La. official eats 'toxic' fish BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Greenpeace activists tried to make a point by delivering Gov. Mike Foster a free lunch of fish from a polluted bayou Thursday. Foster's press secretary did them one better: She ate it. About 40 activists rallied to bring attention to what they said was terrible pollution in Louisiana, particularly near several petrochemical plants on the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. With TV cameras rolling, the activists went to the Governor's Mansion with what they called a toxic lunch: fish from a bayou near a plastics plant where signs warn against eating the catch. The governor wasn't home, but press secretary Marsanne Golsby accepted the lunch, whipped a plastic fork out of her pocket and ate the fish. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558678527-2fc> Glaciers thinning in Greenland WASHINGTON (AP) - A new aerial survey of southeastern Greenland found evidence the thickness of ice in glaciers is declining by as much as three feet a year, NASA scientists report. In a study in the journal Science Friday, researchers said a comparison of aerial surveys from 1993 to 1998 show glaciers are shrinking in depth and may be speeding their flow toward the Atlantic Ocean. Ice layers thickened in interior areas of Greenland during the same period, but scientists said the net effect was a loss of ice mass for the whole area. The higher rate of ice flowing into the ocean from Greenland has had little global effect, but if it accelerates it could have an impact on sea level, said Bill Krabill, principal investigator of the study. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558677999-8c1>
