NYMHM: Where have all the songbirds gone?; Urban farms grow ... up

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QUOTED:

     "Everyone who has looked for pesticide poisoning in birds
     has found it."

     -- Biology professor Bridget Stutchbury, on the drastic declines
     in migratory songbird populations (see "Environment," below).


CONTENTS:

     *Environment*
       Where have all the songbirds gone?

     *Agriculture*
       Look, up in the sky! Urban farming puts down roots


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  ENVIRONMENT
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  > Where Have all the Songbirds Gone?

    Songbirds fly thousands of miles to return to the northern
    hemisphere every spring, just as regularly as the sun comes
    up every morning.

    Or, that's how it's supposed to be.

    But the numbers of migratory birds reaching the northern
    hemisphere from their winter grounds in the south have ...

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    http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/004629.html


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  ENVIRONMENT
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  > Look, up in the Sky! Urban Farming Puts Down Roots

    Urban farming can be as simple as a backyard vegetable patch
    or as complicated as a proposed agricultural skyscraper
    in Las Vegas.

    Yes, you read that right.

    NextEnergryNews reports that plans are afoot for a 30-story,
    $200 million building which will feature crops growing on many
    of its floors -- and the building will go up in the notoriously
    environmentally unfriendly city of Las Vegas ...

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    http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/004628.html


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