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As Susquehanna Nears Sediment Capacity, Chesapeake Bay Likely to Suffer

/ecosystems/article/44886?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+SustainableEcosystemsAndCommunityNews-Enn+%28Sustainable+Ecosystems+and+Community+News+-+ENN%29 The Susquehanna is a mighty river in the northeastern United States which feeds into the Chesapeake Bay in
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Highway in Boliva would cut through National Park

/ecosystems/article/44890?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+SustainableEcosystemsAndCommunityNews-Enn+%28Sustainable+Ecosystems+and+Community+News+-+ENN%29 Growing conflicts over development in South America have come to a head in Bolivia, where indigenous group
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Book Review: Eco House Book

/ecosystems/article/44870?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+SustainableEcosystemsAndCommunityNews-Enn+%28Sustainable+Ecosystems+and+Community+News+-+ENN%29 What makes a house eco friendly? Is it the materials the house is made of and furnished with, or how effic
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Wily Raccoon

/ecosystems/article/44866?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+SustainableEcosystemsAndCommunityNews-Enn+%28Sustainable+Ecosystems+and+Community+News+-+ENN%29 Raccoons are intelligent and voracious. It adapts well to many environments. It is more like an invader sp
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The Dwindling Arctic Ice

/ecosystems/article/44859?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+SustainableEcosystemsAndCommunityNews-Enn+%28Sustainable+Ecosystems+and+Community+News+-+ENN%29 The Arctic is a polar region located at the northern-most part of the Earth. The Arctic consists of the Ar
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The Drought and the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone

/ecosystems/article/44854?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+SustainableEcosystemsAndCommunityNews-Enn+%28Sustainable+Ecosystems+and+Community+News+-+ENN%29 Dead zones are hypoxic (low-oxygen) areas in the world’s oceans and large lakes, caused by “ex
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‘Torture Lab’ Kills Trees To Learn How To Save Them

/ecosystems/article/44858?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+SustainableEcosystemsAndCommunityNews-Enn+%28Sustainable+Ecosystems+and+Community+News+-+ENN%29 The droughts that have parched big regions of the country are killing forests. In the arid Southwest, the
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Invasive brittle star could change appearance and ecology of Atlantic coral reefs

/ecosystems/article/44848?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+SustainableEcosystemsAndCommunityNews-Enn+%28Sustainable+Ecosystems+and+Community+News+-+ENN%29 For millions of years, sea stars have been among the most recognized oceanic organisms. People around the
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Our Changing Forests: An 88-Year Time Lapse

/ecosystems/article/44842?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+SustainableEcosystemsAndCommunityNews-Enn+%28Sustainable+Ecosystems+and+Community+News+-+ENN%29 Intense forest fires have been raging across the western United States this summer. So far this year, near
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Study Reveals Reason Behind the locations of the Caribbean Islands

/ecosystems/article/44831?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+SustainableEcosystemsAndCommunityNews-Enn+%28Sustainable+Ecosystems+and+Community+News+-+ENN%29 Over the last 50 million years, tectonic shifts in the Earth’s crust caused by forces deep within th
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