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Wildlife casualties of floods grow amid fears over 'polluted' wetlands

2014-02-23 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Seals, moles, hedgehogs, badgers, mice, earthworms and a host of insects and seabirds are among the unseen casualties of the floods, storms and torrential rains of the last few weeks, say wildlife groups. As the waters started to subside across England, conservationists reported that about 600 guillemots, puffins, razorbills, kittiwakes and gulls have been washed up on the south coast and 250 seals drowned in Norfolk, Cornwall and the Channel Islands. A further 11,000 seabirds are reported to...

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New Maps Pinpointing Wind Turbines Will Help Track Effects on Wildlife

2014-02-17 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: USGS Locations of wind turbines in the U.S. More than 47,000 wind turbines dot the U.S. landscape, predominantly clustered in the Midwest and Great Plains, as a new interactive tool developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) shows. The maps -- the first publicly-available, nationwide data set for wind energy generation -- show the locations of every turbine in the U.S., from large wind farms to single turbines, and are accurate to within 10 meters. The maps are part of the USGS's effort to assess...

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World Wildlife Fund Launches Bioplastic Feedstock Alliance\n

2014-02-07 06:00:00| Happi Breaking News

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Indigenous People & Their Interface With Wildlife: An Interview With Dr. Michael Hutchins

2014-01-11 17:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: The following interview is my 12th in a series with my esteemed colleague Dr. Michael Hutchins. Michael recently joined the American Bird Conservancy, as the organizations National Bird Smart Wind Campaign Coordinator. The distinguished ecologist has agreed to answer my questions about indigenous knowledge and the impact of such informational resources on the management of wildlife populations. Jordan: In many cases, the large scale hunting of megafauna by indigenous peoples has been implicated...

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