News tagged with river system
Plan for crucial Australian rivers draws anger
Farmers Monday slammed the government's draft plan to rescue a crucial river system supplying Australia's food bowl, saying it will destroy communities and put pressure on food prices.
Nov 28, 2011 |
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Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon up 15%
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon increased by 15 percent during the past 12 months, the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) said.
Aug 18, 2011 |
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Noxious weed reporting system now available in 11 western states
Spring has finally arrived and many of us are once again heading back into the fields and rangelands, into the rivers, and into the backcountry for work and for play. As our surroundings are greening up, we must remember ...
May 19, 2011 |
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Live carp smuggled into Canada
Smugglers keep hauling live Asian carp from Southern fish farms bound for food markets in the Lake Ontario city of Toronto, even as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers studies how to keep the fish from swimming into the Great ...
Mar 17, 2011 |
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Study sheds new light on river blindness parasite
The team found that a bacterium inside the worm acts as a 'disguise' for the parasite, resulting in the immune system reacting to it in an ineffective way. The bacteria protect the worm from the body's natural defences, ...
Jan 12, 2011 |
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Tidal power plant proposed for New York's East River
Here's exciting news for anyone who's been watching the fledgling efforts to promote tidal power in the U.S.: A New York energy company that has been testing tidal power in the East River has filed a formal application ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 11, 2011 |
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Firms see tidal energy as wave of future
Moored in the channel, the little gray barge strains against a raging morning tide. The torrent soon will drain nearby rocky inlets and fishing harbors by 20 feet - as high as a two-story house - only to flood them again ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 25, 2010 |
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Researchers unlock how key drug kills tropical parasites
In a major breakthrough that comes after decades of research and nearly half a billion treatments in humans, scientists have finally unlocked how a key anti-parasitic drug kills the worms brought on by the ...
Nov 10, 2010 |
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Rabbit's food brings luck in decreasing estrogen levels in wastewater
The November 2010 issue of Environmental Pollution details successful experiments at the University of Cincinnati wherein rabbit's food resulted in the abiotic (non-biological) transformation and absorption of fou ...
Nov 01, 2010 |
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How parasites react to the mouse immune system may help to shape their control
How parasites use different life-history strategies to beat our immune systems may also provide insight into the control of diseases, such as elephantiasis and river blindness, which afflict some of the world's poorest communities ...
Oct 19, 2010 |
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Ancient Colorado river flowed backwards
(PhysOrg.com) -- Geologists have found evidence that some 55 million years ago a river as big as the modern Colorado flowed through Arizona into Utah in the opposite direction from the present-day river. Writing in the October ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 04, 2010 |
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New theory of why midcontinent faults produce earthquakes
A new theory developed at Purdue University may solve the mystery of why the New Madrid fault, which lies in the middle of the continent and not along a tectonic plate boundary, produces large earthquakes such as the ones ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 30, 2010 |
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Traces of pharmaceuticals found in central Indiana waterways
(PhysOrg.com) -- Pharmaceuticals have been found in freshwater ecosystems in rural areas of central Indiana, says a new study from Ball State University.
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Experts warn glaciers in Indian Kashmir melting
(AP) -- Indian Kashmir's glaciers are melting fast because of rising temperatures, threatening the water supply of millions of people in the Himalayan region, a new study by Indian scientists says.
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Northwest fears that invasive mussels are headed its way
Highly invasive mussels are lurking on the Northwest's doorstep, threatening to gum up the dams that produce the region's cheap electricity, clog drinking water and irrigation systems, jeopardize aquatic ecosystems and upset ...
Aug 26, 2009 |
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