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Center for Biological Diversity
Governor Sarah Palin won’t give wildlife a break. Last week, she announced the state of Alaska will sue to strike down Endangered Species Act protection for the imperiled Cook Inlet beluga whale. This rare white whale’s population has already plummeted from thousands to just 375 in the last two decades. They will [...]

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Join our movement and make it one of your goals to waste less this year To help, we’re counting down our Top 10 Ways to reduce use-and-toss items and we’re giving you the tools to do it! We chose these products based on their impact and practicality to help you consume less (and save money).
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Yahoo News
Scientists thought it would take a decade for Southeast Asia’s coral reefs to heal after 2004’s deadly tsunami but they said Friday that Indonesia’s reefs have bounced back with surprising speed, restoring livelihoods to countless small communities.
The findings came as communities across the Indian Ocean remembered the disaster that struck Dec. 26, 2004 with [...]

reuters
Insisting on the need to develop new forms of energy, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Monday chose as his energy secretary a Nobel physics laureate who is a major promoter of alternative fuels.
Obama named Steven Chu, the winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics who was an early advocate for finding scientific solutions to [...]

AP
A group of 150 whales that became stranded on a remote coastline in southern Australia were battered to death on rocks before rescuers could save them.
Officials from Tasmania state’s Parks and Wildlife Service rushed Sunday in four-wheel-drive vehicles to the remote site at Sandy Cape after the long-finned pilot whales were spotted by air a [...]

Destruction of forests equals global warming. The math is really that simple.
But too often, this urgent fact gets ignored. That’s why I’m asking you to forward these 10 Forest And Climate Change Facts to your friends and family.
Help us spread the word about Lost There, Felt Here and encourage your network to learn more [...]

National Geograpohic One fish—the goliath grouper—has suddenly become two. The Atlantic goliath grouper, found in warm waters of the Americas and western Africa, is a separate species from the goliath grouper that roams tropical reefs of the eastern Pacific Ocean, a new genetic study shows. The newly identified Pacific goliath grouper can grow more [...]

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 water for [...]

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 231 species [...]

yahoo news
Singapore is known for its greenery but it may soon be recognised for its blue — as in blue water.
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Recently finished after about three years of construction, the 240-million Singapore dollar (176 million US) Marina Barrage will create a new source of precious water in a city-state with almost no natural resources of its [...]