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Geotimes
May 2005
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More Mercury in Unexpected Places As U.S. policy-makers debate new control measures for mercury emissions, a series of studies has painted a picture that shows mercury contamination reaches even further than previously documented.   |
Chemistry World
December 9, 2011
Andrew Shore |
Arctic Biting Back Over Mercury Pollution Scientists have investigated the temporal trends of mercury using polar bear teeth. |
Science News
September 28, 2002
Janet Raloff |
State of U.S. Agro-ecosystems About one-quarter of the United States' land cover, excluding Alaska, is farmed. A massive new project has just assessed this and other food-producing environments, such as coastal waters, fresh waters, and rangelands, to tally factors contributing to health. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2000
Roy Berendsohn |
Summer Lawn Chemicals and Wildlife With so much talk these days about the toxicity of chemicals, this article asks the advice of an expert on the topic. |
Geotimes
September 2005
Sara Pratt |
Shrinking and Growing Arctic Lakes Now, in the latest addition to the growing body of evidence that global warming is significantly affecting the Arctic, two recent studies suggest that thawing permafrost is the cause of two seemingly contradictory observations -- both rapidly growing and rapidly shrinking lakes. |
Geotimes
October 2007
Moran & Backman |
The Arctic Ocean: So Much We Still Don't Know In 2004, the Arctic Coring Expedition team took three ships to the Arctic to drill a core near the Lomonosov Ridge. The team's results are teaching us more than we ever knew about the past 65 million years in the Arctic. |
Chemistry World
June 13, 2008
Hepeng Jia |
Olympic chemical restrictions worries industry The Chinese government's drive to restrict the movement and manufacture of chemicals ahead of the Beijing Olympics could hit the country's chemical industry, analysts have warned. |
Geotimes
August 2006
Megan Sever |
From Hot to Cold in the Arctic For the first time, scientists have recovered direct evidence of what life in the Arctic has been like for the past 56 million years. A new 400-meter-long sediment core is revealing that all in the Arctic has not always been as it seems. |
Chemistry World
June 23, 2009
Rebecca Trager |
EPA halts its chemical review effort The US Environmental Protection Agency is reevaluating its existing chemicals assessment framework and has suspended its Chemical Assessment and Management Program. |
Outside
February 2004
Natasha Singer |
Break On Through The dream of a Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic to the riches of Asia has driven explorers and visionary adventurers for centuries. With climate change in the air, The author braves the frigid 900-mile journey to find out if the old, mythic dream is becoming an epic new reality. |
National Defense
August 2008
Matthew Rusling |
Coast Guard Unprepared for Climate Change in Arctic The Coast Guard's fleet of only two working icebreakers is not suited to deal with the rapidly changing shifts in a region of rising importance. |
Geotimes
October 2003
Naomi Lubick |
Vertebrates and tectonics Paleontologists suggested some new twists on tectonics and ecosystems at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Their ideas might offer answers to some key conundrums regarding extinction, speciation and the global distribution of vertebrate species. |
Salon.com
March 2, 2001
Dawn MacKeen |
Global warning Species from birds to butterflies are doing strange things, and a new report blames the behavior on the Earth's rising temperature... |
Scientific American
March 2007
Charles Q. Choi |
Pole Positions More than 30 nations are initiating a global campaign to study the Arctic and Antarctic: an International Polar Year. |
Chemistry World
July 26, 2012
Andrew Turley |
New US chemical rules edge nearer A political committee in the US has voted in favor of plans to change the way chemicals are regulated by shifting the burden of proving safety to manufacturers. |
National Defense
January 2010
Austin Wright |
Coast Guard Examines Future of Patrolling The Arctic The Coast Guard anticipates increased duties patrolling the Arctic region due to global warming. |
National Gardening
Amy Bartlett Wright |
Landscaping for Winter Birds Choosing the right trees and shrubs may help you gain many a feathered friend |
National Defense
May 2014
Stew Magnuson |
DHS Science and Technology Directorate to Focus on Arctic Region as Ice Recedes With the polar ice in the Arctic receding more quickly in summer months, the Department of Homeland Security's science and technology directorate is turning its attention to the region. |
