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Subject: [Oversea] Birds of Prey as pollution magnets - New Scientist article 中國猛禽體內積聚大 [Print This Page]

Author: handrew    Time: 25/02/2007 13:09     Subject: Birds of Prey as pollution magnets - New Scientist article 中國猛禽體內積聚大

http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11246&feedId=earth_rss20

[The link is from one of my RSS feeds so I hope it works ok]

Andrew
Author: tmichael    Time: 25/02/2007 20:29

Interesting and worrying article, Andrew, but I think calling them "pollution carriers" rather than "pollution magnets" (as the article itself does)  could be a little dangerous, suggesting they spread the pollution, somehow, and even leading to confusion with the issue of disease propagation.

Sorry to be such a stickler!

Mike Turnbull
Author: handrew    Time: 25/02/2007 20:58

Fair point Mike. I had picked the word carrier from the statement "China's birds of prey are carrying an unexpected cargo" but I'll amend the caption.

Andrew




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