Geese Blamed for Tahoe's Pollution (AP)

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Pollution Is Blamed for Thinner Air at
Edge of Atmosphere

Pollution Is Blamed for Thinner Air at
Edge of Atmosphere 02/10/2004 02:45 AM
Scientists say they have found strong new evidence that carbon dioxide is cooling and shrinking the atmosphere's outermost layers.

The Geese of Beaver Bog

The Geese of Beaver Bog 03/27/2005 05:43 PM

The Idea: Bernd Heinrich's new book will change the way you look at nature. I've written about several of biologist Be rnd Heinrich's books before, notably Mind of the Raven, Winter World and Why We Run. His latest book The Geese of Beaver Bog is less scientific than these previous works, more of a personal memoir, or even a love story. It is the anecdotal record of four years observing the Canada Geese in the bog system near his Vermont home. With painstaking effort, Heinrich learned to recognize goose individuals by their facial markings, and then by their behaviours. This began inadvertently when he suddenly became the step-parent of Peep, a gosling that had been hatched by the penned geese of Heinrich's neighbour. It continued for four years as each year Peep returned 'home' to Beaver Bog, and introduced and acclimatized Heinrich to more of the geese in her 'flock'. I won't spoil the heart-warming and astonishing end of the story. What I want to do in this article is tell you some of the remarkable learnings and discoveries that Heinrich made by observing Peep and her 'family'. Geese do not, contrary to myth, mate for life. They are wedded to place, not to individual partners. Each year they return to the breeding area they know best, and a battle ensues for the right of parentage. Each large area that provides appropriate safety and food for the vulnerable three-week nesting period is permitted only one, or occasionally two, breeding pairs. These pairs are selected partly on a first-come basis, but sometimes altered by strength battles. Geese clearly recognize and show affection to previous mates, but 'mate-swapping' depending on the vagaries of migration is common, and possession is 9/10s of the law. The area they fiercely protect against other pairs and individuals from early Spring until the newborns are hatched is large enough to accommodate and feed many breeding pairs, but geese somehow know not to overbreed, and the areas are large enough to keep the overall abundance and the ecosystem balance intact. Geese may 'play-nest' when they're two years old, but generally do not incubate the 2-3 eggs they then produce. By their third year they've learned how to make and protect the nest, and, if they survive the battle for parentage rights, will produce 5-6 eggs with a remarkably high survival rate. If they lose the right to be breeding pair, they continue their migration, looking for unused or challengeable sites further North, and failing that the non-breeding couples simply party all summer long, childless, in the sub-arctic areas where predators are few and far between. The route South for the Winter is the same, with stopovers to check out familiar spots, and then in the Spring the race of the survivors resumes for the choice spots and the selection of the next year's breeding pairs. It is not inconceivable, therefore, that some of the breeding pairs could be incestuous. As soon as the goslings are able to swim and walk (days after birth), Heinrich discovered to his astonishment, the huge nesting area is abandoned, and the breeding pair and the goslings make the arduous and dangerous overland trek to the Summer feeding area, often miles away. This area is selected for its openness, the ability to see predators coming from far away, and is much different from the well-hidden and enclosed nesting area. Somehow geese scope it out in advance, and there, after fighting fiercely over the larger nesting area, usually form community with other. The resulting 'superfamily' communities often contain 4-6 adults and 11-21 goslings. It is not at all uncommon for 'excess' adults, not needed to protect the goslings (who are self-feeding from birth) to 'drop off' their goslings in the Summer feeding area and join the bachelors in the safer sub-arctic for the Summer. So when you see these communities, with a dozen or more little yellow goslings closely and obediently following their elders, not only are they not a single 'family' in any sense, the goslings' parents may not even be present. All of these behaviours, encoded in goose DNA, are selected for in evolutionary terms to ensure the safety, survival, and success of the species as a whole, and sustain the balance and integrity of the multiple ecosystems of which they are a part. We have much to learn from them. The community in which I live has three regular 'superfamily' sites where a few weeks from now we will again see these noisy and adorable communities, who are so accustomed to our community that they know we will stop our cars and wait for the long waddling rows to cross the road in front of us, and who have no fear of us or our dogs. I'm on my way outside now to check out a prime nesting site (an island on 'our' pond).

N.J. Town Trying to End Geese Feeding
(AP)

N.J. Town Trying to End Geese Feeding
(AP) 04/14/2004 09:13 AM
AP - Authorities in Wayne are trying to discourage a certain waterfowl resident — geese — from staying in the northern New Jersey town.

Geese Get Last Laugh As Decoy Vanishes
(AP)

Geese Get Last Laugh As Decoy Vanishes
(AP) 08/11/2004 08:41 PM
AP - Beep! Beep! It vanished in the dead of night. In the morning, not even the boogie board on which the coyote stood was bobbing in the municipal pool.

IBM pays up for NY pollution

IBM pays up for NY pollution 09/03/2004 08:42 AM
Homeowners get compensation

IBM pays up for N.Y. pollution

IBM pays up for N.Y. pollution 09/03/2004 08:42 AM
The Register Sep 3 2004 12:08PM GMT

Straining pollution from the air

Straining pollution from the air 10/29/2003 12:10 AM
Recently Volvo began installing on some of its cars an air filter behind the front intake grill that cleans the air of more pollution than the vehicle itself emits. They've begun to sell models with this feature built-in; a fleet of mobile air cleaners will descend upon the world, cleaning it of smog -- in theory. Installing these filters on each vehicle in the city bus fleet seems a logical step forward from this; my rusty grasp of airflow says 5280 cubic feet an hour of air is about 140 cubic feet per second -- presuming the air intake is a foot square. Given six hours averaging 5 miles an hour, the bus will sweep 15,840 cubic miles of air. Data on the density of air particulates would be a valuable proof to this experiment; sampling the air repeatedly over...

EPA To Cut Pollution - Slowly

EPA To Cut Pollution - Slowly 12/18/2003 03:21 AM
CBS News Dec 18 2003 2:40AM ET

Measuring Pollution In Humans

Measuring Pollution In Humans 12/29/2003 08:25 AM
CHaN_316 writes "Scientists have begun measuring pollutants in our body and the results sound like a chemical clean-up site. They've found things such as flame ...

Pollution Rules Could Force Moo-ve

Pollution Rules Could Force Moo-ve 06/29/2004 10:50 AM
CBS News Jun 29 2004 2:17PM GMT

Bush Pollution Changes Blocked

Bush Pollution Changes Blocked 12/24/2003 02:30 PM
CBS News Dec 24 2003 1:37PM ET

UK 'will fail pollution targets'

UK 'will fail pollution targets' 09/07/2004 02:07 PM
Air pollution levels in the UK are too high to meet key objectives and may harm human health, an expert tells the BA science festival.

Air pollution linked to genetic
mutations

Air pollution linked to genetic
mutations 05/13/2004 03:26 PM
AP via New Jersey Online May 13 2004 7:14PM GMT

Ten Steps for Cleaning Up Information
Pollution

Ten Steps for Cleaning Up Information
Pollution 01/05/2004 09:39 AM

Air Pollution Linked to Genetic
Mutations (AP)

Air Pollution Linked to Genetic
Mutations (AP) 05/13/2004 03:19 PM
AP - Sooty air pollution can cause genetic damage that can be passed along to offspring, Canadian researchers reported Thursday in a study on mice.

A crystal that traps pollution from your
vehicles!

A crystal that traps pollution from your
vehicles! 08/30/2004 08:39 AM
123Bharath.com Aug 30 2004 1:03PM GMT

Pollution harms developing lungs

Pollution harms developing lungs 09/08/2004 08:19 PM
Children living in smoggy areas have retarded lung development which puts them at risk of diseases, say researchers.

Wal-Mart to pay $3.1 million fine for
pollution

Wal-Mart to pay $3.1 million fine for
pollution 05/12/2004 05:32 PM

How Industry Won the Battle of Pollution
Control at E.P.A.

How Industry Won the Battle of Pollution
Control at E.P.A. 03/06/2004 02:03 AM
The victory was the culmination of a two-year fight for dominance between environmental protection and energy production on clean air policy.

Pollution 'increases twin births'

Pollution 'increases twin births' 05/24/2004 08:16 PM
High levels of environmental pollution may increase the rates of twin births, say scientists.

Bay Pollution Progress Overstated
(washingtonpost.com)

Bay Pollution Progress Overstated
(washingtonpost.com) 07/18/2004 05:34 AM
washingtonpost.com - At news conferences, on its Web site and in its regular publications, the government agency leading the cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay has documented more than a decade of steady progress.

Pollution damages rare UK plants

Pollution damages rare UK plants 04/19/2004 01:53 PM
One of the UK's most vulnerable plant families, the stoneworts, are at risk from pollution caused by high levels of nutrients.

Report: EPA pollution plan won't cut it
(USATODAY.com)

Report: EPA pollution plan won't cut it
(USATODAY.com) 02/05/2005 10:15 PM
USATODAY.com - The Bush administration overlooked health effects and sided with the electric industry in developing rules for cutting toxic mercury pollution, an official said Thursday. EPA officials denied that the administration proposed mercury pollution standards without following requirements of the law.

Arthur C. Clarke on Information
Pollution

Arthur C. Clarke on Information
Pollution 12/06/2003 06:46 PM

Heart Disease Linked to Pollution

Heart Disease Linked to Pollution 12/17/2003 06:09 AM
Cancer researchers studying air pollution say they are surprised to learn that breathing polluted air is twice as likely to cause death from heart disease than from respiratory disorders.

Intel Brings N.Mexico Jobs, Pollution

Intel Brings N.Mexico Jobs, Pollution 01/02/2005 01:56 PM
AP via ABCNEWS.com Jan 2 2005 3:56PM GMT

Broadcom Accuses Atheros Of WiFi
Pollution

Broadcom Accuses Atheros Of WiFi
Pollution 11/15/2003 03:25 PM

Intel cleared over pollution-sickness in
New Mexico

Intel cleared over pollution-sickness in
New Mexico 06/23/2004 07:35 AM
Ethical Corporation Online Jun 23 2004 11:40AM GMT

Toxic pollution rose 5 percent in 2002

Toxic pollution rose 5 percent in 2002 06/23/2004 10:59 AM

Pollution Alters DNA in Mice, Study
Finds

Pollution Alters DNA in Mice, Study
Finds 05/17/2004 07:35 PM
Breathing soot from factories or highways may cause genetic damage that can be passed to offspring.

Ferel Robot Dogs Sniff Out Pollution

Ferel Robot Dogs Sniff Out Pollution 05/03/2004 11:38 PM
Almost a year ago, we first heard about Natalie Jeremijenko and her ferel robot dogs. Today, an Ithaca Journal article describes a recent visit by six of Natalie's ferel robot dogs to Washington Park, Ithaca, New York where they successfully sniffed out the source of some coal tar pollution. Because their primary goal is educating the public about pollution hazards, Natalie has taken to calling the robots "weapons of mass instruction". She hopes to make the plans simple enough that any high school student can download the information, upgrade their existing robot dog, and start sniffing out pollution in their neighborhood.

Report Sees Toxic Pollution Jump

Report Sees Toxic Pollution Jump 06/24/2004 06:22 AM
CBS News Jun 24 2004 11:09AM GMT

Skin Cells, Pollen Contribute to Air
Pollution

Skin Cells, Pollen Contribute to Air
Pollution 04/01/2005 03:25 AM

Elam Solves OLED Pollution Worries

Elam Solves OLED Pollution Worries 09/21/2004 10:58 PM
New OLED technology offers longer life while reducing toxic risks.

Weather Monitoring Frequencies Subject
to Pollution

Weather Monitoring Frequencies Subject
to Pollution 12/19/2004 03:51 PM
Slashdot Dec 18 2004 4:04PM GMT

Mining Giant Was Warned on Pollution in
Indonesia

Mining Giant Was Warned on Pollution in
Indonesia 12/24/2004 12:55 PM
An internal company report sheds new light on operations at Newmont Mining Corporation, which has drawn the rising ire of environmental groups.

Satellite surveillance used to spot ship
pollution

Satellite surveillance used to spot ship
pollution 07/02/2004 01:24 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jul 2 2004 6:05AM GMT

Toxic Pollution Rose 5 Percent in 2002
(AP)

Toxic Pollution Rose 5 Percent in 2002
(AP) 06/22/2004 06:46 PM
AP - The volume of toxic pollutants released into the atmosphere in the United States rose 5 percent in 2002, the first increase since 1997, the government reported Tuesday.

Court Suspends Bush Pollution Rules

Court Suspends Bush Pollution Rules 12/24/2003 08:12 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 24 2003 6:36PM ET
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