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The Baltimore Sun (Fri 15 Feb, 2008)
Oceans in peril: Scientists looking wide and deep find damage almost everywhere
Staff quoted: Don Boesch
In one of the most comprehensive looks yet at the oceans, researchers say that humans have "strongly" fouled 41 percent of the high seas with everything from storm water runoff to shipping waste and that only small polar regions are still untouched.
Chronicle of Higher Education (Fri 15 Feb, 2008)
Turning up the heat in Maryland
Staff quoted: UMCES
The Maryland Student Climate Coalition, which represents students from eight Maryland universities, has gathered 11,000 signatures of students in the University System of Maryland to urge the university to go climate neutral. The student group presented the petition at a Board of Regents meeting this morning. Students signing the petition hailed from the Universities of Maryland at College Park, of Maryland at Baltimore, and of Maryland-Baltimore County; Frostburg State, Salisbury, Towson, and Coppin State Universities, and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. Andrew Nazdin, a sophomore at the University of Maryland at College Park who helped organize the petition, told The Chronicle that the petition was an effort to pressure administrators to act quickly and seriously to deal with carbon emissions with realistic timetables and goals.
Plenty Magazine (Fri 8 Feb, 2008)
Beet it: road ice needs to be defeated - A common root vegetable is an eco de-icer
Staff quoted: Sujay Kaushal
You've sliced them into your salads. You've boiled them down to borsch. They may even sweeten your soda. But you've never seen the mighty beet quite like this: cast onto city streets as a deicer during winter. That's right; among the sugar beet's many qualities is an ability to fend off freezing in sub-zero conditions.
Capital News Service (Thu 7 Feb, 2008)
Plan For Chesapeake Bay Trust Fund Money Goes Before Senate Committee
Staff quoted: UMCES
ANNAPOLIS - Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposal to allow the BayStat program to allocate the recently created $50 million Chesapeake Bay Trust Fund received generally positive reviews at a Senate hearing Wednesday.
The Washington Post (Tue 5 Feb, 2008)
Md. Crab Harvest Dropped in 2007: 2nd-Lowest Tally Linked to Pollution, Drought, Overfishing
Staff quoted: Tom Miller
Last year's catch of blue crabs from Maryland waters of the Chesapeake Bay was the second-lowest on record, as environmental damage, drought and past overfishing helped drive down the state's most valuable seafood harvest, state officials said yesterday.
The Baltimore Sun (Tue 5 Feb, 2008)
Md. crab decline causes concern: Despite state efforts, harvest is second lowest in 3 decades
Staff quoted: Ed Houde, Tom Miller
Maryland's Chesapeake Bay crab harvest has plummeted to its second-lowest level in three decades, raising new concerns about one of the bay's signature species.
The Associated Press (Sat 2 Feb, 2008)
Study Finds Low Blood Mercury in Most Deep Creek Fish Eaters
Staff quoted: UMCES
HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Just 29 percent of people who reported eating large amounts of mercury-laden fish from western Maryland lakes had high levels of mercury in their blood, a federal researcher said Friday.
The Annapolis Capital (Sat 2 Feb, 2008)
Lack of fossilized oysters puts crimp on bay restoration
Staff quoted: Mutt Meritt
For decades, the state hired contractors to drop dredges deep into the muddy floor of the Chesapeake Bay, to haul up oyster shells that were thousands of years old.
The Annapolis Capital (Sat 2 Feb, 2008)
State's restaurants don't recycle shells
Staff quoted: Mutt Meritt
Restaurants up and down the East Coast recycle their discarded oyster shells for restoration - but not in Maryland.
Southern Maryland News (Sat 2 Feb, 2008)
Focus the Nation on Global Warming, Say Local College Students
Staff quoted: Dave Kimmel
Calling the generation of college students in the audience "the first 'carbon constrained society," Lloyd Timberlake tackled the problems of global climate change and the politics getting in the way of a solution. Timberlake, an adjunct professor of political science at St. Mary's College of Maryland (SMCM), joined a dozen other professors and guest speakers during a campus-wide Teach-In. He said this generation of college graduates will be the first to enter the workforce and adulthood with the need to reduce carbon emissions in order to combat climate change.