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Reason
January 2009
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Soap Scum The state of Washington has ordered local governments to ban driveway car washing. Most storm drains in the Pacific Northwest are separate from sewers and dump water directly into streams and rivers without processing.   |
Reason
January 2009
Jacob Sullum |
One Fish, Ten Fish Reviewing the track records of 11,135 fisheries over half a century, researchers conclude that privatization promotes sustainable fishing practices. |
Reason
January 2009
Ronald Bailey |
Friendly Invasion End species discrimination -- newly introduced species may be able to get along with their native brethren better than previously believed. |
Popular Mechanics
December 29, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
Just How Toxic Was the Tennessee Coal Sludge Spill? Coal fly ash is nasty stuff. According an Environmental Protection Agency report, coal plants produce 160 pounds of fly ash for every ton of coal that they burn. |
Science News
January 3, 2009 |
Cranes: A Natural History Of A Bird In Crisis By Janice M. Hughes This book portrays an intimate profile of these statuesque waders and calls for their conservation. |
Popular Mechanics
December 18, 2008
Alex Hutchinson |
Trees to Power Their own Wildfire Sensors MIT researchers devised a sensor that could measure temperature and humidity and store enough energy to broadcast data four times a day. |
Science News
December 5, 2008
Edward O. Wilson |
Protect Biodiversity Hot Spots And The Rest Will Follow The tragedy unfolding in our ignorance, in our preoccupation with strictly physical environments, is that human action is destroying countless species and even ecosystems before we even know they existed. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2008
Monica Heger |
The Price Is Wrong for Oil Shale and Tar Sand Tech Falling energy prices could squeeze oil-extraction research. |
Science News
Janet Raloff |
Marine Pollution Spawns 'wonky Babies' Wonky? It's British slang for shaky, unreliable or unattractive. In Ceri Lewis's lexicon, it refers to the odd, off-kilter embryonic development that can occur. |
Wired
November 24, 2008
Carl Hoffman |
How a Rogue Geologist Discovered a Diamond Trove in the Canadian Arctic Chuck Fipke sifts through 20-pound bags of dirt in search of Canadian diamonds. |
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