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Environment News tagged with Endangered Species

Checkerspot Butterfly Next on Endangered List?
Environment  (tags: butterfly, Endangered Species, environment, habitat )

Lone
- 37 days ago - sfgate.com
The federal government recommended Tuesday that a rare 2-inch butterfly that once fluttered over much of the Bay Area and now lives only in Santa Clara County be designated an endangered species.
5 comments
Act Now To Protect Oceans From Acidification
Environment  (tags: oceans, seawater, climate-change, global-warming, CO2, environment, ecology, ecosystems, endangered species, extinction, marine life, death, petition, acidification, acidic, chemistry, science, tech, technology, research, world, CO2emissions, conservation )

SirRobert
- 176 days ago - salsa.democracyinaction.org
Oceans absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and although this acts as a buffer against global warming, CO2 in higher concentrations alters seawater chemistry making oceans acidic, which is already causing marine life mutations and ultimately a mass extinction!
49 comments
Undoing the Damage, Step By Step
Environment  (tags: animals, wildlife, nature, habitat, environment, ecosystems, conservation, protection, coal mining, endangered species )

Tom
- 210 days ago - nytimes.com
The Interior Department is charged with managing the nation's physical resources in a balanced way. After eight years in which nature was often sacrificed to private interests, it is a relief to see the department taking that responsibility seriously.
4 comments
"Care2 Get The Word Out?" - Group Invitation
Environment  (tags: Care2, C2NN, news, petitions, environment, history, science, tech, technology, research, astronomy, society, world, humans, animals, endangered species, politics, government, business, Green, health, offbeat, interesting, art, groups, ClimateChange, nature )

SirRobert
- 237 days ago - care2.com
Announcing the formation of a newly founded C2NN Group: "Care2 Get The Word Out?" Just started and already growing in strength as you read this promo! Designed to increase your ability to obtain notes and signatures on submitted articles and petitions.
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Polar Bears' Plight Subject Of Closed-Door Talks
Environment  (tags: polar bears, climate-change, global-warming, climate, world, science, tech, research, protection, environment, weather, endangered species, crisis, mega-disaster, habitatdestruction, habitat, government, activism, animals, destruction, nature, politics )

SirRobert
- 254 days ago - google.com
Northern nations trying to find ways to protect the world's polar bear population in a warming climate, resolved Tuesday to hold their talks behind closed doors -- over direct objections made by Norway. Images of the polar bear are an icon worldwide.
6 comments
Climate Change: Our Oceans Are Dying!
Environment  (tags: oceans, marine life, climate-change, global-warming, biology, acidification, chemistry, death, endangered species, activism, science, research, tech, world, humans, global threat, CO2, carbon dioxide, atmosphere, environment, study, government, nature )

SirRobert
- 263 days ago - volconvo.com
Climate change is rapidly altering the chemical composition of our world's oceans and increasing the already growing threat to all marine life. These delicate ecosystems within the global food chain may collapse if immediate action is ignored by officials
28 comments
Scientists Astounded By Songbirds Flying 311 Miles in One Day
Environment  (tags: songbirds, birds, animals, wildlife, migration, migratory birds, migration routes, Endangered Species )

Jeremy
- 288 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Using extra tiny geo-locator backpacks, researchers have tracked songbirds' seasonal migrations for the first time, according to research published in Science .
4 comments
Obama Has List Of 200 Bush Actions To Swiftly Overturn
Environment  (tags: good news, obama, bush, environment, politics, climate change, globalwarming, CO2emissions, ecosystems, conservation, pollution, humans, animals, endangered species, wolves, polar bears, whales, protection )

Tom
- 383 days ago - washingtonpost.com
Barack Obama has a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and other issues, according to his advisers.
61 comments
Farming the Fragile Jewels of the Deep
Environment  (tags: coral, coral reefs, coral farming, business, endangered species )

RC
- 386 days ago - features.csmonitor.com
Meet Steve Lowes, a farmer who raises sustainable coral for sale to aquarium supply companies and pet stores. His efforts, and those of others who do the same, are putting a dent in the amount of coral stolen from endangered living reefs.
31 comments
Bush Team's Final Sneak Attack On Environment
Environment  (tags: bush, republicans, politics, government, corruption, environment, destruction, CO2emissions, climate-change, globalwarming, pollution, mining, factory farms, killing, suffering, animals, wolves, wildlife, endangered species )

Tom
- 388 days ago - reuters.com
The Bush Administration's last minute environmental policy changes include getting wolves off the Endangered Species List, allowing power plants to operate near national parks and loosening regulations for factory farm waste and mountaintop coal-mining.
30 comments
New Research Confirms Dolphins Are Disappearing
Environment  (tags: wildlife, endangered species, Hectors and Maui dolphins severely deple )

Tony
- 403 days ago - scoop.co.nz
Newly published research from the University of Otago confirms that Hector's dolphins are disappearing more than ten times faster than populations can sustain.
3 comments
Climate Focus 'Good News For Species'
Environment  (tags: environment, climate-change, ecosystems, globalwarming, endangered species, habitat, nature, wildlife, world, humans )

Tom
- 413 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Imagine what would happen to us if rainfall was a thousand times more than normal? What if rates of disease transmission for malaria or HIV/AIDS were a thousand times more than normal? That is what is happening to plant and animal biodiversity today.
4 comments
US Fish & Wildife Services Asks Judge to Vacate Order Delisting Gray Wolves as Endangered
Environment  (tags: gray wolves, wolf, endangered species, US Fish & Wildlife Service, conservation, wolf population, species protection )

RC
- 430 days ago - nytimes.com
This is excellent news! In a reversal of its original request, officials at the US Fish & Wildlife Service want the delisting order vacated. This means the scheduled fall wolf hunt, already delayed, could be put off until further studies are completed.
42 comments
Environmental Protection Agency: No Mississippi Delta Project
Environment  (tags: Mississippi Delta, Yazoo Rover, water pump, endangered species, wetlands, US Army Corps of Engineers, habitat destruction )

RC
- 451 days ago - signonsandiego.com
The EPA vetoed a federal plan to build the world's largest water pumping system in the Mississippi Delta, citing harm to the habitats of of endangered species, the destruction of thousands of acres of wetlands & poor water quality. Environmental victory!
27 comments
Big Oil Gets Greedy - Files Suits to De-List Polar Bears as Endangered
Environment  (tags: polar bears, big oil, wildlife, Alaska, endangered species, oil industry, greed, ecosystem )

RC
- 454 days ago - star-telegram.com
The American Petroleum Institute has banded together with the US Chamber of Commerce, the National Mining Association & the American Iron & Steel Institute in a lawsuit aimed at removing polar bears from the endangered species list.
69 comments
 
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