The Conservation Report

In wildness is the preservation of the world. – Henry David Thoreau

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BIODIVERSITY: More bird species means fewer West Nile cases

BIOFUELS: Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis: Internal World Bank study delivers blow to plant energy drive

CANARY IN THE COAL MINE: Penguin woes signal trouble at sea

CARBON: NYC to spend billions to cut greenhouse gases

CLIMATE CHANGE: Welcome to the climate insecurity generation, Grasslands hold up to climate change, California plants squeezed by climate change

CONSERVATION: Nature reserves attract humans, but at a cost to biodiversity, Nature 2.0: Redefining conservation

DAMS: Aral Sea revived by dam

ENERGY POLICY: American energy policy, asleep at the spigot

EXTINCTION: Orang-utans ‘on fast track to extinction’

FISHERIES: Lobsters, crabs, squid, and other invertebrates are becoming more common while populations of bottom-feeding fish are plummeting, according to a long-term trawling study of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay

FOOD: Ugly veggies to ease food crisis?, Taking bite out of banana mess

FUEL ECONOMY: Even modest increases in MPG can equal big gas savings

FUEL PRICES: NYC taxi drivers demand $1 fuel surcharge: Bloomberg Administration opposes idea; union threatens its own unspecified opposition

G8 SUMMIT: Environmentalists unhappy with G8 emissions goal, Environmentalists dismiss G-8 emissions target, Summit that’s hard to swallow - world leaders enjoy 18-course banquet as they discuss how to solve global food crisis

GLOBAL WARMING: Penguin chicks frozen by global warming?, Blocking sun not feasible warming solution

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS: NYC to spend billions to cut greenhouse gases

HEALTH: Mississippi is the fattest state in the Union

INVASIVE SPECIES: Penguins strangled by invasive grass

MADAGASCAR: Madagascar hopes tourism saves ‘Noah’s Ark’

SCIENCE: Extreme rain grows mountains, Ancient ice sheets fell like dominoes

SOLAR: NanoMarkets predicts thin-film solar cell industry will produce more than 26 gigawatts by 2015, Meet the steel-melting solar mirror

WATER POLLUTION: Olympic sailors facing polluted waters

WILDFIRES: California grid urges conservation amid heat and fires, With resources tight, Californians take on wildfires themselves

WIND POWER: Oil billionaire Pickens puts his money on wind power

WTF?:: Restaurant: Man who died had ordered crab meat: No criminal charges will be filed, but investigators have suggested a mistake occurred

Written by Buck Denton

July 8, 2008 at 11:46 pm

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