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New online game illustrates the impacts of overfishing
Following in the footsteps of other web-based enviro games such as Whale's Revenge, Planet Green, and, uh, Catstration (okay, maybe that one is a stretch) comes Ocean Survivor. The game has no relation to a certain CBS reality show; players swim through the sea as a bluefin tuna and avoid obstacles like death-by-bottom-trawler:
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Feds to consider endangered-species protections for four species of Arctic seals
Photo: noaa.gov The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced it’s considering whether to list four species of Arctic seals under the Endangered Species Act due in part to climate change. The Center for Biological Diversity, a species-advocacy group, petitioned the agency last year to consider protecting ribbon seals due to disappearing sea ice and other […]
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Bush admin appeals ruling on mercury cap-and-trade plan
The Bush administration has appealed a court ruling that struck down the U.S. EPA’s controversial mercury cap-and-trade plan. The earlier ruling by a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals found the EPA violated the Clean Air Act when it enacted the mercury rule in 2005. The cap-and-trade system allowed dirtier power plants […]
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A roundup of news snippets
• Americans cut back on driving in 2007 for the first time in 20 years. • Merrill Lynch launches a global carbon index. • London Mayor Ken Livingstone gets jiggy with greenness in his reelection campaign. • Canada’s annual seal hunt starts Friday.
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Water problem? What water problem?
There’s no water problem. Dean Kamen solved it: More details here.
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A roundup of news snippets
• Washington State is poised to set the nation’s toughest restrictions on toxics in toys. • Nearly 20,000 South Africans have been displaced by a heavily polluting platinum mine. • The Humane Society has filed suit to keep Oregon and Washington State from killing sea lions. • Some 40,000 tourists will visit Antarctica this year. […]
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Amphibian dieoffs not caused by climate change, says study
A mysterious dieoff of amphibian species is likely not being caused by global warming, as had been hypothesized, says new research. Not in doubt: Amphibians are being afflicted by the rapidly spreading chytrid fungus, and humans are in some way responsible.
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Soot pollution may be big contributor to climate change, and more
Read the news items highlighted in this week’s podcast: World Citizen McCain Now That’s Richardson West Virginia, Mountain Drama ‘Don’t Soot’: the Messenger Of Ice and Mendacity ‘Paign, Management Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: Nasty Namaste Ash Ask Nader on the Record
