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Posted by geri
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Sunday, 13 April 2008 |
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50 plant species new to science are discovered and documented in
Queensland, Australia every year. In fact, two plant species (herbs) thought to
be extinct since 1873 were rediscovered this year in the area of Cape
York. (Queensland government's State of the Environment report, 2008)
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Posted by geri
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
"Hope is alive for the endangered Mississippi gopher frog thanks to the Memphis Zoo, the first zoo to successfully breed the vanishing amphibians. Using in-vitro fertilization techniques, the zoo has produced 93 Mississippi gopher tadpoles, to nearly double the number of frogs alive today in the wild (100)." (News story in CommercialAppeal.com in Memphis)
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Posted by geri
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Sunday, 06 April 2008 |
One-time hunters recruited to a conservation project have helped
threatened bird populations in Cambodia's Great Lake recover, according
to a report Friday. The Wildlife Conservation Society
report said populations of some of the bird species had increased
20-fold since the project began in 2001 at Tonle Sap Lake, known as the
Great Lake.
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Read more... [Former Hunters Help Rare Birds Recover]
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Posted by geri
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Saturday, 05 April 2008 |
Globally, over 2 billion cigarette butts are tossed to the ground every day, the most littered item in the US and the world. But now a group of motivated community members are organizing in Portland, Oregon to spread the word that tossing your butts is illegal -- and making the world an uglier place.
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Read more... [Portland Hopes to Win the Battle of the Butts]
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Posted by geri
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Saturday, 29 March 2008 |

Earth Hour was a shared experience in Sydney, Australia last April, when the people came together, turned off the lights for one hour, and saved 10% of their energy consumption. Half the city joined in - 2.2 million -- from the suburbs to the high-rises, from the city's businesses to the mayor. (The Good News Network linked to these A.P. photos of the night sky.)
From that success, the World Wildlife Fund has grown a global movement in one year culminating tonight at 8PM.
Millions of people, businesses, governments and civic
organizations in nearly 200 cities around the globe will turn out for Earth Hour. More than 100 cities across
North America will participate, including the US flagships–Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix and San
Francisco and Canada's
Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.
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Read more... [Join Earth Hour Tonight! Turn Off Your Lights for One Hour (Video)]
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