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Installation Art Series' new season blooms
2014-03-24 20:45:33| PortlandOnline
The Portland Buildings new art installation begins today!
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New ethanol industry blooms in Iowa, but it could soon be uprooted
2014-02-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Des Moines Register: The line of headlights begins close to 6 a.m. as trucks and other vehicles file into the $250 million construction project south of this northwest Iowa town of 3,900. Some of the 300 construction workers come from Iowa. But most with license plates from Nebraska, Texas and Minnesota fill about every apartment, hotel and trailer in a 30-mile radius. The workers pack the local Caseys for breakfast pizza, line up at Fareways meat counter and drop by Don Joses for dinner. Im pretty sure...
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Algal blooms grow with global warming
2014-02-09 19:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Columbus Dispatch: The Monday Dispatch article Toxic algae in Hoover cost city $723,000 revealed the harrowing cost of combating the effects of harmful algal blooms in Columbus. Blue-green algae are toxic and have appeared for the first time in our city, negatively affecting the taste and smell of residents water. I recently moved into a new apartment near the Ohio State campus, and the first time I tried my tap water, I was shocked by the unpleasant plantlike taste. My household was one of 1,700 to contact the...
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Toxic Algal Blooms Connected to Climate Change and Industrial Agriculture
2013-10-25 14:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Nutrient enrichment and climate change are posing yet another concern of growing importance--an apparent increase in the toxicity of some algal blooms in freshwater lakes and estuaries around the world, which threatens aquatic organisms, ecosystem health and human drinking water safety. As this nutrient enrichment, or eutrophication increases, so will the proportion of toxin-producing strains of cyanobacteria in harmful algal blooms, scientists said. Toxic microcystin bacteria float, along...
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Climate and algal blooms
2013-10-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: It only takes a slight temperature uptick to make our oceans more hospitable to algae. Along with excess fertilizer run-off, that's leading to increasingly toxic algal blooms that can sicken people who eat the affected shellfish. Ashley Ahearn from the public radio collaborative EarthFix reports. Transcript CURWOOD: It's Living on Earth, I'm Steve Curwood. As the planet's oceans warm, coastal regions are seeing more and more blooms of algae, often exacerbated by fertilizer and manure that runs...
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