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Drilling drives a wedge at climate change summit (AP)

Drilling drives a wedge at climate change summit

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 25, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 6

(AP) -- To drill or not drill for new oil and gas.


Regulators allow horseshoe crab harvest

Biology /

created Feb 12, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The New Jersey Marine Fisheries Council has declined to extend a moratorium on horseshoe crab harvesting aimed at protecting migrating shore birds.


Iceland to resume commercial whaling

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 18, 2006 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Iceland plans to begin commercial whaling, defying the international moratorium that has been in place for 20 years.


Norway fails to fulfill whaling quota

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 21, 2006 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Norway says its fishermen will not be able to fulfill this year's whaling quota, with about 500 minke whales caught out of the quota's 1,052.


Obama moves to curb road-building in forests

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(AP) -- The Obama administration is ordering a one-year moratorium on most road-building and other development on about 50 million acres of remote national forests.


Study nixes hog waste alternatives

Other Sciences /

created Mar 08, 2006 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A $17.3 million study in North Carolina seeking alternatives to open-air ponds used to treat hog farm waste has ended without success.


Australia: Japan's whaling program a sham

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created Mar 28, 2006 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Australian officials say a 10-year project examining whales off Australia's Antarctic territory prove Japan's whaling program has no scientific basis.


Birds halt some British home construction

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created May 03, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Construction of homes across 300 square miles of land in southeast England has reportedly been halted in an effort to protect three rare species of birds.


Decline of shorebird linked to bait use of horseshoe crabs

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created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Declining numbers of a shorebird called the red knot have been linked to bait use of horseshoe crabs.


U.N. AIDS envoy: Talk less, do more

Medicine & Health /

created Aug 20, 2006 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

U.N. special envoy on AIDS in Africa Stephen Lewis has urged delegates at an AIDS conference in Toronto to talk less and do more about the problem.



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