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Mitsubishi and Walmart agree to clean up fish sourcing practicesTwo big players in seafood today announced that they are changing the way their fish are caught. Mitsubishi, which owns the UK's most popular brand for tuna in a tin, Princes, and Walmart, which owns Asda, have agreed to stop buying from fishermen who use purse seines fishing in conjunction with fish aggregating devices (FADs) by 2014. |
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Costco Steps Up Sustainable Seafood PolicyIn a “stunning win for the oceans,” Costco recently stepped up its Sustainable Seafood policies. Improving on voluntary changes announced last August, Costco issued its Seafood and Sustainability Report agreeing to stop selling 12 red-listed varieties of fish. |
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Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte damA Brazilian judge has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns. |
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Islamic Leaders Preach Conservation in Sumatra, IndonesiaDo religious texts mandate respect for the earth and other species? Some Islamic leaders in Sumatra believe the Koran does. |
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Peru moves to shut down illegal gold miners in AmazonPeru has sent the security forces to destroy river dredgers used by illegal gold miners in the country's south-eastern Amazon region of Madre de Dios. |
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Obama pushes effort to protect public landsPresident Barack Obama called Wednesday for a series of steps to help Americans conserve and get in touch with nature, including full funding of the $900 million Land and Water Conservation Fund for only the third time in its existence. |
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Oyster Bed Restoration Among First Since Oil SpillVolunteers from across the country are rebuilding oyster reefs along the Gulf of Mexico's delicate shoreline, hoping to revive oyster beds under assault for decades from overharvesting, coastal development, pollution, and most recently the BP oil spill. |
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Plastic bag ban begins on Kauai and Maui, fee discussed for rest of stateIn Hawaii, Maui and Kauai County are the official forerunners in banning single use plastic bags that easily find their way into water streams, ocean currents and the stomachs of birds and fish. |
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Huge Coral Reefs Discovered off Puerto RicoA new discovery of thriving coral reefs off the coast of Puerto Rico may offer hope for other shallower reefs. |
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Past decade ‘best for UK rivers’The last decade has been the best for UK rivers since the Industrial Revolution, according to the Environment Agency. |
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UN to create panel of biodiversity expertsThe UN General Assembly agreed to form a panel of international experts on biodiversity in a resolution approved on Monday. |
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Canada set to declare Arctic marine sanctuary protected: officialsThe leading advocates of a new national marine park in Lancaster Sound — a wildlife-rich but controversial expanse of waters off the north coast of Baffin Island — say the Canadian government is poised to end doubts about the area’s future and officially declare it protected. |
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Indonesia declares protected zone to save coral reefsIndonesia on Sunday declared the coral-rich waters around Bali -- a popular scuba diving spot which is home to the giant Mola-Mola ocean sunfish -- a protected zone. |
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L.A. County passes sweeping ban on plastic bagsEnacting one of the nation's most aggressive environmental measures, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ban plastic grocery bags in unincorporated areas of the county. |
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Environmental news headlines
- California orders hike in number of super clean cars
- Fungi Discovered In The Amazon Will Eat Your Plastic
- Leatherback sea turtles granted massive protected area along U.S. west coast
- Swedish Cities Close to Building a Bicycle Superhighway
- Indonesia to conserve half of Borneo region
- Keystone oil sands pipeline rejected, for now
- Levi’s drops Asia Pulp & Paper due to its link to deforestation in Indonesia
- No rhinos poached in Nepal last year
- Singapore supermarket to stop selling shark fin
- European Carbon Regulation for Airlines Takes Off
- Saving the Amazon: Winning the war on deforestation
- The biggest new species discoveries in 2011
- Southern California whale census yields record number
- Electricity Sparks New Life Into Indonesia’s Coral Reefs
- US rolls out historic mercury limits for power plants
- 100,000 Signatures Overcome Coca-Cola in National Park Bottle-Ban Debate
- Solar’s Best Quarter Ever
- Mexico closes huge rubbish dump
- Victory! Facebook ‘friends’ renewable energy
- US Coal Plant Pollution Down
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