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- Added: Feb 28, 2008
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Like its name, the Echo Parakeet is bouncing back. And the Mauritius Wildlife Foundation couldn't be happier.
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The latest air pollution discovery reads like a murder mystery. Thousands died from strokes and heart attacks within 24 hours after jumps in partic...
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Remember these lyrics from Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi? "Don't it always seem to go, That you don't know what you got till it's gone?" Unfortun...
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- Added: Feb 27, 2008
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By 1999, the Round Goby a harmless-looking little bug-eyed fish from the Black Sea, was found in all five of the Great Lakes. And it was wreaking ...
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If you ever need to shoo a herd of elephants out of your backyard, new research suggests that you may want to unleash: the bees!
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- Added: Feb 27, 2008
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There's now a shortcut between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, courtesy of climate change.
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- Added: Feb 27, 2008
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In April of 1990, biologist David Jude pulled a little bug-eyed fish from the Saint Claire River near Detroit. It was a Round Goby.
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Hurricane Katrina demonstrated just how destructive wind and water can be. New research into the genesis of these powerful storms could help coasta...
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The recent removal of the Bald Eagle from the endangered species list generated lots of excitement. And, another conservation success is giving us ...
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British scientists recently had this suggestion about the European Union's target of having ten percent of gas and diesel come from renewable resou...
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The reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone National Park marked the return of a symbol of the American West. The recent shooting of one in O...
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In the midst of a drought, California is dry and getting drier. So a recent court ordered reduction in water pumped from the Sacramento-San Joaqui...
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What does rain forest conservation have to do with preventing malaria? In the Amazon rainforest, the means to these two ends are virtually one in t...
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How can we get more energy from our most abundant, clean, renewable resource? By concentrating.
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Why did the salamander cross the road? The same reason that would motivate most creatures: To have sex, of course.
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The folks in Broward County, Florida, have long considered themselves on the cutting edge of conservation. Now they're at it again.
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What do the Mauritius Dodo and the New Zealand Kakapo have in common? They're both flightless birds that will soon be extinct if someone doesn't re...
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Portuguese sailors must have been pretty lonely when they first sighted manatees off the Brazilian coast. Thinking they resembled sirens or mermaid...
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Bringing countries together to protect our natural environment looks good on paper...The book, "Peace Park" is a collection of articles written by ...
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Imagine trying to get home by running across a busy freeway. Without a walkway, a stoplight or a crosswalk, it could be a dangerous adventure. Well...
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If you're wondering how our penguin friends in the Antarctic are doing these days, here are the cold, hard facts. Their poo is getting mighty pollu...
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We've all seen the tremendous destructive power of hurricanes. There were a record number of hurricanes in 2005, and future hurricane seasons may b...
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Recently, a group of scientists comparing rainfall over the last century with global production of greenhouse gases and aerosols reached a startlin...
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