The European Union may ban imports of dog and cat fur used in fluffy toys, especially from Asian countries where producers are accused of maltreating the animals, the EU consumer protection chief said.
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Financial penalties on illegal fishing are insufficient, the European Commission has said, calling on member states to punish those who break the rules by depriving them of their fishing rights.
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Work will start this year on Britain's first major power station fuelled by grass, a newspaper reported on Monday as Prime Minister Tony Blair tries to make his country more environmentally friendly.
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Will technological advances, fuel costs and environmental concerns bring back commercial sailing for cargo ships?
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A federal judge on Thursday rejected the Bush administration's plan to balance the operations of the Columbia River's hydroelectric dam system with the federal government's responsibility to protect and restored imperiled salmon. U.S. District Court Judge James Redden said the $6 billion plan violates federal law, fails to protect salmon and must be rewritten.
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Our children and grandchildren will call the cars we drive today antiques," Energy Secretary Sanuel Bodman said Thursday while announcing a public-private partnership between the Department of Energy (DOE), industry and academia aimed at improving the efficiency of cars and trucks through advances in technology.
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A group of Britain's leading industrialists has written to the prime minister urgently demanding long-term policies to combat climate change.
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Two artificially inseminated Mexican gray wolves recently birthed a combined eight living pups at a research site founded by late naturalist Marlin Perkins, marking perhaps the first time the non-surgical technique has worked with endangered wolves.
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EPA's 2003 Toxics Release Inventory, released today, shows that the amount of toxic chemicals released into the environment by reporting facilities continues to decline, with total reductions of 42% since 1998 and a 6% decrease from 2002 to 2003.
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Don Lloyd stepped up a ladder and dipped his empty bottle into a tank of water that six hours earlier had been flushed out of three nearby pens filled with thousands of hogs.
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Indian authorities plan to build a home for "old and sick" Royal Bengal tigers in their natural habitat in the Sundarbans mangrove forests in the Bay of Bengal, an official said Sunday.
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Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority said Sunday they had agreed terms for a feasibility study on transferring water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea, to save the world's lowest sea from vanishing.
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Scientists have found a new species of monkey that live in Tanzania's highland forest at elevations of up to 2,400 meters, said a report carried in the US journal of Science to be published Friday.
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The nation's largest animal protection organization is applauding the House of Representatives for voting Thursday to restore the ban on the commercial sale and slaughter of wild free-roaming horses and burros that was lifted in the closing days of the last Congressional session after 34 years in force.
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