Invasive species

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• Whiskers reveal secret life of invasive minks

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 723
  Washington, December 24 (ANI): A new analysis of the whiskers of minks, which escaped from fur farms and now live wild in the UK, is revealing the secret lifestyle of the animals.Scientists at the University of Exeter in the UK carried out the analysis, which focused on American mink living in the Outer Hebrides, ...
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• Scientists Target the "Oyster Thief" Invasive Species

  
  NPR Topics: Opinion — Authority: 789
  Scientists at the University of New Hampshire are performing genetic research on an invasive seaweed species known as the "oyster thief".
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• Wireds Future Animals

  
  StrangeArk — Authority: 127
  Wired has a humorous take on future wildlife in the Everglades. (via Natan Slifkin, at ZooTorah.)
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• Cox asks Supreme Court to stop Asian carp

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 620
  Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene and order the closing of the locks between the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal from Lake Michigan in order to prevent the Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes, where experts predict they would do incalculable damage to the ...
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• Taking Carp To Court

  
  Thinking Outside — Authority: 132
  I suppose we should have seen this one coming. The fight to prevent asian carp from entering the Great Lakes has just found a new battleground , the Supreme Court. The State of Michigan filed a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court today to close canals near Chicago to prevent invasive Asian carp from gaining access ...
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• Suit on Invasive Carp and Great Lakes

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  Poison was dumped in an Illinois canal this month to keep Asian carp away from Lake Michigan.
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• Croak-mas Trees Full Of Frogs

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 516
  People in Anchorage, Alaska are advised to be on the look out for invaders.  No, not alien invaders ; invading frogs.  It appears that some Christmas trees being sold in the city have had secret passengers , namely Pacific Chorus frogs (also called Pacific tree frogs).  While these frogs are native to ...
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• Science and Soul: Nopenhagen

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 103
  Science News in Brief The discovery of a 4.4 million year old fossil skeleton that may have belonged to an early human ancestor was discovered in October.  Now, this discovery is hailed by the journal Science , as the greatest scientific breakthrough of the year. Poll: View This Poll trends The ...
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• Burning Bush, Winged Eunoymus

  
  The Ohio Nature Blog — Authority: 120
  Sometime in mid November Megan, Weston,and I traveled to my parents home , located about 120 miles Northeast of where we live in Columbus. The acidic clay soils of eastern Summit County are heaven for red maple and black cherry. Thats mostly what you see in this photograph. Each time I visit their house, and take ...
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• Invaders of Tristan Da Cunha

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 515
  People tend to think of invasive species as living things that leap from continent to continent, somehow reaching over the vast expanses of ocean. The island of Tristan Da Cunha , however, is dealing with another sort of invasive species problem. Tristan Da Cunha is part of one of the most isolated island groups ...
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• Eat Our Way Out of an Invasive Species Invasion?

  
  Terrierman's Daily Dose — Authority: 436
  Over at The Guardian , they suggest that Britain might be able to eat its way out of its invasive species invasion . Right. Has that ever worked? Rats and Rabbits are not native to the U.K. , but no one is even trying to eat the former, while the latter have been shot, snared, netted, feretted and ...
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• Rare native forest bird holding its own; maybe recovering

  
  Raising Islands--Hawai'i science and environment — Authority: 112
  The Maui Parrotbill, a critically endangered insect-eating forest bird, appears to be holding its own within The Nature Conservancys actively managed Waikamoi Preserve in the forested uplands of East Maui. (Image: Maui parrotbill. Source: The Nature Conservancy.) Scientists are quick to caution that the information ...
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• Michigan legislators get more funds for Asian carp fight

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 620
  The bipartisan Michigan congressional delegation in Washington D.C. has successfully pushed the Army Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies to divert an additional $13 million to help fight the Asian carp. Sen. Carl Levin has been circulating a letter in the Senate while Rep. Bart Stupak and other Michigan ...
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• Incoming! The World’s 10 Worst Invasive Species

  
  Life within me — Authority: 138
  See more under Geography & Travel or in the Animals & Habitats category The introduction of non-native species of plants and animals to a new ecosystem almost always results in environmental stress, degradation and sometimes even disaster. These 10 invasive species are infamous for the destruction ...
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• Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, December 15

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 503
  Check out the Top 5 green news stories we’re seeing on the web this morning: The site of a former brothel in Nevada could become  a free-roaming river and sanctuary for wildlife, with restoration help from The Nature Conservancy (NYTimes). Besides the big climate summit, Copenhagen is a city known for its ...
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• Flying Feast

  
  Davenport Library Info Cafe — Authority: 125
  If you spend a little time in the regional news , you might know the spread of the Asian Carp has reached epidemic levels.  It has the discriminating diet of a billygoat and the reproductive powers of a bunny rabbit.    It is a hearty old beast, reaching up to 40 pounds apiece by eating nearly half their weight ...
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• Carp Geld

  
  Thinking Outside — Authority: 132
  No getting around it, fighting off an invasion costs money. llinois is receiving $13 million in federal funding for its ongoing fight to keep the invasive carp out of the Great Lakes, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said today. The money is part of the $475 million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, ...
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• National Briefing | Midwest: Michigan: Money to Fight Invasive Carp

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  Federal officials said they would use $13 million in Great Lakes restoration money to step up the fight against invasive Asian carp.
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• Final step on Asian carp protection difficult to achieve

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 620
  As it has become clear that the electrical barrier constructed to prevent Asian carp from moving any closer to the Great Lakes has not worked, there are increasing calls for the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, which links the Mississippi River to Lake Michigan, to be closed down. But as the Detroit Free Press ...
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• Emergency steps sought to halt Asian carp

  
  Apostle Islands Navigator — Authority: 154
  TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) Members of Congress are pushing for emergency action to prevent voracious Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes and damaging their $7 billion fishery.Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York urged the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday to close shipping locks on a waterway ...
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