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Aral Be There
Aral Sea coming back to life after decades of draining damage |
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07 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Aral Be There Aral Sea coming back to life after decades of draining damage The dramatic diminution and pollution of Central Asia's Aral Sea is one of the 20th century's most stunning eco-disasters -- but its restoration may become an eco-miracle of the 21st. Since the World Bank's $85.8 million Kok-Aral Dam project began in 2001, the Aral has regained millions of cubic feet of water. Long-abandoned v ... |
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| Topics: Aral Sea, environmental restoration, news, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Foresight Is 20/20
Researchers identify 20 future conservation battlegrounds |
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08 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Foresight Is 20/20 Researchers identify 20 future conservation battlegrounds The soldiers of conservation have been given their marching orders. (Ah, martial metaphors ... never can get the hang of them.) A new study has identified 20 future conservation battlegrounds around the world, from Alaska's far north to the southern tip of the Australian island of Tasmania -- hotspots where land-mammal species aren't yet endangered ... |
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| Topics: environmental restoration, news (all these topics) |
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Great Expectations
Big Great Lakes cleanup plan gets an OK, but no federal funds |
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13 Dec 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Great Expectations Big Great Lakes cleanup plan gets an OK, but no federal funds U.S. EPA administrator Stephen Johnson and a bipartisan coalition of Midwestern lawmakers and officials approved a 15-year strategy to restore the Great Lakes on Monday. But the Bush administration says it won't fund the plan, which may cost up to $20 billion. The strategy to pull the lakes back from imminent ecologica ... |
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| Topics: environmental restoration, Great Lakes, news, politics (all these topics) |
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The Good News Bears
Pandas seem to be recovering in the wild |
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14 Nov 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Good News Bears Pandas seem to be recovering in the wild We're not like those panda fetishists who flip out about the cute, cuddly black-and-white bears, with their snoogly faces and their roly-poly schnugum wugums ... wait, where were we? Anyway, we've got some good news for panda fans: A recent census found almost 1,600 giant pandas in the wild, well up from an estimated 1,000 in the 1980s. It might just be ... |
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| Topics: environmental restoration, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Fear, Kitty Kitty Kitty
Humans struggle to live peacefully with beasties |
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22 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Fear, Kitty Kitty Kitty Humans struggle to live peacefully with beasties Large carnivores have made impressive comebacks in some parts of the U.S. Now the question is how humans can live with them in harmony. In Oregon, after cougars were hunted to near-extinction, voters banned the practice of hunting with radio-collared dogs. The state's big-cat population has since jumped from about 3,000 to 5,000 -- but compla ... |
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| Topics: environmental restoration, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Herp, Herp, Hooray!
Conservation groups unveil $404 million plan to aid planet's amphibians |
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20 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Herp, Herp, Hooray! Conservation groups unveil $404 million plan to aid planet's amphibians Amphibians are having a rough time of it, and by "rough," we mean terrifically bad. Nearly a third of all amphibian species worldwide are believed to be at risk of extinction, with some 122 already suspected of having died off in the last 25 years or so. Fortunately, emergency assistance for the critters that are ... |
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Born to Rewild
Conservationists propose bringing elephants to U.S., bears to U.K. |
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23 Aug 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Born to Rewild Conservationists propose bringing elephants to U.S., bears to U.K. Imagine: lions and elephants roaming free across the same Great Plains of the U.S. that their ancestors -- big cats, mastodons, and mammoths -- populated 13,000 years ago. That's the "Pleistocene Park" vision that a group of conservation scientists proposed in the journal Nature last week. Since people are increasingly leav ... |
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| Topics: environmental restoration, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Breaking a Bad Habitat
More problems uncovered with habitat conservation plans |
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05 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Breaking a Bad Habitat More problems uncovered with habitat conservation plans The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has published parts two and three of its special series on habitat conservation plans (HCPs) and, suffice to say, the story didn't get any cheerier after part one. A proposed 9.1 million-acre HCP in Washington -- which would cover the bulk of the state's private forestland -- promise ... |
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| Topics: California, environmental restoration, news, Texas, Washington (all these topics) |
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Tit for Habitat
Habitat conservation plans poorly monitored, sporadically effective |
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03 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Tit for Habitat Habitat conservation plans poorly monitored, sporadically effective Today, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer kicks off a big three-day series on the increasingly ubiquitous but nonetheless poorly understood and poorly monitored phenomenon of habitat conservation plans (HCPs). Congress authorized the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to administer such plans in 1982, but it wasn't until the late '90s that ... |
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| Topics: environmental restoration, news, politics (all these topics) |
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There Is a Lord God
Woodpecker thought extinct rediscovered; birders weep like babies |
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29 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| There Is a Lord God Woodpecker thought extinct rediscovered; birders weep like babies It was spotted several times -- once even filmed -- over the past year and a half. Now, ornithologists writing in the journal Science have officially confirmed the existence of at least one ivory-billed woodpecker, a miraculously tangible token of a species long thought extinct. The discovery -- referred to variously a ... |
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| Topics: Arkansas, environmental restoration, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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You Just Keep on Pushing My Love Over the Borderline
Former Iron Curtain may become continent-spanning greenbelt |
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28 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| You Just Keep on Pushing My Love Over the Borderline Former Iron Curtain may become continent-spanning greenbelt The fabled Iron Curtain that separated Western Europe from the communist countries of Eastern Europe was once one of the most dangerous places on earth. But in the post-Cold War era, a coalition of conservation and community-development groups has ambitious plans to transform it into a string of p ... |
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| Topics: environmental restoration, European Union, news (all these topics) |
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Who's Minding the Restore?
Ecosystem restoration is booming business, only getting boominger |
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08 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Who's Minding the Restore? Ecosystem restoration is booming business, only getting boominger One positive side effect of polluting and despoiling the planet is that somebody stands to make money cleaning it up. (Hey, our glass is half full!) And sure enough, ecological restoration is a booming business. Viewed narrowly, as attempts to restore natural resources to something approximating their original condition -- ... |
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| Topics: business, environmental restoration, news (all these topics) |
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Bog Bites Man
Everglades restoration stagnating after five years |
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28 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Bog Bites Man Everglades restoration stagnating after five years Restoration of the Florida Everglades is, well, a bit bogged down, according to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers internal memo. Written by Everglades project manager Gary Hardesty, the memo was addressed to Army Corps colleagues preparing to write a five-year update on the 30-year restoration plans. Hardesty noted that the unde ... |
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| Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, environmental restoration, Florida, news (all these topics) |
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