Troubled Waters - Troubled U By BY BRIAN DEVORE, LOON COMMONS, Twin Cities Daily PlanetSeptember 19, 2010When the Daily Planet revealed this week that the U of M has pulled the plug on the premiere of an important film about farming and the Mississippi River, it wasn't just another hint that corporate powers are calling [...]
U of M dean says 'Troubled Waters' film 'vilifies agriculture' By by Stephanie Hemphill, Minnesota Public Radio September 17, 2010St. Paul, Minn. — The Dean of the University of Minnesota School of Agriculture says the premiere of a film about pollution in the Mississippi River was postponed because it "vilifies agriculture." The film, "Troubled Waters," [...]
Where are all of the Gulf's heroes now? By BY FRED GRIMM, MIAMI HERALDSEP 19, 2010Back in May, on a fishing boat touring Brenton Bay, Herald photographer Joe Rimkus and I saw those first red tendrils of oil washing into Plaquemines Parish. Blackened stands of Roseau cane seemed a harbinger of the catastrophe that would [...]
Who pulled the plug on University of Minnesota's By BY MOLLY PRIESMEYER, TWIN CITIES DAILY PLANETSeptember 15, 2010 [UPDATED 9/16/10—See box below.] Troubled Waters: A Mississippi River Story has been nearly four years in the making. A team of researchers, filmmakers, and scientists have been up and down the Mississippi River, knee deep in [...]
The Dead Zone: The Deepwater Horizon oil spill versus the dead zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico - which is worse? By By Nathaniel E. Ostrom, PRAIRIE FIRE NEWSSeptember 2010 A few weeks ago I received an e-mail message from Gabriella Belmarez, a high school student at Lamar Academy in McAllen, Texas, that inspired [...]
Dead zones a coastal threat By BY MIKE LEE, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2010 Earnie Grafton A dead zone in San Diego Bay is part of a new national assessment of coastal waters suffering from low levels of oxygen. It shows areas of hypoxia have increased rapidly over that past 30 years. Dead [...]
Farmer Changes Practices to Stop the Gulf Dead Zone By Gabi MooreSep 01, 2010 The Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone has been declared one of the largest ever this year; void of oxygen due primarily to fertilizers that run off into the ocean from Midwestern farms. Thankfully, on the mainland, farmers like Minnosota’s Tony Thompson [...]
Gulf's 'dead zone' swelled this summer to one of largest areas on record By By Sharon Schmickle , Minn PostThu, Sep 2 2010 MinnPost photo by Sharon SchmickleMatt Rota: "We really aren’t going to know the full impact for years to come." The Gulf of Mexico’s so-called dead zone swelled this summer to afflict one [...]
New Report Warns of Expanding Threat of Hypoxia in U. S. Coastal Waters By NOAA NewsSeptember 3, 2010 A report issued today by key environmental and scientific federal agencies assesses the increasing prevalence of low-oxygen “dead zones” in U.S. coastal waters and outlines a series of research and policy steps that could help reverse the [...]
Minnesota farmer battles Gulf 'dead zone' By John D. Sutter, CNNAugust 30, 2010 Windom, Minnesota (CNN) -- Within moments of meeting Tony Thompson, you can tell he sees the world from a different tilt. His frayed shirt pocket is stuffed so full of notes that it's ripping at the seams. Hairy eyebrows spring off his face [...]