The Bush administration is planning to gut the Endangered Species Act before leaving office, according to the Associated Press.
A draft of the proposed changes, obtained by the AP, indicates that the plan would be to utterly remove government-funded scientists from the decision-making process, allowing regulatory agencies to decide for themselves whether a project was dangerous [...]

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Wired.com had an article on their front page this week covering the debate over “assisted migrations,” and in particular a recent proposal to relocate polar bears to the South Pole.
If the most dire climate predictions come to pass, the Arctic ice cap will melt entirely, and polar bears could face extinction.
So why not pack a [...]

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A new report released today by the Lenfest Ocean Program in Washington DC has revealed that as many as 96% of Mediterranean sharks are gone as the result of intense overfishing.
Evidence for severe declines in large predatory fishes is increasing around the world. Because of its long history of intense fishing, the Mediterranean Sea offers [...]

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President Bush held a press conference today to announce a broad new initiative intended to combat global warming. Aside from a few inexplicable sidetracks, like:
Right way - reduce carbon emissions
Wrong way - abandon coal industry and “nucular power”

in which he seemingly forgot that coal IS carbon (which when burned, becomes smoke, which…typically gets emitted…) it [...]

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This news was just too good to pass up:
Coloradans looking to help the environment may soon be able to showcase their efforts through a new license plate.
A bill to create the “Colorado Carbon Fund” special plate is expected to pass the House Transportation Committee later Thursday afternoon. Senate Bill 186 has already passed out of [...]

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“The tiger was acting as a normal tiger does.”

I’ve waited a long time to post on this until more of the details had come out. However, as CNN.com reported this morning, Kulbir and Amritpal “Paul” Dhaliwal have begun the legal process to sue the city of San Francisco over the Christmas-day tiger attacks [...]

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Brendan Koerner from Slate.com has got a great article up about the environmental economics of beer, in light of the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day, commonly associated with the drink. (and green-colored beer at that) The irony of that is that many common beers have enormous carbon footprints, based mainly on the containers that [...]

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Yahoo has got a new Buzz article up about all the baby seals that will die this season as a result of global warming. The World Wildlife Fund is reporting out of Germany that the loss of arctic ice will severely hamper the babies’ development, but the fight over the Arctic [...]

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Sharks make hot news, and CNN is there: a 14 foot Great Hammerhead was killed today off of Florida.So why am I not excited ? I’m sure by now you know I don’t think random killing is cool, but sharks in particular? 6 reasons why:

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