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Offbeat News tagged with environment

Earth Picture Galleries
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, photos, protection, pets, wildlife )

Cher
- 24 minutes ago - telegraph.co.uk
Animal pictures of the week: 20 November 2009
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PETA Monkeys to NASA: Stop Radiation Tests!
Offbeat  (tags: animals, demonstration, monkeys, NASA, environment )

Cher
- 39 minutes ago - blog.peta.org
It was a cagey scene outside NASA headquarters in D.C. yesterday when our primates urged NASA to scrap its misguided $1.75 million plan to torment monkeys in radiation experiments. The demonstration was out-of-this-world spectacular, prompting NASA
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Homeless Animals Receive Special Holiday Gift
Offbeat  (tags: animals, homeless, gift, pets, protection, dogs, environment )

Cher
- 39 minutes ago - blog.peta.org
This week Windsor, North Carolina, officials cut the red ribbon that wrapped PETA's very special gift to animals in this small Southern town. For nearly a decade, PETA has been working with Windsor and other area towns to provide homeless animals in
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'Nubs' Movie to Be Made About 'Mutt, Marine and Miracle'
Offbeat  (tags: animals, dogs, Iraq, rescued, Nubs, movie, environment )

Cher
- 1 hour ago - examiner.com
Coming soon to a theater near you: the story of Nubs, a stray dog with shorn ears who befriended Maj. Brian Dennis while Dennis was serving in Iraq. When Nubs trekked 75 miles through the freezing Iraqi desert to follow Dennis to the next camp, Dennis
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Your Morning Adorable: Three Bumps -- Er, Siberian Tiger Cubs -- on a Log
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, tigers, cubs, zoos, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 1 hour ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Germany's Nuremberg Zoo welcomed Rangar, Khan and Domur, Siberian tiger cubs, back in August. Since Siberian tigers (also called Amur tigers) are endangered -- it's believed that only about 400 to 500 animals remain in the wild in eastern Russia and
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MSNBC to Air 2 Hour Special on Animal Conservation: "100 Heartbeats"
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, extinction, television program, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 2 hours ago - planetsave.com
Every 20 minutes a species will go extinct, 20,000 species this year, and this Sunday, November 22, 8PM Eastern MSNBC will be airing "100 Heartbeats" hosted by Jeff Corwin to fight back
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Earth Picture Galleries
Offbeat  (tags: animals, jaguars, Bolivia, environment, protection, photos, wildlife )

Cher
- 8 hours ago - telegraph.co.uk
The Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi animal rescue centre in Bolivia
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Animal Lovers' Calendar: Weekend of Nov. 21-22 and Beyond
Offbeat  (tags: environment, animals, protection, art, pets )

Cher
- 10 hours ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Is it animal-inspired art that interests you? Helping homeless pets that floats your boat? We've got you covered with options like these (and many more) in the coming days and weeks. (Are we forgetting something? Let us know by leaving a comment!)
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Scaredy-Cat Tigers
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, tigers, zoos, scared, chickens, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 10 hours ago - ananova.com
Zoo-keepers in China say their tigers have grown so tame that they're frightened of the chickens they're supposed to eat.
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Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals
Offbeat  (tags: animals, social behaviours, environment, wildlife, protection )

Cher
- 10 hours ago - mnn.com
Cognitive ethologist Marc Bekoff reveals what he learned observing the social behavior of coyotes, domesticated dogs and compiling scientific research from around the world.
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The Week in Wildlife (15 Pictures)
Offbeat  (tags: animals, photos, wildlife, environment )

Cher
- 10 hours ago - guardian.co.uk
From howler monkeys to Siamese crocodiles - this week's best images from the natural world
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Uga VII, University of Georgia's Bulldog Mascot, Dies
Offbeat  (tags: animals, dogs, death, mascot, environment )

Cher
- 10 hours ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Uga VII, the white English bulldog mascot for the University of Georgia's football team for almost two seasons, died Thursday of heart-related causes, the dog's owner said
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So Long, Mary; Hello, Terry. Cleveland Zoo Tortoise, Thought Female for 50-Plus Years, Turns Out to Be Male
Offbeat  (tags: environment, animals, tortoise, male, zoos )

Cher
- 10 hours ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
A tortoise's zookeepers in Cleveland are the ones feeling slow because after more than 50 years, they've discovered "Mary" is actually a male. Officials at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo say it can be tough to establish the sex of a giant Aldabra tortoise
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RSPCA Treats Floods as National Emergency
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, floods, RSPCA )

Cher
- 10 hours ago - rspca.org.uk
RSPCA treats floods as national emergency - teams up to help people, pets and livestock. We ask the public to make emergency calls only to its national helpline during this crisis
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Animal ID in Buckinghamshire
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, photos, identification )

Cher
- 10 hours ago - wildlifeextra.com
One of our readers spotted this animal swimming in a stream near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. Our first impression was that it was probably a mink, but the photographer thought that was unlikely. He said that the animal was "too big for a mink and the
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