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Environment News tagged with habitat destruction

Tyson Fined $2M For Mucking Up Missouri River
Environment  (tags: factory farming, habitat destruction, tyson, fined, environment, destruction, pollution, humans, water )

Simone
- 68 days ago - all-creatures.org
The Justice Department recently fined Tyson Fresh Meats, the world's largest beef and pork supplier, $2 million for pumping animal waste into the Missouri River. Tyson was in violation of a 2002 agreement to limit its discharges into the river. According
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ACTION ALERT: Limit Snowmobiles in National Parks!
Environment  (tags: snowmobiles, yellowstone park, environment, habitat destruction, wildlife, nature )

Simone
- 80 days ago - all-creatures.org
The Obama Administration has reopened public comment on a proposed two-year plan to reduce the number of snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park.
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Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles, Once In Concert, Falling Out Of Sync
Environment  (tags: environment, ClimateChange, acid rain, destruction, endangered, globalwarming, water, oceans, habitat destruction, Earth, biology, geology, chemistry science, research, study, scientists )

Dee
- 97 days ago - sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily- What do the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone," global climate change, and acid rain have in common? They're all a result of human impacts to Earth's biology, chemistry and geology, and the natural cycles that involve all three.
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Threats To California's Cordell Bank Marine Sanctuary
Environment  (tags: environment, sanctuary resources, ecosystems, habitat destruction, invasive species.protection, destruction, Sustainabililty, research )

Dee
- 98 days ago - sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily-A new NOAA report on the health of Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary indicates that the overall condition of the sanctuary's marine life and habitats is fair to good, but identifies several emerging threats to sanctuary resources.
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TAKE ACTION: Malaysia's Infamous Palm Oil Industry Now Encroaching Into Brazil's Amazon Rainforest
Environment  (tags: maylasia palmoil industry, greed rainforests, habitat destruction, conservation, humans, protection )

Simone
- 179 days ago - food.change.org
Malaysia's government owned and subsidized oil palm cooking oil and biofuel industry -- the scourge of Asia and the world's rainforests -- is continuing to expand, this time into the heart of the Brazilian Amazon Malaysia's Federal Land Development
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Photos: Five Global Warming "Tipping Points"
Environment  (tags: climate-change, global-warming, climate, weather, science, tech, technology, research, study, earth, world, photos, news, humans, wildlife, environment, habitat destruction, endangered, species, tipping-points, nature, oceans, ecosystems )

SirRobert
- 236 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
National Geographic reveals photos of five global warming 'tipping points', and their corresponding ramifications upon our global environment according to current scientific opinion.
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Take Action: Stop Oil and Gas Leases of the "Polar Bear Seas"!!- Please SIGN
Environment  (tags: polar bears, marine mammals, habitat destruction, gas leases, oil, pollution, nature )

Simone
- 239 days ago - action.earthjustice.org
A Bush-era landmine is ticking away in the "Polar Bear Seas"--last haven of America's threatened polar bears--and we urgently need you to help defuse it. Our government is about to lease more than 73 million acres of these vulnerable Arctic waters for
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Overkill: Did Humans Cause a Mass Extinction?
Environment  (tags: humans, desruction, habitat destruction, nature, endangered animals, extinction, wildlife )

Simone
- 271 days ago - independent.co.uk
The most popular theory for the cause of this mass extinction was first put forward by American scientist Paul Martin, nearly 40 years ago. He put it down to the arrival of Homo sapiens. In both America and Australia these mass mammal extinctions
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After 50 Years of Toxic Seepage, Mine Cleanup to Begin Soon
Environment  (tags: pollution, habitat destruction, mining, cleanup, destruction, water )

Clever
- 385 days ago - juneauempire.com
Before Redfern can go looking for more gold and precious metals they must clean up after the last user of the mine. Its poisons have leaked into our rivers for 50 years. Now that they want something from it, something can be done about it.
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Californians Celebrate Annual Wildfire Traditions   video
Environment  (tags: destruction, forests, fires, Habitat Destruction )

Clever
- 403 days ago - youtube.com
Residents took part in rituals like picking through the charred remains of their homes and feigning shock that this could happen to them.
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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
- 432 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!
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An Endangered Act
Environment  (tags: endangered, habitat destruction, nature, pollution, trees, water, wildlife, forests, oceans, bad politics )

Karenbee
- 453 days ago - nytimes.com
The Bush administration has never masked its distaste for most environmental laws or its ambitions to thwart Congress's will. Now in its waning months, it is trying to undermine the Endangered Species Act.
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Take Action:Protect the Refuge, Reject Big Oil
Environment  (tags: arctic national refuge, wildife, drilling, habitat destruction, threatened wild animals, environment, humans, endangered )

Simone
- 543 days ago - secure.defenders.org
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been called America's Serengeti -- one of the most important onshore denning habitats for America's struggling polar bears and home to caribou, snow fox and millions of migratory birds. But that's not
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Rainforest Protection Issues: Papua New Guinea Admits Illegal Logging
Environment  (tags: illegal logging, habitat destruction, trees, environment, ecosystems )

Maryann
- 560 days ago - rainforestportal.org
As it is prone to do when the donors come a-calling, the Papua New Guinea (PNG) government "has admitted its forestry sector is riddled with corruption" . This occurred during aid talks with the Australian government, and reflects political posturin
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Logging Road Threatens Rare Peat Dome, Tigers
Environment  (tags: logging road, habitat destruction, destruction, threatened, tigers, forests, conservation )

Simone
- 592 days ago - huliq.com
In an investigative report published today by Eyes on the Forest, evidence shows that a new logging road in Riau Province -- strongly indicated as illegally built by companies connected to Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) -- is cutting into the heart of Sumatra's
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