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		<title>Fearing roadblock to drilling, Alaska fights to take polar bears off threatened species list</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Joling</dc:creator>
		
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Alaska fights to reverse polar bear listing

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell says he has the best interest of polar bears at heart, but he doesn&#8217;t intend to let the federal government&#8217;s expanded protection for bears get in the way of the state&#8217;s continued prosperity.
Like his predecessor, Sarah Palin, the governor is suing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fishing industry, environmentalists in battle over California marine reserve plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Antczak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONG BEACH, Calif. — There&#8217;s nothing pacific about the ocean off Southern California these days.

A battle over how to establish marine reserves along the coast has roiled the waters with the competing interests of environmentalists, fishermen and seaside businesses.
The difficulty of the task was evident Thursday, when the panel had to put off until next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shell donates $450,000 to protect Louisiana&#8217;s marine life in coastal waters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana&#8217;s efforts to protect marine life in coastal waters and the Gulf of Mexico have received a boost with a $450,000 donation from Shell.

Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham says the money will help create &#8220;amazing fishing opportunities for charter boat captains, recreational and commercial fishermen,&#8221; through the state&#8217;s artificial reef [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US proposes stricter limits on international trade for polar bears, marine species</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dina Cappiello</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — With global warming shrinking Arctic sea ice that polar bears depend upon for survival, the United States is seeking to remove another major threat: international trade in the bears&#8217; fur and other parts.

In a proposal filed this week, the Interior Department asked other countries to support a ban on the commercial trade of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal agency denies endangered listing for spotted seals near Alaska</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Joling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Spotted seals off Alaska&#8217;s coast do not merit endangered species protection despite losses of Arctic sea ice from global warming, a federal agency announced Thursday.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, however, will list as threatened a small population of spotted seals that live off the coasts of Russia and China.
Doug Mecum, acting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feds designate southwest Alaska shoreline as protected habitat for threatened sea otters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Pemberton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Four years after being placed on the Endangered Species List, the dwindling sea otters of southwest Alaska on Wednesday were given an important recovery tool.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designated nearly 5,900 square miles as critical habitat for sea otters in the Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea and Alaska Peninsula. The designated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama administration calls lawmakers and others to conference on California drought</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Freking</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Wednesday urged California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to call state lawmakers into a special session to deal with the state&#8217;s water crisis.

Meanwhile, the administration will ask the National Academies of Sciences to look at alternatives to protecting endangered species in California that could allow for more water delivery from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal government reviewing endangered species status for humpback whales</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey Mcavoy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HONOLULU — The federal government is considering taking the humpback whale off the endangered species list in response to data showing the population of the massive marine mammal has been steadily growing in recent decades.

Known for their acrobatic leaps from the sea and complex singing patterns, humpback whales were nearly hunted to extinction for their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citing climate change, federal judge says grizzlies still threatened</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BILLINGS, Mont. — Facing the combined pressures of climate change, hunters and lax protections, 600 grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park are going back on the threatened species list under a federal court order issued Monday.

The ruling highlighted climate change&#8217;s devastation to whitebark pine forests, which produce nuts that some grizzlies rely upon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government study: Many urban streams salty enough to hurt aquatic life, road salt blamed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Karnowski</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MINNEAPOLIS — Many urban streams have become salty enough to harm aquatic life, largely because of salt used for deicing roads in the winter, according to a new government study released Wednesday.

The U.S. Geological Survey studied urban streams and groundwater for levels of chloride, a component of salt, in 20 states spanning from Alaska to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New federal program provides subsidy to suppliers of Upper Peninsula biomass electric plant</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Flesher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Suppliers of wood fuel for a biomass electric plant in Michigan&#8217;s Upper Peninsula will get a federal subsidy under an agreement signed Wednesday.

The deal between the L&#8217;Anse Warden Electric Co. and the U.S. Department of Agriculture&#8217;s Farm Service Agency is the first of its kind in Michigan. It&#8217;s part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmentalists say flood insurance program ignores endangered species</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Montoya Bryan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Federal Emergency Management Agency is being sued again over accusations that it violated the Endangered Species Act by issuing flood insurance without determining whether development would impact imperiled plants and animals.

WildEarth Guardians said Wednesday it filed a lawsuit against FEMA in federal court in New Mexico that claims the agency&#8217;s National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appeals court blocks land swap between BLM and miner Asarco, citing bad environmental analysis</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/appeals-court-blocks-land-swap-between-blm-and-miner-asarco-citing-bad-environmental-analysis-168315/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Christie</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.taragana.com/n/appeals-court-blocks-land-swap-between-blm-and-miner-asarco-citing-bad-environmental-analysis-168315/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[PHOENIX — A federal appeals court ruled Monday that a proposed land exchange between the federal Bureau of Land Management and copper miner Asarco LLC violates environmental laws.

The ruling in the lawsuit filed by three environmental groups in 2001 overturns a lower court decision backing the exchange long sought by Asarco.
The swap would give Asarco [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal judge rules in favor of controversial wolf hunts in Montana, Idaho</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BILLINGS, Mont. — A federal judge said Wednesday that gray wolf hunts in the Northern Rockies can go on, denying a request by environmentalists and animal welfare groups to stop the first organized wolf hunts in decades in Idaho and Montana.

U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy said plans to kill about 20 percent of the two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Petition advances to list walrus as endangered due to warming, loss of sea ice</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/petition-advances-to-list-walrus-as-endangered-due-to-warming-loss-of-sea-ice-162850/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/petition-advances-to-list-walrus-as-endangered-due-to-warming-loss-of-sea-ice-162850/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Joling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A second Arctic marine mammal moved closer to an Endangered Species listing due to global warming Tuesday with a petition to grant the Pacific walrus protection passing its first review.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that a petition presented by the Center for Biological Diversity provided substantial information that listing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With 246 square miles scorched, Calif. wildfire raises concerns of flooding, ecosystem damage</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/with-246-square-miles-scorched-calif-wildfire-raises-concerns-of-flooding-ecosystem-damage-161976/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Antczak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — Southern California&#8217;s huge wildfire has turned nearly a quarter of the 1,000-square-mile Angeles National Forest into a moonscape of barren mountains looming above thousands of homes that now face the threat of flash floods and mudslides.

Experts are already evaluating the extent of risk to lives and property as well as the impacts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wolf hunts to open in Northern Rockies as judge considers request to halt killing</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/wolf-hunts-to-open-in-northern-rockies-as-judge-considers-request-to-halt-killing-155677/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MISSOULA, Mont. — Gray wolf hunting was set to begin in the Northern Rockies, even as a federal judge eyed a request to stop the killing of the predators just four months after they were removed from the endangered species list.

U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy said Monday he would rule as quickly as he could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wolf hunts to proceed in Northern Rockies as judge weighs injunction request</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/wolf-hunts-to-proceed-in-northern-rockies-as-judge-weighs-injunction-request-155561/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MISSOULA, Mont. — Gray wolf hunting will begin in the Northern Rockies as a federal judge considers an injunction request by environmental and animal welfare groups to stop the predators from being killed.

Hunters in Idaho, where up to 220 wolves could be killed, are poised to head into the field Tuesday. Montana&#8217;s season is set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Marine Op: &#8216;No civilian casualties&#8217; order protects Afghans but frustrates, slows Marines</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alfred De Montesquiou</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DAHANEH, Afghanistan — The British jet called in by the U.S. Marines had the Taliban position in sight, but the pilot refused to fire, a decision that frustrated Marines on the ground but was in line with new orders by the top U.S. commander to protect civilians.

The Marines themselves didn&#8217;t attack militants shooting at them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US ranchers, environmentalists concerned about release of rare wolves in northern Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Montoya Bryan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — American wildlife officials and ranchers are raising questions over a plan to release a rare North American gray wolf to its historic range in northern Mexico: Will it stay south of the border and what can be done if it threatens livestock?

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said this week it learned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No 2 howls are alike, conservation groups push for special protection of wolf subspecies</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/no-2-howls-are-alike-conservation-groups-push-for-special-protection-of-wolf-subspecies-136739/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Montoya Bryan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — They&#8217;re all gray wolves, but the Mexican gray wolf is notably different than its faraway cousins, and conservationists now say the animals need specific protection under federal law to avoid extinction.

Three conservation groups filed petitions this week asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the Mexican gray wolf on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy&#8217;s newest destroyer to carry name of Marine who died protecting his comrades in Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Sharp</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BATH, Maine — Marines flushing out Iraqi insurgents after an ambush came upon a column of vehicles. A van with a father and son. A pickup truck. A tractor. A BMW with a couple of sheiks. And a Toyota Land Cruiser with four young men, all of them insurgents.

As Marines began searching the vehicles, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NOAA chief: New ocean uses such as wind power creating conflicts, show need for more planning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Leblanc</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON — New pressures on the nation&#8217;s oceans, from wind turbines to fish farms, are increasingly sparking conflicts with more traditional activities such as shipping and recreational boating and show the need for better planning, the head of the agency overseeing federal ocean research services said Monday.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane Lubchenco said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mining company questions whether Wyo. panel can label federal forest land &#8216;rare and uncommon&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/mining-company-questions-whether-wyo-panel-can-label-federal-forest-land-rare-and-uncommon-113104/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Moen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A request that a Wyoming panel designate a piece of the Black Hills National Forest as &#8220;very rare and uncommon&#8221; has raised questions about the state&#8217;s authority to influence what happens on federal land.

The legal questions could influence whether any mining takes place on that particular piece of forest where gold is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU report says species, habitats at risk in Europe; calls for more land for conservation</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/eu-report-says-species-habitats-at-risk-in-europe-calls-for-more-land-for-conservation-108215/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/eu-report-says-species-habitats-at-risk-in-europe-calls-for-more-land-for-conservation-108215/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS — A European Union report says grasslands, wetlands and butterflies are threatened in Europe.

The report says the increasing use of land for farming — along with climate change, tourism and poor land management — are to blame for the loss of biodiversity across the 27-nation bloc. The study, released Monday, assessed 216 habitats and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists use shovels, mustard and electricity to search for elusive giant Palouse earthworm</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/scientists-use-shovels-mustard-and-electricity-to-search-for-elusive-giant-palouse-earthworm-106882/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/scientists-use-shovels-mustard-and-electricity-to-search-for-elusive-giant-palouse-earthworm-106882/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas K. Geranios</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW, Idaho — The giant Palouse earthworm has taken on mythic qualities in this vast agricultural region that stretches from eastern Washington into the Idaho panhandle — its very name evoking the fictional sandworms from &#8220;Dune&#8221; or those vicious creatures from the movie &#8220;Tremors.&#8221;

The worm is said to secrete a lily-like smell when handled, spit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shovels, mustard and electricity used as scientists search for elusive giant Palouse earthworm</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/shovels-mustard-and-electricity-used-as-scientists-search-for-elusive-giant-palouse-earthworm-106847/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas K. Geranios</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW, Idaho — The giant Palouse earthworm has taken on mythic qualities in this vast agricultural region that stretches from eastern Washington into the Idaho panhandle — its very name evoking the fictional sandworms from &#8220;Dune&#8221; or those vicious creatures from the movie &#8220;Tremors.&#8221;

The worm is said to secrete a lily-like smell when handled, spit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study finds Bush owl plan based on false conclusion that fire increasing threat to habitat</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/study-finds-bush-owl-plan-based-on-false-conclusion-that-fire-increasing-threat-to-habitat-101279/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/study-finds-bush-owl-plan-based-on-false-conclusion-that-fire-increasing-threat-to-habitat-101279/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Barnard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A new study challenges a basic justification about the threat of wildfires that the Bush administration used to make room for more logging in old growth forests that are home to the northern spotted owl.

The study, appearing in the journal Conservation Biology, found no increasing threat of severe wildfires destroying old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Group: world failing to halt biodiversity decline as more corals, amphibians, mammals in peril</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/group-world-failing-to-halt-biodiversity-decline-as-more-corals-amphibians-mammals-in-peril-97300/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/group-world-failing-to-halt-biodiversity-decline-as-more-corals-amphibians-mammals-in-peril-97300/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley S. Klapper</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA — Governments are failing to stem a rapid decline in biodiversity that is now threatening extinction for almost half the world&#8217;s coral reef species, a third of amphibians and a quarter of mammals, a leading environmental group warned Thursday.

&#8220;Life on Earth is under serious threat,&#8221; the International Union for Conservation of Nature said in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservation groups again seek endangered species protection for giant, spitting worm in Wash.</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/conservation-groups-again-seek-endangered-species-protection-for-giant-spitting-worm-in-wash-95952/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas K. Geranios</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SPOKANE, Wash. — Fans of the giant Palouse earthworm are once again seeking federal protection for the rare, sweet-smelling species that spits at predators.

They filed a petition Tuesday with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service requesting the worm be protected as an endangered species.
&#8220;The giant Palouse earthworm is critically endangered and needs the protection of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s environment ministry said review needed for planned dam that threatens Yangtze fish</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/chinas-environment-ministry-said-review-needed-for-planned-dam-that-threatens-yangtze-fish-91735/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Sanderson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — China&#8217;s environment ministry said Thursday that it has ordered an ecological assessment for a proposed Yangtze River dam that conservationists fear could threaten hundreds of fish species and drive the giant Chinese sturgeon into extinction.

Chinese environmentalists and scientists are trying to halt the Xiaonanhai dam, upstream from Chongqing city in mountainous western China, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Main islands of 50th US state eyed as critical habitat for endangered Hawaiian monk seals</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/main-islands-of-50th-us-state-eyed-as-critical-habitat-for-endangered-hawaiian-monk-seals-80334/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaymes Song</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HONOLULU — The federal government said Friday it will revise the critical habitat for endangered Hawaiian monk seals for the first time in 21 years, which is likely to significantly expand the protection area to include beaches and waters of the main Hawaiian Islands.

Environmentalists say the added habitat is needed to reverse the plight of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Main islands of nation&#8217;s 50th state named critical habitat for endangered Hawaiian monk seals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaymes Song</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HONOLULU — The federal government on Friday will significantly expand the critical habitat for endangered Hawaiian monk seals to include beaches and waters of the main Hawaiian Islands, officials said.

Environmentalists say the added habitat is needed to reverse the plight of the monk seals, which are among the most endangered marine mammals in the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge finds US agencies violated Endangered Species Act in Southern California forest plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noaki Schwartz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — Federal agencies violated the Endangered Species Act by developing plans for four national forests in California without adequately addressing the impact on endangered animals, a judge ruled.

The judge&#8217;s order will require estimates of how forest projects may harm endangered or threatened plants and animals such as the California condor and the gnatcatcher.
&#8220;This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study finds forest conservation in Indonesia could be as profitable as palm oil plantations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Casey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK — Selling credits for the billions of tons of carbon that are locked in Indonesia&#8217;s tropical rain forests could be as profitable as converting these areas into palm oil plantations, a study released Friday found.

The study, in the current issue of the peer-reviewed journal Conservation Letters, also found that conserving the 3.3 million hectares [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fisheries agency&#8217;s plan to protect struggling chinook salmon would trim Calif.&#8217;s water supply</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Dearen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO — Federal regulators on Thursday released a court-ordered plan to help struggling chinook salmon that includes opening California dams and restricting pumping, prompting howls of protest from state officials because it will further reduce the amount of water available to farms and urban areas.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has &#8220;provisionally accepted&#8221; the findings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmentalists plan to sue feds to force decision on listing Arctic seals as endangered</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Joling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An environmental group plans to sue the federal government to force a decision on additional protections for Arctic seals.

The Center for Biological Diversity said in a notice of intent to sue sent this week to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that it missed a deadline required by law for an endangered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate conference: Rising sea levels, acidity threatening oceans, communities they support</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 21:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melinda Chickering</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MANADO, Indonesia — Rising sea levels, warming waters and spiraling acidity caused by global warming are threatening the world&#8217;s oceans and the communities they support, governments warned Thursday, as they sought to include protection for the seas in a new U.N. climate treaty.

Not only marine ecosystems, but the lives of tens of millions of people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Climate change threatens diverse coral reefs that millions of livelihoods depend on</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 21:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grace Wakary</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MANADO, Indonesia — Around 100 million people risk losing their homes and livelihoods unless drastic steps are taken to protect Southeast Asia&#8217;s coral reefs, which could be wiped out in coming decades because of climate change, a report said Wednesday.

The Coral Triangle — which spans Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama administration revokes last-minute action by Bush to limit endangered species protection</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H. Josef Hebert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Federal agencies again will have to consult with government wildlife experts before taking actions that could have an impact on threatened or endangered species.

The Obama administration said Tuesday it was overturning a rule change made in the final weeks of the Bush presidency.
Officials at the Interior and Commerce departments said they have reimposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama administration revokes last-minute action by Bush to limit endangered species protection</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H. Josef Hebert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will again require federal agencies to consult with the government&#8217;s wildlife experts before taking any actions that could impact threatened or endangered species.

The Interior and Commerce departments said Tuesday they have revoked a last-minute rule change by the Bush administration that ended the consultation requirement. Environmentalists had argued that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The sky falls on America&#8217;s old-fashioned purebred chickens; breeding group tries to save them</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracie Cone</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FRESNO, Calif. — At about the time Foghorn Leghorn appeared on the Looney Toons drawing board in 1946, he began disappearing from America&#8217;s dinner tables.

Now the bird on which the rooster cartoon character was modeled is among 66 types of old-fashioned chickens the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy is trying to save from extinction as factory-raised [...]]]></description>
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