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• New robotic lab tracking toxicity of Lake Erie algal bloom

  22-07-2017 19:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  A new research tool to safeguard drinking water is now keeping a watchful eye on Lake Erie. This week, a robotic lake-bottom laboratory began tracking the levels of dangerous toxins produced by cyanobacteria that bloom each summer in the lake's western basin.The goal is to provide advance warning to municipal drinking water managers and thereby prevent a recurrence of the water crisis that left more than 400,000 Toledo-area residents without safe drinking water for about two days in early August
  
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• Norfolk Broads python discovery mystery

  22-07-2017 10:49 via bbc.co.uk
  A 12ft-long python found on the Norfolk Broads has still not been found.
  
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• Paris plunge: daily queues after city opens cleaned-up canal to swimmers

  22-07-2017 09:15 via theguardian.com
  Free swimming at La Villette is first step in Paris’s efforts to reopen some of its murky waterways to casual bathers, and the Seine could be nextStanding in his swimming trunks, Gilles looked up at the modern grey apartment buildings and trees that lined the Paris canal. He took a deep breath, then dived into the dark mass of water that had been officially banned to swimmers for decades. “Bliss,” he said after doing 500m of front crawl, occasionally brushing past bits of green
  
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• Disturbing proximity of a red kite's nest

  22-07-2017 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Comins Coch, Aberystwyth I was looking forward to seeing the ramshackle structure for myself. Then the anxiety beganA month or so ago, a friend casually mentioned that they thought red kites were starting to nest near their house. Very near, in fact; actually in the garden. Even in the hills beyond Tregaron, where kites wheel and dive in such abundance as to be almost unworthy of comment, having a nest within view of your kitchen window is unusual.On the boundary of the property, the crook of a
  
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