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Bye-polar Kempthorne Polar bear is endangered, but 'Rule will allow continuation of vital energy production in Alaska'	Joseph Romm	14 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Arctic, Department of Interior, endangered species, habitat loss, legislation, polar bears, politics (all these topics)

Loaded for bear? Polar bear decision expected today from Bush administration	Miles Grant	14 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Arctic, climate, endangered species, habitat loss, legislation, polar bears, 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)

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

Let's dump 'Earth' Day Environment Day? Triage Day? The holiday needs more than a new name	Joseph Romm	22 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change impacts, extinction, habitat loss, holiday, messaging (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)

Amazon Disgrace Peruvian Amazon under threat from oil exploration, illegal logging		17 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 10:11 AM on 17 Mar 2008 There's no better way to start off a Monday than with depressing news from the Peruvian Amazon, which is under threat from both fossil-fuel development and illegal logging. Despite protests from environmental and human rights groups, Peru's government plans to auction off dozens of parcels of remote rainforest for oil and gas companies to explore. And in even more somber news, Per ...
Topics: energy, fossil fuels, habitat loss, insanity, logging, news, Peru, rainforests (all these topics)

Aye Yi Yi of the Tiger World's tiger population unwell, WWF says		13 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 7:39 AM on 13 Mar 2008 Photo: Paul Buxton The world's tiger population is doing poorly and may have been halved in the last 25 years, according to the World Wildlife Fund. The group estimates that the global tiger population has plummeted to about 3,500 today from as many as 7,500 in 1982. Habitat destruction and poaching to feed the thriving market in tiger body parts are thought to be the main drivers of the population ...
Topics: habitat loss, news, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Wildlife, Shmildlife USDA head suggests harvesting switchgrass on conservation land		04 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 1:25 PM on 04 Mar 2008 Department of Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said Tuesday that it would be a "great idea" to allow farmers to grow and harvest biofuel-bound switchgrass on land currently set aside as wildlife habitat. More than 34 million acres in the U.S. are in the Conservation Reserve Program, which pays landowners to convert cropland to native grasses and keep it largely untouche ...
Topics: biofuels, Department of Agriculture, energy, habitat loss, habitat protection, news (all these topics)

A sea of stats Even more numbers to illuminate the vast ocean	Andrew Sharpless	01 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: fishing, climate, water pollution, habitat loss, oceans (all these topics)

Assail the Seven Seas Nearly all of world's oceans tainted by human activity, says study		15 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 2:52 PM on 15 Feb 2008 Human activity has tainted all but 3.7 percent of the world's oceans, and 41 percent of the world's waters have been heavily impacted, says a new study in Science. A graphic map illustrates in all-too-clear terms that the briny deep has taken a terrible toll from 17 human threats, including climate change, overfishing, fertilizer runoff, coastal development, and shipping pol ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, habitat loss, news, oceans, scientific research (all these topics)

Leggo my Yazoo EPA set to kibosh Mississippi Delta boondoggle	Emily Gertz	06 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, habitat loss, Mississippi River, placemaking, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics)

Reefer Sadness Scientists will study coral in this International Year of the Reef		25 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 3:56 PM on 25 Jan 2008 If you were wondering what that odd smell is in the air, it's because 2008 is the International Year of the Reefer. Oh, wait, we read that wrong. The reef -- it's the International Year of the Reef. Ahem. The World Conservation Union (IUCN) says that warming seas and increased hurricanes affected more than half of Caribbean coral reefs in 2005 -- a devastation likely to become a re ...
Topics: habitat loss, news, oceans (all these topics)

Ecosystems are nonlinear	JMG	19 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: aquaculture, food, habitat loss (all these topics)

Where's the Reef? Coral reefs suffer from proximity to humans, says study		09 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 4:26 PM on 09 Jan 2008 The main factor contributing to declines in coral-reef health is proximity to human populations, says new research in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. A study of 322 reef sites in the Caribbean found that many suffered significant damage from overfishing and agricultural runoff. Author Camilo Mora estimates that reefs in the region provide some $4 billion in econom ...
Topics: habitat loss, news, oceans, population, scientific research (all these topics)

Papua New Guinea loses the moral high ground PNG agrees to let palm-oil producers raze rainforest	Joseph Romm	28 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: habitat loss, rainforests, Papua New Guinea, biofuels, climate (all these topics)

What Is It Good For? War ain't good for the planet, says new report		14 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 1:14 PM on 14 Dec 2007 It's the time of year for thinking about shopping peace on earth, and an aptly timed new report carries a reminder of the impact of war not just on people, but on the planet. Modern warfare tactics cause unprecedented damage to natural landscapes, says a new article from the Worldwatch Institute. Think spraying of Agent Orange in Vietnam, Rwandan refugees stripping forest for shelter, and the im ...
Topics: habitat loss, insanity, Iraq, news, Rwanda, Vietnam (all these topics)

Suin' 'Bout the Schlock of the Bay San Francisco sues over oil spill, South Korea spill cleanup ongoing		11 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 12:54 PM on 11 Dec 2007 The city of San Francisco has sued the owners of the container ship that hit the iconic Bay Bridge last month and blackened the bay with 58,000 gallons of oil. The "wholly avoidable" accident caused "more injury to the San Francisco Bay Area than we can yet begin to fathom," says the suit, which seeks damages for costs ranging from overtime ...
Topics: habitat loss, news, oil, San Francisco, South Korea, water pollution (all these topics)

Bird by bird A third of avian species on land could disappear this century as a result of climate change	Katy Balatero	10 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: biodiversity, climate, climate change impacts, habitat loss, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

Doing the Hunt Work Less hunters mean less funding for conservation, states find		23 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 4:04 PM on 23 Oct 2007 Many states are lamenting the declining population of a valuable species: the American hunter. Funds from hunting licenses and fees are generally directed to wildlife conservation; while the need to maintain habitat for wild critters isn't going to go away anytime soon, the number of sportsfolk in the U.S. has declined by some 35 percent since 1975. States are taking measures to boo ...
Topics: endangered species, green living, habitat loss, news (all these topics)

Give a Hoot, Don't Uproot Interior Department urged to redo recovery plan for spotted owl		03 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 3:15 PM on 03 Oct 2007 Was the Interior Department's recovery plan for the northern spotted owl watered down because of political pressure to favor logging interests? Six peer reviews of the plan (five of them funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) suggest yes. So do 113 scientists who sent a letter yesterday asking the Interior Department to rewrite its draft plan, which favored shooting ...
Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, habitat loss, news, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Will polar bears go extinct by 2030? Part II Loss of summer ice in the Arctic will threaten polar bear survival	Joseph Romm	11 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, climate science, habitat loss, wildlife (all these topics)

'OECD warns against biofuels subsidies' Biofuels subsidies will only lead to increased food costs and habitat destruction	Jason D Scorse	11 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: ag subsidies, agriculture, biofuels, energy, food, habitat loss (all these topics)

Grass Backwards Carbon dioxide contributing to un-grassing of grassland, says new study		29 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Grass Backwards Carbon dioxide contributing to un-grassing of grassland, says new study Thanks in part to rising levels of carbon dioxide, the world's grasslands are turning into woody shrublands, says a new study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. When researchers artificially doubled CO2 levels over sections of the Colorado plains, they observed a fortyfold increase in the growth of fringed ...
Topics: agriculture, Department of Agriculture, habitat loss, news (all these topics)

Wild Thing, You Make My Heart Sink Wilderness is pretty much a thing of the past, says report		02 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Wild Thing, You Make My Heart Sink Wilderness is pretty much a thing of the past, says report Regardless of whether humankind was given dominion over the earth, we've most certainly taken it. A new report in Science calculates that only 17 percent of global land mass has been untainted by human dwellings, agriculture, or roads. And that was as of 1995; we'd venture to guess that the percentage is e ...
Topics: agriculture, biodiversity, habitat loss, news, wildlife (all these topics)

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