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Posted by on in Arts and Entertainment
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KTLA) -- A Santa Monica homeowner, who recently unveiled his giant "Oceans at Risk" art installation live on KTLA, is in hot water with the city. Several residents complained about the graffiti-style artwork, which is displayed on the side of Adam Corlin's 3-story home, locat...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
  Hawaiian monk seals in a marine protected area are heading towards extinction, while those in a nearby unprotected area are thriving, according to new research.   Listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN, the Hawaiian monk seal was persecuted in the past for its meat, hide and oi...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
When the Exxon Valdez was wrecked off the coast of Alaska in 1989, cleanup crews were able to recover only about 14 percent of the spilled oil. Twenty-one years later, when the Deepwater Horizon disaster spilled oil into the Gulf of Mexico, recovery efforts had improved shockingly little: Responders...
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Posted by on in Arts and Entertainment
  We discuss every day the idea that every man and woman should strive to be a caring person, and how the earth needs our love as much as our family or friends. So this month Earth Protect is holding us accountable to write a love letter to your planet. As long as love (and writing utensils)...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
  Any serious oil spill in the ice of the Arctic is likely to be an uncontrollable environmental disaster despoiling vast areas of the world's most untouched ecosystem, one of the world's leading polar scientists says.   Oil from an undersea leak will not only be very hard to deal wit...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
OTTAWA — The economic impact of climate change on Canada could climb to billions of dollars per year, according to a study published Thursday by a policy group that advises the Canadian government. The report "Paying the Price: The Economic Impacts of Climate Change for Canada" by the National Round...
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Posted by on in Fossil Fuels
  The Obama Administration approved the Keystone XL pipeline that is slated to carry tar sands from Alberta to Texas to be refined into various forms of fuel. There were also over 1000 protestors arrested during the days the protests took place. Among them was President Obama’s chief climatolo...
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Tagged in: air pollution alternative energy Climate Change energy security water pollution
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Posted by on in Fishing
The deep sea, the planet's biggest ecosystem, is in trouble, an international research team says, underling the need to stop commercial fishing in such waters and focus on productive waters instead. Presented in the journal Marine Policy, a comprehensive analysis reveals the unsustainability of deep...
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Posted by on in Fishing
Fishing restrictions near the coast lines have been in place for many years, of which many local fishermen are well aware. These restrictions are understood to be vital in maintaining a stable population of wild fish for harvesting.  In recent years, due to these restrictions, many industria...
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Posted by on in Air Quality
On Friday, September 2, 2011, the White House directed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to withdraw and reconsider a proposal to strengthen National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone, the primary ingredient in smog. The announcement marked the first time that the ...
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Posted by on in Clean Technology
Eastport, Maine Eastport is used to being on the fringe of things – the easternmost city in the United States, a remote outpost of Maine's poorest county, and one of the westernmost communities of the Bay of Fundy, home to the world's most dramatic tidal swings. But in recent years, this community...
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Posted by on in Ecotourism
  A recent article in the New York Times about the work Stanford University biology professor Gretchen Daily is doing in Africa and Costa Rica highlights the importance of ecosystem services, or putting a value on ecosystems. Daily co-founded the Natural Capitalism Project (NCP) in November 20...
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Tagged in: Eco Price Tag Ecosystem Services ecosystems WWF
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
The oil spills from offshore wells operated by ConocoPhillips in China's Bohai Bay are posing political and technical challenges for the oil company far messier than the crude and drilling mud seeping from the seabed.   The company said Monday that it had complied with a government order to s...
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
  On July 25th, Sea Shepherd reported the capture of a fishing vessel in what is the biggest case of shark killing in the history of the Galapagos National Park. We saw this as our opportunity to put almost two years of hard work in our legal project into practice and were preparing ourselve...
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Posted by on in Fossil Fuels
Campaigners disappointed as White House says 1,700-mile pipeline will not cause significant environmental damage The proposed pipeline will carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta (above) to the Texas coast. Photograph: Jeff McIntosh/AP   The Obama administration has given an impor...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
Bloomberg's Paul Allen reports on Hong Kong airport’s proposed HK$136 billion ($17 billion) third runway. The airport may need to reclaim about 650 hectares of land from the sea to build the runway. Groups including Civic Party lawmakers have opposed the plan on concern about its effect on marine wi...
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Posted by on in Environmental Heroes
Masao Kanamitsu, whose pioneering efforts transformed the ability of scientists to detect climate patterns over the course of decades, died of cancer Aug. 17 at his home in Del Mar, Calif. He was 67. The researcher known to friends and family simply as "Kana" was well known nationally and internat...
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Posted by on in Agriculture
If you could eat only one kind of food forevermore -- just one kind, all day every day -- what would it be?   For me, it would be cookies. When you've seen a lot of life and death, you start to wonder how you'd live if you could make the rules. You realize what you would reta...
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Posted by on in Agriculture
Waltham, Mass. – Harvest Power, a developer of technology for recycling waste materials into soils, fertilizers, energy, and engineered fuels, has raised $1.3 million in venture capital, according to a new filing by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Founded in 2008, Harvest P...
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Posted by on in Agriculture
by Morgan ClendanielIn this charming music video from Chipotle, Willie sings about going "back to the start" of American farming, before animals were pumped with antibiotics and kept in factories. A farmer, not content with his small family farm, starts to modernize. He turns his farm into a factor...
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