"Streams On Speed Altering Aquatic Food Web"
"Study finds a cocktail of legal and illegal drugs in Baltimore's Gwynns Falls, most likely from city's leaking sewers".
Source: Bay Journal, 08/26/2016
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"Report Details Lead Contamination In Water At St. Louis Schools"
"ST. LOUIS -- Water samples from 16 schools in the city school system contained lead levels that exceeded those most commonly found in homes in Flint, Mich., after a contamination crisis there, according to results released Thursday by an environmental engineering company."
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 08/26/2016
"Health And Neighborhood Are Too Often Linked." Change Effort Mounted
"Across the U.S. people are trying to reduce inequities in how environment affects physical well-being".
Source: Ensia, 08/26/2016
Environmentalists Sue Interior Over Oil, Gas Leasing on Federal Lands
"Environmental groups launched a broad assault today on federal oil and gas leasing, accusing the Obama administration of ignoring the climate impacts from leasing on hundreds of thousands of acres since early 2015."
Source: Greenwire, 08/26/2016
"VW to Pay $1.2 Billion to U.S. Dealers Hurt by Diesel Scandal"
The emissions cheating scandal badly damaged the businesses of many U.S. Volkswagen dealerships. Now VW has agreed to pay them some $1.2 billion.
Source: NY Times, 08/26/2016
"Climate Change Taking Toll On American Pika's Western Lands"
"Populations of a rabbit-like animal known as the American pika are vanishing in many mountainous areas of the West as climate change alters its habitat, according to findings released Thursday by the U.S. Geological Survey."
Source: AP, 08/26/2016
"Smoke From Indonesian Fires Hits 'Unhealthy' Level In Singapore"
"Air pollution in Singapore rose to the "unhealthy" level on Friday as acrid smoke drifted over the island from fires on Indonesia's Sumatra island, the city-state's National Environment Agency (NEA) said, in a repeat of an annual crisis."
Source: Reuters, 08/26/2016
As Sea Levels Rise, 1.9 Million U.S. Homes Could Be Underwater By 2100
"The real estate data firm Zillow recently published a research analysis that estimated rising sea levels could leave nearly 2 million U.S. homes inundated by 2100, a fate that would displace millions of people and result in property losses in the hundreds of billions of dollars."
Source: Wash Post, 08/26/2016
"Greenland’s Ice Sheet Is In Danger"
"Greenland is melting — and has been for quite some time."
Source: Wash Post, 08/26/2016
"Obama Expands Hawaii Marine Reserve In Final Push On Climate"
"U.S. President Barack Obama will dramatically expand the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument off the coast of Hawaii on Friday, the White House said, an action that will ban commercial fishing from more than 582,500 sq miles (1.5 million sq km) of the Pacific Ocean."
Source: Reuters, 08/26/2016
