09/Jul 2008 | Biodiversity at risk: study | Mountain caribou, a subspecies with nearly all its world population in B., has been in decline and is subject to new conservation measures. Human activity and climate change continue to threaten B.'s ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | REJECTED NEWBORN RED PANDA ADOPTED BY CAT | MUMMY? Amsterdam's Artis zoo latest red panda, born on June 30 and rejected by its mother soon afterwards, has been adopted by a domestic cat, the zoo has said. The cat is nursing the red panda re... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Plovers back on a crowded Revere Beach | By Beth Daley, Globe Staff It used to be that piping plovers and people didn't mix. After the tiny shorebird was listed as threatened in 1986 under the Federal Endangered Species Act, beaches along th... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | What is NEPA For Today? The Sonar Case Part 3 | Like many of our disruptions of the Earth, high energy active sonar has enabled us to do seemingly miraculous things like locate and track a very distant (quiet) submarine. The trouble is always wha... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Feds approve critical sturgeon habitat | SPOKANE, Wash. A federal agency government on Wednesday approved a plan to set aside more than 18 miles of the Kootenai River as critical habitat for white sturgeon, the largest freshwater fish in Nor... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Conservation groups urge Schafer not to release CRP land | WASHINGTON, D. -- Fifteen conservation groups today sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer strongly urging him to reject pressure from Congress and producer groups "to allow the penalty-fre... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Polar Peril: Nine Animals In Need | NEWS:It's not just penguins and other Antarctic animals that are in trouble. A sampling of Arctic species reeling from climate change. Lemming Reports of mass suicide are erroneous, but some species ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Red Panda Adopted By Cat | A break from the regularly scheduled doom and gloom for more happy news from the animal world. Red Panda Adopted By Cat AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A newborn red panda rejected by its mother in Amsterdam's ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Preble's Mouse Still On Threatened List In CO | Federal officials have removed the Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse from the threatened species list in Wyoming, but it remains on the threatened list in Colorado. Fish and Wildlife Service affects tens ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Eight new natural wonders for the World Heritage List | Eight new natural sites have been added to the World Heritage List, following IUCN s recommendations.The new sites include the Socotra Archipelago in Yemen, Canada s Joggins Fossil Cliffs, the French ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Groups Oppose Early Out for CRP | WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Fifteen conservation groups Wednesday sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer urging him to reject pressure from Congress and producer groups to allow the penalty-free ea... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Environmental groups looking out for wolverines | Nine environmental groups said Tuesday they plan to sue the federal government if wolverines are not granted protection under the Endangered Species Act within 60 days. Climate change is melting the s... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Fading birds find refuge here | Chris Snook A piping plover walks at north Folly Beach in 2006. The bird's color band combo indicates that it is a member of the endangered Great Lakes breeding population of piping plovers. You prob... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | CRP In the News This Week | 7/9/2008 Pro Farmer Editors The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is certainly making headlines this week , including the issuance of a temporary restraining order (TRO) by a U. District Court judge... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Indiana bald eagle found injured in Tennessee | Indiana bald eagle found injured in Tennessee Bird may be oldest of group from area BY ROGER MOON roger@tmnews. An injured bald eagle found in late June in Tennessee was one of the birds released at ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Wild Reads at the Duxbury Library | Foundation withdraws beach building. Our Brave New World Kinda The Internet has created an interesting dilemma for the newspaper industry. The Children s Room at the Duxbury Free Library has gone ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Traditional medicines threaten flora, fauna | Close call, Yogi : Bears caught by poachers were rescued in a Gia Lai forest rangers station. HA NOI Trade in traditional medicine has continued unabated largely due to the laxity on international t... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Wolverine advocates give notice of intent to file suit | HELENA, Mont. - The federal government's refusal to protect wolverines under the Endangered Species Act will be challenged in a lawsuit if the decision is not reversed within 60 days, a coalition of n... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Changing our world | Alan Gorchov-Negron, 14, and Tyler Roberts, 9, paint rain barrels at the Eco Kids camp at Southport Elementary School on Tuesday. These are three of 10 barrels that will be offered to area businesses.... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Feds look to ban fishing of krill, an ocean staple | The half-inch-long krill may not appear on restaurant menus nor stir much talk of special protections like, say, salmon or rockfish. But federal regulators think restricting the catch of the shrimp-li... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Dr. Jean Brennan: We shouldn't give up on the ESA or any species in jeopardy | During the June 25 meeting in Boise on climate change impacts in the Columbia River Basin, reporter Rocky Barker questioned the adequacy of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) under the observed and pred... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Volunteering with Leatherback Sea Turtles in Galibi, Suriname | The northern coast of Suriname is one of the best places in the world to view the largest turtle, the marine Leatherback. Watching the turtle rise out of the tides onto the beach gives one the sense o... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Cheney 'tried to suppress climate change evidence' | 09/07/2008 - 07:11:23 US vice president Dick Cheney s office pushed to delete references about the consequences of climate change on public health from congressional testimony, in a bid to play down t... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | BLADE Network Technologies Joins Climate Savers Computing Initiative(SM) | BLADE Network Technologies, Inc ., the industry leader in network virtualization for servers and storage, announced that it has joined the Climate Savers Computing Initiative(SM), a non-profit organiz... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Group sues to halt Buzzards Bay fish experiment | A national consumer advocacy group is suing the U. Army Corps of Engineers over a Pavlovian underwater experiment in Buzzards Bay., nonprofit group, has filed the suit in federal district court in Bos... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Copycat, and they're fine with that | By Eric Wolff The wings of butterflies in the genus Morpho, resident in Central and South America, produce astonishing colors: spectacular iridescent blues, bright yellows in intricate patterns, green... Read » |