Category — Endangered Species
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Organization Profile, Featuring: After Downing Street
After Downing Street is a nonpartisan coalition working to expose the lies that create and sustain wars and occupations and to hold accountable those responsible. Continue reading
Obama Protects Arctic Ocean Environment
As Alaskan waters warm and sea ice melts, fishers and scientists are seeing fish populations shift north and with that comes the threat of more commercial fishing. The Obama administration approved a plan to protect an area five times larger than all national parks combined. Continue reading
Pollution Kills Wetlands and Coral Reefs
We all know our oceans are in trouble, but that trouble is coming on faster than some feared. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will reach 450 parts per million by the year 2050. As a result, this predicted pace will soon wipe out all coral reefs in existence. Continue reading
Destroying the Oceans: Mankind’s Slow-Motion Shipwreck
90% of the ocean’s big fish are gone. Worldwide seafood production skyrocketed then plummeted. 1950 – 19 million tons – 15.4 pounds per person. 1990 – 37 million tons – 37.4 pounds per person. Continue reading
Global Bird Populations Face Dramatic Decline
10% of all bird species are likely to disappear by the year 2100, and another 15% could be on the brink of extinction, according to a new study by Stanford University biologists. Continue reading
Birds Buffer Against Virus
North American scientists studying West Nile Virus have shown that more diverse bird populations can help to buffer people against infection. Continue reading
Biodiversity Diminishes Disease
Environment: Why care about red squirrels, tundra, blue beetles or little bluestem grasses? Three reasons, which boil down to self-interest. Continue reading
Promote Biodiversity – Prevent Pandemics
Diseases are evolving into strains that are far more dangerous and difficult to treat…New strains of tuberculosis, staff and e-coli resist our most powerful antibiotics – subjecting their victims to horrible deaths. Continue reading
U.S. EPA announces Palos Verdes Shelf proposed environmental protection plan
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will host public meetings and accept public comments on its proposed Preferred Alternative plan that addresses the risks to human health and the environment at the Palos Verdes Shelf, located near Los Angeles, Calif. Continue reading
