Please see this article just in from California: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/12/ddt-pcb-comtami.html
The Los Angeles times reports on research showing how “chemicals dumped by chemical industries still contaminate wildlife.” If you get past the headline, you will find that this “dumping” of  chemicals is from the sediment from the outfall of the municipal wastewater treatment plant and that the […]

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For thousands of years, dallying narwhal …slow to exit their rich Arctic feeding grounds … became trapped in the ice and died. Darwin would probably have some comments about this.
In the pre-western decimation of the Arctic, ancestors of the modern Inuit found such an event a true windfall for survival. Inuit lived hard, but extremely […]

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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2008/11/28/narhwals.html, A CBC news story discusses the plight of hundreds of narwhal trapped in a small plot of open water surrounded by miles of thick ice near Pond Inlet, Nunavut. Inuit hunters were unsuccessful in their attempts to free the starving ivory-tusked ton to ton-and-a half-whales. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans gave permission to […]

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