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Headline	Author	Published	Section
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)

Leafy green problem The E. coli outbreak's continuing negative effect on wildlife	Erik Hoffner	19 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Farming is often seen as in conflict with wildlife, but it needn't be. The Wild Farm Alliance is a grassroots group that's trying to chart a new direction. They don't just talk about how agriculture can coexist with cougars and wolves, though. It's also about the little guys -- the birds and rodents that live in the wild margins between fields.That's why the USDA's proposed Leafy Green Marketing Agreement (a national version of the California program of the same name, w ...
Topics: agriculture, health, wildlife (all these topics)

Pollan connects the dots Why bees and pigs are not machines	Maywa Montenegro	17 Dec 2007	Gristmill
In yesterday's New York Times Magazine, Michael Pollan writes, "Two stories in the news this year, stories that on their faces would seem to have nothing to do with each other let alone with agriculture, may point to an imminent breakdown in the way we're growing food today." Can you guess what they are? Answer here.
Topics: agriculture, food, health, industrial ag, wildlife (all these topics)

The Beak In Review West Nile virus hitting bird populations hard, says new study		18 May 2007	Daily Grist
The Beak In Review West Nile virus hitting bird populations hard, says new study The West Nile virus soldiers on, declares a report published yesterday in Nature. Eight years after the virus left the West Nile and made its way to the U.S. Northeast, chickadee populations in the region have dropped 53 percent, while Eastern bluebird populations have been diminished by 44 percent. American crows have been hit the harde ...
Topics: green living, health, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Passing the bawk Bird flu will enter the U.S. from the south, say researchers	Sarah K. Burkhalter	05 Dec 2006	Gristmill
While the pure panic over a global avian flu pandemic seems to have died down, the virus continues to spread. To date, H5N1 has showed up in 55 countries, but has not yet touched the Western Hemisphere. Also to date, the U.S. government has assumed that the most likely route for bird flu's arrival into the lower 48 would be through wild birds; accordingly, they've put some $29 million into surveilling wild birds migrating from Asia to Alaska and down. However, a ...
Topics: health, wildlife (all these topics)

That'll Teach You to Put Pee in Frogs Lethal frog fungus spread by pregnancy test, researchers suspect		07 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
That'll Teach You to Put Pee in Frogs Lethal frog fungus spread by pregnancy test, researchers suspect Weird non sequitur of the day: A skin fungus that's killing off frogs worldwide may have been spread by a pregnancy test. Yeah, we got that same confused look. A few decades ago, African clawed frogs were used to detect pregnancy -- with surprising accuracy. The hopper would be injected with a woman's urine, and if she was preggers ...
Topics: health, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Uplifting news about endangered species Pharmaceuticals may be saving species	Corey McKrill	11 Oct 2005	Gristmill
You may have heard that measurable levels of pharmaceuticals have been turning up in water supplies, causing concern about the potential effects on wildlife. But did you hear that they may also help preserve endangered species? As noted today on Green Media, a recent study shows that, in China at least, widespread availability of Viagra-type drugs has decreased the demand for endangered animal body parts used to treat erectile dysfunction in traditional Chinese medici ...
Topics: China, endangered species, health, wildlife (all these topics)

Egrets, I've Had a Few Feds start to assess ecological damage to refuges near New Orleans		12 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Egrets, I've Had a Few Feds start to assess ecological damage to refuges near New Orleans The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is beginning to gauge damage from Hurricane Katrina to the 23,000-acre Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge east of New Orleans and the Big Branch National Wildlife Refuge on the north side of Lake Pontchartrain, home to the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker. Thoug ...
Topics: health, Louisiana, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Down With the Sickness Doctors, vets, and scientists unite in brave new world of conservation medicine	Jim Motavalli	25 Feb 2005	Main Dish
Mosquitoes have Hawaii all abuzz. Photo: WHO/TDR/Stammers. On an airport runway in Hawaii last fall, a sparrow nearly became a canary. State officials testing captured birds got one positive result for the West Nile virus, which had yet to arrive from the mainland. Hawaii and Alaska remain the only states in the U.S. that haven't had cases of this rapidly spreading ...
Topics: health, wildlife (all these topics)

Frog and Toad Are Dead One-third of amphibians threatened with extinction		15 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Frog and Toad Are Dead One-third of amphibians threatened with extinction If it is true that amphibians are, as Conservation International's Russell Mittermeier puts it, "one of nature's best indicators of overall environmental health," then we are all in big trouble, because amphibians are having a seriously rough time of it. According to a massive new worldwide study involving more than 500 scientists from over 60 countries, p ...
Topics: health, wildlife (all these topics)

The Big Disease-y New Controls Needed on Wildlife Trade to Prevent Disease, Scientists Say		16 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Brazil, business, food and agriculture, globalization, health, India, wildlife (all these topics)

Flu Dunnit Enviro Disruptions Will Cause More Animal Diseases to Jump to Humans		14 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Flu Dunnit Enviro Disruptions Will Cause More Animal Diseases to Jump to Humans In coming years, diseases -- primarily viruses -- passed from animals to human beings pose one of the principal threats to world health, warned a conference of scientists at the Royal Society in London yesterday. Environmental disruptions ranging from deforestation to population migration to global warming ...
Topics: climate, deforestation, health, population, United Kingdom, wildlife (all these topics)

Homeocidal Herbal Medicine Trade Threatens Thousands of Plant Species		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Homeocidal Herbal Medicine Trade Threatens Thousands of Plant Species The booming worldwide market for herbal medicines threatens between 8 and 20 percent of the 50,000 known wild medicinal plant species with extinction, according to a forthcoming study by the World Wildlife Fund. Having risen by10 percent per ...
Topics: Asia, China, climate, European Union, globalization, green living, health, India, North America, population, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Spammed If You Do, Spammed If You Don't Breadfruit Trees Endangered by Climate Change and Western-Style Diet		27 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Spammed If You Do, Spammed If You Don't Breadfruit Trees Endangered by Climate Change and Western-Style Diet The breadfruit tree, which has long provided a dietary staple to residents of South Pacific islands, is in severe decline, experts say, threatened by climate change and, of all things, Spam. Breadfruit trees, with their shallow roots, are particularly vulnerable to storms and cyclones, which have been on ...
Topics: climate, health, Pacific Islands, wildlife (all these topics)

Eat, Drink, and Be Wary Genetically modified animals could make it to your plate with minimal testing -- and no public input	Shelley Smithson	30 Jul 2003	Main Dish
Last January, inspectors with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration paid a visit to the University of Illinois, where researchers have been studying the DNA of pigs. The pig project, based in Champaign-Urbana, is one of dozens of experiments being conducted across the country in which scientists are altering the genetic structure of animals ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, fishing, Food and Drug Administration, GMOs, health, marine life, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Orange Alert		17 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Orange Alert The U.S. military sprayed twice as much herbicide on Vietnam during the war there than previously estimated, according to a study published today in the journal Nature. Relying on previously unexamined military documents and new assessments of dioxin concentrations, the study found that an additional 1.8 million gallons of toxic herbicides, mostly Agent Orange, were used by the Armed Forces. From 1961 to 19 ...
Topics: health, politics, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Caspian's Unfriendly Ghost		04 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Caspian's Unfriendly Ghost The discovery of what may be one of the world's largest oil fields under the Caspian Sea near Atyrau, Kazakhstan, has western oil companies excited, but environmentalists deeply concerned. The field, estimated to contain about 40 billion barrels of oil, 10 billion of them recoverable, is being developed by a consortium including British Gas, ExxonMobil, S ...
Topics: air pollution, Caspian Sea, energy, health, Kazakhstan, West, wildlife (all these topics)

Fly the Unfriendly Skies		25 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Fly the Unfriendly Skies One-fourth of all North American bird species are at risk, according to a new study released by the National Audubon Society. The report blames increased urbanization and the resulting loss of open spaces for the decline; as cities grow, farmlands are converted to urban areas and grasslands are converted to farmlands, leaving birds with insufficient habitat. The Audubon Society now h ...
Topics: Audubon Society, health, placemaking, wildlife (all these topics)

Scrambled Eggs		12 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Scrambled Eggs If you were looking for good news about endocrine disputers, you're out of luck. A global report by the World Health Organization has found extensive damage to wildlife from endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and could not rule out possible risks for humans as well. EDCs -- which lurk in pesticide residues on food, plastics, household products, and industrial chemicals, among other pla ...
Topics: health, toxics, wildlife, World Health Organization (all these topics)

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Fears		07 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Fears Despite its foreign-sounding name, the West Nile virus is becoming an undeniably American concern. Eighty-eight new cases were reported in three states last week, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced yesterday that the mosquito-borne virus is here to stay. About one in five people who get the virus develop flu-like symptoms; less than 1 percent face the most ...
Topics: health, Louisiana, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Sick 'em		21 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Sick 'em Global climate change isn't just going to make our planet hotter -- it's going to make it sicker. That was the finding of a wide-ranging study of world ecosystems, published in today's issue of Science and showing that warmer temperatures have sparked a plague of epidemics in plants and animals. From oysters to oak trees, species are suffering from new diseases or more virulent versions of old ones as warm temperatures e ...
Topics: climate, health, wildlife (all these topics)

Iguana Be Alone!		06 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Iguana Be Alone! Eighteen months ago, a grounded tanker spilled 150,000 gallons of diesel and bunker fuel into the waters around the famed Galapagos Islands. Luckily, shifting winds sent most of the fuel out to sea rather than into shore, so sea lion and bird deaths numbered in the dozens rather than the hundreds. At the time, biologists and conservationists breathed a sigh of relief, believin ...
Topics: Galapagos Islands, health, toxics, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Great Bitten?		24 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Great Bitten? Large parts of England and Wales are at risk of becoming breeding grounds for malaria as global warming heats up local temperatures, according to a study by Durham University scientists commissioned by the Brits' Department of Health. Increased temperatures encourage mosquitoes to breed and feed more rapidly, and they speed up the maturation of the malaria parasite. At present, no British mosquitoes ...
Topics: climate, health, United Kingdom, wildlife (all these topics)

Anniston Get Your Gun		03 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Anniston Get Your Gun For almost four decades, the Monsanto Company discharged toxic waste, including millions of pounds of PCBs, into creeks and landfills in Anniston, Ala. For most of that time, the company knew PCBs were highly toxic: Monsanto consultants placed fish in the contaminated creeks and watched them die within 10 seconds, and c ...
Topics: Alabama, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Shoo, Fly, Don't Bother Us		27 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Shoo, Fly, Don't Bother Us Which is the lesser of two evils -- malaria or DDT? The former kills a million people per year in Africa, many of them infants and children; the latter is the most effective weapon against the virulent disease, but is lethal to fish and wildlife, and thought to be hazardous to humans as well. Two years ago, South Africa opted to fight malaria with DDT -- a decision one government official c ...
Topics: health, marine life, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

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