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U.S. News & World Report - Walter Meganack, chief of the Alutiiq village of Port Graham, Alaska, had called it the day "the water died." On March 24, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound. Wind and waves spread oil across 600 miles of coast and 10,000 square miles of marine ecosystem--forever changing the lives of the Native Alaskans and fishermen who relied on the sea. Meganack was among 32,000 of them who took Exxon to court, but he predicted that he would never live to see justice. ...
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AFP - Japan said Thursday it was arranging a meeting of national leaders to address climate change as it prepares to hold the Group of Eight summit of major industrial economies this summer.
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AFP - EU nations raised on Thursday a host of objections to new proposals for fighting climate change, setting the stage for tough negotiations over the package.
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AFP - The presidents of resource-hungry China and oil-rich Nigeria met Thursday ahead of the planned signing of energy deals in Beijing's latest overture to an African nation.
by Mongabay.com news
A new series of maps projecting habitat loss and the impact of climate change show that the world's most biodiverse regions are in most of need of conservation investments. The authors say the study, published online today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, will help drive future conservation decisions.
by Mongabay.com news
In January 2007 a new conservation initiative arrived with an unusual level of media attention. The attention was due to the fact that the organization was doing things differently—very differently. Instead of focusing their efforts on the usual conservation-mascots like the panda or tiger, they introduced the public to long-ignored animals: photos of the impossibly unique aye-aye and a baby slender loris wrapped around a finger appeared in newsprint worldwide. The new initiative EDGE (Evolutionary Distinct and Globally Endangered), launched by the Zoological Society of London, was not concerned with an animal's perceived popularity, rather the chose their focal species on a combined measurement of a species' biological uniqueness and its vulnerability to extinction. Consequently, they hoped to make celebrities out of animals (big and small) most people had never heard of: the hairy-eared dwarf lemur, anyone?
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Time.com - Rising demand, soaring oil prices and the ravages of climate change are putting food beyond the reach of the planet's poor
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AP - An algae bloom, not chemical pollution, was to blame for red and foamy water in parts of a major river system in central China, environmental officials said Thursday.
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AP - A coalition of environmental and animal rights groups notified the Department of Interior on Wednesday that they plan to sue to stop the removal of gray wolves in the northern Rockies from the endangered species list.
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AP - The Supreme Court seemed inclined Wednesday to let Exxon Mobil Corp. off the hook for some of the $2.5 billion the energy giant was ordered to pay as punishment for a massive oil spill in Alaska nearly 19 years ago.
