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- — April 7, 2011
For sockeye salmon, surviving heat is a superpower

They don’t have laser vision or the ability to swim faster than a speeding harpoon. Nonetheless, the Chilko sockeye have received the enviable title of “Superfish” from University of British[…]

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- — April 1, 2011
Landmark fish study planned for Lake Tanganyika

Four countries will be teaming up to study the volume of fish in the world’s second-oldest and second-deepest lake, Tanzania’s Lake Tanganyika. The landmark study on the 13-million-year-old and one-mile-deep[…]

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- — March 18, 2011
Warmer, murkier water linked to drop in Lake Tahoe minnow population

The number of native minnows in Lake Tahoe has been plummeting over the last two decades, according to a recent survey of 26 sites around the lake. It appears that the proliferation[…]

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- — March 15, 2011
Numerous studies examine Fayetteville Shale area water resources

Various government agencies and universities, including the U.S. Geological Survey, have either proposed or already began studying water resources in the Fayetteville Shale gas drilling development area, located in northern[…]

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