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Small Canadian Town Bans Shark FinsUsing the concept 'Think Global, Act Local,' Coquitlam council this week banned shark fins from being possessed, traded, sold and distributed in the city. |
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Rich to the rescueNew York City, New York, USA - These are exciting times in the traditionally quiet world of philanthropy, as a growing cadre of the newly wealthy promises to change the world - as well as the face of charitable giving. |
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Appalachian Trail an Environmental LabMorgantown, West Virginia, USA - The Appalachian Trail gives hikers a nearly 2,200-mile trek through mountains, meadows and forests stretching from Georgia to Maine. |
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Photo Gallery: Hawaii Survey Yields Many New SpeciesNorthwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument, Hawaii - With its conspicuous blue eyes and shiny orange claws, this colorful crab seems hard to miss. |
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Girl, 13, saves teacherKennet, Missouri, USA - Tiletia Copley must be a pretty good teacher - a quick lesson she conveyed while choking helped save her life. |
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City Approves Carbon Tax In Effort To Reduce Gas EmissionsBoulder, CO - Voters in this liberal college town have approved what environmentalists say may be the nations first "carbon tax" intended to reduce emissions of heat-trapping gases. |
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Patrols in Tanzanian Park Slash Poaching, Scientists SayPatrols in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park have cut poaching and increased the population of black rhinoceros, elephants and buffalo, a paper to be published on Friday in Science magazine shows. |
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Meals On Wheels puts pets on its delivery listFort Worth, Texas, USA - When 87-year-old Lucille Mann knits, her 2 1/2-pound dog, Pepper, curls up beside her or nuzzles in her lap. |
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Chevron and the City of Millbrae Turn Kitchen Grease Into Biogas to Power Wastewater Treatment PlantMillbrae, California, USA - Chevron Energy Solutions, a unit of Chevron Corporation, and the City of Millbrae today celebrated the completion of new facilities at Millbrae's Water Pollution Control Plant that use a common urban waste -- inedible kitchen grease from restaurants -- to naturally produce biogas for generating renewable power and heat to treat the city's wastewater. |
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WWF honours Chileans for coastal forest conservation
WWF has presented the Chilean timber company Masisa and the Mapu Lahual Indigenous Association with a “Leaders for a Living Planet” award in recognition of their conservation efforts to protect the coastal forests of the Valdivian Ecoregion.
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Serengeti patrols cut poaching of buffalo, elephants, rhinos
A technique used since the 1930s to estimate the abundance of fish has shown for the first time that enforcement patrols are effective at reducing poaching of elephants, African buffaloes and black rhinos in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.
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WWF radio collars elusive snow leopard in Pakistan
For the first time ever, scientists captured and radio collared a snow leopard in northern Pakistan, with the hope of learning more about this endangered cat species.
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Buyers threaten boycott of Mediterranean bluefin tuna
Responding to fears of an imminent collapse of bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean, major fish buyers in Japan and Europe are threatening a boycott unless drastic measures are taken to protect the threatened stock.
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Home-Bound Indonesia Orangutans Given VIP WelcomeForty eight orangutans rescued from a Thai amusement park were given a VIP reception on Wednesday hosted by Indonesia's first lady, Kristiani Yudhoyono, to mark the endangered apes return to home soil. |
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Smart drug bites into tooth decayDentists could soon be out of a job - a "smart bomb" antimicrobial drug that kills plaque bacteria could stop tooth decay in its tracks |
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‘Firecracker Galaxy’ Offers Double BlastAstronomers find two supernovae exploding just months apart in the same galaxy. |
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Peruvian Tombs Offer Wealth of ArtifactsAncient graves unearthed in Peru spill secrets of pre-Incan society. |
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