Albino Killer Whale

An albino Killer Whale has finally been photographed in the Alaska's Aleutian Islands. For a while now people have been coming forward with reports of this albino Killer Whale in the region however no one has ever photographed it. After examining the photo Scientists are having doubts that the Killer Whale is actually a true Albino because you can see some skin pigments. Which actually is good news for the Killer Whale because albino animals usually have many health problems.

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Asian Carp threaten Lake Michigan

Asian Carp are now within 45 miles of Lake Michigan. While areas of the Illinois River are infested with 80,000+ Asian Carp according too annual sampling.

Last year Congress passed 9 million in funding to complete a electric barrier to keep Asian Carp from entering Lake Michigan. However the electric barrier is still not operating and we are running out of time.

If Asian Carp enter Lake Michigan the entire Great Lakes 4.5 billion dollar commercial and sport fishing industries could be devastated. Because of the impact Asian Carp would have on the delicate Great Lakes Eco-System.

The Gray Wolf may go back on the endangered species list

Six months ago the Bush administration had taken gray wolfs off the endangered species list. Now the Bush administration is asking a federal judge too put the gray wolf back on the list.

Apparently the wolfs have not bred enough in the wild too maintain stable populations in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming.

Gray wolfs play an important role as the dominate predator in healthy ecosystems. In areas were the gray wolf have been reintroduced entire ecosystems have benefited.

Some people say why worry about global warming

Personally I live in Michigan and some of my uninformed friends will say things like “Global Warming is good at least our winters won’t be as bad” and “why should I care if the polar ice cap melts, I’ve never seen the north pool and don’t ever plan on too.”

Many of my friends would be surprised to know that during the last ice age the world was only 6 degrees cooler on average then they are now. During the last ice age Michigan had a two mile deep glacier over it.

If 6 degrees cooler then average can cause a 2 mile think glacier too form over Michigan what would 6 degrees of warming do. Kind of scary when you think about it.

The polar ice cap is melting

Global Warming is causing the polar ice cap too melt. Within a few years we just might have our first summer with an ice free artic. Never before have humans lived on earth with open ocean at the north pole.

Because wind patterns are caused by the interaction between artic cold and tropical heat. The possibility of entire wind currents being disrupted because of the warming artic is a possibility that cannot be ruled out.

How an ice free artic will effect global weather patterns is being debated. What is for certain is that Famine, floods and intense storms will be a byproduct of Global Warming.

Garden soil on the Big Island has elevated levels or arsenic

In Hawaii elevated levels of arsenic have been found in Garden soil near sugar fields on the Big Island. The arsenic is thought too have come from the use of herbicides in the sugar fields back in the 1920’s until the 1940’s. A recent study has concluded that vegetables grown in the arsenic laden garden soil are safe to eat.

How sad is it too think that even in a tropical paradise such as Hawaii pollution is harming the environment and putting peoples health at possible risk.

West Nile Virus

For most of the United States and Canada mosquitoes have always been a summer pest but their bite never really carried a health risk other then the itching they caused. Now with the arrival of West Nile Virus which originated in the Middle East people are afraid to let their children play without insect repellent. For the past few summers several people have died each year from West Nile infection.

West Nile Virus is a potentially fatal disease that is spread by mosquitoes. West Nile Virus was first found in the Western Hemisphere in 1999 and has spread thought the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Zebra Mussles

Zebra mussels are an invasive species to the Great Lakes region. Zebra mussels first appeared in Lake St. Clare in 1988 and has since spread throughout the Great Lakes and tributaries.

Zebra mussels are voracious filter feeding organisms. Which simply means, they remove particles from the water column for food. By removing particles from the water column indigenous species have to compete with the Zebra mussels for food resulting in a stress through out the food chain.

It’s unclear what the long term effect Zebra mussels will have on the eco system of the great lakes…All we can do for now is wait and see…

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Love Canal 30 years latter

Love Canal is a working class community in Niagara Falls, New York. 30 years ago this summer the community came to world wide attention because it was built on top of a chemical waste dump.

The elementary school was located just 3 blocks from the chemical dump. A couple now in their 40’s who attended the school remember playing with ooze bubbling up on the playground.

That ooze was Phosphorous rocks that would exploded like a firecracker when the children threw them on the sidewalk. In fact many of the children attending the school suffered phosphorous burns from playing on the playground.

A former kitchen lady and cancer survivor who used to work at the school has compiled a list of 25 former workers at the school who have died from cancer.

Hope for the critically endangered bamboo lemurs

A group of the critically endangered bamboo lemurs have been located in Madagascar. The newly discovered group is believed to be 30 to 40 in total. Until this discovery the only place were bamboo lemurs were thought too live was in an isolated bamboo forest.

The discovery of this group of bamboo lemurs is raising hopes that this species can be saved. Bamboo lemurs are unique animals with distinctive big eyes. It would be absolutely devastating too lose this species.

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Global warming will increase kidney stones in Americans

According too researchers at the University of Texas Global Warming will cause an increase in kidney stones in the United States. In 42 years researchers are predicting a 30 percent increase in kidney stone disease in the United States.

As average temperatures rises dehydration will effect more and more people. Dehydration and kidney stone disease are strongly correlated.

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http://writingcampus.com/blog/255
http://blogevolve.com/blog/toad

Global warming is killing the worlds coral reefs

Global warming could kill of all of the worlds reefs by 2050. As the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere rise so does the levels of carbon dioxide in the Oceans. The increased carbon dioxide levels in the ocean causes the oceans to become more acidic.
The increased acidic water interferes with the corals ability to calcify their skeletons and the coral begins to die.

In a worse case scenario all the coral in the Oceans will die along with half of the oceans organisms that rely on the coral for survival.

The effects of Global Warming are being felt on land and in the sea. The world needs to act now if we are too prevent the largest mass extinction since the dinosaurs.

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http://writingcampus.com/blog/255
http://blogevolve.com/blog/toad
http://www.soulcast.com/Kemo/
http://k2emo.blogspot.com/

The return of the American Bison

The American Bison four hundred years ago numbered around 74 million and roamed all over the North American plains. But at the turn of the 20 century their numbers were down to around 1,000 and many people thought the American Bison would be extinct soon. However now in the early years of the 21 century the American Bison population is around 500,000 which is wonderful.

The return of the American Bison is truly a great success story in conservation.

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Brain-eating amoeb killed 6 in the United States last year

There is a brain-eating amoeba that killed 6 people last year in the United States. The amoeba is called Naegleria fowleri and is found around the world. It lives in lake water and soil.
This killer amoeba enters the body though the nose of swimmers and destroys tissue on it’s way to the brain were it feeds on brain cells. Naegleria fowleri kills nearly every person it infects. So far no cure has been discovered for this infection. When infected most people die within 2 weeks.
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