Page 4 - Acridotheres News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> as summer slowly turns to fall, death continues its familiar march. bodies arrive at the morgue and leave again. some deaths are resolved immediately. others must wait their turn. two months after the death of ann palmateer, the toxicology results are in. her death had nothing to do with an accidental drug overdose and everything to do with her enlarged heart. >> turned out that the toxicology showed low levels of an antidepressant, celexa is the trade name. the levels were very low and wouldn't have played a role at all. she died of what we call hypertensive heart disease, an enlargement o...

According to surveys coordinated by meese and his team at the university of california davis, the state was home to 400,000 tri-colored black birds in 2008. today there are only 145,000. that's a 64% loss in just six years. >> there are parts of the state where the birds just appear to be disappearing altogether. >> reporter: meese is now catching the birds so he can tag them and track their movements. he believes the birds' natural habitats are increasingly turned into farmland and vineyards, which rely on pesticides which kill off the insects the birds feast on. >> if they do not have enough...