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Wendy Williams Loves Baby Animals

David Mizejewski | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Wendy Williams, The Wendy Williams Show, National Wildlife Federation, Wildlife, Wendy Williams Baby Animals, Wild Baby Animals, Video, Celebrity News

In my latest appearance, I pulled out all the stops and brought some of the cutest, cuddliest baby animals around. In the face of such adorableness, even Wendy's natural trepidation around wild animals melted away.

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Help Wildlife by Gardening

David Mizejewski | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: National Wildlife Federation, Organic Gardening, Gardening, Backyard Habitat, Garden for Wildlife Month, Wildlife, Garden, Video, Green News

May is Garden for Wildlife Month! Now is the perfect time to take a look at how your garden fits into the natural ecosystem and whether or not it's helping out the local wildlife.

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Turning 40: Avoiding a Midlife Crisis for the Clean Water Act

Mekell Mikell | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Omb, Mississippi River Delta, Epa, Chesapeake Bay, The Standells, National Wildlife Federation, Prairie Pothole, Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri River Basin, Clean Water Act, Wildlife, Wetlands, Streams, Lakes, Video, Green News

Before the Clean Water Act, pollution was so bad that water bodies like the Cuyahoga River in Ohio and the Charles River in Massachusetts caught on fire faster than a batch of birthday candles.

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Is This Owl Real or Fake?

David Mizejewski | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Birdhouse, Birds, National Wildlife Federation, Animal Planet, Owls, Nesting Box, Green News

You have to wonder what drew the owl to that exact spot, especially since owls are not social animals and typically avoid each other in the wild.

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#Squirrels4Good

Craig Newmark | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: squirrels4good, Good, Charity, National Wildlife Federation, Wildlife, Nature, Squirrels, Video, Green News

For each time someone uses the hashtag, #Squirrels4Good, on Twitter or on my Facebook page or NWF's facebook page, I'll give $1 to the National Wildlife Federation, up to $5K. I will also donate $1 for each new follower I get over the next couple of weeks.

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Clueless Texter Bumps Into a Bear

David Mizejewski | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Urban Wildlife, National Wildlife Federation, Animal Planet, Black Bears, Video, Weird Animals, Funny Animals, Text Messaging, Texting, Green News

The man in the video got the shock of his life when he looked up from his texting only to come face to face with a black bear that wandered into town. While his reaction is pretty funny, he's lucky he looked up when he did, otherwise he would have walked right into the bear.

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Random Idea Worth Doing: Hold a Talent Show With No Auditions

RandomKid | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Talent Show, Seattle, Samantha Smith Elementary School, Japan, Making a Difference Kids, Kids Talent Show, Making a Difference, National Wildlife Federation, Impact News

Samantha Smith Elementary School children didn't just want to make a splash in their local talent show; they wanted to change the world.

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Eight Ways You Can Help Wildlife

David Mizejewski | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: National Wildlife Federation, National Wildlife Week, Wildlife, Video, Green News

The National Wildlife Federation has an amazing set of programs and tools designed to help any and every kid and adult to become a wildlife conservationist at home, school and in the community.

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Conan Gets Squeezed by Giant Snake

David Mizejewski | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: National Wildlife Federation, National Wildlife Week, Conan O'Brien, Video, Conan, Conan TBS, Celebrity News

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Heartland Institute's Climate Skeptics vs Children: Bet on the Kids

Carol Pierson Holding | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Epa, Michelle Obama, Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv, Let's Move, Children and Nature, National Wildlife Federation, Leaked Documents, Evolution, Sustainability Natives, Cynthia Figge, Heartland Institute, Global Warming, Be Out There, National Parks, Csrhub, Education News

Even if children are faced with a curriculum that demotes climate change to a scientific controversy, they will still act as-if because it's their native culture. It's built in to their screen time: the code for bad-guys is someone who smokes or doesn't recycle.

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Watch: Lizard Plays Video Game

David Mizejewski | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Lizards, National Wildlife Federation, Bearded Dragon, Animal Planet, Video Games, Weird Animals, Animals, Cute Animals, Video, Green News

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Tar Sands Oil: New Pipeline Routes, Same Dangers

Jeremy Symons | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: National Wildlife Federation, Keystone XL Pipeline, Tar Sands Keystone, Transcanada Keystone Pipeline, Transcanada Pipeline Obama, Obama Keystone Pipeline, President Obama Environment, Green News

With the Keystone XL pipeline igniting a groundswell of public opposition against dirty tar sands from Canada, the safety risks of transporting tar sands oil by pipeline are finally ripe for action

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Ross Matthews and the Screaming Hairy Armadillo

David Mizejewski | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: National Wildlife Federation, Chelsea Lately, Ross Matthews, Chelsea Handler, Cane Toads, Wallaby, Armadillo, Cassowary, Jennifer Aniston, Animal Planet, Wild Boar, David-Mizejewski, Green News

I recently made my debut appearance on Chelsea Lately on E!, so this week's Animal Oddity is about fun television segments.

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Wild Killer Whales Put on a Show

David Mizejewski | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Killer Whales, Marine Mammals, Predators, National Wildlife Federation, Animal Planet, Orcas, Puget Sound, Vashon Island, Green News

Residents of Puget Sound's Vashon Island were recently treated to the sight of dozens of killer whales hunting for salmon. What's odd about the event is how close these massive predators came to shore.

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Wendy Williams Handles Scorpion and Giant Toad

David Mizejewski | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Cane Toads, Invasive Species, Bats, National Wildlife Federation, Animal Planet, Wendy Williams, Electric Eel, Scorpions, Celebrity News

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Simple Equation Predicts Doom for Polar Bears (VIDEO)

David Mizejewski | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Energy, Polar Bears, Climate Change, Sea Ice, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Extinction, Arctic Sea Ice, Arctic, Polar Bears International, National Wildlife Federation, Green News

It all really boils down to a simple equation: sea ice + seals on the sea ice = healthy polar bear populations. Take away the ice and polar bears can't hunt seals and their populations decline.

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New Antelope Discovered in Plain Sight

David Mizejewski | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: National Wildlife Federation, Animal Planet, Duiker, New Species, Walter's Duiker, New Antelope Species, New Antelope Discovered, Antelope Species, New Species Discovered, Green News

There are actually dozens of specimens in museums and the animal has been recorded in the wild for decades. In fact, you can often find it in local food markets.

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Odd Animal Removal Service

David Mizejewski | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Animal Control, Grizzly Bear, Virginia, National Wildlife Federation, Animal Oddities, Animal Planet, Green News

Check out the photo below. Something is not quite right about it.

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Bizarre Animal Persecuted to Extinction on False Assumption

David Mizejewski | Posted 11.04.2011

Read More: National Wildlife Federation, Conservation, Tasmanian Wolf, Animal Planet, Thylacine, Extinction, Tasmanian Tiger, Tasmania, Green News

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Green Groups: Keystone XL Pipeline Obama's 'Biggest Climate Test'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: White House, Nrdc, President Obama, League of Conservation Voters, Elections 2012, Obama Administration, Obama, Keystone XL, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Oil, Oil Pipeline, National Wildlife Federation, Environmental Defense Fund, Tar Sands Protests, Bill Mckibben, Sierra Club, Keystone Pipeline, Green News

WASHINGTON -- In a boost for grassroots efforts pressuring the Obama administration to block approval of TransCanada's Keystone XL oil pipeline, the h...

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Wild Cougar Confirmed in Connecticut

David Mizejewski | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Animal Oddities, Florida Panthers, Puma, Connecticut, National Wildlife Federation, Animal Planet, Cougars, South Dakota, Panthers, Mountain Lion, Green News

Each year, dozens of reports come in from people who believe they have seen large, tawny colored cats in states where no such animals are officially documented. What are the animals that so many people claim to be seeing?

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Can You Identify This Giant Insect With No Mouth?

David Mizejewski | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Moths, National Wildlife Federation, Animal Oddities, Insects, Animal Planet, Butterflies, Green News

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Congress: Stop Denying An Inconvenient Truth

Lawrence Bender | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: National Wildlife Federation, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, An Inconvenient Truth, Climate Classroom, Green News

Last year, Congress debated, dawdled and dithered. This year is more of the same. The bottom line remains that Congress has still not passed legislation to curb carbon pollution and boost renewable energy solutions.

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Are "Humanzees" Possible?

David Mizejewski | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: National Wildlife Federation, Humanzee, Animal Planet, Cold War, Chimpanzee, Human-Animal-Hybrids, Green News

Shockingly, during the Cold War, Russian scientists actually carried out experiments where they inseminated unsuspecting human females with hybrid embryos created in a lab.

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Should Scientists Recreate Extinct Species?

David Mizejewski | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Animal Oddities, National Wildlife Federation, Animal Planet, Woolly Mammoth, Extinction, Quagga, Mass Extinction, Green News

In light of the current global mass extinction crisis, should we try to bring back extinct species such as the quagga or the woolly mammoth?

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