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Seabirds: The Other Seafood Lovers

Carl Safina | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: United States Federal Bird Banding Laboratory, Fishing Gear, Species Decline, Hawks, Gannets, Seafood Lovers, Marine Mammals, Terns, Gill-Nets, Common Tern, Fisheries, Tropical Boobies, Fishery Discards, Chicks, Breeding, Fisheries Management, Gulls, Crustaceans, Forage, Fish Depletion, Seabirds, Food Supply, Bird Banding, Seabird Breeding, Sand-Lance, Birds, Tern, Green News
Carl Safina

It's a world of 7 billion and counting, wherein many people couldn't care less about seabirds or other predators -- unless they're tasty.

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Breeding Pets for Kids: Miracle of Birth or the Dark Side of Nature?

Sophia Yin | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Miracle of Birth, Cat, Cats, Adopt a Cat Month, Miracle of Life, Breeding Cats, Adopt a Cat, Dog Breeding, Breeding, Breeding Pets, Cat Breeding, Green News
Sophia Yin

Every year pet owners breed their dogs, cats, rats, mice in the name of educating their children about the miracle of life. What they don't realize is that the lessons their kids might be learning could be much darker than anything they imagined.

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Plants Do It Too: The Importance of Plant Breeding

Cary Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crop-Diversity, Wheat, Plant Genetics, Crops, Breeding, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Plants, Climate Change, Global-Crop-Diversity-Trust, Global Crop Diversity Trust, Food Security, Cary Fowler, Food News
Cary Fowler

When people shop at the local market and bring home different varieties of apples and peaches and tomatoes, they don't spend too much time thinking about the sex that lay behind those fruits or the development of the different varieties.

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Giant Cattle Bred Back From Extinction

telegraph.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Extinct Cattle, Giant Cattle Breed, Cave Drawings, Bred Back From Extinction, Extinct Animals, Breeding, Green News

Aurochs were immortalised in prehistoric cave paintings and admired for their brute strength and "elephantine" size by Julius Caesar. But despite the...

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Del Toro Urges Puerto Rico To Nix Monkey Facility

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Puerto Rico, Animal Rights, Benicio Del Toro, Breeding, Animal Abuse, Animals, Monkeys, Animal Breeding, Bioculture, Green News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Benicio del Toro is asking Puerto Rico to halt a planned monkey-breeding facility, arguing the primates would suffer "ex...

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Garden Eugenics

Jane S. Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food, Hybrids, Gardening, Breeding, Green News
Jane S. Smith

Gardeners, get a grip! It's possible to go back to the land without going back to the Stone Age.

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Population And Earth: Zero Growth Or Armies Of Greenies?

Grist | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Population, Zero Population Growth, Poll, Overpopulation, Breeding, Green News

Today, Grist's advice columnist fields a question about population growth and its impact on the environment. It's a touchy subject. Here's the questio...

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It's Time to Catch Up With Britain: Crufts, the AKC, the BBC, and USA Network

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Kennel Club, Akc, Peta, Breeding, Crufts, UK, Pets, Animal Welfare, England, Britian, Animals, Dogs, World News
Bruce Friedrich

It's time that the U.S. catches up with Britain's animal welfare standards. If breeders want something to manipulate and deform within an inch of their lives, they should take up bonsai.

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