Effects of a herbicide mixture on primary and bacterial productivity in four prairie wetlands with varying salinities: an enclosure approach.
Wetlands in the Prairie pothole region of Saskatchewan and Manitoba serve an important role in providing wildlife habitat, water storage and water filtration. They display a wide range of water quality parameters such as salinity, nutrients and major ions with sulfate as the dominant ion for the most saline wetlands. The differences in these water quality parameters among wetlands are reflected in the composition of aquatic plant communities and their productivity. Interspersed within an intensely managed agricultural landscape where pesticides are commonly used, mixtures of herbicides are often detected in these wetlands as well as in rivers, and drinking water reservoirs. One freshwater and three wetlands of varying salinityMichael Kiefer

The Arizona Republic

PHOENIX — The Arizona Court of Appeals recognized transgender marriage Wednesday, ruling that "Pregnant Man" Thomas Beatie could get his Hawaiian marriage dissolved in an Arizona court.

Beatie, 40, was born female, but in 1997, he began testing to determine his psychological gender and in 2002 underwent the first of his gender-reassignment surgeries. Under Hawaiian law, he was able to have his birth certificate amended and legally be recognized as male. Subsequently he married.

Because his wife was unable to conceive children, and because Beatie still had female reproductive organs, he was artificially inseminated and became pregnant.

Then he hit the talk-show and tabloid circuit as "The Pregnant Man," posing with his manly beard and chest and his very pregnant belly. He gave birth to his first child