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 Stories About: North America AND wildlife
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Migrate Expectations
Climate change taking its toll on North American wildlife |
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16 Dec 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Migrate Expectations Climate change taking its toll on North American wildlife Never mind polar bears and penguins -- turns out global warming is having its way with the feathered and furry throughout North America. A three-year study released yesterday by the Wildlife Society, a nonpartisan group of wildlife experts, suggests that climate change in North America is affecting migration routes, breeding habits, and bloomin ... |
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| Topics: climate, North America, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Feather Report
Birds in decline across North America |
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20 Oct 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Feather Report Birds in decline across North America Last week we heard that amphibians -- the alleged environmental "canaries in the coal mine" -- are dying off in record numbers. But what if birds, not amphibians, are the better environmental indicators, as John Flicker of the National Audubon Society claims? Well, then ... we're still hosed. According to a new report by the group, close to 30 percent of bird species ... |
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| Topics: North America, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Homeocidal
Herbal Medicine Trade Threatens Thousands of Plant Species |
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09 Jan 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Homeocidal Herbal Medicine Trade Threatens Thousands of Plant Species The booming worldwide market for herbal medicines threatens between 8 and 20 percent of the 50,000 known wild medicinal plant species with extinction, according to a forthcoming study by the World Wildlife Fund. Having risen by10 percent per ... |
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| Topics: Asia, China, climate, European Union, globalization, green living, health, India, North America, population, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics) |
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A Rocky Start
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18 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| A Rocky Start Before you celebrate too much ... The Bush administration has already set its sights on another drilling target: the Rocky Mountains. Dozens of petitions to drill on public lands throughout the Rocky Mountain states have been submitted to the White House, which has established a Task Force on Energy Project Streamlining "to expedite the increased sup ... |
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| Topics: energy, mining and drilling, North America, politics, US Geological Survey, wildlife (all these topics) |
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All's Quiet on the Rocky Mountain Front
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15 Nov 2001 |
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| All's Quiet on the Rocky Mountain Front The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an industry appeal of a 1997 U.S. Forest Service decision to ban oil and gas exploration on Montana's Rocky Mountain Front, a 1.8 million-acre swath of land where the plains meet the Rocky Mountains. The area, which is home to grizzlies, wolves, and bighorn sheep, also contains an estimated 2.5 trillion c ... |
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| Topics: energy, Montana, North America, US Forest Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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