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Mystery of the vanishing sparrows still baffles scientists 10 years on
New Study: Pollution Costs Children and Economy
Oil's Forgiven
New Oil Spill in Louisiana
Sanctuary City: Beaver, Washington
Gabon tour operator pulls plug on Africa's Eden after aviation row
Farmland bird numbers fall to record lows
Glorious mud: Finnish footballers, holidaying Koreans and even the Chinese Army have been enjoying its earthy pleasures
Fears for unique wildlife of Galapagos as UN drops islands' protected status
Fears for Britain's trees after Asian beetle discovered
Spanish Style Bat House
Frozen Pangolins Seized
Squirrel Powered Machines
Doggie Ice Cream Van
British Roadkill Beer
Bees fitted with tiny ID tags for study
Creepy BP
Soap Dioxins Found in Mississippi River Sediments
Living proof that conservation works
Oil company to store peat bog for 30 years
Q&A: How long will chaos last – and what has it cost?
Animal rights activists lose battle to ban badger cull
Eco-Friendly Cat Houses
How volcanic eruptions affect weather plans
Great Barrier Reef could take 20 years to recover from grounding
Reef may take twenty years to recover from damage
Renewable Funding Helps SF Save Energy
A Little Green Cocktail Party in Downtown Los Angeles
Connect the Dots: Greening San Francisco Nonprofits
The natural world's very own 4x4s
No Reprieve For Polar Bears
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
Top seven disappearing glaciers
How hot was 2009? Was it the 2nd warmest year or the 5th warmest year?
Michael McCarthy: The sad decline of a little goddess
Britain to oppose sale of stockpiled ivory
Wanted: language tutor for panda
Save the elephant: ivory trading is set to resume
1BOG Brings Power of Group Solar to New Jersey
A Lamp Shade or a Slide Show?
Japan's whalers are at sea again, harvesting meat that few will eat
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”
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Malibu ecoPARK Moving Forward [Video]
It is not built yet, but if it does get built, it will be one of the greenest projects I’ve ever heard of. And the good news is that it has just received approval to begin construction. The project I’m talking about is the “longtime dream project” of ecoTECH, ecoPARK, and is supposed to be... Read More.....
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Is Another Mass Extinction Imminent?
Our planet's resources are finite; through overpopulation and exploitation, our species has done an excellent job of burning through them at a devastating rate. Clean water is increasingly scarce, our atmosphere is quickly degrading, and our oceans are turning into acid. Many scientists now believe that our species, as well as thousands of others, may be teetering on the precipice of another global mass extinction. Is the collapse of life as we k..
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Hell No to Prop 23!
One of the more pernicious and deceptive propositions on California's ballot this November is Prop 23. The proposition would suspend AB 32 (Global Warming Solutions Act), the landmark greenhouse emission reduction law that was passed by the legislature and signed by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006. The Orwellian name given to it by oil-slick proponents is "California Jobs Initiative"; but opponents have dubbed it the "Dirty Energy Proposition", b..
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So Many Vegan Donuts
We were just in beautiful Portland, Oregon this week to meet up with Zachary Shahan, another editor in the Important Media network. After walking around sunny downtown, admiring the city's progressive urban planning, and pouring over books at Powell's, we visited a local bakery, Voodoo Doughnut. Becky Striepe, the editor over at eatdrinkbetter.com, had suggested the place, effusing that the vegan donuts totally blew her mind...
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Greenland’s Ice is Melting
Chuck Dayton's recent kayak trip in the waters off Greenland's coast confirmed many reports that its ice is melting at an shocking and catastrophic rate. The Minnesota conservation advocate is a 40-year veteran of the environmental movement; Dayton recently completed a kayaking expedition in the waters off Greenland. He returned with first-hand observations of alarming changes in glacial ice: "Global warming is real in Greenland; you can h..
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Why your sustainable fish may not be as guilt-free as you think
Since its establishment more than a decade ago, the reputation of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has been as spotless as the consciences of shoppers who buy fish bearing its blue "tick" logo in the expectation it has been sustainably caught. Until now...
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Forest fires in Madeira put future of Europe's rarest seabird under threat
Europe's rarest seabird, the Zino's Petrel, found only in Madeira, has suffered potentially devastating losses from a forest fire which struck the birds' breeding area on the Atlantic island. ..
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India's elephants finally given same protection as tigers
The humble hardworking elephant is not an animal that usually likes to complain. But over the years, while higher-profile, more urgently threatened species have been the subject of widescale conservation efforts, elephant numbers have been allowed to dwindle. Perhaps worse, the gender ratio – since only males have tusks, it is they who are sought by poachers – has become perilously skewed. ..
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Hurricane threatens US holiday islands
Visitors and some residents were evacuated from low-lying holiday islands off the North Carolina coast yesterday as Hurricane Earl bore down on the US eastern seaboard, churning up dangerous swells...
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One of the wettest, coldest Augusts
Last month brought the coldest temperature recorded in August for 23 years – and a complete absence of "hot days", figures showed yesterday...
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Urban Bird Nest Art
Creating urban space for birds, and minimizing scaffolding injuries, is the focus of a new project by Spanish art group Luzinterruptus. Aptly titled Urban Nest, the artists placed hundreds of plastic nests at the corners of the scaffolding joints at a construction area in Madrid to highlight “…what these insignificant, common objects brought to the aspect of a street under construction”. ..
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London’s Birdhouse Sculptures
Hundreds of birdhouses were added to London’s streets in an effort to create a more appealing urban environment for the creatures. Created as part of the Secret Garden Project, the Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heaven sculptural installation by London Fieldworks is designed to provide a welcoming bird and bug habitat while promoting urban biodiversity and the importance of greenspaces. ..
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Myanmar Creates Huge Tiger Sanctuary
Myanmar (formally Burma) is now home to the world’s largest tiger reserve. Located in the Hukaung Valley in northern Myanmar, the 8,450sq.mile (21,885sq.km) reserve has been extended nearly three times in size from the previous 2,500sq.mile (6,475sq.km) area allocated as a tiger sanctuary in 2004. ..
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British Roadkill Beer
In a seemingly ill-advised attempt to garner publicity for their 55% ABV ale, Scottish brewery BrewDog decided to package their £500 (771US$, €597) per bottle blond Belgian limited edition ale inside stuffed roadkill animals. ..
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Doggie Ice Cream Van
An ice cream van for canines will make its debut at London’s Regents Park Boomerang Pets Party on July 24th, 2010. The K99 van, playing the Scooby-Doo theme song, will be offering dogs two flavors of ice cream - Canine Cookie Crunch (dog biscuits mixed with ice cream) and Dog Eat Hog World (a chicken/ham combination ice cream) chicken– both designed to keep pets cool during the annual pet party. ..
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Micro-frog found in search for world's lost amphibians
Image: Conservation International (CI) Pea-sized frog is the old world's smallestThe smallest frog known on the Asian, European, or African continents -- and one of the world's tiniest frogs -- was found by a group of scientists searching for "lost amphibians." This pea-sized micro-frog belongs to the species of microhylid, which, as the name suggests, is composed of miniature frogs under 15 millimeters. So why was it "lost" And, excepting..
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Photographer discovers mysterious "bearded" antelope
Photo by Paolo Torchio Veteran wildlife photographer Paolo Torchio made a bizarre discovery while visiting Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve: a mysterious "bearded" antelope. While one expert suggests the animal might only be suffering from hypertrichosis, a condition once known as werewolf syndrome, Torchio's experience is the only known encounter with such an animal. Torchio has lived and worked in Kenya for the past two decades and i..
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Oil found deep in Gulf's water and food chain
(Image Credit: Plankton, Public Domain) Researchers from the University of South Florida found oil in plankton in the northern Gulf. Plankton are tiny organisms which many larger species such as fish consume in order to stay alive. If plankton numbers plunge, there could be a similar impact on all the species which depend on them. One of the scientists from the University, David Hollander said, "The idea that this could have an impact on t..
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Scientists discover new bearded monkey
(Photo by Javier García ) Scientists Thomas Defler, Marta Bueno, and Javier García have discovered a new species of monkey in the Caquetá region of southern Colombia. The region, which is part of the Amazon rainforest, had been inaccessible for years due to a violent insurgence. The violence subsided three years ago, allowing García -- a native of Caquetá -- to explore the Colombian Amazon. Using a GPS to traverse the upper Caquetá River,..
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52 new marine species discovered
Indonesian and American scientists discovered 52 new species in a joint deep-sea exploration. Fish, shrimp, coral, and shells were discovered in a portion of the ocean ranging from 300 meters to 2,000 meters deep. The two-month-long research project took place in the Coral Triangle region, which is known to be rich in biodiversity. Gellwyn Jusuf, an Indonesian representative of the expedition, remarked, "This is our first deep-sea resea..
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