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Table of Base Zones and Overlay Zones

2014-12-01 19:47:27| PortlandOnline

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Preliminary Zoning Concepts for Mixed Use Zones Released

2014-11-14 00:57:16| PortlandOnline

Draft concepts shared at two community workshops; document available online for review

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Dead zones are coming for your rivers, lakes, and oceans

2014-11-10 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Halloween may have come and gone, but climate change continues to give us the creeps. A new study revealed that warmer temperatures are causing zombie-like "dead zones" in rivers, lakes, and oceans worldwide. According to the study, published Monday in the journal Global Change Biology, researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center found two dozen ways that climate change is worsening dead zones. If you`re catching up: Climate...

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Study: Global warming worsening watery dead zones

2014-11-10 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: Global warming is likely playing a bigger role than previously thought in dead zones in oceans, lakes and rivers around the world and it's only going to get worse, according to a new study. Dead zones occur when fertilizer runoff clogs waterways with nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorous. That leads to an explosion of microbes that consumes oxygen and leaves the water depleted of oxygen, harming marine life. Scientists have long known that warmer water increases this problem, but a new...

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