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Mumbai-Bye, Birdie
India's vultures on verge of extinction thanks to cattle medication |
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28 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Mumbai-Bye, Birdie India's vultures on verge of extinction thanks to cattle medication India's once-abundant vulture population has plummeted an astonishing 97 percent in the past decade, and conservationists worldwide charge the Indian government with not acting quickly enough to save them. The culprit is diclofenac, a cheap painkiller used to treat sick cattle in South Asia; it poisons vultures when they scavenge meat off ... |
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| Topics: India, news, toxics, wildlife (all these topics) |
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They Got Seoul But They're Not Eco-Soldiers
South Korean Supreme Court rules in favor of eco-damaging seawall |
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23 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| They Got Seoul But They're Not Eco-Soldiers South Korean Supreme Court rules in favor of eco-damaging seawall In a bitter defeat for a worldwide coalition of environmentalists, the South Korean Supreme Court has ruled that construction can continue on what will become, if finished as planned, the world's longest seawall. Begun in 1991 and about 90 percent complete, the 20-mile-long wall will convert over 99,000 acres of wetland ... |
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| Topics: news, South Korea, wildlife (all these topics) |
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The Sound of One Species Clapping
Humans responsible for fastest rate of extinction since dinosaurs |
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22 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| The Sound of One Species Clapping Humans responsible for fastest rate of extinction since dinosaurs Human beings continue to dominate "Survivor: Earth," voting other species off the island at a blistering pace. "In effect, we are currently responsible for the sixth major extinction event in the history of earth, and the greatest since the dinosaurs disappeared, 65 million years ago," sums up the new U.N. ... |
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| Topics: news, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics) |
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It's Déjà Ew All Over Again, Again
Sighting of ivory-billed woodpecker questioned by new batch of experts |
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17 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| It's Déjà Ew All Over Again, Again Sighting of ivory-billed woodpecker questioned by new batch of experts Ivory-billed woodpecker, we hardly knew ye. And then ye came back and we acted like we'd known ye all along. But now it turns out there may be no ye to know after all: In today's issue of the journal Science, leading North American birder David Sibley and three ornithologists say that last year's seeming rediscovery of the bir ... |
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| Topics: Arkansas, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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State of the planet's wildlife and water
Courtesy of PBS |
Chris Schults |
14 Mar 2006 |
Gristmill |
| While most television networks lack programming in the environmental arena, at least we have PBS, which will air a few green specials just in time for Earth Day. First we have 'Planet H20': PLANET H2O, a two-part television special premiering in April, is an excellent resource to introduce young people to water conservation. Told through the stories young people, it explores issues regarding fresh water systems around the world. Check local listings for dates and ... |
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| Topics: TV, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics) |
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How do you define "environmentalism"?
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Chris Schults |
07 Mar 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Dave's environmental ethics post addressed an issue that has become more and more apparent here in Gristmill: the term 'environmentalism' means something different to each one of us. This is exemplified in today's Soapbox by Oliver Bernstein on environmental issues along the U.S.-Mexico border: Laguna La Escondida in Reynosa, Mexico, a water source for the surrounding community whose name means Hidden Lagoon, is also an important migratory bird stopover point. Re ... |
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| Topics: Mexico, Texas, waste, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics) |
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You're Looking Swell, Dalai
Dalai Lama's admonition may be cooling illegal tiger-skin trade in Tibet |
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07 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| You're Looking Swell, Dalai Dalai Lama's admonition may be cooling illegal tiger-skin trade in Tibet What's it like to have a leader with genuine moral authority? To find out, we take you to Tibet, where the Dalai Lama's exhortations are leading many Tibetans to forswear the multimillion-dollar trade in wild animal skins. Heavy Tibetan demand has fueled a spike in poaching of ever-scarcer tigers and leopards in India. But in January, ... |
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| Topics: news, Tibet, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Beetle Bailiwick
Warmer B.C. ravaged by beetles, haunted by dead birds |
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02 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Beetle Bailiwick Warmer B.C. ravaged by beetles, haunted by dead birds The flora and fauna of British Columbia, Canada, are having a rough go of global warming. B.C. forests are suffering through a massive insect infestation that's ravaging an area three times the size of Maryland. The mountain pine beetle can't survive severe cold, but milder winters (hmm, what the heck could be causing milder winters?) have con ... |
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| Topics: British Columbia, climate, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Guess That Makes Us Punstitutes
BLM focuses on drilling at expense of wildlife, critics charge |
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23 Feb 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Guess That Makes Us Punstitutes BLM focuses on drilling at expense of wildlife, critics charge Wildlife biologists at the Bureau of Land Management office in Pinedale, Wyo., are finding their talents put to unusual use: reviewing drilling-permit requests. Western Wyoming has been a natural-gas drilling mecca for the last five years, during which its populations of mule deer and bree ... |
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| Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, news, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics) |
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Dick, Get Yer Gun!
Bald eagle may soon leave the Endangered Species List |
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14 Feb 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Dick, Get Yer Gun! Bald eagle may soon leave the Endangered Species List Remember when John Ashcroft sang that hymn he wrote, "Let the Eagle Soar"? That was something, wasn't it? Anyhoo! Speaking of the bald eagle, it may soon leave the Endangered Species List, thanks to its strong recovery in parts of the U.S. In an unusual joint news conference on Monday, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service chief H. Dale ... |
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| Topics: news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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The Bear Necessitates
Feds to consider listing polar bears as threatened |
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10 Feb 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| The Bear Necessitates Feds to consider listing polar bears as threatened Congressional Republicans waging jihad against the Endangered Species Act may soon have a new reason to hate it: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering giving polar bears federal endangered-species protections because climate change is melting their Arctic sea-ice habitat. If the feds are compelled to protect polar-bea ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Paradise Found
Researchers discover treasure trove of new tropical species in Indonesia |
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08 Feb 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Paradise Found Researchers discover treasure trove of new tropical species in Indonesia Just when we thought we'd colonized it all: Scientists have discovered a jungle in New Guinea's Foja mountains that is home to hundreds of rare and dozens of previously unknown species of flora and fauna. Researchers were helicoptered into the Rhode Island-sized area and spent a month in a state of awe. Among their findings were a new species ... |
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| Topics: Indonesia, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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That'll Teach You to Put Pee in Frogs
Lethal frog fungus spread by pregnancy test, researchers suspect |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: health, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Tool Pigeon
Researchers will use birds to collect air-quality data for blog |
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03 Feb 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Tool Pigeon Researchers will use birds to collect air-quality data for blog Pigs can't fly, but soon pigeons will blog -- about air pollution. UC-Irvine professor Beatriz da Costa and two graduate students are developing tiny Global Positioning System units, cell phones, and pollution sensors that can fit into little bird backpacks (cute!). Da Costa plans to release 20 gear-toting pigeons into San Jose's smoggy air several ti ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Who Moved My Panther?
Endangered Florida panthers must be relocated to be saved, say feds |
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02 Feb 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Who Moved My Panther? Endangered Florida panthers must be relocated to be saved, say feds South Florida has run out of room for its 80-odd endangered panthers, says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the best way to save the species is to move some of them to other spots in the region. In its official panther recovery report, released this week, the agency recommends creating two additional panth ... |
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| Topics: Florida, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Tadpole Position
Real-world combos of pesticides highly lethal to frogs, study shows |
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25 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Tadpole Position Real-world combos of pesticides highly lethal to frogs, study shows Frogs exposed to a pesticide mix similar to what's found on the average farm die in greater numbers than those dosed with just one pesticide, a new study shows. In new research in the online edition of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, scientists at UC-Berkeley exposed tadpoles to individual pesticides, and found that about 4 percent ki ... |
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| Topics: news, toxics, wildlife (all these topics) |
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The Colbert Report
A recyclable museum houses Gregory Colbert's photos of charismatic animals |
Michael J. Kavanagh |
25 Jan 2006 |
Arts and Minds |
| The Nomadic Museum ... wandering the globe. Photos: Gregory Colbert. Over the next few months, hundreds of thousands of animal lovers, art lovers, and the odd Bill or Billy or Mac or Buddy will take a left off Santa Monica Boulevard and head down toward the Nomadic Museum, an extraordinary structure made entirely of reusable and recyclable materials by the Japanese arc ... |
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| Topics: California, green living, wildlife (all these topics) |
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I Am Dyin', Hear Me Roar
Lion advocates support trophy hunting to help save big cats |
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18 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| I Am Dyin', Hear Me Roar Lion advocates support trophy hunting to help save big cats When one contemplates saving an endangered species, one's thoughts naturally turn to ... shooting it. (Wait, yours don't?) So it is with the fast-shrinking lion population of southern and eastern Africa: A historic meeting of conservationists, regional government representatives, and safari hunters last week in South Africa concluded that legal trop ... |
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| Topics: Africa, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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It's a Floor Wax and a Dessert Topping!
Algae being harnessed to combat climate change and other eco-woes |
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12 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| It's a Floor Wax and a Dessert Topping! Algae being harnessed to combat climate change and other eco-woes Consider the algae. Three years ago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology rocket scientist Isaac Berzin had an idea: use the slimy plants to clean up emissions from power plants. Today, at a power plant next to MIT, tubes of healthy algae slurp up 40 percent of carbon dioxide and 86 perc ... |
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| Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Croak and Dagger
Mass frog die-offs linked to global warming |
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12 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Croak and Dagger Mass frog die-offs linked to global warming The mass disappearance of colorful harlequin frog species in Central and South America has long puzzled biologists, but research published in the latest issue of Nature fingers a culprit: global warming. (When in doubt ...) The deadly chytrid fungus that's killing off the tiny amphibians is flourishing in places where it's gotten warmer a ... |
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| Topics: Central America, climate, news, South America, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Damn You, Bush!
Plants are major methane producers, new research says |
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12 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Damn You, Bush! Plants are major methane producers, new research says Methane: it's not just from cow farts anymore. Apparently, ordinary plants emit significant amounts of the potent greenhouse gas. Clearly, all cows and plants must be killed. For the health of the planet! Ahem. Writing in Nature, German researchers suggest that the never-before-noted phenomenon -- which they stumbled on almost accidentally -- could account for 10 ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Ape of Good Hope
King Kong director campaigns to save wild gorillas |
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10 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Ape of Good Hope King Kong director campaigns to save wild gorillas The original 1933 King Kong gave gorillas a bad rep and inspired an upsurge in gorilla hunting, but the director of the 2005 remake hopes to use his blockbuster's appeal to help keep the apes from going extinct. Peter Jackson is backing efforts by the International Gorilla Conservation Program to save Kong's smaller and less terrifying prototypes. Jackson's co ... |
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| Topics: green living, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Northern Blights
Flame retardants are yet another toxic threat to polar bears |
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09 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Northern Blights Flame retardants are yet another toxic threat to polar bears New research confirms that polar bears -- for years known to be victims of northward-spreading toxic substances -- are accumulating in their bodies worrying levels of flame retardants called polybrominated diphenyl ethers. The effects of this PBDE contamination are unknown, but similar chemicals are believed to be weakening the bears' ... |
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| Topics: Greenland, news, Norway, toxics, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Diss Diss Bang Bang
Feds hand management of Idaho gray wolves over to the state |
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06 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Diss Diss Bang Bang Feds hand management of Idaho gray wolves over to the state Uh oh, there's gonna be some shootin'! The Bush administration has transferred management of the gray wolf population in Idaho to the state government -- even though the animal is still listed under the federal Endangered Species Act. The deal was sealed at a Thursday ceremony in Boise attended by Gov. Dirk Kempthorne (R) and Secretary of the Interior Gal ... |
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| Topics: Idaho, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Mama Said There'd Be Daisies Like This
Gerald Prolman, CEO of Organic Bouquet, answers readers' questions |
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06 Jan 2006 |
InterActivist |
| Gerald Prolman, CEO of Organic Bouquet. Are all of your flowers produced by U.S. growers, or are some imported? -- Judith Galla, Vienna, Austria At this time, we source flowers in California, Oregon, Holland, Ecuador, and Colombia, with a new major organic development in Mexico. The majority of your cultivars sold actually aren't produced to organic but instead "green lab ... |
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| Topics: InterActivist, interview, wildlife (all these topics) |
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