News tagged with freshwater lakes
Double trouble for water life
May 18, 2009 |
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Excess phosphorus and nitrogen produced by human activities on neighboring land is making its way into our coastal waters and degrading both water quality and aquatic life. Although historically the priority has been to control ...
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Congressman praises silver carp decision
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Jul 11, 2007 |
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U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., is praising the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for adding silver carp to its list of injurious species.
Researchers find key to saving the world's lakes
Jul 21, 2008 |
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After completing one of the longest running experiments ever done on a lake, researchers from the University of Alberta, University of Minnesota and the Freshwater Institute, contend that nitrogen control, in which the European ...
Lake Michigan fish populations threatened by decline of tiny creature
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Feb 19, 2009 |
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The quick decline of a tiny shrimp-like species, known scientifically as Diporeia, is related to the aggressive population growth of non-native quagga mussels in the Great Lakes, say NOAA scientists. As invasive mussel numbe ...
Scientists: Less ice on Great Lakes during winter
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Ice cover on the Great Lakes has declined more than 30 percent since the 1970s, leaving the world's largest system of freshwater lakes open to evaporation and lower water levels, according to scientists associated ...
'Armored' fish study helps strengthen Darwin's natural selection theory
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Aug 28, 2008 |
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Shedding some genetically induced excess baggage may have helped a tiny fish thrive in freshwater and outsize its marine ancestors, according to a UBC study published today in Science Express.
Great Lakes slowly losing water
Jun 22, 2007 |
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Boaters on Lake Superior said the water is so low it appears the world's largest freshwater lake is disappearing.
Database shows effects of acid rain on microorganisms in Adirondack Lakes
Jun 23, 2008 |
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Prior to the federal Clean Air Act, unhindered industrial emissions were released into the air throughout the Midwestern and Eastern United States for decades. Many of those harmful chemicals came right back down to earth ...
Seaway's 50th anniversary soiled by invasive species
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Fifty years ago Friday, President Dwight Eisenhower and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II walked down a red carpet, climbed aboard a "floating palace" of a yacht named Britannia and ceremoniously sailed through the St. Lambert ...
Study assesses impact of fish stocking on aquatic insects
Mar 26, 2009 |
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The impact fish stocking has on aquatic insects in mountain lakes can be rapidly reversed by removing non-native trout, according to a study completed by U.S. Forest Service and University of California, Davis, scientists.
US, Canada to update Great Lakes water agreement
Jun 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The United States and Canada say they will update a key agreement to protect the Great Lakes from invasive species, climate change and other established and emerging threats to the world's biggest ...
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