Archive of Environmental News - January 2000
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 Environmental Reports for OKALOOSA COUNTY

 Earth View - A fascinating, real-time look at our home from above...

The Bottled Water Craze - "Next to the hand-held cellular telephone, one other symbol of the '90s has emerged as the most ubiquitous accouterment of people around the globe, from cosmopolitan world capitals to the most primitive remote villages of Third World countries..."

USGS tallies the extras in our water - Streams that pass through agricultural and urban areas almost always contain complex mixtures of nutrients and pesticides, but aquatic species are more at risk than humans, according to a report released June 28 by the U.S. Geological Survey...

 Australians accused of groundwater abuse - Australia is abusing its important groundwater resources in some regions of the continent because little is understood about how these water sources work, warned Dr. Peter Cook, a land and water scientist from CSIRO, Australia's leading scientific research organization. "We need to give people the ability to use groundwater sustainably. In many areas people are watching the water levels falling and know they are using too much but it is very hard after the fact to do anything about it," said Cook. "So as we make more and more use of this water source, it's vital we quickly gain an understanding about it and how to manage it..."

 Deep Damage - "Without question, humans dominate the Earth. But is that a good thing for the planet? Two years ago, researchers Peter Vitousek, Harold Mooney, Jane Lubchenco and Jerry Melillo published a report in the journal Science on "Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems." That overview detailed how we have altered the environment by transforming approximately half of the earth's land surface, driving about a quarter of bird species to extinction and increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide by nearly 30 percent since the industrial revolution..."

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