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London Zoo calls time on park's football fest
Love in a cold climate: A life-long obsession with the Arctic
Alien fish invasion divides lake states
Olympic Mascot Unprotected
Goodbye Galapagos, you're too warm for us
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Michael McCarthy: The sad decline of a little goddess
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Starfish: Carbon storage heroes
Why Antarctica isn't melting like the Arctic ... yet
No More Dog and Cat Meat in China?
Going for a song: a mysterious vanishing act
Addressing “Global Cooling”
Voodoo wasps that could save the world
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Impacts of Climate Change on Arctic Wildlife and Ecosystems
Environmental Plastic Discovery
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Greenland Ice Sheet Melting Faster than Ever
Sharp-toothed shark acts as midwife
Koalas are Disappearing from Australia
Half of World's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Caused by Livestock
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Illegal logging responsible for loss of 10 million hectares in Indonesia
M&S makes palm oil pledge to save forests
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More Black Rhinos Headed For A New Home
Japan Slaughters 59 Whales, Just One Short Of Maximum Allowed
Elephants! 12 Things You Didn't Know, Plus Photo Gallery
Bug Off: Only Known Vegetarian Spider Prefers Plants Over Insects
Underwater Gallery in Grenada Commemorates Our Reef Ecosystems
Maldives Government Ministers Meeting Under Water!
700 Naked People in France for Climate Change Action
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Arctic seed vault hits half-million mark Barely two years after it opened, a unique Arctic "doomsday" stockpile of all the world's crop seeds has reached the half-million species mark, the foundation that oversees it said Thursday...
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Intrigue soars as 75 starlings fall out of sky Mystery surrounds the deaths of 75 starlings which fell out of the sky and on to the driveway of a house...
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Intrigue soars as 75 starlings fall out of sky Mystery surrounds the deaths of 75 starlings which fell out of the sky and on to the driveway of a house...
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Conservation group supports call for bluefin tuna trade ban The future of the bluefin tuna could be decided within days, along with two other endangered fish, the spiny dogfish and porbeagle, according to a national conservation charity. ..
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Where Australia's sharks go to stay looking sharp A pampering session at the beauty salon always works wonders for morale – not just for humans, but also for sharks and manta ray fish. Australian scientists have discovered that these large marine creatures regularly congregate at certain spots on the Great Barrier Reef to be groomed by smaller fish...
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All-black penguin discovered Photo via Andrew Evans of the National Geographic. King Penguins are notorious for their prim, tuxedoed appearance -- but a recently discovered all-black penguin seems unafraid to defy convention. In what has been described as a "one in a zillion kind of mutation," biologists say that the animal has lost control of its pigmentation, an occurrence that is extremely rare. Other than the penguin's monochromatic outfit, the animal appears t..
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Extinct frog rediscovered in Australia Image credit: AP Photo A small frog that had been declared extinct more than 30 years ago has been rediscovered in Australia. Litoria castanea, better known as the "yellow-spotted bell frog" or the "tablelands bell frog," was found in a creek bed on private property by biologists Luke Pearce and David Hunter. Hunter, who is a frog expert with the New South Wales Environment Department, commented that "this was definitely the most excit..
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Gone in our lifetime: Seven recently extinct creatures It happened to the dinosaurs, most likely because of a meteor strike, and now all that's left are fossils. It happened to the mastodons, possibly because their icy climate overheated. Evolutionary biologists will tell you that it has happened to 99.9% of all species that have ever walked the earth: Extinction, the death of not just an individual, but the last individual of an entire species. And in the last 20 years, most of the extinctions we'..
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Melting ice caps may make major cities colder EarthTalk is a Q&A column from E/The Environmental MagazineDear EarthTalk: If the ice caps are melting, what is happening to the salt content of the oceans And might this contribute to weather patterns or cause other environmental problems — George Boyer, via emailIt's true that the melting of the polar ice caps as a result of global warming is sending large amounts of freshwater into the world's oceans. Environmentalists and many climate scienti..
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Heat-resistant algae could help threatened coral Warmer ocean temperatures pose a serious threat to corals around the world.  Warmer waters typically kill the brown or green algae that a reef depends on for food, leading to bleaching and death of the reefs, but Penn State scientists have found some algae are not affected by rising temperatures, buying their coral partners some time. Heat-resistant algae have been found in the Andaman Sea in the Indian Ocean as well as in spots in the Caribbean ..
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The Cove Gets New TV Show Fresh after winning the Oscar for best documentary comes the announcement that a new television show based on The Cove will première on Animal Planet. The new program, currently titled Dolphin Warriors, will continue to explore the dolphin trade and slaughter in Japan. ..
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Belgian Chicken Composters The Belgian town of Mouscron is running a campaign offering its residents free chickens to help reduce their household kitchen waste. ..
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Green Roof Dog Houses Would your animal companion be happier in a plantation-style eco-house or maybe a more contemporary green dwelling Custom designed Green Roof Animal Houses from American-based Sustainable Pet Designs are the perfect housing option for the environmentally friendly pet. ..
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Stop Trophy Hunting BC Bears With all eyes focused on British Columbia for the winter Olympics, there is a lesser-known ‘sport’ that environmental groups want the world to know about – the trophy hunting of bears. ..
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Olympic Mascot Unprotected Canadian environmental groups are drawing attention to the fact that one of the official Olympic mascots – the Vancouver Island marmot - does not have adequate protection to survive. ..
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Octavia Butler’s Prescient “Parable of the Sower” This is a letter that I wrote to my local Bayview librarian to promote Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower as a book that our entire city reads together: Dear Linda Brooks Burton, I wish to recommend Octavia Butler’s brilliant Parable of the Sower as a selection for San Francisco’s “One City One Book” project. Butler’s prescient fictional tale, set in the urban dystopia of a permanently drought-stricken C..
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Climate Change Sets Rural Livelihoods Off Course in Zimbabwe At a public borehole in Zviyambe, a village in the backyard of Zimbabwe, approximately 250 kilometres away from Harare, the capital city, butterflies, goats, cattle and human beings mix and mingle in edenic fashion all in search of the precious liquid: water. Under a blazing sun, Sekai Mabika (not her real name) and her sister take turns to fill up buckets with water all the while shooing the goats away while the butterflies flutter hither and th..
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Obsessed with the Magic of Chickens I met several lovely chickens yesterday when I was in Oakland, and I am now quite smitten. They are truly engrossing creatures to observe; the animal’s social behavior is very complex, their vocalizations are both soothing and fascinating, to say nothing of the delicious fresh eggs they provide. More and more urban chickens are being raised in cities, as increasing numbers of people are growing their own food and trying to create a more loc..
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Los Angeles May Now Require Rainwater Harvesting Los Angeles has proposed a new water management law that would require rainwater harvesting on all new homes, large developments, as well as on some redevelopment projects. The Department of Public Works unanimously approved the new ordinance in January for the increasingly parched region. It requires various methods to capture, reuse or infiltrate all of the rainwater runoff that is generated by a 3/4 inch rainstorm. These rain barrels have been..
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Common but Lethal Soil Fungus Becoming Resistant to Antifungals Aspergillus fumigatus - a common but sometimes lethal soil fungus Aspergillus fumigatus is a fungus found commonly in ordinary garden soil. When the spores of the fungus are inhaled, It can also cause disease–sometimes fatally in those with already compromised immune systems and respiratory disease such as COPD. Doctors who treat the illness have long-recognized that in some patients, the fungus is resistant to standard treatment with che..
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