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In Lehigh Acres, Florida, there are a dozen and a half dogs who are living out their wildest locomotive dreams.
A retired couple named Paul and Alice Johnston are the very definition of “dog lovers,” and they have a full house to prove it. They’ve even become a favorite neighborhood spectacle when, every Friday, they chug around their community in a train full of pups!
Ten years ago, the retired Johnstons moved to Playas del Coco, Costa Rica, with four dogs, three parrots, and three cats in tow. The longer they lived there, the more they began noticing injured and abandoned strays all around the city. Soon enough, the two of them started fixing their neighborhood dogs up, giving them shots and cleaning their wounds.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released Thursday a proposal for the next phase of the Sherwin-Williams/Hilliards Creek Superfund site.
The proposal calls for dredging of contaminated sediment and excavation and capping of floodplain soil at Silver Lake, Bridgewood Lake, Kirkwood Lake, and Hilliards Creek between Gibbsboro, Voorhees and Lindenwold.
Silver Lake and the creek and their sediments were contaminated with lead and arsenic from paint manufacturing by the Gibbsboro plant of Lucas Paintworks, the predecessor to Sherwin Williams.
“The cleanup of these water bodies has long been sought by these communities and we are proud of this proposal,” said EPA Acting Regional Administrator Walter Mugdan. “The proposed cleanup addresses arsenic and lead contamination that poses serious risks to people, fish and wildlife.”
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Land stores vast amounts of carbon, but a new study led by Cranfield University s Dr Alice Johnston suggests that how much of this carbon enters the atmosphere as temperatures rise depends on how far that land sits from the equator.
Ecosystems on land are made up of plants, soils, animals, and microbes - all growing, reproducing, dying, and breathing in a common currency; carbon. And how much of that carbon is breathed out (also known as ecosystem respiration) compared to how much is stored (through primary production) has impacts for climate change.
A key concern is that if more carbon is respired than stored, the rate of climate change could accelerate even further. Yet, some big assumptions are made in the models used to predict climate changes - that ecosystem respiration rises with temperature at the same rate (doubles for a temperature rise of 10 °C) irrespective of the ecosystem itself. A new study Temperature thresholds to ecosystem respiration at a global sc