Water & Oceans

Platte River At The Crossroads: SEJ Regional Focuses On Spectacular Wildlife Migration

There we were, 21 environmental reporters, freelancers, students and professors, all huddled and shivering in an unheated blind on the Platte River.

We were waiting in the breezy, 20-degree cold for thousands of lesser sandhill cranes to return from feeding in the corn fields and roost for the night on protective sandbars. Each spring, the cranes leave their southwest wintering spots and stop in central Nebraska to rest and eat before heading out to their Arctic nesting grounds.

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"Great Lakes Water Diversion Praised and Blasted"

Wisconsin's landmark out-of-basin diversion of the Great Lakes is getting both praised and blasted by water watchers.

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Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI)

Source: Great Lakes Echo, 05/25/2009

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"Researchers Shine New Light on Old Great Lakes Contaminant"

Canadian scientists are taking a closer look at dioxin-like contaminants in the Great Lakes called polychlorinated naphthalenes. They accumulate in fish and are toxic to humans.

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Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI)

Source: Great Lakes Echo, 05/20/2009

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"With No Other Ship in Sight" -- Ships Dump Oil

"Oil dumping has led to a crackdown and devious tactics to try to evade it"

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Source: Newark Star-Ledger, 05/18/2009

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August 4, 2009 to August 8, 2009

First World Congress of Environmental History

Topics include global change, renewable energy, water resources, forest management, biodiversity, agriculture, traditional knowledge and environmental justice.

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July 19, 2009 to July 23, 2009

Coastal Zone 09

This biennial international symposium on coastal and ocean management, sponsored by NOAA, will be on changes in the climate, shorelines, habitats, and policies.

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June 8, 2009 to June 12, 2009

Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics and Conference on Middle Atmosphere

An American Meteorological Society joint conference.

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"Rising Calls to Regulate California Groundwater"

Some California farmers are depleting the groundwater beneath their land faster than nature can recharge it -- and climate change is likely to make things worse. While farmers resist regulating groundwater use, critics argue that not doing it "could prove catastrophic to the state’s real estate sector and its $36 billion agricultural economy."

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California

Source: NYTimes, 05/14/2009

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"Fla. Water Managers Approve $533M Everglades Deal"

The South Florida Water Management District approved Gov. Charlie Crist's deal to buy 73,000 acres of farmland from U.S. Sugar Corp. for $536 million to restore the Everglades.

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SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN)

Source: AP, 05/14/2009

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"Obama Orders EPA to Take the Lead in Bay Cleanup"

President Obama issued an executive order empowering EPA to set a more demanding timetable for cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay and to penalize states that fail to meet it.

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Source: WashPost, 05/13/2009

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