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Obama Worse Than Bush On Endangered Species Protection

The Examiner | Jean Williams | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ken Salazar, Obama Green Initiatives, Obama Wildlife Preservation, Ken Salazar Wildlife Preservation, George W. Bush, Obama Oil Drilling, President Obama, Ken Salazar Oil Drilling, Obama Endangered-Species Protection, Ken Salazar Endangered Species Protection, Endangered Species, Obama Environmental Policy, Politics News

Secretary of Interior, Ken Salazar's appointment by President Obama has been controversial from the beginning. His record on environmental and wildlif...

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Bryant Austin's Stunning Whale Photography (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Endangered Animals, Slidepoll, Humpback Whale, Sperm Whales, Endangered Species, Bryant Austin, Animals, Whales, Whale, Photography, Animal Photos, Green News

Marine Mammal Conservation Through The Arts is producing a documentary about Bryant Austin, a photographer whose life-size photographs of endangered w...

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Polar Bears Vs. Development In Alaska

nytimes.com | Stefan Milkowski | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Governor Parnell, Threatened Species, Climate Change, Polar Bears, Endangered Species, Alaska, Animals, Development, Global Warming, Green News

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell vowed last week to keep fighting the 2008 listing of the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act, even as federal manager...

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Madagascar's Wildlife In Danger (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Endangered Species, Madagascar Political Crisis, Animals, Lemurs, Biodiversity, Ecotourism, Madagascar, Travel, Video, Animal Videos, Green News

Madagascar has one of the most unique and diverse ecosystems - and is the only place that lemurs live in the wild. Sadly, it has lost nearly 90% of it...

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Montana Can Do Better With Its First Wolf Hunt

Matt Skoglund | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Yellowstone, Biogems, Yellowstonewolves, Wolfhunt, Wolves, Wolf, Montana Wolfhunt, Yellowstone National Park, Endangered Species, Green News

Too many wolves from Yellowstone National Park and the wilderness area immediately north of the Park have already been killed in Montana's first public wolf hunt in decades.

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Go Nuts To Help Save The Dormouse

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Endangered Animals, Conservation, Dormouse, Endangered Species, Cute Animals, Animals, Green News

A conservation charity has urged the public to scour woodlands for half-eaten hazelnuts to help track down and record the whereabouts of the elusive, ...

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Sea Otter Protection: Government Gives Alaskan Habitat Protection

AP | MARY PEMBERTON | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Wildlife Sanctuary, Marine-Mammals, Sea Otters, Endangered Species, Alaska, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Animals, Wildlife, Green News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Four years after being placed on the Endangered Species List, the dwindling sea otters of southwest Alaska on Wednesday were...

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Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse Protection Creates Controversy On Front Range (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.08.2009 | Denver

Read More: Front Range, Slideshow, Endangered Species, Fish and Wildlife Service, Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse, Colorado, Denver News

The Fish and Wildlife Service proposed on Wednesday to nearly double the size of the protected habitat of the Preble's meadow jumping mouse, an endang...

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Almost 10% Of World's Animals Are At-Risk Of Extinction

BBC NEWS | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Threatened-Species, Australia, Extinction, Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds, Endangered Species, Animals, Mammals, Green News

It said that 20% of mammals were endangered, as were 12% percent of birds and 29% of amphibians. Almost 5% of reptiles were considered threatened, alo...

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Bluefin Tuna Ban: EU Will Continue To Fish The Threatened Species

AP | RAF CASERT | Posted 09.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Politics, Threatened-Species, Endangered Species, Bluefin, EU Bluefin Ban, Bluefin Tuna, Green News

BRUSSELS — A sharply divided European Union failed Tuesday to protect the threatened bluefin tuna, as the bloc's Mediterranean nations refused t...

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Alaska's Walruses High and Dry: (1st of 5)

Giles Slade | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Megan Fox, Polar Bears, Alaska, John Lennon, Chris Bucci, Wildfires, California Drought, Obama, Endangered Species, Global Warming, Pacific Walruses, Climate Change, Green News

Pacific Walruses are a pagophilic (ice-loving) species whose livelihood and well-being depend on sea ice as a platform from which they dive to the ocean floor of the continental shelf to retrieve food.

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That Glass is Pretty Full: Why Yesterday's Wolf Ruling is (Mostly) Good News

Andrew Wetzler | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Montana, Wolf Hunting, Northern Rockies, Idaho, Fish and Wildlife Service, Nrdc, Wolf, Gray Wolves, Wolves, Endangered Species, Gray Wolves Endangered Species, Natural Resources Defense Council, Endangered Species Act, Green News

Yesterday, a judge gave the Obama Administration a chance to start over in protecting wolves. I hope the president seizes it.

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Green News Report - September 8, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

In today's report: the rising cost of fighting wildfires, and is Jaws back?

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Green News Report - September 3, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: California burning; Killing wolves; Recycling the Great Pacific Garbage Patch... PLUS: A Fracture in the Clean Coal Coalit...

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Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Pits The EPA Against Farmers

wsj.com | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, California Farmers, Drought, Endangered Species, California Drought, California, Farmers, Green News

California has a new endangered species on its hands in the San Joaquin Valley - farmers. Thanks to environmental regulations designed to protect the ...

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The Pescatore's Dilemma

Cathy Erway | Posted 08.31.2009 | Green

Read More: By-Catch, Farmed Seafood, Aquaculture, Red Snapper, Trawling, The End of the Line, Farmed Fish, Farmed Salmon, Finning, Endangered Species, Overfished Species, Pescatarian, Overfishing, Bluefin Tuna, Seafood, Green News

Seafood has enjoyed a long history of acceptance among people who otherwise do not eat meat. Yet today's food gurus are placing pescatarianism at the height of ravenously irresponsible eating.

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Anti-fungal Drugs Could Save Endangered Frogs Around the World

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Endangered Animals, Green, Endangered Species, Green Living, Frogs, Panamanian Golden Frog, Panama, Extinction, Endangered Frog Species, Green News

IUCN: "Amphibians are the most threatened group of animals in the world, with one in three of the 6,000... species at risk of extinction." And according to the IUCN, that's bad for humans too.

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How to Green Your Art Collection

Avital Binshtock | Posted 09.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Artisans, Sculpture, Green, Earth, Conservation, Artists, Painting, Paper, Soy, Recycling, Art, Diy, Environment, Sustainability, Endangered Species, Climate Change, Global Warming, National Parks, Ink, Green News

If you're an art collector, aficionado, or appreciator, these four tips should help you shift your collection (or simply the way you see art) into a more earth-minded endeavor.

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Army To Move More Than 1,100 Desert Tortoises

Los Angeles Times | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Animal Stories, Military, Tortoises, Endangered Species, Mass Tortoise Reolcation, Animals, Federal Bureau of Land Management, Green News

As it prepares to expand training operations at Ft. Irwin in the Mojave Desert, the U.S. Army is again proposing to move more than 1,100 threatened Ca...

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10 of Nature's Tiniest Animals (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 08.24.2009 | Green

We here at HuffPost Green love to celebrate nature's diversity but this collection of creatures are united by their miniature dimensions. Flip through...

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15 Baby Alligators Hatched In China

Mother Jones | by Julia Whitty | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Endangered Animals, Baby Alliagators, Endangered Species, Chinese Alligators, Animals, China, Green News

Despite these obstacles, 15 critically endangered Chinese alligators--the most endangered of all crocodilians--hatched at the mouth of the Yangtze. Th...

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Endangered Species' DNA To Be Stored At Natural History Museum

AP | Verena Dobnik | Posted 08.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Dna, New York, American Natural History Museum, Natural History Museum, American Museum of Natural History, Endangered Species Dna, Endangered Species, New York News

NEW YORK (AP) -- It's not your average library collection: Bits of scorpions and snakes. Tissue from jaguars. Leeches from a hippopotamus. Officials ...

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More Than 800 Wildlife Species Now Extinct

Reuters | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Endangered Animals, Marine Life, Climate Change, Biodiversity, Environment, Conservation, Endangered Species, Wildlife Conservation, Animals, Global Warming, Wildlife, Extinct, Green News

More than 800 animal and plant species have gone extinct in the past five centuries with nearly 17,000 now threatened with extinction, the Internation...

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Indonesia Agrees To Protect Forests In Exchange For Debt Forgiveness

The Wall Street Journal | Tom Wright | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Sumatra Island, Indonesia, Rain Forests, Conservation International, U.S. Tropical Forest Conservation Act, Sotuheast Asia, Endangered Species, Deforestation, Green News

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The United States will sign an agreement Tuesday to forgive nearly $30 million in Indonesian debt in return for the large Southe...

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Biologists Discover Litter Of Lynx Kittens

AP | JUDITH KOHLER | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Restoration, Endangered Animals, Lynx Kittens, Litter Biologists, Kittens, Endangered Species, Colorado, Green News

DENVER — The discovery of 10 lynx kittens this spring marks the first newborns documented in Colorado since 2006, heartening biologists overseei...

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