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[Biology Breach]: from Chicago Tribune, Mon Feb 8 2010:
Chicago schools pile up lunch waste
...Every day, kids in the Chicago Public Schools district throw out nearly a quarter of a million lunch and breakfast trays made of polystyrene foam. That's more than 1 million a week, about 5 million a month.
And those trays are just the start of a river of trash from school meals that ends up in landfills, including nacho-stained containers, half-empty milk cartons, plastic cookie wrappers and plastic tubs that will sit in thick polyethylene bags for centuries without biodegrading.
The Prosser students, led by biology teacher Marnie Ware, found their Belmont-Cragin-area school created 1,500 pounds of cafeteria garbage a day over five periods, including breakfast.
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Whatever happened to edible dishes.
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[Biology Breach]: from Der Spiegel, Mon Feb 8 2010:
Global Ocean Protection Measures Have Failed
Thousands of tons of trash are thrown into the sea each year, endangering humans and wildlife. A classified German government report obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE indicates that efforts by the United Nations and the European Union to clean up our oceans have failed entirely.
Since the world's oceans are so massive, few people seem to have a problem with dumping waste into them. But plastics degrade at very a slow rate, and huge amounts of them are sloshing around in our oceans. Wildlife consumes small pieces causing many of them to die, since the plastics are full of poisons. And, as experts warn, we've reached a point where it's even getting dangerous for humans to consume seafood... Our oceans have devolved into vast garbage dumps.
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[Climate Chaos]: from Asahi Shimbun, Mon Feb 8 2010:
Seaweed beds, the 'cradle of the sea,' vanishing
... Seaweed beds are called the "cradle of the sea" because they provide fish with oxygen, as well as places to hide and lay eggs.
The symbol of marine biodiversity, ...
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[Climate Chaos]: from Reuters, Mon Feb 8 2010:
Blue jeans: 15000 litres/ pair
The main impact of climate change will be on water supplies and the world needs to learn from past co-operation such as over the Indus or Mekong Rivers to help avert future ...
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[Biology Breach]: from Associated Press, Mon Feb 8 2010:
Even if you're careful, drugs can end up in water
The federal government advises throwing most unused or expired medications into the trash instead of down the drain, but they can end up in the water anyway, a study from ...
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[Climate Chaos]: from Chicago Tribune, Sun Feb 7 2010:
Asian carp discussion moves to Washington
A critical week in the battle against Asian carp kicks off Monday when Gov. Pat Quinn plans to meet with governors from Michigan and Wisconsin at the White House to hash out ...
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[Biology Breach]: from NUVO Newsweekly, Sun Feb 7 2010:
The Ohio Valley's toxic kids
Robert Owen would rise up from his grave in righteous indignation if he knew what has happened to the kids in his adopted Indiana home of New Harmony. The 19th-century visionary ...
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[Recovery]: from New Scientist, Sat Feb 6 2010:
Chikungunya foiled by copycat 'virus'
A VACCINE that masquerades as chikungunya virus might finally defeat the mosquito-borne disease.
In 2006 a single mutation in the virus allowed it to burst out of Africa ...
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[Climate Chaos]: from Sydney Morning Herald, Sat Feb 6 2010:
Arctic ice melt worst than 'most pessimistic' models: study
Climate change is transforming the Arctic environment faster than expected and accelerating the disappearance of sea ice, scientists said on Friday in giving their early findings ...
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[Climate Chaos]: from BBC, Sat Feb 6 2010:
Climate scepticism 'on the rise', BBC poll shows
The Populus poll of 1,001 adults found 25 percent did not think global warming was happening, a rise of 8 percent since a similar poll was conducted in November.
The percentage ...
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[Climate Chaos]: from Canwest News Service, Sat Feb 6 2010:
Arctic melting to cost $2.4 trillion U.S. by 2050: Study
IQALUIT — The global cost of Arctic melting could reach $2.4 trillion U.S. by 2050 if current warming trends continue, according to a study released Friday.
"The ...
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[Plague/Virus]: from London Daily Telegraph, Sat Feb 6 2010:
China threatens world health by unleashing waves of superbugs
China's reckless use of antibiotics in the health system and agricultural production is unleashing an explosion of drug resistant superbugs that endanger global health, according ...
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[Plague/Virus]: from New York Times, Fri Feb 5 2010:
U.S.D.A. Plans to Drop Program to Trace Livestock
Faced with stiff resistance from ranchers and farmers, the Obama administration has decided to scrap a national program intended to help authorities quickly identify and track ...
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[Biology Breach]: from Associated Press, Fri Feb 5 2010:
Few remain as 1962 Pa. coal town fire still burns
...After years of delay, state officials are now trying to complete the demolition of Centralia, a borough in the mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania that all but ceased ...
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[Biology Breach]: from Science News, Fri Feb 5 2010:
EPA reviews hints of weed killer's fetal risks
Last October, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it was reopening what the pesticide industry had hoped was a closed chapter on allegations of a popular herbicide’s ...
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[Species Collapse]: from BBC, Thu Feb 4 2010:
Climate change causes wolverine decline across Canada
The wolverine, a predator renowned for its strength and tenacious character, may be slowly melting away along with the snowpack upon which it lives.
Research shows wolverine ...
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[Biology Breach]: from Telegraph.co.uk, Thu Feb 4 2010:
Most of Britain's ponds in a 'terrible state'
The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology measured animal life and water quality in half a million ponds across the country, from tarns in the Lake District to garden pools.
Mostly ...
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[Resource Depletion]: from China Daily, Thu Feb 4 2010:
Yunnan, Guangxi reel from severe drought
The worst drought in 50 years is leaving millions of people and animals without drinking water in Yunnan province and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
Zhu Zhenghong, ...
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[Climate Chaos]: from Los Angeles Times, Thu Feb 4 2010:
Obama urges greater use of biofuels
The Obama administration gave a boost to the corn and coal industries Wednesday, announcing a series of moves to accelerate biofuel use and deploy so-called clean-coal technology ...
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