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How A CFL Alum Got ‘Hooked’ Into the Fight Over a Giant Gold Mine

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We just had to share this amazing story from Science magazine about how Daniel Schindler, a Center for Limnology alum and one of the world’s foremost experts on Pacific salmon, found himself in the middle of a fight over a mine. By Warren Cornwall – It’s hard to think small in Alaska. The largest of …

Fish species, rural livelihoods threatened by new dams on world’s largest rivers

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Advocates of huge hydroelectric dam projects on the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong rivers often overestimate economic benefits and underestimate far-reaching effects on biodiversity, according to an article in the Jan. 8 issue of Science by a cadre of scientists representing 30 academic, government, and conservation organizations in eight countries. “These three river …