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Just outside the small town of Stabler in Washington, hydrologist Bengt Coffin surveys a mountain river that he helped to revive from a decades-long coma. Today, the clear waters of [...]

California's 'Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986' or Proposition 65 has inspired a similar bill in Massachusetts which requires industries to inform the public of any toxic substances present in their products. Proposition 65 gives industries the responsibility to publish warning labels on products to warn consumers of any hazardous chemicals present in the product. The Massachusetts law expands on the older law by including endocrine disrupter and neurotoxins in its list.

Clay Nadir wanted a book for the beach. Not just any book, but the type that makes you forget the beach, other than as the place where you discovered Jack [...]

Author(s): Richard A. Lovett [1] Michael Hood's quest for the 2068 Olympics began when he was six weeks old. Of course, it wasn't 2068 at the time. It was 2041, [...]

Author(s): Richard A. Lovett [1] Courtney Brandt was having a nightmare when the music started. One moment she was floundering in a blizzard -- lost, gasping for air that wasn't [...]

The article examines the special use of permit procedure and tries to identify the ideal role of the licensing authority Forest Service in the U.S. It explores the factors that defend federal regulation and evaluates the topics that needed to be considered by Forest Service in examining a permit application. It identifies the agency objectives and contrasted with the benefit/cost objectives.

Now, a new study suggests that if present global habitat-degradation trends continue, vascular plants and invertebrates living in wildlands - from wildflowers to bees - are twice as likely to survive as their cousins dwelling in nonwilderness areas. The researchers then filled in the known ranges of 400,000 species of plants and invertebrates - and estimated the extinction risk for each one. [Extracted from the article]

Highlights from the article: PHOTO (COLOR): Mold growing on the inside of the International Space Station, where exercise clothing was hung to dry. Mold might also one day threaten other parts of the solar system - with hitchhiking mold spores from Earth.

The article discusses the discovery of a four-billion-year-old Earth rock fragment embedded in another rock which was collected by American astronauts during an Apollo 14 lunar space mission in 1971, and it mentions how the rock is believed to have been blasted from Earth by an asteroid impact and made it to the moon. According to the article, this rock sample may be the oldest-known Earth rock. It states that the rock contains quartz, feldspar, and zircon crystals.

States that fuel additive methyl-tert-butyl ether (MTBE) has been identified by the California Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, as a possible human carcinogen, based on animal studies. Proposal of a health goal to limit levels of the chemical in drinking water; Purpose of the health goal; Arguments surrounding the proposed standard.