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B.C. government gives green light to logging of northern spotted owl habitat

Violating its own owl management policy, the B.C. government is allowing logging of the endangered northern spotted owl's sole remaining habitat, according to conservationists.

Rare European leech may be victim of climate change

Although its habitat remains intact, the tiny blood-sucking leech, Xerobdella lecomtei, could be disappearing due rising summer temperatures in Austrian forests. Between 2001 and 2005, researchers ...
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Defense agenda trumps whales in court decision

A court of appeals has suspended a U.S. federal judge's August 6 injunction against a series of underwater sonar blasts that are part of the U.S. Navy's anti-submarine warfare exercises. Critics of ...
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Endangered Kemp's ridleys on the rise on Texas beaches

A determined tracking effort at the Padre Island National Seashore division of turtle science has resulted in the discovery of a record 128 Kemp's ridley sea turtle nests on Texas beaches this summer. ...
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Ancient beehive discovery casts new light on "land of milk and honey"

Archaeologists have stumbled upon what they believe to be the remnants of a 3,000-year-old beekeeping industry in a ruined city in northern Israel.


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Pesticide-ready beets — Is agri-business thinking of your health?

A press release issued on January 23, 2008, by a group of food safety advocates, American farmers and conservationists didn't make front-page headlines ...
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Sarnia's toxic legacy

Sarnia, Ontario, is a small, welcoming city on the south shore of Lake Huron's famously blue waters. Belying its waterfront parkland and a municipal ...
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Harry Potter takes action for the environment

The summer's most highly anticipated book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is now being touted as the greenest book in publishing history. ...
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