Protesters gathered in 860 locations around the world on Saturday, June 26, to protest offshore drilling and call for clean energy. The events are being billed as the largest protests against offshore drilling in history.
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]]> A set of pictures that shows what it is like if animals have the chance to take revenge on humans.
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]]> If Iran decides to go for nuclear weapons, the US may not be able to permanently stop this from happening unless it is willing to occupy the country...
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]]> The EU is not doing enough to deliver meaningful cuts in its emissions, says Bryony Worthington. In this week's Green Room, she says the economic recession has resulted in a sharp fall in emissions, meaning the 27-nation bloc can hit current targets with
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]]> Spanish-Argentine oil giant Repsol YPF has applied to Peru’s government to cut 454 kilometres of seismic lines and construct 152 heliports in its search for oil on uncontacted tribes’ land in the remote Amazon rainforest...
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]]> (CNN) -- Experts still hope to close a stuck valve that's let oil flow into the Gulf of Mexico for more than a week. But if those efforts fail, the next-best plans will take weeks more to stop the flow, officials say....

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]]> Five times as much oil as previously thought could be leaking from the well beneath where a rig exploded and sank last week, US officials said earlier.

The slick is 45 miles (72km) by 105 miles (169km) - almost the size of Jamaica - and heading

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]]> TENT, INDIA — As sarpanch, or chief, of this northern Indian village, Maya Yadav has fought hard for local women over the past five years. She has encouraged more parents to send their daughters to school and fewer to shell out fat dowries when their...
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]]> Greenpeace disclosed what it said was new evidence showing Indonesia's biggest palm oil producer Sinar Mas broke a pledge not to destroy forest rich in carbon and wildlife.
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]]> Rather ironically given that 2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity, the extermination of north Pembrokeshire’s badgers will soon begin. A precious part of the fauna of this corner of Wales will then be gone, and we will all be the poorer for it.
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]]> Ask the Obama administration to protect buffalo that roam outside Yellowstone National Park, instead of allowing them to be needlessly hazed.

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]]> Why are rowdy protesters in Arizona getting a pass from the media after months of negative Tea Party coverage?
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]]> Under Minnesota's "pound seizure" law (Minn. Stat. §35.71), any animal in a publicly funded shelter for more than five days can be claimed by a licensed institution for experimentation purposes.


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]]> Wildlife experts say capuchin monkeys are bad pets, service academy says they help disabled

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]]> Hundreds of Somali soldiers trained with U.S. tax dollars have deserted because they are not being paid their $100 monthly wage, and some have even joined the al-Qaida-linked militants they are supposed to be fighting, The Associated Press has learned.
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]]> It's now an established scientific fact: Smut is GOOD for you. Corn smut, that is.



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]]> The B.C. government has introduced what it is calling the toughest drunk driving laws in the country.
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]]> US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday accused Iran and Syria of arming Hezbollah with increasingly sophisticated rockets and missiles, saying the militia's arsenal undermined stability in the region.
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]]> After a weekend climate rally on the Mall in Washington attended by 150,000 people - including at least two blue Navii people – the 31 major environmental groups in the US today sent a letter to congress demanding that it return to the table on the
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]]> Tigers are being loved to death. Tourists desperate for a glimpse of a tiger are damaging habitat and harassing tigers, putting the endangered beasts they have come to see into even more danger. As a result, India is to make some adjustments in its
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]]> For centuries, the prospect of spotting a Bengal tiger in the wild has been a highlight of visiting India. Now the Government is to end the spectacle amid fears that the species is being “loved to death” by visitors desperate for a glimpse of tigers in
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]]> A familiar scene shows children with cards, papers, and crayons, scribbling hearts, wobbly letters and words of love.
To some, Mother’s Day is a date to dread.
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]]> Influenza-like virus has made 19 ill; H1N1 has been ruled out

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]]> They understand corporations have carried out a coup d'etat, that a permanent war economy and costly and futile imperial wars are unsustainable. They demand popular action to prevent citizens from more rip offs by Wall Street speculators and corporations
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]]> A Georgia state Senate vote last week brought the state closer to outlawing the use of gas chambers, rather than the more commonly used lethal injections, to euthanize homeless dogs and cats.H.B. 788, also called "Grace's Law"
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]]> Researchers have discovered a new strain of a potentially deadly fungus in Oregon, marking another step in the steady spread of Cryptococcus gattii from Vancouver Island to the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
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]]> Panama's former dictator Manuel Noriega, extradited to France to face charges of money laundering, insisted Tuesday that he be treated as a prisoner of war and sent back to his home country.
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]]> OREM -- Police in Orem arrange to dig up a sewer line because a worker came forward with a confession: His excavation crew dug up bones 12 years ago and reburied them without telling authorities.

At the time, the construction workers didn't want the
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]]> After tens of thousands of people turned out to protest against any extension of life to existing nuclear power plants, it seems clear that Germans continue to be emphatically opposed to nuclear energy.

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]]> WEST VALLEY CITY -- The discovery of human remains in Idaho raised hopes of a new development in the case of missing West Valley woman Susan Powell. The remains were found Friday in a rural area near Idaho Falls.
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]]> U.N. humanitarian agencies sounded the alarm on Tuesday about a growing food crisis in the West African state of Niger, one of the world's poorest countries.
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]]> A giant oil slick from a deadly offshore drilling rig explosion could hit the fragile U.S. Gulf Coast shoreline this weekend as the White House and Congress launched separate probes into the worst offshore incident in nearly a decade.
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]]> Goa's unique practice of mixing turtle conservation with tourism has potential for successful replication across the Indian coast, says an expert.
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]]> On March 31, 2010 the Obama Administration announced it would open up large portions of the East Coast and Eastern Gulf Coasts to offshore oil drilling and exploration. The Minerals Management Service (MMS ) has called for seismic surveying...
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]]> Tigers (Panthera tigris) are classified into nine subspecies worldwide. However, three out of the total subspecies are extinct. Indonesia is home of two vanished subspecies: Javanese and Balinese tigers.

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]]> Care2 Palin Alaska Boycott activists got yet another boost from Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live, and national media are reporting the story. Send email to ATIA threatening Alaska travel boycott atop Dove soap & Degree stink-stopper. FightFastFunFest2!
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]]> Joshua Reece became interested in moray eels in 2005 when he was applying to the PhD program at the University of Hawai'i. I
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]]> The World Wildlife Fund has released its annual list of the most threatened species in 2010, and it includes some of the most-loved animals on the planet...
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]]> Retention of protection measures for tigers and elephants and stricter measures to control the illegal trade in wildlife over the Internet were among the developments at the Cites conference that drew appreciation from conservation forums.
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]]> The long wait for big cats at Sariska tiger reserve may soon come to an end, as the forest is likely to come alive with the roar of two more tigers that may be relocated to it in the near future.

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]]> Out of the steamy jungle canopy leapt a small South American monkey, which paused for a moment before darting off in the direction of Euston Road.
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]]> Inuit commission getting ready to presen findings on claims by Nunavut Inuit that RCMP officers killed thousands of sled dogs from the 1950s to the 1980s.spent the last two years exploring allegations of organized dog slaughter in Nunavut's Baffin region
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]]> Jablon said he rescued Lea, a 100-pound female cub, last year after its previous owner had bought it, used it as a photo prop and then discarded the animal
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