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• In the Honeysuckle

  
  The Ohio Nature Blog — Authority: 116
  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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• Utah Saving Endangered Fish by Building New River Dam

  
  As Maine Goes — Authority: 147
  A $300,000, six-foot high concrete "fish barrier" in the Virgin River Gorge. Read More... read more
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• Mayr’s Trap-Jaw Ant, Anochetus mayri

  
  Myrmecos Blog — Authority: 422
  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

  
  Import Industry News — Authority: 144
  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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• Saved by the Iron Curtain

  
  Journal Watch Online — Authority: 462
  Cold War shielded Eastern Europe from some exotic bird invasions
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• Invasive species in Mallorca

  
  Iberianature — Authority: 118
  The biodiversity of Mallorca is threatened by invasive species. Exotic pets released by bored owners are a serious issue, including a breeding population of coatis in the Sierra de la Tramontana. El Mundo More on the Mallorcan coatis here
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• Poisoning The Carp

  
  Thinking Outside — Authority: 133
  It’s been decided. The final effort to prevent flying carp from entering the Great Lakes is about to begin. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to close the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal for five days starting December 2 so they can release a toxic substance into the water to kill invasive Asian carp. ...
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• A Vision Faces an Environmental Test

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  SIGHTS The surf and the local catch around Miches, Dominican Republic, the focus of an effort to develop small-scale, low-impact ecotourism.
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• Ravenous, Leaping Asian Carp Poised to Invade Great Lakes

  
  80beats — Authority: 631
  The Great Lakes are under threat from an Asian carp invasion that could wipe out fishing stocks, and with it, the lakes’ billion dollar fishery. On Friday, officials from the Army Corps of Engineers reported that genetic material from the carp had been found for the first time in a nearby river beyond an ...
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• Game council was big mistake, say Aussies

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 138
  AN Australian conservation group warns that setting up a game council in New Zealand could lead to the same taxpayer bailouts and pest problems it did for New South Wales. Carol Booth ( right ), policy officer for the Invasive Species Council, says that a similar council set up in New South Wales in 2002 has been a ...
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• Asian carps might have jumped the “last line of defense” for the Great Lakes

  
  Fish and aquatic news — Authority: 121
  The invasive Asian carps seem to have bypassed the electric barrier built to protect the North American Great Lakes from potential ecological disaster. Bighead and Silver carp DNA has been found in the Calumet River, Des Plaines River and at the confluence of the Calumet Sag Channel and the Chicago Sanitary and ...
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• Asian Carp Feared To Damage Eco-System Of Great Lake

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Meena KarChicago, Nov.21, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The giant sea fish, ‘Asian Carp’ which weighs around one hundred pounds and can be up to four feet long is feared to break the barriers that prevent them from entering Lake Michigan. Officials stated that ‘big head and silver carps’ might have escaped the ...
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• Flying Carp Invading Great Lakes?

  
  Thinking Outside — Authority: 133
  Here in the Upper Midwest, one of the more notorious invasive species is the flying carp, and for residents of the Great Lakes, the enemy is at the gates . The decade-old battle to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes may be over. New research shows the super-sized fish likely have made it past the $9 million ...
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• Invasion of the Fish Snatchers?

  
  Planetsave — Authority: 470
  Bighead carp are one of two non-native species of Asian carp causing widespread concern among Great Lakes advocates. The other is silver carp. Great Lakes advocates are calling it a “ conservation emergency ” now that non-native Asian carp have been detected within seven miles of Lake Michigan. They want an ...
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• Invasive Asian carp may have breached barrier, reached Great Lakes

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 734
  Federal officials are citing DNA evidence indicating that Asian carp may have circumvented an electronic barrier keeping them from the Great Lakes. The Army Corps of Engineers says that DNA from the invasive carp species has been found on the north side of the barrier in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, ...
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• Asian carp on the move?

  
  Science and Environment — Authority: 128
  (AP) Federal wildlife officials say the Asian carp might have gotten through an electronic barrier designed to prevent it from invading the Great Lakes. The Army Corps of Engineer said today that DNA of the giant carp have been found north of the barrier in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal . That would mean ...
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• Asian carp may have breached electrical barrier

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 636
  The Detroit Free Press reports that there is evidence that the invasive Asian carp may have already breached an electrical barrier set up in a shipping canal in Chicago in order to keep the incredibly aggressive species from reaching the Great Lakes, where they would likely destroy the ecosystem and cause the ...
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• From Toxic Dust and Algae to Ill Winds From Africa

  
  USGS Newsroom — Authority: 452
  USGS at the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Note to editors: The SETAC conference will be held in New Orleans from Nov. 19-23. For more info on the conference, visit their Web site . Toxic dust: Toxins in coal-tar-based sealcoats in parking lots may be the culprit in contaminated house ...
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• Piranhas Invade Florida

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 546
  While fishing in a retention pond in Palm Springs, Florida, a 14-year-old boy fished up something that doesn’t belong in Florida.  This invasive species is the dangerous meat-eating piranha.  That’s right, there were not one, but two piranhas caught in the wild in the United States. The most troubling aspect ...
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• Mystery Plant: This “Tree from Hell” Smells Like Rancid Peanut Butter

  
  National Parks Traveler — Authority: 591
  This tree is an Asian import that grows fast, spreads fast, damages ecosystems and crop land, and is very tough to eradicate. It stinks, too. read more
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