Summers Killing Combination: Sewage Treatment And Long Island Sound By Christine Woodside, Waterford Patch28 May 2011  Credit: Long Island Sound Study It is a killing combination: Connecticut’s developed coast bumps up against Long Island Sound, a quiet body of water with few exit points to the open ocean. Each summer, a dead zone forms at [...]

Gadget aims to breathe life into Baltimore's harbor dead zone By By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun 26 May 2011  Panels on the SolarBee device in the harbor have wire guards to keep birds away. (Jed Kirschbaum, Baltimore Sun / May 26, 2011) Something new is floating in the Inner Harbor. Not litter this [...]

How industrial agriculture makes us vulnerable to climate change, Mississippi floods edition By Tom Philpott, grist23 May 2011 8:34 PM  An "ephemeral gulley" that carried soil and agrichemicals from an Iowa farm toward the Gulf of Mexico during a 2010 storm. Photo: Environmental Working Group Nancy Rabalais, marine scientist and executive director of the Louisiana [...]