"Judge Orders New Plan for Dam Releases into Grand Canyon"
"Federal officials must reconsider the irregular water releases from Glen Canyon Dam, which may harm the humpback chub, an endangered fish."
Source: LA Times, 06/01/2009
Water & Oceans
The Case Against Fluoride Mounts
By BETTE HILEMAN
Until very recently, the mere mention that fluoridated water might cause adverse health effects was likely to be met with deep skepticism, even derision. The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention still calls water fluoridation the greatest health triumph of the past 50 years.
But those attitudes are beginning to change.
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Fighting For The Control Of A River
A power struggle has erupted over a North Carolina river.
Source: Environment Report, 05/29/2009
Test Well Water Yearly To Protect Kids: Scientists
Private well water should be tested yearly, two major scientific bodies say -- sometimes more often when kids are drinking it.
Source: SPX, 05/28/2009
Cumulative Ocean Impacts Mapped Off U.S. and Mexican Shores
Researchers from California and Hawaii have analyzed 25 factors and developed a map that reflects the relative cumulative magnitude of their effects on the waters extending for about 250-350 miles off the shores of Washington, Oregon, California, and the Baja Peninsula.
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Platte River At The Crossroads: SEJ Regional Focuses On Spectacular Wildlife Migration
There we were, 21 environmental reporters, freelancers, students and professors, all huddled and shivering in an unheated blind on the Platte River.
We were waiting in the breezy, 20-degree cold for thousands of lesser sandhill cranes to return from feeding in the corn fields and roost for the night on protective sandbars. Each spring, the cranes leave their southwest wintering spots and stop in central Nebraska to rest and eat before heading out to their Arctic nesting grounds.
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"Great Lakes Water Diversion Praised and Blasted"
Wisconsin's landmark out-of-basin diversion of the Great Lakes is getting both praised and blasted by water watchers.
Source: Great Lakes Echo, 05/25/2009
"Researchers Shine New Light on Old Great Lakes Contaminant"
Canadian scientists are taking a closer look at dioxin-like contaminants in the Great Lakes called polychlorinated naphthalenes. They accumulate in fish and are toxic to humans.
Source: Great Lakes Echo, 05/20/2009
"With No Other Ship in Sight" -- Ships Dump Oil
"Oil dumping has led to a crackdown and devious tactics to try to evade it"
Source: Newark Star-Ledger, 05/18/2009
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