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We Must Decrease Our Gustav Oil platforms off La. fare OK under hurricane; wetlands, not so much		02 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 10:39 AM on 02 Sep 2008 Louisiana's people and property fared better under Hurricane Gustav than had been feared, but acres of valuable wetlands were likely irrevocably destroyed. "The last thing on anyone's mind during a hurricane is how the wetlands are going to do," says activist Aaron Giles. But since happy and healthy wetlands act as storm barriers, "wetlands are a criti ...
Topics: energy, George Bush, habitat loss, Louisiana, news, oil and gas drilling, severe weather, wetlands (all these topics)

Hoot and Holler Feds axe acreage of spotted owl habitat		13 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 11:26 AM on 13 Aug 2008 The amount of old-growth forest designated as critical habitat for the northern spotted owl was slashed 23 percent, or 1.6 million acres, by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday. One might think that means that spotted owls are doing well for themselves, but no: the spotted owl population is dropping by 4 percent each year. Despite widespread efforts to protect their Northwest old-growth home, the ...
Topics: endangered species, habitat loss, logging, national forests, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Duck! Wildlife so far largely safe from Mississippi River oil spill		28 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 1:10 PM on 28 Jul 2008 Louisiana wildlife have so far largely escaped harm from the oil spill that shut down 100 miles of the Mississippi River last week. But biologists remain nervous as the oil slick heads downstream toward the Delta National Wildlife Refuge and neighboring marshy areas, where nearly 100,000 migratory birds will alight in the fall. Barriers are being erected to keep oil away from marshes, and folks ...
Topics: habitat loss, Louisiana, Mississippi River, news, oil, wildlife (all these topics)

Built to Spill Oil spills into Mississippi River after tanker-barge collision		23 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 11:45 AM on 23 Jul 2008 Some 420,000 gallons of fuel oil spilled into the Mississippi River early Wednesday, after a 600-foot chemical tanker collided with a fuel barge. The collision split the barge in half; thick, slow-to-evaporate fuel has traveled at least 12 miles downriver. The Coast Guard closed a 29-mile stretch of the river around New Orleans, and residents have been asked to conserve water as drinki ...
Topics: habitat loss, Louisiana, Mississippi River, news, oil (all these topics)

East Infection Airborne pollutants all up in Eastern ecosystems, says report		21 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 1:49 PM on 21 Jul 2008 Every ecosystem in the eastern United States is tainted by air pollution, says a new report from The Nature Conservancy and the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. The report looks at the impacts of sulfur, nitrogen, mercury, and ground-level ozone in six different habitats, and concludes that those damn pollutants are pretty much everywhere. Coauthor Dr. Tim Tear breaks it down: " ...
Topics: air pollution, habitat loss, Nature Conservancy, news (all these topics)

Graze Anatomy Conservation land in flood zone opened to grazing		09 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 1:26 PM on 09 Jul 2008 Livestock grazing will be allowed on thousands of acres of Midwest land that had been set aside for conservation, Department of Agriculture Secretary Ed Schaeffer announced this week. Under the federal Conservation Reserve Program, landowners are paid to let their acreage just chill out and be wildlife habitat. But after the region's recent spate of flooding, Schaeffer gave in to the requests of sev ...
Topics: agriculture, Department of Agriculture, habitat loss, livestock, news (all these topics)

Color Me Badd Coral reefs not doing so well		08 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 10:24 AM on 08 Jul 2008 We're in the midst of the International Year of the Reef, but there's little to celebrate: Nearly half of coral reefs in U.S. waters are in "poor" or "fair" condition, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported at this week's 11th International Coral Reef Symposium. Human activity messes with reefs in all sorts of ways, from ocean acidification (spurred by carbon-dioxide emissions) ...
Topics: endangered species, habitat loss, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, news, oceans (all these topics)

Gonna wash that orangutan right out of my hair New website shows which shampoos, foods kill lovable primates	Glenn Hurowitz	27 May 2008	Gristmill
While doing the research for a Los Angeles Times op-ed about the dangers and prevalence of palm oil, I came across a great new website from the Rainforest Action Network. It lists hundreds of products that contain this orangutan-killer. (In case you haven't been following palm oil coverage on Grist and elsewhere, rainforests -- the homes of the orangutans and many other rare creatures -- are being destroyed at the fastest rate in history in Indonesia and Malaysia to m ...
Topics: animal welfare, grassroots activism, green living, habitat loss, shopping, websites (all these topics)

The Will to disbelieve Conservative pundit correctly recognizes the radical implications of the polar bear decision	David Roberts	23 May 2008	Gristmill
This ran on VanityFair.com earlier today. George Will is far from the only middle-aged Boomer pundit who spends his time shadowboxing Dirty Hippies on the Washington Post editorial page, but his Thursday column is a doozy even by that genre's dubious standards. Seems the Communist Greens, with their 'hostility to markets' and contempt for individual freedom, have teamed up with Activist Judges yet again. They're after America's vital fluids! Amidst the error and ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, endangered species, habitat loss, polar bears (all these topics)

Fortune and Flame Why the Everglades is burning, and how we sucked it dry	Michael Grunwald	21 May 2008	Grist Feature
It's hard to believe, now that it's been overrun by 7 million residents and 7 jillion strip malls, but southern Florida was once America's last frontier. As late as 1880, the census recorded just 257 residents in a county covering most of the region -- because most of the region was a watery wilderness called the Everglades. Mapmakers weren't sure whether to draw it as land or water. Politic ...
Topics: Florida, habitat loss, news, sprawl, wetlands, wilderness (all these topics)

Bye-polar Kempthorne Polar bear is endangered, but 'Rule will allow continuation of vital energy production in Alaska'	Joseph Romm	14 May 2008	Gristmill
The Department of Interior suffers from a rare form of bipolar disorder called bye-polar disorder. There is one major symptom of this disorder: You list the polar bear as 'threatened' because of its melting polar sea ice habitat, but then do nothing to actually protect that polar habitat from its primary threat, greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion. The disorder is accompanied by an occasional burst of logic, as when the DOI noted: The polar bears nee ...
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
This just in from Associated Press: The Interior Department has scheduled a news conference for Wednesday to announce a decision on whether to list the polar bear as threatened and in need of protection under the Endangered Species Act.Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne proposed such protection 15 months ago because of the disappearance of Arctic sea ice, which is a primary habitat for the bear. Last September, scientists said up to two-thirds of the polar bears could d ...
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
California's outdoors industry -- wildlife watching, hunting, and fishing -- is an $8.2 billion-a-year business. That's roughly equivalent to the GDP of Cambodia. So imagine the shock waves sent by the state's first salmon shutdown: Salmon fishing was banned along the West Coast for the first time in 160 years Thursday, a decision that is expected to have a devastating economic impact on fishermen, dozens of businesses, tourism and boating. Commerce Secretary ...
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
This is a guest post by Joseph Bogaard, outreach director for Save Our Wild Salmon. ----- Recently news broke in Grist of an agreement brokered by the Bush administration and several Northwest tribes affecting endangered salmon, litigation, and dam operations on the Columbia and Snake Rivers. Now that the dust has settled, here is one view of this deal's details and implications. First, it is worth highlighting that this deal came during the same week that ...
Topics: dams, endangered species, habitat loss, habitat protection, litigation, politics, salmon (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
Affection for our planet is misdirected and unrequited. We need to focus on saving ourselves. I have a new piece in Salon: 'Let's dump 'Earth' Day.' It is supposed to be mostly humorous. Or mostly serious. Anyway, the subject of renaming Earth Day has been on my mind for a while. An excerpt:I don't worry about the earth. I'm pretty certain the earth will survive the worst we can do to it. I'm very certain the earth doesn't worry about us. I'm not alone. People got ...
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
An explosion in our ability to detect planets in other solar systems has made astronomers increasingly confident that it's only a matter of time until we discover life on other planets. Astronomers just discovered methane on a planet 63 light-years from Earth -- a sign that life just might exist. Here's what Carl B. Pilcher, director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, said following the discovery in this fascinating Washington Post article by Marc Kaufman. There ...
Topics: endangered species, habitat loss, 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
Perhaps because it was released the same week as Ben Halpern and colleagues' excellent human impacts map, the new U.N. report 'In Dead Water' has been met with little fanfare. It's too bad, because the report is a natural complement to the scientists' graphic illustration of the intersection between humans and the seas. 'In Dead Water' takes a big-picture look at the five primary threats facing the oceans: pollution, climate change, overfishing, invasive specie ...
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
Successive presidential administrations -- including the current one -- have tried to rein in the Army Corps of Engineers and its projects, which are mostly known for their tangy combination of high cost, arguable utility, and disregard for the environment. Tried -- and largely failed, thanks to the level-10 force fields erected by congresscritters who covet the flood of Corps project dollars into their districts. So it's startling and welcome news that apparently, ...
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
Here's a disturbing study that seems to mimic nothing so much as my mother-in-law's theory that small brownie pieces cut from the edge of the remaining mass of brownies left in the pan ("the efficient frontier," an economist might call it) don't have calories, because each little tiny mini-slice hardly changes the amount of brownie left at all. On the one hand, the example cited is not particularly objectionable: Researchers claim to have found a mangrove where you ca ...
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)

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