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Giant China algae slick getting bigger: report

A floating expanse of green algae floating off China's eastern seaboard is growing and spreading further along the coast, state-run media has reported.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 24, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

American team of scientists help protect Guatemala's Lake Atitlan

A team of scientists from the University of Nevada, Reno, DRI, Arizona State University and University of California, Davis has returned from a two-week expedition to Guatemala's tropical high-mountain Lake ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 22, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Raw sewage: Home to millions of undescribed viruses

Biologists have described only a few thousand different viruses so far, but a new study reveals a vast world of unseen viral diversity that exists right under our noses. A paper to be published Tuesday, October 4 in the online ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Sewage-tainted floodwaters threaten public health

(AP) -- Nasty floodwaters from the remnants of Lee and Irene - tainted with sewage and other toxins - threaten public health in parts of the Northeast by direct exposure or the contamination of private water ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Catching a coral killer

Coral reefs play an important role in marine ecosystems, so it's concerning to scientists, as well as ocean conservationists, that many coral reefs around the world are in distress or dying off.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nearly 1 million gallons of runoff, raw sewage spills into San Francisco Bay

Signs were posted at several shorelines and parks in Richmond, Calif., warning that water might be contaminated with harmful bacteria after nearly 1 million gallons of runoff and raw sewage overflowed and spilled into San ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In '72, EPA battled pollution; now it's politics

(AP) -- A polluted drainage ditch that once flowed with industrial waste from Lake Charles, La., petrochemical plants teems with overgrown, wild plants today.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

3 million gallons of sewage enter Missouri river after city waits to repair sewer line

Kansas City Water Services workers decided to wait over the weekend before fixing a broken sewer line that eventually spilled 3 million gallons of raw sewage, officials said Tuesday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2