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Oily substance in Lake Michigan remains a mystery
Posted by Mother Nature Network: Melissa Breyer on June 19th, 2013
Mother Nature Network: What’s weirder than a slick, oily substance suddenly appearing at a northwest Indiana beach on Lake Michigan? Its equally sudden disappearance. Swimmers at Porter Beach at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore came out of the water Monday afternoon to find themselves covered in an oily substance and there was a silver sheen on the lake, according to the Coast Guard and the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM). But by the next day, it was gone. "They checked the beach, and they can't find...
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1,000 dead ducks found in Chinese river
Posted by Mother Nature Network: Melissa Breyer on March 26th, 2013
Mother Nature Network: As sanitation workers conclude the cleanup of 16,000 dead pigs from the Huangpu River in Shanghai, the country faces a new gruesome discovery — around 1,000 dead ducks have been found in the Nanhe River in Pengshan county, Sichuan province. Unlike the Huangpu River, the Nanhe River is not used for drinking water. Liang Weidong, a deputy director in Pengshan's publicity department, said in an interview on China National Radio that authorities first heard about the ducks in southwest China on Tuesday....