Ars Technica:
Natalie Sopinka: Fish Habitat Loss in Canada→
/Canadian Science:
Todd Reubold: The Biggest Sources of Nutrient Pollution in Cities→
/University of Minnesota:
Steven Maier: Study of a Lake Trout strain→
/Great Lakes Echo:
Steven Maier: Mudpuppies→
/Great Lakes Echo:
Samantha Oliver: What Two Frozen Lakes Taught Me→
/Center for Limnology
Dave Orrick: Walleye Decline with Global Warming →
/Pioneer Press:
Nathan Martin: Animal Migrations→
/The Atlantic:
Fascinating story about animal migration and the research on elk migration in and around Yellowstone National Park.
France Diep: Water Use per Crop→
/ScienceLine (via street.mn chart of the day):
Sean Caroll: An Ecology Lesson
/Nautilus:
Global Warming Visual→
/Climate Lab:
Click this link to go to the animated data graphic. An interesting way to present a lot of data!
Samantha Oliver: Altered Nutrient Flows into Lakes→
/UW-Madison Center of Limnology:
Jake Vander Zanden: Lake Dead Zones→
/Reporting from New Zealand:
Julienne Isaacs: The Benefits and Limits of Buffers→
/Manitoba Co-operator:
Minnehaha Watershed District: Zebra Mussels Improve Water Clarity in Lake Minnetonka→
/One suspects that some bays with improved water clarity may see an increase in aquatic plant habitat.
Lee Bergquist: Little Plover River Groundwater Study→
/Journal Sentinel:
Good groundwater science was done years ago by Dr. Kraft, who was quoted in this article. However, farmers and civic leaders apparently did not want to hear about how farm irrigation was the main reason for lower river flows. So the science and the predictions are now better and yet some farmers and civic leaders apparently still will not be convinced. When you start with a given pre-set belief or dogma and then search for any argument to rationalize, defend or justify the overexploiting of a pubic resource, then you are corrupt and your actions self-servicing.
Wisconsin Public Radio's Route 51 broadcast a program discussing the newly released scientific study of the effects of high capacity wells on groundwater and the Little Plover River in the central sands region of Wisconsin. It included a panel discussion with George Kraft, hydrologist with UW Extension in Stevens Point; Tamas Houlihan, executive director of the Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable Growers Association; Scott Krug, Republican Party Assemblyman from the Town of Rome; and Katrina Shankland, Democratic Party Assemblywoman from Stevens Point.
If you would like to listen to the podcast of this program, click this link
Sarah DeWeerdt: Bird Deaths From Window Collisions →
/Conservation Magazine:
Some alternations of our buildings and bird-friendly designs appear reasonable and responsible. Now if we can reduce mortality due to our domesticated cats...