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Wildlife casualties of floods grow amid fears over 'polluted' wetlands
2014-02-23 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Seals, moles, hedgehogs, badgers, mice, earthworms and a host of insects and seabirds are among the unseen casualties of the floods, storms and torrential rains of the last few weeks, say wildlife groups. As the waters started to subside across England, conservationists reported that about 600 guillemots, puffins, razorbills, kittiwakes and gulls have been washed up on the south coast and 250 seals drowned in Norfolk, Cornwall and the Channel Islands. A further 11,000 seabirds are reported to...
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Court orders logging company to clean up pollution disaster in Chile wetlands
2014-01-17 14:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Chile is probably best known for its volcanoes, earthquakes and the formidable peaks of the Andes, but as a country that spans 4,300 km (2,670 miles) from top to bottom, it also boasts a huge variety of bird life. And, until recently, it was home to what was thought to be the largest population of black-necked swans (Cygnus melancoryphus) in South America. Not long ago, these swans, as well as 100 other species of rare or vulnerable bird species, could be seen nesting in the Carlos Anwandter Nature...
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China's water squeeze worsens as wetlands shrink 9 pct
2014-01-12 22:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China's wetlands have shrunk nearly 9 percent since 2003, forestry officials said on Monday, aggravating water scarcity in a country where food production, energy output and industrial activity are already under pressure from water shortages. China has more than a fifth of the world's population but only 6 percent of its freshwater resources, and large swathes of the nation, especially in the north, face severe water distress. Since 2003, wetlands sprawling across 340,000 sq. km. - an area...
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Alcoa Commercializes 'Engineered Wetlands' Wastewater Treatment Technology
2013-12-27 04:08:06| plantautomation News Articles
Alcoa has entered into an agreement with Germany-based engineering and construction company, Bauer Resources GmbH, to commercialize Alcoa’s Natural Engineered Wastewater Treatment technology that mimics natural wetlands to sustainably treat wastewaters
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County banking on wetlands
2013-12-19 02:24:16| Waste Management - Topix.net
Crews have started work on a county wetlands project 10 years in the making. St. Clair County bought about 27 acres more than 10 years ago at Puttygut and McKinley roads in China Township to develop a wetland mitigation bank.
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