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AP Rescuers worked Saturday to save more dead and dying dolphins and sea lions that have washed up on Southern California beaches, believed poisoned by a naturally occurring toxic acid. A bloom of ocean algae that produces domoic acid may be responsible for killing or sickening dozens of the sea mammals, including birds, in recent [...]

European Space Agency As climate change continues to make headlines across the world, participants at the 2007 Envisat Symposium this week are hearing how Earth observation satellites allow scientists to better understand the parameters involved in global warming and how this is impacting the planet. : Average temperatures in the Antarctic Peninsula have risen over [...]

reuters Climate change is affecting the growth of fish, with those living in warmer, shallow waters growing faster and species in cooling deep ocean waters growing slower, according to an Australian study. The research by Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) found fish were growing faster in waters above a depth of 250 [...]

CNA In a move to take bilateral relations to a strategic level, Singapore and China have agreed to jointly-develop an environmentally-friendly city. : Details including the choice of the Chinese city are still being worked out. But Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong said he hopes to put up a proposal to the Chinese side very [...]

reuters Hunters in Russia’s Far East have shot and killed one of the last seven surviving female Amur leopards living in the wild, WWF said on Monday, driving the species even closer to extinction. Last week environmentalists said there were only between 25 and 34 Amur leopards — described as one of the most graceful [...]

goldmanprize An Irish farmer jailed for his work in opposing Shell Oil’s natural gas pipeline through his land and an Icelandic entrepreneur saving North Atlantic wild salmon by brokering innovative fishing rights buyouts with North Atlantic governments and commercial interests are among the winners of this year’s prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize. : The $125,000 Goldman [...]

WWF A video “camera trap” positioned inside the jungle has captured rare footage of an elusive Borneo rhino, WWF and Malaysia’s Sabah Wildlife Department announced today. The 2 minute video — showing the animal eating, walking to the camera and sniffing the equipment — is the first-ever footage of observing the behaviour in the wild [...]

CI greatturtlerace.com Every year after nesting in Costa Rica, female leatherback turtles swim more than 930 miles to the Galapagos Islands in search of food. This year, from April 16 to 29, Conservation International (CI) TOPP (Tagging of Pacific Predators), The Leatherback Trust, and MINAE (a department of the Republic of Costa Rica) are using [...]

reuters A small Canadian town claimed the honor on Monday of being the first municipality in North America to ban retailers from using plastic bags, in an effort to maintain its pristine environment. The town’s administrator said Leaf Rapids, a northern Manitoba mining town about 975 km (610 miles) northwest of Winnipeg, has ordered retailers [...]

Royal Astronomical Society Professor Nigel Weiss, 2007 winner of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) Gold medal, will rebut claims that a fall in solar activity could cancel out the effects of man-made global warming. In a lecture on Wednesday 18 April at the RAS-sponsored National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, Professor Weiss, who is Emeritus Professor [...]