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Eagles Eye Recovery
The bald eagle has made such a striking comeback that the Clinton administration will propose around the Fourth of July that the national symbol be removed from the endangered species list. The eagle population in the U.S. is thought to have once numbered between 250,000 and 500,000, but by 1963, largely because of the pesticide […]
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If a Tree Falls in This Sound, There's Still a Forest
Native Canadian groups, environmentalists, and timber company MacMillan Bloedel signed a deal yesterday to end Canada’s most bitter forest fight. The agreement supports the use of selective, sustainable logging in Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island only in second-growth and fragmented old-growth stands, not in large pristine watersheds. Greenpeace Canada and the U.S.-based Natural Resources Defense […]
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Shark Attack
The 1990s have seen a big rise in the popularity of shark fin meat, and fishers are capitalizing on the trend by catching tens of thousands of Pacific Ocean sharks, slicing off their fins, and tossing the animal remains back in the ocean. Sun-dried shark fins can command up to $250 a pound in Hong […]
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Senate Gores World Bank
The Senate is moving to cut money for a World Bank environmental fund that promotes energy-saving, low-pollution projects in developing countries, a top priority of Vice Pres. Al Gore. The Senate Appropriations Committee today is expected to approve a foreign-aid budget bill that would provide only $25 million to pay off initial U.S. commitments to […]
