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USDA partnership improving sage-grouse habitat, grazing lands
2015-02-15 22:46:00| Beef
Beef Producer USDA announces expanded four-year agreement to advance more sage-grouse habitat improvements. read more
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Poor Pikas Losing Their California Habitat to Climate Change
2015-02-03 20:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: American pikas, a pint-sized rabbit relative, are quickly losing their California mountain habitat to climate change, according to new research. These cute creatures have demonstrated their incredible resilience in the face of danger, but even pikas may not be able to adapt to our increasingly warming world. As temperatures rise, pikas are abandoning their low-elevation habitat and moving to higher ground to escape the heat. Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz surveyed 67...
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Obama Will Move to Protect Vast Arctic Habitat in Alaska
2015-01-25 19:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: President Obama will ask Congress to increase environmental protections for millions of acres of pristine animal habitat in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, in a move that has already led to fierce opposition from the states Republican lawmakers. The White House announced Sunday that Mr. Obama would ask Congress to designate 12 million of the refuges 19 million acres as wilderness. The wilderness designation is the strongest level of federal protection afforded to public lands, and...
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Endangered chimp habitat under threat from climate change
2015-01-22 21:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Climate change could make life more difficult for the worlds rarest chimpanzee subspecies, reported a team of scientists in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology on Tuesday. The range of the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti) spans the border of its namesake countries, and it inhabits mountain rainforests as well as the transition zone between the forest and the savanna what scientists call an ecotone. About half of the 6,000 remaining Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees live in...
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Carbon-Offset Project Protects 4,000+ Acres Of Southern Coastal Habitat
2015-01-16 04:39:54| pollutiononline Home Page
Green Assets, Inc.,a leading forest carbon offset developer, has been awarded carbon offset credits for its forest conservation project of more than 4,400 acres of land owned and managed by world-renownedBrookgreen GardensinSouth Carolina
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