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• Poison tally so far: One Asian carp

  
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  After poisoning the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal two nights ago to kill off any Asian carp that might have breached the electrical barrier being shut down for maintenance, state and federal authorities have so far found a grand total of one specimen of the invasive species in the canal. Wasted effort? Perhaps. ...
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• One Carp Too Many

  
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  For those following the saga of flying carp possibly reaching the Great Lakes, there’s news from the front. The poisoning of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal leading in to Lake Michigan was conducted this week, the results so far, lots of dead fish including one carp . The thing is, one is almost scarier than ...
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• Horrifying Demonic Giant Asian Carp Are Finally Here To Destroy Us

  
  The Awl — Authority: 770
  There is a creature alive today who has survived millions of years of evolution, without change, without passion and without logic. It lives to kill. A mindless eating machine. It will attack and devour anything. It is as if god created the devil and gave him… carp. I mean, I don’t know if this is more like ...
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• Invasive carp threatens Great Lakes

  
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  These are the fish seen in YouTube videos leaping out of the water when disturbed by boats. Water skiers have been injured by them and they are rapidly taking over waterways in the midwest. Fish and wildlife officials will poison a 6-mile stretch of water near Chicago on Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to keep one ...
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• Asian Carp Dying as Result of Poisioning

  
  "She's So Fly" Fly Fishing for Women Blog — Authority: 133
  ROMEOVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- Poisoned fish are beginning to float to the surface of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal . Thats the waterway where more than 2,000 gallons of toxin were dumped Wednesday as part of efforts to halt the spread of the invasive Asian carp . Illinois environmental officials hoped to ...
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• Canal free of Asian carp prior to poisoning

  
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  As we reported yesterday , environmental officials began poisoning the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal last night in an attempt to prevent Asian carp from reaching Lake Michigan, where experts say they would all but destroy the native ecosystem and force many other species to go extinct. But authorities report that ...
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• Poisoning of Chicago canal begins tonight

  
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  A coalition of federal and state agencies will come together tonight to poison the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal in the hope of killing off any Asian carp that may have breached the electrical barrier and moved within a few miles of reaching Lake Michigan. The Detroit News reports : Officials from the ...
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• Granholm, Cherry ask Cox to take legal action against invasive Asian carp

  
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  As Michigan’s top lawyer, Attorney General Mike Cox should “vigorously pursue every legal means to prevent Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes,” Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Lt. Gov. John Cherry said in a joint release today. DNA from the invasive fish has been detected beyond an electrical barrier ...
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• Zebra mussels spreading in western Mass.

  
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  Benson, A. J. 2009. Zebra mussel sightings distribution. Retrieved Dec. 2, 2009 from http://nas.er.usgs.gov/taxgroup/mollusks/zebramussel/zebramusseldistribution.asp. Zebra mussels - those tiny, voracious, nasty little bivalves that have wreaked havoc in Midwestern waterways for decades - are spreading in western ...
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• Officials hope poison will stop Asian carp

  
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  (AP) Today is a big day in invasive species management. Officials will begin the largest fish kill in Illinois history and try to net 100 tons of fish. Some of those fish, they hope, will be Asian carp . The fish kill will take place south of Chicago to try and make sure none of the carp make it past an electric ...
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• Not just the polar bear: ten American species that are feeling the heat from global warming

  
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  A new report, America’s Hottest Species , highlights a variety of American wildlife that is currently threatened by climate change from a small bird to a coral reef to the world’s largest marine turtle.
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• An Endangered Species…Lottery?

  
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  Australia has some truly incredible wildlife : egg-laying mammals , kangaroos that live in trees , desert-dwelling frogs and more species of reptile than anywhere else on earth. Unfortunately we’ve also managed to give our native species a fair old hiding. No other country has suffered more mammal extinctions ...
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• Sea levels likely to rise by 1.4 meters by 2100 as polar ice melts

  
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  London, December 1 (ANI): A major review of climate change in Antarctica has indicated that sea levels are likely to rise by about 1.4m (4ft 6in) globally by 2100 as polar ice melts.According to BBC News, the review, conducted by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), said that warming seas are ...
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• In the Honeysuckle

  
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  Images taken November 29th, 2009. Columbusites: Have you been spying all of these yellow leaved shrubs with bright red berries that are everywhere in our urban woodlands? Jim McCormac tells the story of one of our nastiest non-native invasive species, Amur Honeysuckle, right here . What are the local nasty ...
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• Thanks to “anthropogenic effects,” Redwoods are taking over the world

  
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  Thanks to “anthropogenic effects,” Redwoods are taking over the world. http://bit.ly/7gCJvhDid you know the fossil record indicates that before the last ice age Redwoods once grew all over the Northern Hemisphere of our planet? And guess what? They’re using humans to reclaim their territory!Some examples:–The ...
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• Utah Saving Endangered Fish by Building New River Dam

  
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  A $300,000, six-foot high concrete "fish barrier" in the Virgin River Gorge. Read More... read more
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• Puerto Ricans Are Tired of Escaped, Belligerent Research Monkeys

  
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  Fool me with monkeys once, shame on you. Fool me twice… well, Puerto Ricans won’t get fooled again . Some people on the island commonwealth are up in arms over the proposal by a company called Bioculture Ltd. to make Puerto Rico a major supplier of primates to researchers in the United States. Beyond the ...
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• Mayr’s Trap-Jaw Ant, Anochetus mayri

  
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  Anochetus mayri Anochetus mayri is an ant most North American myrmecologists will not have encountered in the field.  This toothy exotic is a small brown insect, less than half a centimeter long, known in the United States only from scattered locations in suburban Florida.  I photographed one this summer on a ...
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• CBP Agriculture Specialists in Georgia Stop Noxious Weeds

  
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  U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists assigned to the port of Savannah have made more than 60 interceptions of cogon grass on commercial cargo containers since mid-October. The interceptions were the result of a special operation that specifically looked for the weed. “One of CBP’s most ...
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• Asian Carp within 8 Miles of the Great Lakes?

  
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  Asian Carp have been detected beyond an electric barrier designed to keep them out of the Great lakes - from JSOnline.com : The Army Corps of Engineers acknowledged Friday that tests taken earlier this fall revealed 32 positive DNA samples for Asian carp above the electric fish barrier on the Chicago Sanitary and ...
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