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...using river water. They also notified the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) in Beijing, which coordinated the response. SEPA has issued conflicting statements about its subsequent actions. In a Nov. 24 statement it said that it "quickly" sent an expert team to Jilin and neighboring Heilongjiang province, which lies downstream. But in the same statement, SEPA said that Jilin officials didn't notify their counterparts in Heilongjiang until five days after the blast, on Nov. 18. The central question?When were all the relevant authorities informed of the massive chemical leak??is still unanswered. And residents of both provinces were...
...Pacific Northwest will lose only a tiny amount of hydropower and regain a legendary salmon fishery. But there could be problems. Behind the Elwha dams are some 18 million cubic yards of accumulated sediment, enough to fill four superdomes, and if a lot of that sediment starts to move downstream at once, the ecological consequences could be severe...
...disaster carried only by trade winds. With China's economic engine requiring ever more energy, the country is damming a significant part of its length of the Mekong River, threatening fishing and transportation in the five nations downstream. In 1998, China banned some domestic logging to protect its dwindling forests, but the Asian giant's appetite for disposable chopsticks and plywood furniture has hardly abated. Log imports--second only to the U.S.'s--more than quadrupled from 1996 to 2003, according to the World Wildlife Fund. China's appetite for resources extends even to the Amazon. By the middle...
...area of study that his foundation funds involves so-called Schwann cells, which play a role in helping nonspinal nerves to regenerate. In animal studies, Schwann cells grafted to the damaged part of the spine encourage nerve cells to grow into the graft but not, so far, to connect downstream. "They fail to bridge the cord," says Dalton Dietrich, scientific director of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis...
...draft permit for the Mirant Kendall Station, located in Cambridge downstream from the Longfellow Bridge, would allow the plant to continue using the Charles to clean its turbines...