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Lest we Forget – BP Oil Spill 2010

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May 29, 2010 BP finally announces that Operation “Top Kill”, the effort to force drilling mud into the wellhead and seal it, has failed. June 2, 2010 BP apparently bans workers from showing dead or dying wildlife and from talking to the press. Government officials estimate that thousands of them are badly sealed.

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Feral Cats in American Cities

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… The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease. Cats are domesticated animals that are not indigenous wildlife in North America.

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Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

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Every now and the the loosing Loon would disappear like it had been killed and sunk. The adults move to flocks, there may be two or three of them, that hang out mostly far off shore in the larger part of the lake, abandoning their embayments or otherwise protected areas. Then one day they are gone. Deepwater Horizon, 2010; Paruk et al.

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