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Dominion chose cheapest plan: Dump toxic waste into Prince William waters
2015-12-06 15:32:13| Waste Management - Topix.net
Remarkably, Dominion's application sets no limits on the amount of toxic and life fatal material that it could discharge in to the Creek. discharges in to the Creek, the Potomac Riverkeepers, a non-profit organization that advocates for a clean Potomac has been monitoring Dominions discharges and have found startling levels of toxic materials being discharged in to the Creek and the Potomac River.
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Rising waters prompt Chinas sea change on climate
2015-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: At Pleasant Banyan Bay in China's southern Guangdong province, couples flock by the dozens for elaborately staged wedding photos on the white sand. Large signs on a nearby hotel shout, "Forever." But the love on display here might outlast the sand. A rising sea has narrowed the main beach by 10 metres and scoured around trees, exposing their roots. Smaller beaches on the fringes of the bay have already vanished. "I know the glaciers and the poles are melting and that's why the water is rising,"...
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Chesapeake waters are warming, study finds, posing challenges to healing bay
2015-11-24 22:25:24| Paper - Topix.net
The Chesapeake Bay's waters are warming, in some places more rapidly than the region's air temperatures, researchers from the University of Maryland say. If unchecked, scientists say, the trend could complicate costly, long-running efforts to restore the ailing estuary, worsen fish-suffocating dead zones and alter the food web on which the bay's fish and crabs depend.
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Global Warming Is Draining the Waters of Life
2015-11-14 18:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Up to two billion people who depend on winter snow to deliver their summer water could see shortages by 2060 as upland and mountain snowpacks continue to dwindle. An estimated 300 million people could find, 45 years on, that they simply wont have enough water for all their needs, according to new research. Climate change driven by rising atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide-in turn, fed by human combustion of fossil fuels-may already be affecting global precipitation. Researchers have consistently...
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El Nino sends rare tropical visitors to California waters
2015-11-13 12:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: El Nino's warm currents have brought fish in an unexpected spectrum of shapes and colors from Mexican waters to the ocean off California's coast, thrilling scientists with the sight of bright tropical species and giving anglers the chance of a once-in-a-lifetime big catch. Creatures that have made a splash by venturing north in the past several weeks range from a whale shark, a gentle plankton-eating giant that ranks as the world's largest fish and was seen off Southern California, to two palm-sized...
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