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Minnesota wildlife experts fear the impact of the Gulf oil spill on juvenile common loons, who spend several years in the Gulf before heading north to Minnesota and other states. A thousand miles from the Gulf of Mexico, concern is building about the effect of the BP oil disaster on Minnesota’s official state bird, the [...]
Editor’s note: Sanctuary City is the first installment in a fictional futuristic serial that will appear regularly in Ecolocalizer. June 23, 2011 The constant rain outside muffled her fractured thoughts; as she started reading her favorite newspaper column, “Ask the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill“, she heard a familiar song faintly playing somewhere far away. Kurt [...]
A bird is engulfed in toxic oil sludge at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on June 3, 2010. Images are from AP photographer Charlie Riedel. It seems that our nation will be scraping the putrid remnants of the Bush/Cheney administration off our shoes for many decades; not just in the form our [...]
Northwest Indiana’s Lake Michigan shoreline is characterized by both a national park unit and intensive industrialization, creating fertile ground for Gitte Laasby’s enterprising journalism. During the last year, three newspaper reporters covering environmental and Great Lakes matters full-time have left the beat as their former homes downsize. Only a handful of such reporters remain. The [...]
