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Officer Punches Teenager in Face Over Jaywalking
According to the SeattlePI, there is a pedestrian overpass over Seattle's Martin Luther King Way. Looking at Google Street View, it looks like one of the usual ones put up to make pedestrians climb two flights of stairs so that cars don't have to slow down. Nobody uses these things. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Source: TreeHugger - added 2 months ago
Will Biodegrading Oil And Natural Gas From BP Gusher Expand The Gulf Dead Zone?
Satellite view of the Gulf oil spill as of 12 June 2010 (partial excerpt). Image credit:SkyTruth, via NASA.So far, I have read only unsupported speculation about the Gulf 'Dead Zone' potentially expanding as a result of increased biological oxygen demand (BOD) from oil and natural gas. It is plausible - assuming phytoplankton blooms are not reduced somehow by the presences of so much oil and ga...
Source: TreeHugger - added 2 months ago
Beware Young Grasshopper...Of the USDA
The USDA announced plans yesterday to allocate $11 million of its budget to efforts this summer to control the spread of native grasshoppers throughout eleven western states. That money will go towards protecting four million acres of farmland, based on high estimates of grasshopper breeding going into this summer. These expectations are based on 2009 surveys of grasshopper populations. The states...
Source: TreeHugger - added 2 months ago