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

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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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Can a Floating Robot Save a Polluted Canal? - Home & Garden - AccuWeather.com

Can a Floating Robot Save a Polluted Canal? - Home & Garden - AccuWeather.com

10 Most Endangered US Rivers: 2013 | Conservation | LiveScience

10 Most Endangered US Rivers: 2013 | Conservation | LiveScience