overpass has a view based on their particular needs. Whether it's "right" or "wrong" isn't the question. The question is whether their proposition will best serve the needs of the larger community. The State is going to spend $32,000,000 on studies that will hopefully provide the facts needed to make a sound decision. In my way of thinking the Save81 group could use some of those facts before making the assertions put forth in their letter. Allow me to question a few of their points made to illustrate my point.
"Traffic lights and intersections would increase travel time for first responders..." Really? How would a boulevard be any different than the street level highways that exist today? Currently, ambulances traveling on Rt. 81 get off at Adams or Harrison and travel the remainder of the distance at street level. That would change little with a boulevard option.
Monday, August 12, 2013
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Canadian Heavy OIl issues
Amid Pipeline Debate, Two Costly Cleanups Forever Change Towns
As the Obama administration considers approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, cleanup efforts in Michigan and Arkansas portend the potential hazards of transporting heavy Canadian crude.
See NY Times Story on oil spills.
Friday, July 12, 2013
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Biologists worried by starving migratory birds, seen as tied to climate change
At the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge,
the tiny bodies of Arctic tern chicks have piled up. Over the past few
years, biologists have counted thousands that starved to death because
the herring their parents feed them have vanished.
Puffins are also having trouble feeding their chicks, which weigh less than previous broods. When the parents leave the chicks to fend for themselves, the young birds are failing to find food, and hundreds are washing up dead on the Atlantic coast. Read more at Washington Post
Puffins are also having trouble feeding their chicks, which weigh less than previous broods. When the parents leave the chicks to fend for themselves, the young birds are failing to find food, and hundreds are washing up dead on the Atlantic coast. Read more at Washington Post
Saturday, June 15, 2013
A story from syracuse.com:
Onondaga County trash management agency readies for possible sale of incinerator in 201go to story5
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Massive Bat Cave Stirs Texas-Size Debate Over Development : NPR
Massive Bat Cave Stirs Texas-Size Debate Over Development : NPR
The Bracken Bat Cave, just north of San Antonio, is as rural as it gets. You have to drive down a long, 2-mile rocky road to reach it. There's nothing nearby — no lights, no running water. The only thing you hear are the katydids.
The cave houses a massive bat colony, as it has for an estimated 10,000 years. Bat Conservation International, the group that oversees the Bracken Cave Reserve, wants it to stay secluded, but the area's rural nature could change if a local developer's plan moves forward.
Andy Walker, BCI's director, doesn't understand why there's any discussion about building a nearly 4,000-home subdivision right next door. The proposal, he says, "really instills an even deeper sense of stewardship for this land and these bats."
Search the Bay Journal site: Sick smallmouth bass spur effort to seek impaired status for Susquehanna
See attached for an article in the June issue of the Chesapeake Bay Journal on sick and dying smallmouth bass in Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River, and the failure of State or EPA scientists to identify the causes, dating back for eight years or longer, or even to provide the river with an "impaired" deesignation that would make its cleanup a priority.
While the problem is evident mainly in the State of Pennsylvania, the same skin lesions and depleted SM bass populations could very well extend their effects to fish in New York's headwaters sections of the Susquehanna River. As the article mentions, the Susquehanna River has long been at the heart of Pennsylvania's smallmouth bass fishing, and that same SM bass fishery has had a reputation as being one of the finest in the nation.
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While the problem is evident mainly in the State of Pennsylvania, the same skin lesions and depleted SM bass populations could very well extend their effects to fish in New York's headwaters sections of the Susquehanna River. As the article mentions, the Susquehanna River has long been at the heart of Pennsylvania's smallmouth bass fishing, and that same SM bass fishery has had a reputation as being one of the finest in the nation.
Read more on this story
Thursday, June 6, 2013
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
greeks yogurt side effect
http://modernfarmer.com/2013/05/whey-too-much-greek-yogurts-dark-side/greek-yogurts-dark-side/
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
At The Warehouse, alternatives to I-81: Getting into the 'yes business' | syracuse.com
Except from article by Sean Kirst
I called Baldassarre a few years ago. I wanted to get his reaction after more than 20 bald eagles showed up to winter on the shoreline of Onondaga Lake in Syracuse. The startling arrival of so many eagles gave this community a population of the great birds exceeded by only a handful of large cities in the nation. To Baldassarre, it was as if an extraordinary gift had been awarded to Central New York; Americans who'd never seen a bald eagle, he said, would almost certainly be willing to drive a long distance to see one here.
Yet when civic officials were asked about building a viewing platform, a way of giving everyday people a chance to watch the eagles, they responded with a string of reasons for why they couldn't do it. Baldassarre, exasperated, said it was all too typical. Communities across the land were desperately seeking ways to attract visitors, and here was a magnificent, even miraculous, opportunity in Syracuse - and we couldn't muster the civic will to find the right spot for a big wooden platform.
Baldassarre told me it was part of a syndrome he'd noticed here, a syndrome he described this way:
Too often, in Syracuse, we're in the "no business," he said. Too often, when it comes to being innovative, we come up with reasons for why we can't get something done, and we choose instead to do the safe, predictable thing - or to do nothing different at all.
At The Warehouse, alternatives to I-81: Getting into the 'yes business' | syracuse.com
Thursday, May 16, 2013
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Why is my quarterly water bill higher in Camillus? The Real Deal
Why is my quarterly water bill higher in Camillus? The Real Deal
From 9wsyr.com. Something to think about? How are there towns handling it? It is problem of one centralize Water Authority, like Niagara Mohawk, err I mean National Grid, err promised all these jobs...oh yet Solvay Electric is cheaper than them.
From 9wsyr.com. Something to think about? How are there towns handling it? It is problem of one centralize Water Authority, like Niagara Mohawk, err I mean National Grid, err promised all these jobs...oh yet Solvay Electric is cheaper than them.
Monday, April 22, 2013
Water Resources - Not Just Water Quality – Gains Attention of Opponents to Hydraulic Fracturing | Marten Law
Water Resources - Not Just Water Quality – Gains Attention of Opponents to Hydraulic Fracturing | Marten Law
This article was originally published in The Water Report, the monthly newsletter for water lawyers, and anyone interested in water law, water rights, and water quality in the western United States. Special thanks to David Light for permission to republish.
Introduction
Hydraulic fracturing (commonly called “fracking”) is perhaps the single most controversial environmental issue of the day. The process involves breaking open otherwise impermeable oil and gas bearing geologic formations using a pressurized mixture of water, “proppant” (generally sand or ceramic beads), and chemicals. The mixture is injected down a wellbore, the proppant becomes lodged in the fractures, holding them open, and after a period of flowback recovery, gas and oil can be recovered. Recent technical breakthroughs in horizontal drilling, combined with improvements in traditional hydraulic fracturing techniques, have opened up vast areas of previously “unconventional” deep shale formations to economic development, resulting in a massive boom in oil and gas production across the country — and prompting major controversy.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
A Real Carbon Solution - NYTimes.com
A Real Carbon Solution - NYTimes.com
Sometime this summer, in Odessa, Tex., the Summit Power Groupplans to break ground on a $2.5 billion coal gasification power plant. Summit has named this the Texas Clean Energy Project. With good reason.
Sometime this summer, in Odessa, Tex., the Summit Power Groupplans to break ground on a $2.5 billion coal gasification power plant. Summit has named this the Texas Clean Energy Project. With good reason.
Part of the promise of this power plant is its use of gasified coal; because the gasification process doesn’t burn the coal, it makes for far cleaner energy than a traditional coal-fired plant.
But another reason this plant — and a handful of similar plants — has such enormous potential is that it will capture some 90 percent of the facility’s already reduced carbon emissions. Some of those carbon emissions will be used to make fertilizer. The rest will be sold to the oil industry, which will push it into the ground, as part of a process called enhanced oil recovery.
The Dying of the Monarch Butterflies - NYTimes.com
The Dying of the Monarch Butterflies - NYTimes.com
Today the winter monarch colonies, which are found west of Mexico City, in an area of about 60 miles by 60 miles, are a pitiful remnant of their former splendor. The aggregate area covered by the colonies dwindled from an average of 22 acres between 1994 and 2003 to 12 acres between 2003 and 2012. This year’s area, which was reported on Wednesday, hit a record low of 2.9 acres.
Reasons for the decline are multiple, including: out-of-control ecotourism, extreme weather and diversion of water. Two threats loom above all others: the destruction of breeding habitat in the United States because of the widespread use of powerful herbicides and genetically engineered crops, and illegal logging in Mexico’s high-elevation Oyamel fir forests.
Friday, February 22, 2013
Medicine and sports mix may make Skaneateles doctor's "Victory Campus" unique | syracuse.com
Medicine and sports mix may make Skaneateles doctor's "Victory Campus" unique | syracuse.com
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The sheer size of the proposed Victory Sports Medicine complex has drawn the ire of Skaneateles preservationists and residents who live in neighborhoods bordering the Route 20 site.
Orthopedic surgeon Marc Pietropaoli’s latest plans for “Victory Campus” have prompted town officials to demand more information. They want to know more about the traffic the facility would draw, its expected water usage and the impact of its lights on nearby neighborhoods. - Read More
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The sheer size of the proposed Victory Sports Medicine complex has drawn the ire of Skaneateles preservationists and residents who live in neighborhoods bordering the Route 20 site.
Orthopedic surgeon Marc Pietropaoli’s latest plans for “Victory Campus” have prompted town officials to demand more information. They want to know more about the traffic the facility would draw, its expected water usage and the impact of its lights on nearby neighborhoods. - Read More
Thursday, January 31, 2013
That Cuddly Kitty Is Deadlier Than You Think - NYTimes.com
That Cuddly Kitty Is Deadlier Than You Think - NYTimes.com
That Cuddly Kitty Is Deadlier Than You Think
Domestic cats in the United States kill billions of birds and mammals a year, according to a new report, a rate that is much higher than previous estimates.
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