Off-again, on-again ag film draws a crowd By Marlin Levison, Star Tribune3 October 2010 Mark Schultz, associate director of the Land Stewardship Project, spoke at a news conference before two showings of “Troubled Waters.” The film also will be aired at 8 p.m. Tuesday on public television. After weeks of ruckus, a documentary on farming's [...]
Study: Mo. River projects won't affect 'dead zone' By By CHRIS BLANK - Associated Press WriterSep. 29, 2010JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A study released Tuesday concludes that a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to dump sediment into the Missouri River while improving wildlife habitats would not significantly increase the size of the "dead zone" [...]
Questions persist in 'Troubled Waters' film flap By John Croman, KARE11.com9/30/2010SAINT PAUL, Minn. -- Lawmakers and citizens gave positive marks to the "Troubled Waters" documentary after viewing it Wednesday, but still had tough questions for the dean of the University of Minnesota's school of agriculture about academic freedom at the U. "I thought it was [...]
Troubled Waters opens at U By The Minnesota Daily4 October 2010To Larkin McPhee, two filled premieres of "Troubled Waters: A Mississippi River Story" on Sunday offered a "silver lining" to several weeks of controversy. Nearly 650 people saw the documentary at the University of Minnesota Bell Museum of Natural History. McPhee — the film’s writer, [...]
Wind offers reprieve to struggling, dying fish in Hood Canal dead zone By Craig Welch, Seattle Times29 Sep 2010 Normally bottom-dwelling quillback rockfish (top) and a few yellowtail rockfish hover near the surface of Hood Canal, while a stressed sunflower star (left) spreads its webbing; both scenes attributed to a lack of oxygen. Wolf [...]
World's rivers in crisis, scientists report By Journal SentinelSept. 29, 2010 A lifeless "dead zone" the size of Massachusetts in the Gulf of Mexico. Excessive irrigation. Mercury and pesticides in fish. Declining river water quality. For the first time, scientists from around the world have assessed how the most critical threats to rivers affect people [...]
U of M faculty, citing academic freedom, call for investigation of Troubled Waters actions By Twin Cities Daily PlanetSeptember 27, 2010After more than a week of bad press and internal and external pressure, the University of Minnesota announced last week it would be premiering the film Troubled Waters as originally planned. The film explores, among [...]
Scientists worry Hood Canal may suffer extensive fish kills By By Craig Welch, Seattle Times environment reporter 22 September 2010 The bottom fish are at the surface once again, milling about in massive clusters along the upper reaches of Hood Canal, trying to avoid death by suffocation. The quillback rockfish, copper rockfish, ratfish, Dover sole [...]
State officials to test latest fish kill By by Maya Rodriguez / Eyewitness News, WWLTVSeptember 21, 2010PLAQUEMINES -- Thousands of dead fish floated along Bayou Robinson on Sunday, the latest in a string of four major fish kills plaguing Plaquemines Parish. "Millions of fish, absolutely, millions," said P.J. Hahn, Plaquemines Parish Coastal Zone Management director. [...]
Oil unlikely to have caused fish kill, La. fisheries agency says By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press WriterSaturday, September 18, 2010 at 4:32 p.m NEW ORLEANS — The latest raft of bloated fish found in Plaquemines Parish probably died for the same reason as one found six days earlier — low oxygen caused by high [...]