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Don't Have a Cow, Man
A cow in Iowa has been implanted with a cloned embryo of an endangered Asian gaur, an ox-like animal native to the jungles of India and Southeast Asia. The experiment marks the first time an endangered species has been cloned, and the first time a cloned animal has gestated in the womb of another species. […]
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Natural Born Whale Killers
Environmentalists are planning to petition the feds later this month to list Pacific Northwest orca whales, also known as killer whales, under the Endangered Species Act. They say that PCB pollution is making the orcas more vulnerable to disease and early death and that devastated salmon runs in the region are hurting the orcas, which […]
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Catch a Poacher By the Toe
A project to protect endangered tigers in Thailand’s Khao Yai national park is arming 28 rangers with M-16s and training them to do everything from setting up remote infrared cameras that record wildlife to disarming poachers. The project, organized by two U.S.-based groups, the World Conservation Society and WildAid, and funded in part by the […]
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You Have the Right to Remain Noisy
Texas officials have tentatively agreed to pay $99,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by environmentalists who were arrested for peacefully protesting on the sidewalk in front of the governor’s mansion, the residence of George W. Bush. The enviros, who were calling on Bush to push for a measure requiring old polluting industrial plants to clean […]
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Shape Up or Ship Out
A toxic pesticide that the U.S. banned in the 1980s, heptachlor, has been found in the wastewater of three cruise ships traveling in Alaska waters. Test results obtained from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation also indicated illegal levels of lead, copper, zinc, and silver in the wastewater that ships dump at sea, called gray […]
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Urine Trouble
Chemicals used in consumer products ranging from perfumes and hair sprays to artificial leather and garden hoses may be found in surprisingly high levels in humans, according to a new study by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. When the scientists tested blood and urine […]
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The Valley of the Shadow of Death
The Save Valley Conservancy in Zimbabwe, touted as the biggest privately owned wildlife park in the world, has seen 1,600 wild animals killed since February, including antelope and at least two elephants and one lion, and police for the most part have been ignoring the poaching. The problems began when President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party […]
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Canadian Bakin'
Canada’s federal cabinet has approved a five-year, $500 million plan to address the problem of climate change, the government’s first substantive effort on the issue, though it only goes one-third of the way to meeting the country’s emission-reduction targets under the Kyoto climate change treaty. The plan, to be officially unveiled today, will call on […]
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Wheaties — Breakfast of X-Men
Wheat grown near the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident is six times more likely to show mutations than wheat grown just 19 miles away, according to a study by a team of scientists in Ukraine, Britain, and Switzerland. The research, published in the journal Nature, suggests that radiation may push crops and other […]
