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Paper Recycling Hits Record High

Paper Recycling Hits Record High

   Industry Meets Goal Ahead of Schedule, Sets New Aggressive Target

Posted : Wed, Apr 02, 2008

Category : Science / Environment News

Climate change speeds up Amazon's destruction

Climate change speeds up Amazon's destruction

   A vicious cycle of climate change and deforestation could wipe out or severely damage nearly 60% of the Amazon forest by 2030, says WWF.

Posted : Thu, Dec 06, 2007

Category : Science / Environment News

Protecting old-growth forests in Poland

Protecting old-growth forests in Poland

   Over 100,000 signatures have been forwarded to the Polish government, calling for the protection of Europe's last remaining stands of natural forests.

Posted : Thu, Dec 06, 2007

Category : Science / Environment News

Global warming sends salamanders packing

Global warming sends salamanders packing

   A genetic study of the salamander family that encompasses two-thirds of the world's salamander species shows that periods of global warming helped the amphibians diversify and expand their range from North America into Europe and Asia.

Posted : Fri, Nov 30, 2007

Category : Science / Environment News

Greenpeace warns that time and tuna are running out

Greenpeace warns that time and tuna are running out

   At today's opening of the annual conference of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), Greenpeace climbers have hung a giant banner, reading "Time and Tuna are running out", to warn delegates of the need to take urgent action to save bluefin tuna.

Posted : Fri, Nov 09, 2007

Category : Science / Environment News

Code red for threatened species

Code red for threatened species

   The planet is being pushed to its limits as indicated by the increasing number of threatened species across the globe, according to the latest trends in the World Conservation Union's (IUCN's) Red List.

Posted : Sat, Sep 15, 2007

Category : Science / Environment News

Fishing nations urged to protect newly discovered cold-water corals

Fishing nations urged to protect newly discovered cold-water corals

   A new WWF study assesses the impact of fishing on three fragile coldwater coral "hotspots" off the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, providing the scientific basis for Canadian and European governments to protect sensitive coral habitat in the Northwest Atlantic.

Posted : Tue, Sep 11, 2007

Category : Science / Environment News
 
 
 
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