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"Playing Politics With Climate Change"

"What Americans believe about climate change depends almost entirely on their political affiliation and not their scientific understanding, according to a new national study that found the same dynamic in two regions of Southeast Alaska."

Source: Alaska Dispatch, 04/26/2011

DC Sludge Upgrade Could Produce Valuable Fertilizer; But Critics Wary

The nation's largest advanced sewage treatement plant, Blue Plains in Washington, DC, is spending $400 million to upgrade its sludge-processing to produce "Class A" fertilizer. Critics say the cooked sludge may be free of pathogens, but the real issue may be nutrients like nitrogen or phosphorus, heavy metals like cadmium or lead, and toxic chemicals like PCBs and perfluorochemicals.

Source: Wash Post, 04/26/2011

UK: "Spring May Lose Song of Cuckoos, Nightingales And Turtle Doves"

"Some of Britain's most cherished spring visitors are disappearing in their thousands. Ornithologists say species such as the cuckoo, nightingale and turtle dove are undergoing catastrophic drops in numbers, although experts are puzzled about the exact reasons for these declines."

Source: Observer, 04/25/2011

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