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• Oceans' Growing Acidity Alarms Scientists
  WASHINGTON -- Seven hundred miles west of Seattle in the Pacific at Ocean Station Papa, a first-of-its-kind buoy is anchored to monitor a looming environmental catastrophe.
• Cleaning Up the Climate
  Now that virtually everyone agrees global warming is a problem of potentially catastrophic dimensions, powerful forces are beginning to battle about what to do and how much money to spend. No one questions who will pay. Not surprisingly, it's you.
• Political Fallout From Trump Golf Project
  The Scottish National Party and Liberal Democrats have accused each other of sleaze and irresponsibility in a dispute involving a Donald Trump golf resort. The Scottish government overruled a local council's rejection of the $2 billion proposal for development on the coast near Aberdeen.
• Campey Launches Pump to Get Rid of Floodwater
  By Anonymous Campey Turf Care has launched a tractor-mounted PTO-powered pump to cope with floodwater. The company used Scotsturf to unveil the Raycam TrunkPump, a three-point hitch model which can be mounted on most tractors, making emergency water clearance a one-person job.
• Lawsuits Heard Over Wesley Chapel's Power: The Village Wants to Control Zoning, Growth Outside Its Boundaries
  By Julia Oliver, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Dec. 16--A judge heard arguments last week in two complex cases that will decide whether the village of Wesley Chapel has the power to control what gets built immediately outside its borders.
• City Hopes to SWEEP Away Its Trash Woes
  By Bernard Harris Lancaster to try approach that has worked well in Allentown. BERNARD HARRIS In Allentown, city workers in khaki pants and polo shirts walk the neighborhood streets looking at residents' trash.
• Catching Bonefish Not Always a Simple Task
  By Susan Cocking, The Miami Herald Dec. 16--Sure, it's both glamorous and thrilling to catch and release a hefty bonefish after spotting and stalking it in knee-deep water. However, there are several situations in which this strategy simply won't work.
• Refuge Celebrates 70 Years in Nature
  By Tara Bozick, Victoria Advocate, Texas Dec. 16--AUSTWELL --A cutout of Rachel Carson greeted the walkers who came to connect with nature and find inspiration.
• Harford Water Source Change: Loch Raven Reservoir Will Be Replaced By Susquehanna River
  By Mary Gail Hare, The Baltimore Sun Dec. 16--In the latest response to the impact that months of dry weather have had on water supplies, Harford County will change the source of its water supply this week from Loch Raven Reservoir to the Susquehanna River.
• Nineteen Missing After Collision in East China Sea
  Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) Hangzhou, Dec.
• Toxic Threat to China's Fish Farms Rapid Growth and Drug Use Pollute Inadequate Water Supply Choking on Growth
  By David Barboza Eighth article in a series * Chen Yang contributed research from Shanghai and Fuqing.
• Aramco Blast Kills 28
  By Anonymous The Saudi national oil company Aramco is as sophisticated a company as one will encounter. Its automation workers and suppliers are worldwide. Its oil and refining expertise is top notch, and it will soon lay out $90 billion more to make it better. Nonetheless...
• Second School Forum Draws Bigger Crowd
  By Autumn Grooms, La Crosse Tribune, Wis. Dec. 16--Spending tax dollars on education is a top priority for Carlene Roberts. "I don't think there is any better way to spend our tax money," the La Crosse woman said.
• "Race" and Gender in Non-Durkheimian French Sociology, 1893-1914
  By Staum, Martin The non-Durkheimian sociologists in the institutions founded by Rene Worms were not simply biological determinists.
• The Mesozoic Aviary
  By Barrett, Paul M PALEONTOLOGY The Mesozoic Aviary Paul M. Barrett GLORIFIED DINOSAURS: The Origin and Early Evolution of Birds. Luis M. Chiappe. x + 263 pp. John Wiley and Sons, 2007. $69.95.
• The Other Evolution Wars
  By Kaiser, David Creationists have long battled with geologists and biologists, but they have only lately taken on physicists and cosmologists For nearly two centuries, talk of "evolution" has stirred controversy.
• Rough Going for State-Planned ATV Park: Environmentalists and Others Oppose
  By Troy Graham, The Philadelphia Inquirer Dec. 16--In the spring, the meadow where Fred Akers was standing will fill up with a few feet of water and play host to a threatened species of Pine Barrens tree frog.
• Vancouver's Stanley Park Shows Signs of Recovery a Year After Storm Wrecked Havoc
  By THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER - Standing in the middle of what appeared to be an ugly clearcut of once-massive trees, politicians planted new ones symbolizing the restoration of the city's jewel, Stanley Park.
• Huge Ice Jam Creates Flooding and Forces Evacuation in Prince George, B.C.
  By THE CANADIAN PRESS PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - A six-kilometre long ice jam at the meeting of the Fraser and Nechako rivers in Prince George, B.C. has forced the Nechako over its banks, setting off a state of local emergency.
• Hot Point
  Firemen used a chemical extinguisher to deal with a house fire in Leonard Road, Lozells, Birmingham, which was apparently caused by an electricity meter. (c) 2007 Evening Mail; Birmingham (UK). Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
• Farms on Alert Over Virus Find
  By Sam Wood FARMERS in the North-East last night spoke of their fears after a case of Bluetongue was discovered near Middlesbrough. A cow on a farm on Teesside, which had been imported from Germany, was found to be carrying the virus, a Defra spokesman confirmed.
• Vancouver's Stanley Park Recovers a Year After Storm Wreaked Havoc
  By THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER - It was a year ago today that a wind storm hammered B.C.'s West Coast, knocking down thousand of trees and devastating Vancouver's Stanley Park.
• Albeit Introduced Plants
  By John Dempsey WHEN readers start contacting me about spawning frogs and flowering cowslips in December, it's time to seriously reflect on global warming - not always the easiest thing to do when you're scraping ice off the carwind screen at 5am.