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A tribal member tossing a lamprey at Willamette Falls in Oregon City, Ore. As long as Indians have lived in the Northwest, they have looked to lamprey for food. (Photo by Rick Bowmer / AP)

Northwest tribes drive effort to save primitive fish

Unlike salmon, which have drawn billions of dollars in government funds to restore habitat, the lamprey have gone ignored. It’s the tribes that still eat them that are driving the effort to bring them back.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Essay: last of the lamprey

St. Petersburg Times

Death in seconds: radiation pockets found at Fukushima plant

Pockets of lethal levels of radiation have been detected at Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in a reminder of the risks faced by workers battling the worst nuclear accident.

MSNBC

US House passes debt limit bill

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a last-gasp deal to avoid a federal debt default. The bill is expected to be approved by the Senate and signed into law by President Barack Obama.

BBC

Geithner unsure whether US debt will be downgraded

Reuters

Live: US Senate debates the debt-ceiling bill

ABC News

Shooting victim Giffords returns to participate in the debt vote

YouTube

1 death, 76 illnesses, including 5 in Pa., linked to ground turkey

Consumers have reason to be concerned about the safety of ground turkey, as federal officials investigate a death and 76 cases of illness ascribed to an antibiotic-resistant strain of salmonella.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Worries over water as natural gas fracking expands

Pennsylvania is at the center of a natural gas boom. New technology is pushing gas out of huge shale deposits underground. That’s created jobs and wealth, but it may be damaging drinking water.

NPR

NATION

US pushing rules to curb fertilizer bombs

More than 15 years after a fertilizer bomb was used to blow up a government building in Oklahoma City, the federal government is proposing to regulate the sale and transfer of the chemical ammonium nitrate.

CBS News

FBI: Lead in D.B. Cooper case is man who died 10 years ago

The FBI’s “promising lead” in the D.B. Cooper skyjacking case has led to a man who died about 10 years ago, an FBI spokesman said.

Seattle Times

40 year mystery of the greatest skyjacking

Telegraph.co.uk

A rancid canal runs through it

Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, labeled “one of the most contaminated bodies of water in the nation,” isn’t just a filthy Superfund site. To urbanites, it’s a little piece of the outdoors.

Los Angeles Times

POLITICS

Senate committee considers nuclear plant safety in light of Fukushima

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is hearing from members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about the lessons they took away from the meltdown of the Fukushima reactor in Japan.

C-Span

Partial FAA shutdown likely through the month of August

The partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, which has led to 4,000 workers being furloughed, is set to continue through all of August.

The Hill

BUSINESS

Consumer spending in US unexpectedly fell in June

Consumer spending in the U.S. unexpectedly dropped in June for the first time in almost two years as a slump in hiring caused households to retrench.

Bloomberg

Stock futures lower as credit downgrade fears linger

Wall Street equity futures were lower as a last-minute congressional deal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling failed to assuage investor concerns that a credit downgrade could be avoided.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Ancient glacial melting shows effects of global warming

An analysis of prehistoric “Heinrich events” that happened many thousands of years ago, make it clear that very small amounts of subsurface warming of water can trigger a rapid collapse of ice shelves.

ScienceDaily

Glacier National Park to be devoid of glaciers by 2020

In the 19th century, there were 150 glaciers in Glacier National Park, and now there are just 25. By 2020, even those will be gone, says Daniel Fagre, coordinator of climate change and glacial geology studies.

Grist

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Celebrating 80th anniversary of longest-running casino in US

Las Vegas Sun

At 30, MTV hasn’t lost its sexy edge — or shock factor

Turning 30 usually signifies that a person has hit a certain maturity level and has reached full adulthood. But that doesn’t really apply to MTV, which celebrates its 30th birthday on Aug. 1.

MSNBC

MTV at 30: How it changed youth culture

Discovery News

Studios win injunction vs. Zediva

Hollywood studios have won an important legal victory in their effort to shut down the web service Zediva, a tech startup that buys up recently released DVDs and streams them on demand to customers.

Variety

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Europe’s biggest new monastery starts building in Liverpool

Nuns will harvest rainwater, use ground source heating and plant a wildflower meadow while Bradford’s Anglicans install the U.K.’s first cathedral-roof solar power.

Guardian

Crystal Cathedral looks to donations to emerge from bankruptcy

The bankrupt Crystal Cathedral will continue to rely on a faith-based approach to emerging from Chapter 11 while the creditors committee works on a separate exit plan for the church, lawyers said.

Los Angeles Times

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GOOD NEWS

Beetle battle gets $50K boost from The Walmart Foundation

The Walmart Foundation donated $50K to the Worcester Tree Initiative to help replace some of the thousands of trees that have been cut down because of the Asian longhorned beetle infestation.

Telegram & Gazette

25 years later, ‘outsider art’ vision still fuels fame, furor on Heidelberg Street

It began as artistic protest to shine a spotlight on the dilapidation of an east-side Detroit block. Now, 25 years later, the Heidelberg Project has morphed into an art-and-education nonprofit.

Detroit News

Cafe helps Alzheimer’s patients

Canada‘s first Alzheimer’s cafe in Antigonish, N.S., provides social outlet for people suffering from dementia and their families.

CBC News

WORLD

Somalia famine: Refugees have moved into Dadaab extension