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Resilient Communities Volunteerism Remains Strong in America
More than 60 million Americans volun- teered 8 billion hours of their services in 2010, holding steady with the previous year, according to the latest report by the Corporation for National and Com- munity Service (CNCS), released late last year. Communities are benefiting from their work in mentoring and tutor- ing youth, fundraising and providing food, transportation and general labor,
including disaster relief. “Every day, volunteers of all ages are giving their time and talents to solve
problems and make our country stronger,” says Robert Velasco II, acting CEO of CNCS. He observes that civic involvement increases as people become more deeply rooted in their communities through family, work and school ties. The members of Generation X (born 1965 to 1981) are volunteer stars, having
contributed 2.3 billion hours in 2010, 110 million more than the year before. Teen volunteer rates were also up from 2002 through 2010, compared to 1989. A Vol- unteering in America report attributes this to emphasis on service-learning in high schools, the influence of parents that volunteer, social networking and the ease of finding opportunities via the Internet.
To find local volunteer opportunities by category, visit
Serve.gov or
AllForGood.org.
Fishy Business Something’s Spawning Gender-Bent Fish
A French study examining wild gudgeon fish that live directly downstream from a pharmaceutical drug manufacturing plant found that up to 80 percent of them exhibited both male and female traits in their sex organs. Such sex abnormalities indicate endocrine disruption that can foreshadow larger effects on fish populations because of reductions in breeding abilities. Upstream of the plant, only 5 percent of such intersex fish were detected. Excreted pharmaceuticals can enter the environment from sewage treatment
plants or the flushing of unwanted or old drugs down the toilet. They also can directly enter waterways via discharge into rivers and streams by drug manufac- turing plants. The study is the first to link discharge from a drug plant, rather than a sewage plant, with physical and chemical changes in fish. The inquiry was initiated after fishermen along the Dore River, in
France, noticed swollen bellies and abnormal innards in the wild gudgeon fish. Study results were published in the journal Environmental International. More research is needed to identify the types and levels of specific drugs in the water at each site.
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