Environmental Writer Blames Humans for Dying Oceans By Faiza Elmasry, Voice of America06 October 2010 Huge swathes of the ocean are dying and environmental writer Alanna Mitchell says humans are to blame. Mitchell believes human activity is altering everything about the world's oceans, including their temperature, acidity and the life within them. Most of the [...]

We're Overloading the System with Nitrogen By Quest, Science for South Africa11 Oct 2010  At Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, excess nitrogen promotes algae growth, which leads to eutrophication. Over-nourished by excess nutrients including nitrogen, which drains from nearby farms, swirls of blue-free algae form. The eventual decay of the algae robs the water of oxygen, [...]

YouTube Video on "Navigating Troubled Waters" By UpTakeVideo October 04, 2010 Yesterday the University of Minnesota's Bell Museum of Natural History showed two screenings of "Troubled Waters: A Mississippi River Story", a documentary which relies on undisputed scientific facts to narrate how fertilizers used by industrial agriculture make their way into the water systems and [...]

Mary Landrieu Goes to Bat for Louisianas Wetlands By Georgianne Nienaber, The Huffington PostSeptember 28, 2010  United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., today gave testimony to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling at its open meeting in Washington, DC. Landrieu's testimony focused on the importance of a [...]

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 [...]