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Emetic Justice Polar-bear listing would hurt the poor, says industry		09 May 2008	News
Posted at 2:10 PM on 09 May 2008 If the U.S. Interior Department decides that polar bears are endangered, litigation will be immediate from a group arguing that bear protection will "result in higher energy prices across the board, which will disproportionately be borne by minorities." So says Roy Innis, chair of the Congress for Racial Equality -- a recipient of Exxon funding that has recently aligned itself with ac ...
Topics: climate, endangered species, environmental justice, insanity, litigation, news, polar bears, politics (all these topics)

Ranch Blessing Greens and developer come to agreement in SoCal		08 May 2008	News
Posted at 1:58 PM on 08 May 2008 A long-running disagreement over what should be done with the largest swath of privately owned wilderness in southern California has been settled by a deal between green groups and a developer. Ninety percent of the 270,000-acre Tejon Ranch will be conserved, while 26,000 homes will be permitted on the remaining 10 percent. The Center for Biological Diversity, which was not involved in the truce, exp ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, endangered species, grassroots activism, news, NRDC, Sierra Club, sprawl, wilderness (all these topics)

Alas, Alaska Alaska legislature looking for polar-bear skeptics		07 May 2008	News
Posted at 11:32 AM on 07 May 2008 The Alaska legislature wants to use $2 million in state money to fund an "academic based" conference to highlight the views of scientists who don't think the polar bear should be put on the endangered-species list. The U.S. Interior Department must make a decision by May 15 on whether polar bears are a threatened or endangered species, and "[w]e want to have the money to hire scientis ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change skepticism, dumbassery , endangered species, news, polar bears, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Salmon shutdown One of the West Coast's most iconic species feeling the heat	Miles Grant	03 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: endangered species, habitat loss, habitat protection, litigation, politics, salmon (all these topics)

Getting Hard to Carrion Wild Asian vultures going the way of the dodo		30 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:24 PM on 30 Apr 2008 Wild Asian vultures are likely going to the way of the dodo, a new study says. The white-backed vulture population has plunged by nearly 99.9 percent in India since 1992, and two other vulture species have seen a drop of 97 percent, say researchers publishing in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Researchers blame diclofenac, a drug given to livestock and ingested by the birds ...
Topics: endangered species, health, India, news, scientific research, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

May of Reckoning Polar-bear listing decision must be made by May 15, says judge		29 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 9:55 AM on 29 Apr 2008 The last time we checked in with the laggardly Interior Department, it was saying it needed until June 30 to decide whether to place polar bears on the endangered-species list. But the department had better find its Decider Pants soon, as a federal judge has sided with green groups to impose a new deadline of May 15. "Other than the general complexity of finalizing the rule, def ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Department of Interior, endangered species, litigation, news, polar bears, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

The Gray Area Gray wolves under attack, groups want them re-listed		28 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:03 PM on 28 Apr 2008 Saying that their concerns about trigger-happy hunters have been validated, 12 conservation and animal-rights groups have sued to get the gray wolf re-listed as an endangered species. The 1,500 wolves that roam through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho were delisted on Mar. 28 and can now be shot at will; a total of 37 have been killed in the last month. Conservation groups filed suit Monday, saying th ...
Topics: animal welfare, endangered species, Idaho, litigation, Montana, news, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

The Horn of a Dilemma Narwhals more at risk than polar bears, says study		25 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:10 PM on 25 Apr 2008 Polar bears get all the press, but climate change may be even harder on the narwhal, says new research. Narwhals, the whales whose long spiral tusks kick-started the myth of unicorns, top a list of 11 at-risk Arctic marine mammals published in the journal Ecological Applications. Hooded seals, bowhead whales, and walrus rounded out the top five, while ringed seals and bearded seals, which a ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

By a Whisker Northwest sea lions granted stay of execution		24 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:03 PM on 24 Apr 2008 Sea lions all set to gobble their last salmon supper at a Northwest dam have been granted a stay of execution by a U.S. appeals court. Judges granted an injunction, requested by the Humane Society, that a lower court had denied last week. It's only a partial victory for the Humane Society, however, as the court did OK the transfer of the whiskery rascals to zoos and aquariums; state officials planned to ...
Topics: animal welfare, dams, endangered species, litigation, news, Oregon, Washington (all these topics)

Bushies not wild about wild salmon On the Bush administration's deal for Columbia and Snake River salmon and steelhead	Guest author	23 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: dams, endangered species, habitat loss, habitat protection, litigation, politics, salmon (all these topics)

Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Frog Gone? Lots of amphibians ending up as roadkill, says research		21 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 11:40 AM on 21 Apr 2008 Need a new reason to hate cars? You're in luck! Death by vehicle could be a major contributing factor in declining numbers of amphibians, according to new research published in the journal Herpetological Conservation and Biology. (Hee hee, they said "herpetological.") Intrepid road-kill researchers from Purdue University spent 17 months schlepping up 10, ...
Topics: cars, endangered species, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

P is for Procrastination Polar bear listing decision delayed, again		18 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 8:22 AM on 18 Apr 2008 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that it needs 10 more weeks to decide whether to list polar bears as a threatened or endangered species. The agency's self-imposed deadline is now June 30; the original deadline was Jan. 9. The USFWS says it needs time to review the legal and policy implications of a listing, but litigious greens suspect the delay may have something to do with the ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Department of Interior, endangered species, news, polar bears (all these topics)

Lions' Humane Judge denies Humane Society injunction, OKs sea-lion trapping		17 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 12:41 PM on 17 Apr 2008 Denying an injunction sought by the Humane Society, a federal judge has given the go-ahead to Oregon and Washington state officials to trap and kill salmon-gobbling sea lions near the Columbia River's Bonneville Dam. The animal-rights group sued after the National Marine Fisheries Service OK'd sea-lion culling last month. An official hearing on the Humane Society lawsuit could be held as ...
Topics: animal welfare, dams, endangered species, litigation, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, Oregon, Washington (all these topics)

Hoppy the wolf has been killed	David Roberts	15 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: endangered species (all these topics)

Polar bears are ... doing great? So say Big Oil-friendly opponents of protecting them	Miles Grant	03 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Alaska, endangered species, energy, natural gas, oil, shenanigans, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

Time in Memorial Maya Lin's latest memorial will pay tribute to the planet		01 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 4:45 PM on 01 Apr 2008 Maya Lin, an artist best known for designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., is making plans for a tribute to what has passed from the earth -- literally. Her planned memorial will list the names of animals, birds, and plants that have gone extinct. "The top 10 songbirds we grew up with are in a 40 percent to 70 percent decline. Our oceans are being devastated by o ...
Topics: art, endangered species, extinction, green living, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Go south, young polar bear New campaign plans to relocate polar bears to Antarctica	Lisa Hymas	31 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: endangered species, funnies, John McCain, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

Polar bears are fat! Listing polar bears as endangered species could ... harm polar bears?	Sir Oolius	31 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: endangered species, wildlife (all these topics)

Aspen Env't Forum: The word on gray wolves Wolf recovery chief Ed Bangs talks about the species' delisting	Lisa Hymas	28 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: animal welfare, endangered species, interview, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

We Detect a Seal Change Feds to consider endangered-species protections for four species of Arctic seals		27 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 9:05 AM on 27 Mar 2008 Photo: noaa.gov The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced it's considering whether to list four species of Arctic seals under the Endangered Species Act due in part to climate change. The Center for Biological Diversity, a species-advocacy group, petitioned the agency last year to consider protecting ribbon seals due to disappearing sea ic ...
Topics: Arctic, endangered species, news, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

But They're Still Not Hoppy Amphibian dieoffs not caused by climate change, says study		25 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:47 PM on 25 Mar 2008 A mysterious dieoff of amphibian species is likely not being caused by global warming, as had been hypothesized, says new research. Not in doubt: Amphibians are being afflicted by the rapidly spreading chytrid fungus, and humans are in some way responsible. source:� The New York Times see also, in Grist:� Conservationists highlight weirdness of rare amphibians in push to save ...
Topics: endangered species, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

Law & Order: Species Victims Unit Green group files lawsuit to protect 681 species		25 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 6:00 AM on 25 Mar 2008 Environmentalists filed suit last week against the U.S. Interior Department, seeking to force the agency to review and issue findings on the status of 681 species vulnerable to extinction. WildEarth Guardians, which filed the suit, contends that the Bush administration has deliberately stalled Endangered Species Act listing decisions to appease developers and other interests; ...
Topics: biodiversity, Department of Interior, endangered species, litigation, news, United States (all these topics)

Grist in space Do humans deserve to find life on other planets?	Glenn Hurowitz	24 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: habitat loss, endangered species, TV (all these topics)

Flipper Them Off State officials given OK to kill sea lions to protect salmon		18 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 2:22 PM on 18 Mar 2008 Oregon and Washington state officials will have the authority to trap and, if necessary, kill up to 85 of the sea lions that gobble up threatened salmon at the Columbia River's Bonneville Dam, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced Tuesday. Sea lions, which enjoy a robust population but are nonetheless protected under the 1972 Marine Mammals Protection Act, have been visiting ...
Topics: dams, endangered species, fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, Oregon, Washington, wildlife (all these topics)

Nay, Cap'n Ship pilot charged in San Francisco oil spill		17 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:58 PM on 17 Mar 2008 The pilot of the ship that spilled more than 50,000 gallons of oil into the San Francisco Bay in November has been charged with criminal negligence, harming federally protected birds, and violating the Clean Water Act. If found guilty, Capt. John Cota could face up to 18 months in jail and more than $100,000 in fines. source:� Associated Press see also, in Grist:� Group urges Congress to ban bunker fuel in ...
Topics: endangered species, energy, litigation, news, oil, politics, San Francisco, water pollution (all these topics)

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