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Bloody Appalling Britons' Bodies Contaminated with a Stew of Chemicals		25 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Bloody Appalling Britons' Bodies Contaminated with a Stew of Chemicals A cocktail of toxic chemicals was found in the bodies of every person tested as part of a British study commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund. In one of the most comprehensive such surveys to date, 155 people from around the U.K. had their blood analyzed for 77 persistent chemicals known to accumulate in human bodies, including DDT ...
Topics: health, toxics, United Kingdom, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Trickle-down Economics Saving Forests Can Mean Clean Water for Cities		02 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Trickle-down Economics Saving Forests Can Mean Clean Water for Cities Cities around the world could save billions of dollars on water-treatment plants if they dedicated resources to protecting nearby forests, which naturally filter and purify drinking water, according to a new report by the World Wildlife Fund and the World Bank. Researchers came to this conclusion after s ...
Topics: New York, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wilderness, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Yes-kia		18 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Yes-kia The World Wildlife Fund plans to teach the 50,000 employees of telecommunications giant Nokia how to be good environmentalists, the conservation organization announced yesterday. In a groundbreaking partnership, WWF will provide seminars and workshops on environmental issues and create environmental interest-group areas on the company's internal computer network. Nokia Vice President Veli Sundback said the ...
Topics: business, education, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Tangled Up in Deep Blue		16 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Tangled Up in Deep Blue Each day, nearly 1,000 whales, dolphins, and porpoises are sent to an untimely death after they get tangled up in nets and other fishing equipment, according to a new study conducted by American and Scottish scientists and released by the World Wildlife Fund. These accidental captures may be the biggest threat to the sea mammals' survival, more deadly than pollution and collisions with ships ...
Topics: marine life, oceans, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Succulent Temptations		21 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Succulent Temptations In an effort to conserve water, landscapers in Arizona have turned to the wild cacti of West Texas for decoration, creating an unsustainable demand that could imperil some species. According to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund, agaves and yuccas are being harvested from the Chihuahua Desert to feed a demand for drought ...
Topics: Arizona, climate, European Union, green living, renewable energy, Texas, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

The Rain in Spain Caused an Awful Lot of Pain		18 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
The Rain in Spain Caused an Awful Lot of Pain Thousands of tons of oil have begun to wash up on seaports and the beaches of Galicia, Spain, after the hull of a rusty oil tanker at sea cracked last week during a storm. The country has suspended fishing on parts of its northwestern coast and workers are trying desperately to limit any further damage from the accident. Dozens of tons of oil remain on ...
Topics: energy, marine life, oceans, Spain, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

The Bycatcher in the Rye		24 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
The Bycatcher in the Rye "Save the whales!" "Save the dolphins!" Those were rallying cries of the environmental movement in the 1980s and '90s, and they culminated in a successful campaign for "dolphin-safe" tuna -- that is, tuna-fishing practices in the Pacific Ocean that wouldn't harm marine mammals. Unfortunately, scientists now say that commercial f ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, marine life, oceans, Pacific Ocean, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

A Thousand Acres ... Well, Make That 4.7		10 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
A Thousand Acres ... Well, Make That 4.7 Global standards of living will plummet by mid-century unless human beings drastically decrease their use of natural resources, according to a report issued yesterday by the World Wildlife Fund. The main culprits in the overuse of resources are the world's richest countries: the U.S., Canada, Japan, and most of Western Europe, according to "L ...
Topics: green living, placemaking, pollution and waste, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

The Hunt for Cold October		15 May 2002	Daily Grist
The Hunt for Cold October That's all fine and dandy for panda bears, but the outlook is grimmer for their northern (non)cousins, polar bears. Polar bears face a number of threats -- widespread habitat fragmentation, pollution, excessive hunting -- but the most serious menace of all is climate change, according to a report issued yesterday by the World Wildlife Fund. Rising temperatures at the top of the world are melt ...
Topics: Arctic, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

What Sumatra You?		06 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
What Sumatra You? The Tesso Nilo forest on Sumatra, Indonesia, contains more biological diversity than the Amazon. It is home to elephants, tigers, gibbons, and tapirs, and a recent survey conducted by scientists from the World Wildlife Fund found as many as 218 vascular plant species in just 0.05 acres. But the entire forest could disappear in less than eight yea ...
Topics: G8, Indonesia, logging, Sumatra, Switzerland, wilderness, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Danube Blues		31 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Danube Blues The Danube River in Europe may be blue, but it's not very green -- and its environmental problems are slated to get even worse, the World Wildlife Fund warns in a report being released today. More than 80 percent of the river's wetlands and flood plains have already been destroyed in the name of flood protection, agriculture, p ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, Germany, placemaking, rivers and watersheds, wetlands, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Worse for the Tern		20 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Worse for the Tern Here's another possible casualty of the war on terrorism: migrating birds. An Indian ornithologist announced today that more than 200 species of birds that migrate from central Asia to India every year could be adversely affected by chemicals in the bombs exploding in Afghanistan. Such birds, including the Siberian crane, the shoveller duck, the crested poacher, and the Arctic te ...
Topics: Afghanistan, Asia, India, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Grain and Bear It		19 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Grain and Bear It New policies emerging in China could bode well for that poster child of protection efforts, the panda. In an article published last week in the journal Science, scientists from the World Wildlife Fund and Beijing University praised China's National Forest Conservation Program and its "Grain-to-Green" policy as likely to preserve habitat crucial to pa ...
Topics: China, food and agriculture, national forests, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Excuse Me, Can You Tell Me Where the Life Is?		05 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Excuse Me, Can You Tell Me Where the Life Is? "A New Map of Life on Earth," a new project of the World Wildlife Fund, charts the natural world in unprecedented detail and may help environmentalists figure out where to best direct their efforts. The project, which took eight years and the labor of more than 1,000 people to complete, divides the Earth into 867 ecoregions based on climate, plants, animals, soil type, ge ...
Topics: wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

WWF Asks Russia to Protect Whales Threatened By Exxon		14 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
WWF Asks Russia to Protect Whales Threatened By Exxon The World Wildlife Fund is asking Russia to stop Exxon from testing for oil off Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East, charging that the seismic surveys are driving Western Pacific gray whales from their feeding grounds. "The sooner the seismic work is finished, the more time whales will have to feed again normally and r ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, oceans, Russia, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Smacked Down		13 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Smacked Down The World Wildlife Fund won a legal battle on Friday to limit the World Wrestling Federation's use of the initials WWF. A High Court judge in London ruled that the federation broke a 1994 agreement with the enviro group, under which the wrestlers agreed to restrict their use of the initials in promoting their, um, "sport." In particular, the enviro group says the court victory means the wrestlers w ...
Topics: United Kingdom, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Back Flipper		24 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Back Flipper A federal appeals court yesterday rejected the U.S. government's bid to loosen the standard for "dolphin-safe" tuna. The U.S. wanted to open its dolphin-safe market to Mexican and Latin American fishers who catch tuna in large purse-seines and promise to set fre ...
Topics: Department of Commerce, Earth Island Institute, environmental justice, globalization, marine life, Mexico, politics, South America, United States, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Catch a WWF of This!	Suzy Becker	20 Dec 1999	Ha.

Topics: World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Who Consumes the Most?	Donella H. Meadows	09 Aug 1999	Global Citizen
Singapore, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, United States, Norway. Those are the world's five top nations, in descending order, in -- well, what category would you guess? If you say income per capita, you're close, but no cigar. Since the 1985 oil price crash, the Middle East no longer dominates the list of the world's richest nations. The income leaders in 1998 were Switzerland, Japan, Norway, Denmark, and Singapore. The United States was ...
Topics: air pollution, marine life, placemaking, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

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