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Trying out carbon to treat toxic sediment

On the surface, Canal Creek looks like a postcard Chesapeake Bay tributary, with red-winged blackbirds swooping over the tidal marsh lining its banks.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bad news for us, or just for the birds?

Roughly 5,000 dead and dying blackbirds fell from the Arkansas sky on New Year's Eve. That mysterious event was followed by the appearance of about 500 dead birds along a Louisiana highway and additional bird-falls in Kentucky, ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 11, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Wisconsin lab says it solved blackbird die-off

The mystery of the deaths of thousands of blackbirds in Arkansas this month has been solved, federal scientists say.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 07, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (18) | comments 27

FACT CHECK: Mass bird, fish deaths occur regularly

(AP) -- First, the blackbirds fell out of the sky on New Year's Eve in Arkansas. In recent days, wildlife have mysteriously died in big numbers: 2 million fish in the Chesapeake Bay, 150 tons of red tilapia in Vietnam, 40,000 ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Village bird study highlights loss of wildlife knowledge from one

Our ability to conserve and protect wildlife is at risk because we are unable to accurately gauge how our environment is changing over time, says new research out today in Conservation Letters.

Biology /

created Feb 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0