Tag: Biodiversity
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A Passage Through Ice
THE EXPLORERS CLUB — On, Monday, March 11, at The Explorers Club in New York City and sponsored by EcoWatch, A Passage Through Ice expedition team will share the story of its voyage into the Arctic to follow an undetermined route along the polar ice cap to track this summer’s Arctic sea-ice retreat …
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New York Times Eliminates Its Green Blog
MEDIA MATTER FOR AMERICA — The New York Times announced late Friday that it will discontinue its Green blog, less than two months after dismantling its environment desk. The paper insists that despite these changes it will …
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Obama Nominates Gina McCarthy as U.S. EPA Administrator
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL — “If you take a look at what’s recently happened with Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative,” McCarthy recently said. “You will realize that there are tremendous opportunities to address climate change in ways that build the economy, that grow jobs, that you can …
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Sequester Cuts: How It Will Strain the Economy and Put Americans’ Health at Risk
DESMOGBLOG — Not only will the sequester cuts put a tremendous strain on our economy as a whole, but the health effects that will result from more pollution and less monitoring will become …
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Will Newest National Park Be Marred by Oil Drilling?
EARTH ISLAND JOURNAL — As the dignitaries were celebrating Pinnacles’ elevation from a national monument to a national park, the staff at the local San Benito County Planning Department were preparing the paperwork for an application for exploratory oil wells just seven miles (as the condor flies) from the southern border of the park …