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Green News Report - September 3, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Lead Poisoning, Accce, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Clean Coal, Wind Energy, Green News Report, China, Project Kaisei, Geoengineering, California Wildfires, Climate Change, Green News, Duke Energy, Mercury, Wolves, Endangered Species, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Green Business, Overfishing, Solar Power, Global Warming, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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
Cathy Erway

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
Mairi Beautyman

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
Avital Binshtock

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

Read More: Endangered Animals, Kangaroo Rat, Hedgehog, National Geographic, Weird Animals, Legless Lizard, Slidepoll, Green, Endangered Species List, Animals, Mouse Lemur, Red Eyed Tree Frog, Tiny Animals, Small-Eared Shrew, Tiny Mandarin Fish, Madagascar, Slideshow, Tanzania, Endangered Species, Togian White-Eye Bird, Kihansi Spray Toad, Pika, Cute Animal Pictures, Cute Animals, Green News

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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Are We Only Protecting Pretty Species?

msn.com | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Endangeed Animals, Plants, California, Fish, Endangered Species, Recovered Animals, Animals, Green News

When it began compiling lists of threatened and endangered animals and plants more than 35 years ago, the U.S. government gave itself the same mandate...

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Sharks Face Risk Of Extinction

Mail Online | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Endangered Animals, Sea, Extinction, Fish, Green, Endangered Species, Animals, Ocean, Sharks, Endangered, Green News

Almost a third of the world's ocean shark species are facing extinction, conservationists warned yesterday....

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Thai Navy Protects Sea Turtles Eggs

msn.com | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Eggs, Khram Island, Thailand, Protect, Thai Navy, Environment, Endangered Species, Navy, Green News

Every year, dozens of mature sea turtles come ashore on Khram Island, an isolated island known as the biggest nesting site of sea turtles in the Gulf ...

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How Do You Say "Gone"?

Avital Binshtock | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Geography, Livestock, Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Environment, Land, Endangered Species, Rainforests, Animals, Agrigulture, Green News
Avital Binshtock

Next time you travel somewhere exotic, don't be surprised if you see fewer kinds of animals and hear fewer dialects

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7 American Species Threatened By Global Warming (SLIDESHOW)

Environmental Defense Fund | Posted 07.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Endangered Animals, Polar Bears, Sugar Maple, Endangered Species, Species, Global Warming, Slideshow, Green News

Global warming is already starting to have a severe effect on our environment. The Environment Defense Fund has picked seven "ambassador species" -- l...

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Green News Report - June 11, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Solar Energy, Green Jobs, Mountaintop Removal, Swine Flu Pandemic, Green News, Green, Renewable Energy, Obama Administration, Endangered Species, Green News Report, China, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

It's official, it's a pandemic! (Go ahead and panic); Obama doubles down on mountaintop removal; Green jobs bring in the green. All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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Rabbits Multiply Like Rabbits, Overrun Canadian Campus (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 07.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Biology, Nature, Environment, Rabbits, Conservation, University of Vancouver, Endangered Species, Cougars, Cute Animals, Animals, Canada, Cute Animal Videos, Green News

Rabbits have invaded The University of Victoria campus and officials, worried that the bunnies are damaging the landscape, are considering various way...

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Puppies? Koalas? How About These Endangered Species, Oprah and Miranda Kerr

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 09.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Endangered Animals, Oprah Winfrey, Oprah, Green, Environment, Environmentalism, Endangered Species, Green Living, Rolling Stone, Miranda Kerr, Green News
Mairi Beautyman

Sadly, it's the cuddly animals that get noticed in this beauty-conscious world.

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Feds Crack Down On Sperm Whale Teeth Traffickers

New York | By Camille Dodero (1:16PM 05/27) | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Endangered Animals, Sperm Whales, Endangered Species, Sperm Whale Teeth, Animals, Whales, Scrimshaw, Green News

Sperm whales are an endangered species, and therefore protected by the Endangered Species Act. That doesn't mean you can't import them -- you just nee...

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Wyoming Vs. Wolves: State Sues Government Over Endangered Listing

AP | MATTHEW BROWN and BEN NEARY | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Endangered Animals, Environment, Gray Wolves, Endangered Species, Wyoming, Animals, Green News

BILLINGS, Mont. — A pair of federal judges will decide which states in the Northern Rockies have enough gray wolves to allow public hunting, as ...

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Endangered Blue Whales Sing Up A Storm Off New York Coast

AP | Posted 06.28.2009 | Local

Read More: Endangered Animals, Endangered Blue Whales, Endangered Species, Blue Whales New York, Blue Whales Sing, Endangered Mammals, New York, Blue Whales, Local News

ITHACA, N.Y. Blue whales are moaning and purring off the New York coast. The endangered mammals have been positively identified for the first time i...

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Tasmanian Devils Endangered Due To Contagious Cancer

AP | ROD McGUIRK | Posted 06.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Australia, Tasmanian Devil Cancer, Tasmanian Devil, Endangered Species, Animals, Tasmanian Devil Endangered, Green News

CANBERRA, Australia — The Tasmanian devil, a snarling fox-sized marsupial made notorious by its Looney Tunes cartoon namesake Taz, was listed in...

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Can Aggressive Fishing SAVE Bluefin Tuna? (VIDEO)

Reuters | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Endangered Species, Tuna, Fishing, Bluefin Tuna, Fish, Green News

This is just about as counter intuitive as they come -- fishermen are trying to catch as many bluefin tuna as possible, in order to throw them back. ...

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