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Animals News tagged with pollution

New Report Details Potomac River Pollutants
Animals  (tags: environment, fish both sex, pollution, river, companies )

Lone
- 14 days ago - wjla.com
SILVER SPRING, Md. - Pollution in the Potomac River and its possible links to intersex fish is the subject of a new report.
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The Trashy Toxicity of Pollution
Animals  (tags: birds, wildlfe, environment, pollution, rubbish, humans, destruction, wildlife killed )

Simone
- 14 days ago - blog.peta.org
Litter isn't just ugly and dirty--it kills. Artist Chris Jordan took a series of photographs of albatross chicks, and the photos are so surreal that I thought they were part of some strange pop-art installation meant to shock and disturb the viewer.
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ACTION ALERT: Prevent the Deaths of Thousands of Sea Turtles!!
Animals  (tags: sea turtles, pollution, commerican fisheries, trawls, killed, endangered, protection )

Simone
- 26 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Untargeted or discarded catch from commercial fisheries, also known as bycatch, is an enormous problem throughout the world. Trawl fisheries indiscriminately catch everything in their path, including sea turtles! The National Marine Fisheries Service
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Fish in Streams Across U.S. Tainted With Mercury
Animals  (tags: animals, fish, pollution, wildlife, habitat, endangered, animalwelfare )

Cal
- 96 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Researchers found mercury in every fish tested in a nationwide stream survey, with some of the higher concentrations showing up in mining areas of the West.
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Frog's Five Legs Trigger Pollution Concern
Animals  (tags: animals, frogs, AnimalWelfare, environment, pollution, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 111 days ago - cnews.canoe.ca
Grossed-out, excited and then concerned -- that's how a nine-year-old London girl felt when she pulled from her backyard pond a frog with five legs.
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Otter Population Falls as Humans Pollute Ocean
Animals  (tags: animals, sea otters, population falling, pollution, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 146 days ago - sfgate.com
Sea otters along the California coast are dying off faster than at any time since the late 1990s, a disturbing trend that experts say is partially due to human-caused water pollution, the U.S. Geological Survey reported Tuesday.
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Sign Petition: Save The Polar Bears!
Animals  (tags: animals, polar, bears, ice, melting, endangered, extinction, suffering, wildlife, sadness, environment, habitat, ecosystems, globalwarming, climatechange, conservation, nature, pollution, politics, humans, CO2emissions, climate, business, money, oil )

Tom
- 156 days ago - change.org
Polar bears are dying. As global warming accelerates, the sea ice they depend on for survival is literally melting away. Bears are starving and drowning as they have to swim farther and farther to reach solid ice. Some are even turning to cannibalism.
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Mekong Dolphins on the Brink of Extinction
Animals  (tags: animals, environment, pollution, extinction, dolphins, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 159 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Pollution in the Mekong River has pushed the local population of Irrawaddy dolphins to the brink of extinction, according to a new WWF report.
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Will We Still Eat Meat, Drink Milk, and Fry Eggs in 2109?
Animals  (tags: animals, cruelty, suffering, endangered, species, extinction, protection, factory, farms, obama, future, peace, prosperity, environment, ecosystems, nature, climate, food, energy, health, safety, oil, water, trees, air, pollution, global, warming )

Tom
- 166 days ago - alternet.org
Back in 2009, people were used to just taking whatever they wanted of natural resources, not believing that there could ever be consequences. They thought there was no end to the oil in the ground, fresh air or water, trees, or even animals.
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Deformities in Chinese Sturgeon Linked to Chemical
Animals  (tags: animals, pollution, environment, habitat, wildlife )

Cal
- 181 days ago - uk.reuters.com
A paint chemical that is widely used in China is leaking into the Yangtze river and may be responsible for deformities and decreasing numbers of rare wild Chinese sturgeon, a study has found.
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Sign Petition: Support AB 1437 - Don't All Egg-Laying Hens Deserve to Stretch Their Wings?
Animals  (tags: animals, suffering, cruelty, death, environment, humans, health, safety, risks, disease, food, illness, money, corruption, business, dishonesty, factory, farming, pig, cow, chicken, fish, water, pollution, meat, steroids, antibiotics, global, warming )

Tom
- 189 days ago - secure2.convio.net
Last fall, California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 2, a law that prohibits keeping egg-laying hens in cruel and intensive confinement in California. But eggs from hens in other states who are kept in the very same conditions are sold here.
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US Environmental Protection Agency Bans Carbofuran
Animals  (tags: pesticides, animals, ecosystems, pollution, habitat )

Cal
- 196 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced its final decision to revoke all food tolerances for the highly toxic pesticide carbofuran, which is sold under the name "Furadan" by FMC Corporation.
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Take Action: Protect The Alaska Beluga Whale
Animals  (tags: animals, alaska, palin, beluga, whale, endangered, species, protection, environment, habitat, wildlife, extinction, humans, oil, pollution, shipping )

Tom
- 217 days ago - change.org
The Cook Inlet beluga has been reduced to approximately 375 whales and is now threatened by oil and gas development, pollution, shipping, and other impacts to its habitat in Alaska. Sarah Palin wants to take the whale off the endangered species list.
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Toxic Marshes Deadly to Swans: Coeur d'Alene River Laden With Lead From Silver Valley Mining
Animals  (tags: animals, tundra swans, pollution, mining, toxic, waste, killing, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, wildlife, protection, death )

Cher
- 220 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
As they feed on roots and tubers in Rose Lake in Idaho, swans swallow sediment polluted with heavy metals from mining waste. At high enough levels, the lead shuts down their digestive systems, causing the swans to gasp for air as food backs up into the
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Undersea Bombs Threaten Marine Life
Animals  (tags: ecosystems, environment, destruction, pollution, habitatdestruction, habitat, animals, animalwelfare, protection, humans )

Cal
- 270 days ago - cnn.com
Beyond the golden beaches and beneath the blue waters of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques is a site that resembles more of a munitions graveyard than a Caribbean paradise.
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