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...which are mostly blind and search for food in the sandy shallows using sonar. The confused and starving animals may then have wandered into boat propellers. Heavy dredging in shipping channels could also have made it harder for the animals to locate each other and hunt for increasingly scarce fish. "Dredging is a very serious problem," Wang says. "It destroys spawning grounds of fish. There are also too many boats. The baiji depend on their sonar ability to survive...
...bags may make such taxes and prohibitions more palatable. But even Hindmarch concedes that her canvas tote has its limits. "I have five kids," she explains, which adds up to a lot of groceries--and she's still not willing to ditch the plastic when bringing home a smelly fish or other items with leak potential. But the combination of stylish looks and too-thin wallets may drive real change. Thousands of shoppers camped out in Dublin in July to get a Hindmarch bag. And many of this season's trendy $15 eco-tote bags have been selling on eBay...
...were, it was really my friend whom I got to know that day—his cooking skills were a new side to him that I had never seen in high school physics. Even when we lost an eggshell in the pan and broke the yolk trying to fish it out, it didn’t matter. We both laughed...
...difficult for the U.S. to operate. Thompson says that the Sunni insurgency in Madain - as elsewhere in Iraq - is divided between nationalist elements and the jihadists of al-Qaeda in Iraq. The al-Qaeda group has based itself in a bend in the Tigris River dominated by fish farms, and the dike roads that criss-cross the area cannot carry the weight of U.S. vehicles...
Exposure to toxins is another danger for the 235,000 laundry and dry-cleaning workers nationwide, Forms of nonyl phenol ethoxylate (NPEs), chemicals commonly found in U.S. detergents, have been shown to cause fish to change gender and are banned in the European Union and Canada. On June 5, laundry workers petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide health and safety protections from NPEs. Currently, the EPA's guidelines on chemicals date back to 1985, and do not reflect recent research on NPEs...