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Refinery wants to change wetlands protection
2013-07-22 04:07:32| Chemicals - Topix.net
The Axiall Corp. refinery has been using wells to pump chlorinated hydrocarbons away from the bayou.
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High carbon dioxide spurs wetlands to absorb more carbon
2013-07-16 03:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Under elevated carbon dioxide levels, wetland plants can absorb up to 32 percent more carbon than they do at current levels, according to a 19-year study published in Global Change Biology from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md. With atmospheric CO2 passing the 400 parts-per-million milestone this year, the findings offer hope that wetlands could help soften the blow of climate change. Plant physiologist Bert Drake created the Smithsonian's Global Change Ecological...
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Oil pipeline pushing through Jackson Co wetlands
2013-07-15 04:43:43| Energy - Topix.net
The Sun Herald reports that Plains Southcap LLC of Mobile, Ala., is getting its 2-foot-wide pipeline for crude oil into the ground rapidly.
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Crude-oil pipeline pushing through Jackson County wetlands
2013-07-14 14:30:49| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Forty-one miles is a long way when it's heavy machinery digging ditches deep and wide through the coastal terrain.
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Spain's wetlands wildlife at risk from illegal boreholes for strawberry crop
2013-06-28 18:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Spain must act urgently to stop illegal water extraction from a protected national park or risk the wildlife-rich wetlands being placed on a list of world heritage sites in danger, a UN agency has warned. Doana national park in Andalusia is threatened by huge demand for water, fuelled by a strawberry industry which supplies British supermarkets. Some producers in the area are accused of using illegal boreholes to draw water from underground aquifers, which the fragile ecosystem is dependent...
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