News tagged with river bottom
Report: Great Lakes toxic cleanups lagging badly
Sep 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A federal report says the government is moving so slowly to clean up the most polluted sites in the Great Lakes that it will take 77 more years to finish the job at the current pace.
Costly Superfund dredging set for Hudson River
May 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- People look funny at David Mathis when he takes a dip off his dock in the Hudson River. Health officials have long warned people not to eat fish caught from this slow-flowing stretch south of the Adirondacks and ...
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Hudson River shipwrecks contaminated
Feb 27, 2006 |
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Several shipwrecks found at the bottom of the upper Hudson River in New York are contaminated with PCBs and may not be able to be recovered.
Submerging saves rare bottom-breathing turtles
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Aug 04, 2006 |
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The endangered Mary River Turtle has learned the perfect way to avoid being eaten — stay underwater. UQ PhD student Natalie Mathie, who has been studying Mary River hatchlings for the last two years, has shown ...
Grand Canyon flooded to improve ecosystem
Mar 05, 2008 |
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U.S. officials released a flood into the Grand Canyon to try to undo damage caused by the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam in the 1960s.
Downstream ecosystems aided by Beaver dams
Jun 05, 2006 |
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U.S. scientists say beavers, known for their beneficial environmental effects near their dams, are also critical in maintaining downstream ecosystems.
Tiny shrimp species found in Pa. river
Aug 24, 2006 |
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(AP) -- Biologists have discovered a species of shrimp in the Monongahela River for the first time, a discovery the scientists say is evidence that the river's water quality is improving.
Researchers find the earliest evidence of domesticated maize
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Maize was domesticated from its wild ancestor more than 8700 years according to biological evidence uncovered by researchers in the Mexico's Central Balsas River Valley. This is the earliest dated evidence ...
Nestle blamed in Mich. water level battle
Jan 29, 2007 |
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Environmental groups and residents in Michigan's Newaygo County are up in arms against Nestle Waters North America over lower water levels in the area.
New look at gravity data sheds light on ocean, climate
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 27, 2009 |
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A discovery about the moon made in the 1960s is helping researchers unlock secrets about Earth's ocean today.
River heals as lawsuit against Big Poultry looms
Sep 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- David Overbey is no scientist, but he says a person doesn't have to be to see how much the Illinois River has improved in recent years.
Students locate Civil War ship
Jun 24, 2005 |
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Students at East Carolina University have located the remains of a U.S. warship that tried to wrest control of the Roanoke River from the Confederacy.
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