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This lack of discriminatory ability is seen particularly starkly in Lake erie's ring-billed gulls. Nest invasions are common,

such as a mountaintop view, a lake and palm trees, have been picked cherry and combined to provide an easy, entirely artificial landscape for the city.

such as islands or mountain lakes. As a result, it's possible to find some endemic species that exist nowhere else On earth,

and yields-on behalf of organizations ranging from the World Food Program to Great lakes Coffee (a local coffee purchaser) that lack an affordable means of collecting such granular, real-time information.

Fertiliser pollution in lakes and the ocean causes massive blooms of algae, which use up the oxygen dissolved in the water,

acid rain poisoned rivers, lakes and soils, eroded buildings and monuments; refrigerant chemicals ate away at the protective ozone layer;

Freshwater is so valuable that even today with our sophisticated hydroengineering systems, more than half the world's population lives within 3 kilometres (2 miles) of a surface body of freshwater such as a lake or river.

lakes and wetlands where we can get at it. An even tinier proportion hangs in the atmosphere as clouds and rain.

Last years cherry was a giant rubber ball about 6 feet in length. oeit had some issues in the Wind rose told AOL News. oewere on the Great lakes,

. While the monster fish captures headlines as it inches toward the Great lakes, other species have colonized already other parts of the country,

1. Canada Geese for endangering public health by soiling parks and lakes, stripping farmers fields and getting in the way of airplanes;

and even New yorks tiny Finger Lakes Distilling sells Glen Thunder, named after the Watkins Glen racetrack.

and it built a new casino at Lake Tahoe. In 1978 the company was the largest gaming employer in Nevada

and it built a new casino at Lake Tahoe. In 1978 the company was the largest gaming employer in Nevada

Lyman Lake State Park temporarily saved! Roper Lake State Park temporarily saved! Tubac Presidio State Historic Park temporarily saved!

Tonto Natural Bridge State Park temporarily saved! Alamo Lake State Park temporarily saved! Lost Dutchman State Park temporarily saved!

Picacho Peak State Park temporarily saved! Red Rock State Park temporarily saved! California Castle Crags State Park Postcard via Flickr As a direct result of budget cuts proposed by Gov. Jerry brown,

State Historic Park Benbow Lake State Recreational Area Benicia Capitol State Historic Park Benicia State Recreational Area Bidwell Mansion State

Mcgrath State Beach Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve Morro Strand State Beach Moss Landing State Beach Olompali State Historic

Standish-Hickey State Recreational Area Sugarloaf Ridge State Park Tomales Bay state Park Tule Elk State Natural Reserve Turlock Lake State

Recreational Area Twin Lakes State Beach Weaverville Joss house State Historic Park Westport-Union Landing State Beach William B. Ide Adobe

Bonny Lake State Park is being converted to a state designated wildlife area. Its worth noting that four parks almost got the axe last year

Brushy Lake State Park saved! Lake Eucha State Park Wah-Sha-She State Park saved!

Boggy Depot State Park Heavener Runestone State Park saved! Rhode island Robert J. Paquette, Chief of the Division of Parks and Recreation, says

and the bass are always biting at Town Lake. The self-proclaimed Live Music Capital of the World, Austin also hosts the annual South by Southwest music, film,

and Fenway Park. 4. Minneapolis#St paul, MN The name Minneapolis#means city of lakes, #and these twin metropolises have an extensive park

Families can keep fit by walking the paved trails and attending free Yoga in the Park classes on Saturdays at Grays Lake Park. 6. Madison, WI Theres no shortage of affordable fun in Madison,

lakes, food co-ops, and farmers markets, including Dane County Farmers Market at Capitol Square, held Saturdays at the foot of the statehouse.

Hugging the banks of Lake Mendota, the University of Wisconsin campus provides museums, art, and theater.

The Oriental darter is a species that once nested around Lake Amik in Hatay; however, they have not been observed in the region

since the lake dried up in the 1960s. This species has disappeared now in Turkey. It was seen for the last time in 1963,

spending winters in Lake Burdur in the Mediterranean region. However, this species is threatened by the level of industrial waste and the decreasing water levels in the lake,

#Kiziroä lu said, adding that bird populations around the lake are threatened also by flights from the nearby airport in Isparta.

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#Milk From Organic Cattle Less Fatty Than Ordinary Milk Organic milk is better for your health.

To Mo Siegel, a Colorado boy who had grown up on a ranch 80 miles away in Palmer Lake,

#M. R. Dye Public library, Horn Lake) Library-Sponsored Farm-team Baseball games#Pearl Public library. Library-Sponsored Blues & Jazz Concerts#Harriette Person Memorial Library Montana Early literacy/wildlife#oetrunks#:#

A farm-supply cooperative, Land O Lakes, bought Geosys, a satellite-imaging company, in December 2013,

</strong>Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee had applied for approval of a sour cherry dark lager called John created by a brewery employee.</

which destroyed the colorful gorges of Glen Canyon beneath the water of Lake Powell he later regretted his position.

Stumps and logs have been popping out from under southern Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier a 36.8-square-mile (95.3 square kilometers) river of ice flowing into a lake near Juneau for nearly the past 50 years.

by other fossils discovered near the location where the R. eurasiaticusfossil was found the multituberculate apparently lived in a temperate area rich in plants by the shores of shallow lakes.

The Great lakes were formed as the glaciers receded. Several of the world s foremost mountain ranges including The alps Himalayas

The Great lakes that formed in the western United states during the Eocene epoch were the perfect home for bass trout

</p><p>Officials with New york's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) are planning to survey a lake in Central park for signs of the dreaded northern snakehead fish aka Frankenfish NBCNEWS. com reports.</

</p><p></p><p>A new type of microbe has been found at a lake buried under Antarctica's thick ice according to news reports.

The find may unveil clues of the surrounding environment in the lake according to scientists.</</p><p>The bacteria said to be only 86 percent similar to other types known to exist On earth was discovered in a water sample taken from Lake Vostok

which sits under more than 2 miles (3 kilometers) of Antarctic ice. The freshwater lakehas likely been buried unaltered under the ice for the past million years.</

<a href=http://www. livescience. com/27737-new-bacteria-found-antarctic-lake. html target=blank>New Type of Bacteria Reportedly Found in Buried Antarctic Lake

Soil erosion can also lead to silt entering the lakes streams and other water sources. This can decrease local water quality contributing to poor health in the local population.

or lake the fertilizers can kill off fish and other aquatic species causing a harmful algal bloom.

For example to minimize impacts on aquatic life the Forest Service has agreed to limit the use of flame retardant in areas within 300 feet of streams and lakes;

More than a decade ago researchers unearthed a trove of thousands of stone tools piled atop animal bones in sandy silty sediment off the shores of Lake victoria in Kenya.

The project which was developed in an experimental forest at the University of California at Berkeley's Sagehen Creek Field Station near Lake Tahoe in California creates pockets of thinner trees in areas where the fire risk is high

The exceptions are certain minerals that are found in ancient lake and sea beds. These minerals such as sylvite carnallite langbeinite and polyhalite form extensive deposits in these ancient sites

During the day they rest play and sometimes fight in lakes rivers and swamps. They get down to business at night grazing on land for hours at a time.

They can be found near rivers lakes and swamps from Guinea in western Africa to Ethiopia on the eastern side of the continent and down to South africa.

and fat beneath their skin helps them float in rivers and lakes. Adult hippos can hold their breath and stay underwater for up to six minutes.

They did radiocarbon dating of shells on the lake's shoreline finding the shells'ages matched those of the other samples from formerly wet areas.

An international team of researchers analyzed sediment cores collected in 2009 from Lake El'gygytgyn (pronounced El-Gee-Git-Kin) the oldest deep lake in the northeast Russian Arctic.

Earth's Vanishing Ice A window into the past Lake El'gygytgyn or Lake E as the researchers refer to it was formed 3. 6 million years ago when a meteorite hit Earth and carved out

The lake is one of the few Arctic areas not eroded by continental ice sheets during the ice ages meaning it has collected a continuous and undisturbed sediment record the researchers said.

The lake which today is covered in ice for most of the year is so deep that

and now the lake record provides us with another 100 pieces and the picture is starting to become more and more clear.

#Invasive Earthworms Harming Great lakes Forests DENVER Gardeners and farmers may love earthworms for their rich castings

but in forests near the Great lakes the creatures are alien invaders. No earthworms are native to North america's northern forests (massive ice age glaciers kept the land worm-free.

And in the sugar maple forests near the Great lakes the churning worms actually compact the upper soil layers instead of loosening them Resner said.

The same process happens in places like Scotland's Loch Ness where floating logs or large fish that might be considered unremarkable and mundane in other lakes might be reported as a Loch Ness Monster sighting simply

because the monster said to dwell there is so well known. Video: Haunted House in New jersey? The Jersey Devil is clearly a product of folklore

#Lake ontario Facts Lake ontario is the smallest of all the Great lakes in surface area (7340 square miles/18960 square kilometers)

It holds about four times the water volume (393 cubic miles/1640 cubic km) as Lake erie

The easternmost of the Great lakes Lake ontario is positioned at the base of the Niagara falls. It is bordered by Ontario Canada to the southwest and north and New york to the south.

The St lawrence river provides the lake s outlet to the Atlantic ocean. The lake has a number of lagoons and baymouth bars

which are made formations of sand mud or other debris that close off bay areas. There are a number of islands on the lake including the Thousand Islands region

which is an archipelago of nearly 2000 islands that line the U s.-Canadian border. While many of the islands are small

Like all of the Great lakes Lake ontario as it is known today was the result of glacial shifting and melting at the end of the most recent Ice age.

The first European to see reach Lake ontario was Ãienne Brulã The french explorer and protã gã of Samuel de Champlain in 1612.

The lake has a rich history of commerce and trade especially following the War of 1812

The lake was a hub of commerce until the railroads were built and eclipsed the steamers as a way to move shipment.

Because of the lake s depth and the warm weather that comes in from the southwest Lake ontario rarely freezes over.

While the entire region is affected by lake-effect snow there is a prominent snow belt along the southeastern shore that can be deluged with 20 feet (600 cm) of snow annually.

The impact of the lake-effect snow can be felt as far as Syracuse N y

and steelhead are some of the fish that swim the waters of Lake ontario. Invasive mussels cover nearly half of the bottom of the lake in the coastal areas.

Lake ontario s climate is conducive to fruit tress and the area has become a major growing area for apples cherries peaches pears and plums.

Due to its location Lake ontario is host to a number of migratory birds. Swans loons ducks geese grebes and other water fowl are among the wildlife that inhabit Lake ontario.

Birds of prey such as hawks and eagles are also common in the area n

#Land of Giants: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National parks Giants live in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National parks. Soaring mountains rocky foothills deep canyons more than 200 marble caverns and the world's largest trees call these side-by-side parks home.

The highest mountain in the contiguous 48 states Mount whitney (with a peak at 14491 feet or 4417 meters) stretches across the Sequoia border.

The above photo of Aster Lake by Scott Toste was one of the contest favorites.

Aster Lake is a high alpine lake popular with backpackers and other outdoor enthusiasts for its remote setting perfect spot to commune with giants.

which winds for 2 miles up through the forest ending along an abandoned logging road that offers a stunning view of the triplet of volcanic peaks known as the Three Sisters according to Oregon Lakes & Rivers.

On spring nights males gather on the shores of ephemeral ponds and lakes to sing for mates.

so they don't pay much attention to what's around in their environment Smalling said. 40 Freaky Frog Photos Researchers collected Pacific chorus frogs on a north-south transect across Lassen volcanic national park Lake Tahoe Yosemite national park Stanislaus National Forest

In the Sierras introducing trout into mountain lakes also hit frogs hard because the fish gobbled up tadpoles and tiny frogs.

March 15 the New york times. The environmental devastation of Lake erie is a tragedy. But it s one that can be reversed.

and other partners in the Western Lake erie Basin to reduce fertilizer and sediment runoff. We count on farmers to produce safe and abundant supplies of food

but it s runoff from farmland that finds its way into the lake and is largely responsible for the devastating algae bloomsâ describedâ by the New york times. Why Lake erie is Under attack from Algae Blooms The key question is:

How do we get enough farmers to practice sustainable agriculture so that algal blooms and dead zones whether in Lake erie or the Gulf of mexico become a thing of the past?

How do we actuallyâ win? The answer lies in convincing farmers that sustainable agriculture is not at odds with high yields and profitability.

They constitute a large percentage of all living matter in oceans rivers and lakes. One species Didymosphenia geminata is responsible for creating thick blooms in mountain streams and ponds.

when winds stir up low-oxygen water from the lake depths. A fascinating and foul discovery on the skeleton-clad shores recently revealed the fate of the rest of the fish remains.

Their flesh drops to the lake floor where anaerobic bacteria transforms it into adipocere also known as corpse wax researchers from Kutztown University in Pennsylvania reported here Monday (Oct 28) at the Geological Society of America's annual meeting.

Perhaps disturbed by fierce winds globs of decomposed fish flesh recently rose from deep in the Salton Sea coagulated into spheres on the lake surface

are just the latest in a string of natural disasters to hit the inland lake from pollution to massive fish

With no outlet and no water source except for farming run off the lake has been shrinking

In Tanzania and Kenya there has been debate about how to connect the Lake victoria region and its growing human population with areas to the east.

The team collected ancient charcoal samples buried in the mud at the bottom of 14 lakes in the area.

More than 600 million cubic meters (20 billion cubic feet) of diatoms from a lake flew into the air Van Eaton reported Sept. 6 in the journal Geology.

From Antarctica's glacial lakes to acidic hot springs to unkempt home aquariums diatoms are everywhere.

When Wyoming's Yellowstone Lake emerged from its mile-thick ice cover 14000 years ago diatoms quickly arrived Theriot said.

Diatoms particularly love volcanic lakes because they are the only creatures that build shells of glass.

Silica-rich magma often causes the volcanic explosions that leave behind lake-filled craters and silica is the key ingredient in diatom shells.

Yellowstone Lake which sits in a caldera created by a super-eruption contains so many diatoms that the lake sediments are mostly shells (85 percent by weight) Theriot said.

when a massive volcano like Yellowstone blasts through a big lake. Immaculate preservation The Taupo Volcano super-eruption slammed through a deep lake that filled a rift valley similar to the elongated lakes in East Africa.

The combination of water and ash created a hellish dirty thunderstorm with towering clouds and roaring winds.

and dispersing the diatomite that is being created at the bottom of Yellowstone Lake Theriot said. This is the most thoroughly studied

Ash in Africa Lane and her colleagues examined ash from Toba recovered from mud extracted from two sites at the bottom of Lake Malawi the second largest lake in the East African Rift valley.

Their analysis discovered that a thin layer of ash in this sediment about 90 feet (27 m) below the lake floor was from the last of the Toba eruptions known as Youngest Toba Tuff.

I was surprised to find so much ash in the Lake Malawi record Lane added. The ash is composed very tiny of shards of volcanic glass smaller than the diameter of a human hair.

Quick recovery If the area had seen dramatic cooling because of all the ash spewed into the atmosphere living matter near the lake surface would likely have died off significantly altering the composition of the lake's mud.

or may not have had on other lakes in East Africa. Whilst from this we can hypothesize that the global climatic impact was not as dramatic as some have suggested we will need to find similarly high-resolution records of past climate from other regions that also contain Youngest Toba Tuff

Here underwater trees in the Great lakes may not be subject to shipworms zebra mussels are slowly eating through the wood.

when we post our photos of rosy sunsets blooming gardens and tranquil lakes online. Could we apply biophilic design to our hardware

Martian lakes? One of the rocks Rice mentioned was a mudstone that Curiosity drilled into.

Researchers think the mudstone formed in a place where water was calm such as a lake perhaps an ideal place for microbes to survive

Calm lake water is a better place to live. Another rock that received a lot of attention at the conference is Tintina a tiny pebble that Curiosity rolled over and broke apart.

Was it clay minerals deposited in a lake? Or digenesis which is when the rocks have been changed

The impact of irrigation isn't all that surprising given that the western United states poured enough water into crop irrigation to fill the entire Great lakes region with 2. 3 feet (0. 7 meters) of water

After 14 years of drought Lake Powell is less than half full. Water flows into Lake Powell nestled between Utah and Arizona from high in the Rocky mountains via the Colorado river.

More than 30 million people in seven states depend on the mighty Colorado for water to grow crops fuel power plants and keep cities such as Las vegas alive.

In August the federal Bureau of Reclamation cut by 9 percent the amount of water people in the southwestern United states could draw from Lake Powell.

#What An Ancient Lake Reveals at Its Core Kay Behrensmeyer is a curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural history.

I am amazed at how much information is contained in our tiny vertical sample from an ancient lake basin.

and we discovered an extinct lake! The layers in the core are preserved very well and show many periods with volcanic eruptions alternating with quiet lake phases

and dry periods when the water receded and soil developed. Â Thin horizontal stripes in the core called laminae formed

Those features are good evidence that a deep fairly large lake once existed in that area of Olorgesailie.

 We can analyze volcanic ash brought into the lake by wind using the technique of radiometric dating so it will be possible to measure how long ago each ash layer was deposited.

  The section of the core shown here (see the enlargement in the lower right of the image) also revealed where banded lake deposits have a well-defined contact on top of an ancient clay-rich soil.

The water level must have risen quickly to make such a sharp transition from land to lake.

The paw paw tree (Asimina triloba) is indigenous to 26 states in the United states growing wild from the Gulf Coast up to the Great lakes region.

Mirror Lake: Though it s more of a pond than a lake this Yosemite Valley spot is an extremely popular destination.

It boasts glorious reflections of Half Dome and Mount Watkins in spring when the water level is high enough.

Grand canyon Flood Future effects The pulse down the Colorado would be released from Lake Mead the largest U s. reservoir formed by the Hoover dam

and lakes that are 3. 7 to 5 miles (6 to 8 km) wide according to Woodland Park Zoo.

if a chupacabra (unlike Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster) has finally been caught. In Dewitt County Texas most people are convinced this is the elusive chupacabra said a reporter with KAVU News an ABC affiliate based in Victoria Texas though a wildlife biologist suggested it might be a dog or coyote.

The Vampire Beast In fact Fiction and Folklore and Lake Monster Mysteries: Investigating the World's Most Elusive Creatures.

or lake using their sensitive bills. When platypuses find something interesting like shellfish insects larvae

They focused on the Amazon of northeastern Bolivia where they had sediment cores from two lakes nearby major earthworks sites.

Ancient landscape An examination of the two cores one from the large lake Laguna Oricore and one from the smaller lake Laguna Granja revealed a surprise:

Earlier this summer park officials recovered a drone that had crashed near a marina in Yellowstone Lake Bartlett said.

Eighty percent of the planet's species died off at the end of the Cretaceous period 65.5 million years ago including most marine life in the upper ocean as well as swimmers and drifters in lakes and rivers.

The Eastern wolf also known as Great lakes wolf Eastern timber wolf Algonquin wolf or deer wolf has been deemed a distinct species from their western cousins according to a review by U s. Fish and Wildlife Service scientists.

The layers of volanic ash and lake sediments at Laguna del Hunco have turned up some other amazing ancient plants including a fossilized tomatillo and the remains of eucalyptus buds and flowers.

The baby mammoth was likely crossing a frozen lake with her mother when she crashed through the ice

Lakes in the region held fish frogs and salamanders. It was uncertain what Changyuraptor ate

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky the 19th-century Russian composer is renowned world for Swan Lake and the 1812 Overture among other pieces.

so they live in and around lagoons or lakes. These bodies of water tend to be saline or alkaline.

and orange while lesser flamingos of the drought-plagued Lake Nakuru in central Kenya tend to be a paler pink.

To eat flamingos will stir up the bottom of the lake with their feet and duck their beaks down into the mud and water to catch their meal.

In 2011 the Dollar Lake fire burned more than 6000 acres (about 2400 hectares) of the Mount Hood National Forest.

Varner a doctoral student in biology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City was unaware of the fire until she returned to her field site on Pinnacle Ridge in 2012 and discovered it was destroyed.

According to satellite data and the U s. Forest Service the Dollar Lake fire hit the slope between Sept. 11

In 2013 scientists discovered evidence that this delayed response actually happened a layer of volcanic ash from an eruption in Iceland found in ancient mud on the floor of Lake Meerfelder Maar in western Germany.

and his colleagues analyzed more sediment from Lake Meerfelder Maar. They examined the organic remains of land

In the bottom of an oxbow lake next to Cahokia Ill. which was the most powerful and populous city north of Mexico in A d. 1200 lie the buried remains of a flood that likely destroyed the crops and houses of more than 15000 people.

Pollen grains buried in nearby Horseshoe Lake show farming at Cahokia intensified starting about A d. 450 accompanied by rapid deforestation.

The landscape is dotted with saltwater lakes including Gorkoye Lake which can be seen within the dark-green forest on the left side of this image.

According to the region's tourism department people visit the lake's waters as well as the rich mud at the lake's bottom for healing purposes.

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#'Mummy Lake'Used for Ancient Rituals, Not Water Storage In Colorado's Mesa verde national park a large 1000-year-old structure long thought to be an Ancestral Puebloan water reservoir may not have been built to store water after all a new study suggests.

Instead the so-called Mummy Lake which isn't a lake and has never been associated with mummies likely held ancient ritual ceremonies researchers say.

Mummy Lake is lined a sandstone circular pit that was originally 90 feet (27.5 meters) across

Several subsequent studies of Mummy Lake have supported also this view leading the National parks Service to officially name the structure Far View Reservoir in 2006.

Far View refers to the group of archaeological structures located on the northern part of the park's Chapin Mesa ridge where Mummy Lake is situated also.

In the new study researchers analyzed the hydrologic topographic climatic and sedimentary features of Mummy Lake and the surrounding cliff area.

See Images of Mummy Lake in Mesa verde The fundamental problem with Mummy Lake is that it's on a ridge said study lead author Larry Benson an emeritus research scientist for the U s. Geological Survey and adjunct curator

Mummy Lake and other buildings. Previously scientists had thought Mummy Lake the northernmost structure#was a key part of a large water collection

and distribution system that transported water between these structures to areas south of the reservoir.

They proposed that a gathering basin was located once uphill from Mummy Lake and that a hypothetical feeder ditch connected the two locations.

Studies have shown that another shallow foot-paved ditch runs south from Mummy Lake to Far View House

Lake Natron Gives Up Its Dead The prevailing idea was that precipitation would first collect in the basin

and then travel down to Mummy Lake along the ditch; from there some of it could then travel to the rest of the village providing water for drinking

I think it's appealing to think of Mummy Lake as a reservoir Benson told Live Science noting that the Ancestral Puebloans of Mesa verde lived in a region without any natural bodies of water.

They found that the ditches leading from Mummy Lake to the southern structures couldn't have functioned as water canals or irrigation distribution systems.

Next the team used climate models to investigate Mummy Lake's potential to store water.

if a hypothetical feeder ditch could actually provide Mummy Lake with water. The engineering and sediment transport work showed that any water in the ditch would start moving so much dirt that it would block the path Benson said.

That is soil would have clogged quickly the ditch after regular rainfall preventing the water from reaching Mummy Lake.

Benson and his colleagues propose Mummy Lake is unroofed an ceremonial structure not unlike the ancient kivas and plazas elsewhere in the Southwest.

Furthermore the ditches connecting Mummy Lake to Far View Village Spruce Tree house and Cliff Palace aren't canals to transport water

Benson and his colleagues suspect the same thing happened at Mesa verde. Mummy Lake was built as early as A d. 900 around the same time as the rest of the Far View group of structures;

We could probably call it'Mummy Lake'again. The study was detailed in the April issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science.

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