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Feds Outline Plan To Nurse Great Lakes To Health
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February 21, 2010 - CBS News
| | Traverse City, Mich. -- The Obama administration has developed a five-year blueprint for rescuing the Great Lakes, a sprawling ecosystem plagued by toxic contamination, shrinking wildlife habitat and invasive species. The plan envisions spending more than $2.2 billion for long-awaited repairs after a century of damage to the lakes, which hold 20 percent of the world's fresh water. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the document, which Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, was releasing at a news conference Sunday in Washington.
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Feds Deny Protection for Spotted Seals Near Alaska
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October 15, 2009 - Mother Nature Network
| | Following an 18-month review, the NOAA denies "Endangered" status to ice-dependent spotted seal, despite rapid melting rate in Arctic waters.
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U.K. Wild Seed Bank Hits 10 Percent Target
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October 15, 2009 - MSNBC
| | London -- Britain's seed bank, the only one in the world aiming to collect all of the planet's wild plant species, has reached its goal of banking 10 percent by 2010.
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UN Warns of 70 Percent Desertification by 2025
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October 3, 2009 - Yahoo! News
| | Buenos Aires -- Drought could parch close to 70 percent of the planet's soil by 2025 unless countries implement policies to slow desertification, a senior United Nations official has warned. Drought currently affects at least 41 percent of the planet and environmental degradation has caused it to spike by 15 to 25 percent since 1990, according to a global climate report.
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Nearly 70 Percent of Argentine Forests Lost in a Century
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September 26, 2009 - PhysOrg
| | Forests that spread across 100 million hectares (247 million acres) in 1900 have dwindled to 33.19 million hectares (82 million acres), officials said. Forest destruction has accelerated in the past 10 years with the boom of soy crops, a major motor of growth in Argentina, the top exporter of soy flour and oil and the third-largest exporter of soy seeds.
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Groups Move To Protect Expanse Of Deep Sea Coral
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August 18, 2009 - redOrbit
| | Environmentalists are pushing for the protection of a large swath of coral reef off the Southeastern US coast. The underwater expanse of creatures and coral lies at the bottom of the Atlantic and spans about 23,000 square miles from North Carolina to Florida. But the collective is under threat from overfishing and energy prospects, and environmentalists are moving to push legislation that would protect the region.
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Eastern Aral Sea Receding
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July 10, 2009 - redOrbit
| | The eastern portion of the Aral Sea has shrunk by 80 percent since 2006, the European Space Agency reported on Friday. Using Envisat images, the ESA revealed a massive decrease in shoreline between July 1, 2006 and July 6, 2009 for what was once considered the world’s fourth-largest inland body of water. The Aral Sea was split into two portions during the 1980s – the Small Aral Sea, found in Kazakhstan, and the Large Aral Sea, which is found in both Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
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Tasmanian Devils Listed as Endangered in Australia
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May 22, 2009 - USA TODAY
| | Canberra, Australia -- The Tasmanian devil, a snarling fox-sized marsupial, was listed in Australia as an endangered species because of a contagious cancer that has wiped out most of the wild population. Devils do not exist in the wild outside Tasmania, although mainland zoos are breeding captive populations as a strategy against total extinction.
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