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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: 534
  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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• 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: 903
  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: 602
  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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• Be Careful What You Fish For

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 903
  Invasive Asian carp are threatening to upend the entire ecosystem of the Great Lakes. Their route of attack: the canals we built.
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• Last Plant Standing

  
  Journal Watch Online — Authority: 462
  Coastal vegetation may not offer much protection against tsunamis
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• Elsenheimer calls Asian carp ‘largest threat to the Great Lakes’

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 602
  LANSING — In testimony before the House Great Lakes and Environment Committee, Republican House Minority Leader Kevin Elsenheimer told fellow lawmakers that Asian carp are a threat to the great lakes. “We also have to recognize that the Asian Carp issue is perhaps the largest threat to the great lakes, and ...
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• The Return of the Giant Hogweed: An Object Lesson

  
  Canaries in a Coal Mine — Authority: 99
  Here is a video I used in my environmental sociology class to illustrate the problems of globalization to the biophysical environment.
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• UFG Sighting

  
  Fly Fishing In Yellowstone National Park — Authority: 122
  FROM THE ROAD [IMG: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RsCdaHlwY9g/Sx_KFuJSXwI/AAAAAAAAIeY/6mazmF3CUCk/s400/FishGal.jpg]
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• So far, so good for finding Asian carp

  
  Science and Environment — Authority: 129
  (AP) After a week, wildlife officials say their search for the Asian carp south of Chicago has come up empty. Federal, state and local agencies said yesterday that they caught more than 800 fish in nets during a search of a 5.5-mile stretch of the Cal-Sag Channel. None were Asian carp. The channel is network ...
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• Northern Snakehead (Channa argus)

  
  Fish Index — Authority: 121
  The Northern Snakehead or Channa argus is a species of Snakehead that is just like something out of a science fiction novel. This fish has even had a couple movies made about it including, Snakehead Terror and Frankenfish! After you take one look at the Northern Snakehead you might think, sure its got razor sharp ...
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• The Book Lounge’s Books of the Year 2009

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 506
  Alert! The Book Lounge has released its list of 2009’s must-have reads - a terrific, considered collection of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and cookbooks that features many works of SA Lit (all shown above). Congratulations to BOOK SA members André Brink , Petina Gappah , Margie Orford , Sarah Lotz , ...
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• Justification for Congressional python ban unscientific, researchers say

  
  NatGeo News Watch — Authority: 558
  Biologists and veterinarians are urging the U.S. Congress to hold off on a ban on trade in pythons and other large exotic snakes until research into how much of a threat they pose to U.S. ecosystems has been thoroughly reviewed by independent scientists. In a letter to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary ...
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• 48 invasive species in Lake Champlain alone?

  
  Granite Geek — Authority: 429
  Invasive threats in, near Lake Champlain The above map was taken from this blog post from the Lake Champlain Basin Program, which sources it to U. Vermont and Sea Grant researchers. The caption says it all: There are 48 invasive species identified in lake Champlain, and at least another 136 - 136 of them!!! -  ...
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• Cox to file suit to stop Asian carp

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 602
  Attorney General Mike Cox is planning to file a federal lawsuit to have the locks dividing the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal from Lake Michigan closed to prevent Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes. The Detroit Free Press reports : “Our attorneys are working on it as we speak” and will continue through ...
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• Science & Soul: Cellular Automata

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 99
  Science News in Brief Turns out that the Iron Curtain helped isolate Eastern Europe from more than the Western world.  It also blocked the import of alien bird species.  Restrictions on the movement of people and trade in Soviet bloc countries prevented invasive birds being imported, a problem which has plagued ...
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• Groups target Nevada predators

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 505
  Mountain lions, coyotes, badgers, skunks and ravens will all be targeted in an effort to improve deer and sage grouse survival using $866,000 from the Nevada Department of Wildlife’s Heritage fund. Rather than tackle the main issues related to sage grouse declines, livestock grazing, sagebrush killing projects, and ...
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• Of locks and carp

  
  Science and Environment — Authority: 129
  (AP) While wildlife officials sort through piles of dead fish for Asian carp during a massive planned fish-kill, Obama administration officials are considering whether to close a shipping lock to make sure none reach Lake Michigan. Cameron Davis, Great Lakes adviser to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, told ...
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