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Dipnetters descend on Alaska's Kenai River amid record salmon run | Alaska Dispatch

Seeded on Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:38 PM EDT (alaskadispach.com)

The waters of the Kenai River literally came alive on Sunday with what may have been a record rush of salmon to the famous Alaska waterway. By the end of the day, a sonar maintained by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game had counted 230,643 sockeye salmon coming into the river …

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2011 Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' could be biggest ever

Seeded on Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:08 AM EDT (Science Daily)

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Researchers from Texas A&M University have returned from a trip to examine the scope and size of this year's "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico and have measured it currently to be about 3,300 square miles, or roughly the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined, but som …

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Our Love Affair With Fish Is Unsustainable | Truthout

Seeded on Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:27 AM EDT (Truthout - All Articles)

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Trawling for fish is destroying ocean life. Here's an imaginary land version: Imagine what people would say if a band of hunters strung a mile of net between two immense all-terrain vehicles and dragged it at speed across the plains of Africa.

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Blue iguana back from the dead

Seeded on Mon Jul 18, 2011 9:16 PM EDT (mongabay.com)

Seeded by Darrah, Greenville, SC

The blue iguana (Cyclura lewisi) was once king of the Caribbean Island, Grand Cayman. Weighting in at 25 pounds, measuring over 5 feet, and living for over sixty years, nothing could touch this regal lizard.

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Latest BP Spill in Alaska Was Foreshadowed in Risk Assessment Last Year

Seeded on Mon Jul 18, 2011 4:43 PM EDT (ProPublica: Articles and Investigations)

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A section of the BP pipeline that leaked thousands of gallons of methanol and oily wastewater into the Alaskan tundra on Saturday was flagged by the company more than a year ago as so corroded it presented an imminent threat of rupture. Documents obtained by ProPublica last fall …

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Reminders and Remembering

Mon Jul 18, 2011 12:17 PM EDT

By A. Macarthur

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The Clean Water Act & Consumer Confidence Reports

Mon Jul 18, 2011 1:31 AM EDT

By Dowser

Thanks to the Clean Water Act of 1972, and its subsequent regulations, every community water system is required, by law, to prepare and distribute a Consumer Confidence Report, (CCR), to its users by July 1, every year that it is in operation. The CCR is a report on t …

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