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International Herald Tribune The nation’s mayors voted Monday against spending taxpayer money to buy bottled water, a blow to the beverage industry that has enjoyed growing profit from water sales in recent years. A majority of about 250 mayors at the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Miami voted to phase out regular use of bottled [...]

independent.co.uk Lobsters have boomed in Britain’s first marine nature reserve, where fishing is banned. The large crustaceans have soared in numbers in the “no-take zone” around Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel, which was established five years ago as a prototype for sea-life reserves around Britain. Lobsters of takeable size are now nearly seven times [...]

WWF Re-seeding programmes on over 50 reefs are securing the survival of the giant clam for at least another generation, according to WWF-Philippines. The clams, the world’s largest bivalve mollusks and the star of lurid but mostly imaginary literary and cinematic depictions of trapped divers, can live for over a century. They have been known [...]

Discovery Channel A federal judge has restored endangered species protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies, derailing plans by three states to hold public wolf hunts this fall.] : The region has an estimated 2,000 gray wolves. They were removed from the endangered species list in March, following a decade-long restoration effort. Environmentalists sued [...]

www.ipsnews.net One third of reef-building corals already face extinction because of climate change, the first-ever global assessment has found. Reefs are made up of hundreds of coral species, and a two-year study to determine the current status of corals has discovered that 231 of the 704 species assessed will be “red-listed” Thursday. This means these [...]