Wildlife & Environment

Fossil fuels ‘risk being wasted assets’

Apr 19, 2013

LONDON, April 19, 2013 - The first problem is this: most climate scientists agree that we cannot afford to burn the huge reserves of fossil fuel we have if we want any chance of preventing global average temperatures rising by more than 2°C. The seco...

Massive Marine Protected Area announced in the Southern Indian Ocean

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Apr 18, 2013

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Cutting Specific Atmospheric Pollutants Would Slow Sea Level Rise

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Apr 18, 2013

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More Grand Canyon Condors Die of Lead Poisoning

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Apr 17, 2013

TUCSON, Ariz. April 16, 2013 — Lead ammunition continues to take a deadly toll on endangered California condors that live in and around the Grand Canyon. Seven of the 80 wild condors in Arizona and Utah have died since December; three of those deaths...

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Study reveals seasonal patterns of tropical rainfall changes from global warming

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Apr 16, 2013

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Humane Society Criticizes Obama Administration Decision to Allow First Import of Critically Endangered Black Rhino Trophy in More Than Three Decades

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Apr 16, 2013

April 16, 2013 - In a setback for species protection and an end to more than 30 years of U.S. protection for the critically endangered black rhino, the Obama Administration has granted approval to an American trophy hunter to import a sport-hunted rhin...

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Russian forests and tigers left floored by illegal logging

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Apr 16, 2013

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Solar link will bridge Mediterranean

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Apr 16, 2013

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Superbugs Invade America’s Supermarket Meat

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Apr 16, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 15, 2013 - The latest round of tests by federal scientists, quietly published in February, has documented startlingly high percentages of supermarket meat containing antibiotic-resistant bacteria, according to a new Environmental...

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