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Horse welfare declines after closing of U.S. slaughter plants

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

billingsgazette.com - By Jan Falstad - Jun. 25 (News Report) - The closure of the last U.S. horse slaughter plants in the fall of 2007 has failed to reduce the number of horses shipped to slaughter.

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Impact of Gulf Spill Persists

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Robert Redford - Apr. 23 (Opinion) - 'In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon blowout last year, BP repeatedly misled the public about how much oil was spewing into the Gulf of Mexico. Now, as we mark the one-year anniversary of the blowout, company executives would like us to believe that the spill has been cleaned up and the Gulf of Mexico is back to normal. The people who actually live along the Gulf Coast tell us something different. In a powerful new documentary airing on Saturday on Planet Green called 'Stories From the Gulf,' residents make it clear they are still suffering the aftermath of the largest oil spill in American history.' Robert Redford, Reader Supported News

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Study shows wolves aren’t helping aspen as much as thought - The Bozeman Daily Chronicle: News

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Bozeman Daily Chronicle - By Daniel Person - Sep. 02 (News Report) - Wolves have not helped the aspen trees in and around Yellowstone National Park as much as previously thought, a study to be published in the journal Ecology suggests.

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Gulf oil spill: Oil slick reaches barrier islands

Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Bettina Boxall, Jill Leovy - May. 07 (News) - As an orange slick of oil washed onto sandy barrier islands prized as a historic wildlife refuge, crews on Thursday worked to lower a containment vessel over a leak 5,000 feet deep in the Gulf of Mexico, and federal officials extended a temporary freeze on new offshore drilling nationwide.

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Energy&Environment

Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Patrick Reis - May. 07 (News Report) - Enviro Groups' Petition Seeks Protection for 404 Aquatic Plants, Animals in Southeast

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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: Turtles Dying, But Not From Oil

Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Ayana Harry, Ned Potter - May. 07 (News) - Workers in the Gulf of Mexico, struggling to bring the massive BP oil spill under control, found themselves with yet another issue to deal with: What is killing the sea turtles in the spill zone?

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BP claims absolute responsibility for oil cleanup

Tue, 04 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - May. 04 (Opinion) - BP claims absolute responsibility for oil cleanup

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The Associated Press: Water dispute fuels India-Pakistan tensions

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Apr. 30 (News) - Lake Wylie PilotWater dispute fuels India-Pakistan tensionsThe Associated PressGUJRAT, Pakistan — A bitter dispute over limited water resources is fueling India-Pakistan tensions at a time when the South Asian neighbors are trying to ...Kashmir should be focus of dialogue between India, Pak: MuftiIndian ExpressPak Could Use “Surrogate” Taliban To Use Nukes Against IndiaIndia JournalTime to end the impasseHindustan Globe (blog)Times of India?-Kashmir Watch?-Moneycontrol.comall 182 news articles??

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2 Nevada men accused of killing wild mustangs

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Scott Sonner - Apr. 28 (News) - Wild horse protection activists showed up at the federal courthouse in Reno to show their support for the Justice Department's prosecution of two men accused of shooting and killing five mustangs in Nevada last year.

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Invisible threats mark Earth Day at 40

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Apr. 22 (News) - WASHINGTON - Pollution before the first Earth Day was not only visible, it was in your face: Cleveland's Cuyahoga River caught fire. An oil spill fouled 30 miles of Southern California beaches. And thick smog choked many cities' skies. Forty years

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Commercial fishing estimated to kill millions of sea turtles

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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Low-profile mammal now in environmental spotlight

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Jill Leovy - Apr. 16 (News) - Federal officials say a lack of resources -- and a flood of burdensome lawsuits -- have prevented them from officially listing the fisher as endangered. About 250 other plants and animals are similarly stuck.

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Fish and Game tight-lipped on killing of collared wolves: Wolves | adn.com

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Tim Mowry - Apr. 15 (News) - "Regional supervisor David James with the Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks has finished an investigation into the shootings of the collared wolves, which were among 15 wolves state wildlife biologists killed from a helicopter..."

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Water bond needed to save delta

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - Apr. 15 (Opinion) - Water bond needed to save delta

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Southern China turning into arid plain

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jonathan Watts - Apr. 07 (Opinion) - The government has embarked on a massive rain-making operation, firing thousands of cloud-seeding rockets into the sky In pictures: Drought in south-west China and the Mekong basin It is hard to imagine a less fitting environment for a mollusc than the arid plain of Damoguzhen in south-west China. There is not a drop of water in sight. The baked and fissured earth resembles an ancient desert. Yet shellfish are scattered here in their thousands; all so recently perished that shriveled, blackened bodies are still visible inside cracked, opened shells. Far out of water, the aquatic animals are not the advance guard of evolutionary progress; but the victims of a drought that has devastated their habitat and now threatens the livelihoods ...

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Below-normal water deliveries to Southern California still forecast - Los Angeles Times

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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Judge: Calif. illegally approved 'water bank'

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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The Future Is Drying Up

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jon Gertner - Mar. 18 (News) - "Scientists sometimes refer to the effect a hotter world will have on this country’s fresh water as the other water problem, because global warming more commonly evokes the specter of rising oceans submerging our great coastal cities."

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Farmers hail increased water allowance

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - Mar. 18 (Opinion) -

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Texans Fight Over Whooping Cranes, Water Rights

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Ana Campoy - Mar. 13 (News Report) - DALLAS—A coalition of environmentalists, bird lovers and Gulf Coast municipalities sued Texas regulators in federal court this past week, accusing them of mismanaging waters necessary for the survival of the biggest flock of endangered ...

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Meatpackers say inspection cuts are shortsighted

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

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Rapid Rise in Seed Prices Draws US Scrutiny - New York Times

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By William Neuman - Mar. 11 (News) - Rapid Rise in Seed Prices Draws US ScrutinyNew York TimesDuring the depths of the economic crisis last year, the prices for many goods held steady or even dropped. But on American farms, the picture was far different, as farmers watched the price they paid for seeds skyrocket. ...Monsanto Draws Antitrust ScrutinyWall Street JournalThe Seeds Of An Antitrust Disaster In IowaForbes (blog)Monsanto 7-State Probe Threatens Profit From 93% Soybean ShareBusinessWeekAgriculture Online?-Lincoln Journal Star?-Reutersall 20 news articles??

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GM crop cultivation in EU down 12 pct in 2009

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - By Charlie Dunmore - Mar. 05 (News Report) - BRUSSELS, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The cultivation of genetically modified crops in the European Union fell 12 percent last year, due partly to Germany's decision to ban the growing of GM maize, an industry-sponsored report said on Tuesday.

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Manure becomes pollutant as its volume grows unmanageable

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By David A. Fahrenthold - Mar. 01 (Special Report) - Nearly 40 years after the first Earth Day, this is irony: The United States has reduced the manmade pollutants that left its waterways dead, discolored and occasionally flammable.

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Archaeologists Find Earliest Known Domestic Horses: Harnessed and Milked

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - By Unknown - Feb. 25 (News Report) - ScienceDaily (Mar. 5, 2009) An international team of archaeologists has uncovered the earliest known evidence of horses being domesticated by humans. The discovery suggests that horses were both ridden and milked. The findings could point to the very

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