#environmental danger

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✦ Environmental Danger (presentation)

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A term for someone who presents as renukvine (link) and warprrowine (link)

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Rescued from fishing line, owl makes return to the wilds of the Lake of the Ozarks

Less than 48 hours after being rescued from a tangled fishing line, a juvenile barred owl was released back into the wild at Lake of the Ozarks State Park

Fishing line is a well known killer of water birds, and there are regular, sad rescue stories in my local area of South East Queensland, but this story demonstrates that fishing line can be a killer to woodland birds, and ones that live far away from the ocean. Luckily, for this little owl, he was rescued in time, but many birds and other animals are not so lucky. If you fish, please please please, dispose of your fishing line properly whether you are in a stream, lake, or the ocean.

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Micro Plastics in your TOOTHPASTE and soap!!!! Yuck :(

Okay, so micro plastics are one of the biggest ecological concerns for conservation because they do not degrade or go away. They just break up into smaller and smaller pieces. Yet they are being added to Crest toothpaste and many exfoliating scrubs. Rubbing micro plastics on your body probably isn't doing you any harm initially, but apparently those plastics are ending up in the Great Lakes and other water supplies which means they are being eaten by wildlife and possibly... us. 

And if you aren't eating them through the water supply, you may be brushing your teeth with them. In toothpaste they aren't even providing any benefit other than color. I am not a dentist, but I am going to recommend that having micro plastics stuck in your gums is really not a good thing. 

So, get an exfoliating scrub that uses something natural or use a luffa. Use toothpaste that doesn't have micro plastics. Do it for you, and do it for the environment.

Crest Toothpaste Embeds Plastic in Our Gums

Tiny Plastic Beads are Invading the Great Lakes

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Highway Patrol says agencies are assessing any possible environmental danger to the public. Source: Reuters [view]

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Highway Patrol says agencies are assessing whether there's an environmental danger to the public. Source: Reuters [view]

[allisondroberts]

Use our Bird Guide to identify birds, learn about the life history, listen to the sounds, and watch bird behavior on video--the most comprehensive guide to North American birds

We think when we pollute that we are just polluting our local region, but with the world population as high as it is and pollution being dumped in our air and our oceans at such an alarming rate, we are managing to pollute even the seemingly pristine, out of the way places. Albatrosses die of starvation from ingesting too much plastic thousands of miles from people, and songbirds have higher mercury levels in their remote wintering grounds than in their more people populated summer locations. These are the things we know, how much other pollution is making its ways to the "untouched" beautiful parts of the world?

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Government department officers continue to search for injured birds and animals around an oil spill at the Port of Brisbane.

In other news Australia is trying to RESCUE their wildlife after yet another oil spill. Generally, I find oil spill articles fairly depressing as we don't seem to be learning much from previous oil spill mistakes in preventing more oil spills. However, compared to the Wisconsin Government Baby Deer Raid and Murder, the fact that the Australian government is doing anything helpful to rescue oiled birds is somewhat reassuring and heartwarming. 

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Pipeline Inspector-Turned Whistleblower Calls

Keystone XL a Potential “Disaster”

By Stephen Lacey on Jan 3, 2012 at 2:43 pm

Mike Klink: Let’s be clear — I am an engineer; I am not telling you we shouldn’t build pipelines. We just should not build this one.

" ... By forcing the White House to make a decision on the politically and environmentally-toxic Keystone XL pipeline as part of an agreement reached in December to extend the payroll tax cut, Republicans are being lambasted by environmental groups for undercutting the federal environmental review process. ... "

" ... Now a whistleblower is claiming that the company overseeing the development of the proposed project, TransCanada, also has a track record of undercutting quality at the expense of the environment — further calling into question the decision by Congress to prevent a new federal environmental impact study for Keystone XL. ... "

" ... Mike Klink is a former inspector for Bechtel, one of the major contractors working on TransCanada’s original Keystone pipeline, completed in 2010. Klink says he raised numerous concerns about shoddy materials and poor craftsmanship during construction of the pipeline, which brings tar sands crude from Canada to Midwestern refineries in the U.S. Instead of actually addressing the problems, Klink claims he was fired by Bechtel in retaliation. He filed a complaint with the Department of Labor in March of 2010, and made his story public last fall. ... "

" ... As an inspector, my job was to monitor the construction of the first Keystone pipeline. I oversaw construction at the pump stations that have been such a problem on that line, which has already spilled more than a dozen times. I am coming forward because my kids encouraged me to tell the truth about what was done and covered up. ... "

" ... When I last raised concerns about corners being cut, I lost my job — but people along the Keystone XL pathway have a lot more to lose if this project moves forward with the same shoddy work. ... "