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Atrazine, Frogs, and the Scientist Challenging a Widely Used Herbicide

Dr. Tyrone Hayes
Attending the Wisconsin Lakes Partnership convention is an annual event that Aquarius Systems looks forward to every year. We enjoy seeing old friends, meeting new friends; customers, DNR agents and academics. This year’s event featured a speaker that has literally made headlines, although not always in a good way. Dr. Tyrone Hayes of the University
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Restoring Kings Bay to Protect Florida’s Manatees and Water Quality

The manatee is a grazing animal and spends between six and eight hours a day feeding on seagrasses and other freshwater vegetation.
Florida’s tropical waters are home to a great diversity of life, but perhaps the most endearing is the Manatee.  The manatee is a grazing animal and spends between six and eight hours a day feeding on seagrasses and other freshwater vegetation.  The manatee actually plays an important role in controlling the aquatic plant growth in
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Asian Carp Threaten the Great Lakes and Demand Urgent Action

This is a picture of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, a man-made waterway that connects the Great Lakes basin to the Mississippi River basin.
Asian carp were imported from China to the U.S. in the 1970s to remove algae from catfish farms and wastewater treatment ponds. Somehow they escaped and migrated north through the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. The species spawn in rivers and feed on phytoplankton, disrupting the food chain for younger fish. The voracious eaters can weigh
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Global Warming vs Climate Change Why the Words Still Matter

Climate change brings periods of extreme heat.
Global warming is a topic of contention for many people.  This winter has skeptics high on their soap boxes spouting phrases such as “I thought this was global warming, why is the temperature outside negative 45°?” And when researchers studying global warming get stuck in Antarctic ice, skeptics are given a little more fuel for
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