ANIMAL WELFARE: Wild horses may face death sentence

ANTARCTIC MELTING: At Antarctic Peninsula, Fast Change

BIODIVERSITY: Bat bonanza: 100+ species found in 5 acres of jungle

CARBON: McCain flips flops on flip flop re: CA CO2, The world’s wetlands, threatened by development, dehydration and climate change, could release a planet-warming “carbon bomb” if they are destroyed…

CARPOOLING: It’s time to start thinking in terms of PMPG, people-Miles-per-gallon

CLIMATE CHANGE: Glacier tunnel collapses, Yellowstone geysers may stop erupting, study suggests, Some European grasslands may resist warming, Rare Argentina winter ice break

CORALS: Coral-wrecking starfish curbed by fishing regs, Tainted African dust clouds harm U.S., Caribbean reefs, A third of reef-building corals at risk of extinction

CONSERVATION: McCain turns back on Grand Canyon: GOP hopeful talks like Teddy Roosevelt but doesn’t act like him, Fatal attack on conservationists’ truck in gorilla park

DEVIL FACIAL TUMOUR DISEASE (DFTD): Cancer causing Tasmanian devils to breed younger

ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT: N. Rockies wolves get federal protection restored

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: Stanford Environmental Law Clinic announces Ninth Circuit upholds case requiring U.S. EPA to regulate invasive species pollution, 9th Circuit Court tells EPA to close loophole for ballast water

EVOLUTION: Bug-eyed flatfish evolution revealed

FISHERIES: Mexican resorts destroying mangroves, dooming fisheries

FUEL ECONOMY: Smart ForTwo MHD stop-start system is claimed to reduce petrol consumption by eight per cent

GIANT SQUID: Giant squid dissected in public

GREEN CONSTRUCTION: 7,000 square foot home has zero carbon footprint

HUMAN-WILDLIFE CONFLICT: Planes, machinery and car traffic are so noisy now in many cities that some birds must tweet louder and alter their songs in an attempt to be heard over the near-deafening urban din, new research has determined…., Badgers, rabbits undermine England’s ancient monuments

HYBRID TECHNOLOGY: Honda’s hybrid-only Prius fighter!, Nissan, GM and Ford agree to build hybrid taxis for New York City

MINING: MSHA: Poor engineering left Crandall mine primed for killer collapse

NATURE: 8 Natural wonders added to UN heritage list

NEW SPECIES: Mystery bug invader stumps museum experts

NUCLEAR POWER: A renegade against Greenpeace: Why he says they’re wrong to view nuclear energy as ‘evil’

NUCLEAR WEAPONS: Pentagon: Over 1000 nuclear weapon parts missing?

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: Discounts help bus travel thrive in some cities

SCIENCE: Yellow submarine probes undersea world, New maps to help tap ocean winds, Magnets can deter sharks: research, Northern lights mystery exposed by scientists

SYNGAS: Ottawa building North America’s first gasification facility

WIND POWER: Whales, dolphins inspire wind turbine tech

AIR POLLUTION: Beijing begins massive shutdown to curb pollution before Olympics

ANTARCTIC MELTING: Ice adrift from warming scrapes Antarctic seabed bare, Ice shelf hanging by a thread, More icebergs scouring Antarctica’s seabed

ARCTIC COOLING: Distant wildfires cause Arctic cooling

ASSISTED COLONIZATION; ASSISTED MIGRATION: Should we relocate species threatened by climate change?, Move species threatened by warming, scientists advise, Moving species to save them: Pros and cons

BIODIESEL: China builds tung tree oil biodiesel plants

CARBON SEQUESTERING: EPA drafts rule for carbon sequestration, Amazon river powers Atlantic carbon sink

CLIMATE CHANGE: White House buries climate change deaths report

DESERTIFICATION: Sand swallowing Chinese city

DEVIL FACIAL TUMOUR DISEASE (DFTD): “Teen sex” rising for cancer-affected Tasmanian devils

ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT: Judge orders federal wolf protections restored: Decision likely ends planned wolf hunt for this fall, Living with wolves Q&A: No hunting season for wolves, but poachers likely, Gray wolves regain endangered-species protections: A Montana judge sides with environmentalists who had challenged the species’ delisting

ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP: Green countries: A global report card on nations doing the most, and least, to clean up the environment

EVOLUTION: Noisy fish reveal evolution of vocalizing

GREEN ADVERTISEMENT: Cooling off on dubious eco-friendly claims

GREEN CONSTRUCTION: Vast cities that float on the seas are to transform how we live, real-life Atlantises that will allow humankind to prosper once existing coastlines fall to the ravages of global warming, XERITOWN: New sustainable urban complex for Dubailand

HYDROGEN FUEL: Researchers generate hydrogen without the carbon footprint

INVASIVE SPECIES: Tiny bug threatens to take down U.S. citrus crops

MARINE CONSERVATION: Vibrant new reefs found off Brazil

NATURE: Leopard attacks and kills crocodile (PHOTOS, VIDEO), Weirdest animals and creatures in the world post, “Annoying” bird mimics sirens, Bees enlisted to attack crows in Tokyo, Nature’s own nano gold found

NEW SPECIES: Has a new species of insect appeared in the middle of London?

OFFSHORE DRILLING: The three biggest myths the Bush Administration wants you to believe about offshore drilling

REEL BIG FISH: “Monster” lake’s rare giants lure anglers, biologists

RECYCLING: Jets mined for parts, homes

RED TIDE: Red tide kills Mexico fish

SOLAR: Florida gives green light to largest solar power plant in U.S.

SUSTAINABILITY: Amazing Stat: California uses more gas than China

TIDAL POWER: East coast getting tidal energy projects , World’s first commercial-scale tidal power turbine begins feeding electricity to the grid: SeaGen more than four times the size of next largest tidal turbine

UPWARD MIGRATION: Stinging wasps moving north due to warming?

VERTICAL FARMING: Country, the city version: Farms in the sky gain new interest

WATER AVAILABILITY: The water shortage myth, Bottled water wars

WAVE POWER: Wave-powered boat makes it from Japan to Hawaii

WIND POWER: First U.S. town powered completely by wind

What are we doing to these poor animals? What are we doing to our environment? Our own health? From National Geographic News:

DFTD forms disfiguring tumors on the animals’ faces and necks that cause them to die from starvation within about six months of showing symptoms.

The scientists found “high” levels of hexabromobiphenyl ether and “reasonably high” levels of decabromobiphenyl ether—chemicals used to treat electronics, textiles, and furniture.

Very high concentrations of such chemicals have been shown to cause cancer in lab mice, although no definitive evidence exists that the substances cause cancer in humans.

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