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Parasites help brine shrimp cope with arsenic habitat contamination
2016-03-03 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Artemia (the scientific name of the small crustacean that is also commonly known as 'sea monkey') is famous for being able to live in extreme environments and has become a model organism used to test the toxicity of chemicals in water. In addition, Artemia can produce dormant eggs, known as cysts, that can be stored for long periods and hatched on demand to provide a convenient form of live feed for the seafood industry, and 2000 tonnes of Artemia cysts per year are sold worldwide. Marta Sánchez...
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Australia: Coalmines could wipe out threatened black-throated finch habitat study
2016-03-03 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Proposed coalmines in Queensland, including the huge Adani Carmichael project, would destroy the majority of the remaining habitat of the threatened black-throated finch, according to research. Compensating for the loss of habitat which Adani has been given federal government approval to do with biodiversity offsetting was not possible since the best remaining habitat would be impacted by the Carmichael mine, the study by researchers at James Cook University in Townsville found. In addition,...
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Habitat for Humanity welcomes 5 families to new Baltimore homes
2016-02-28 04:47:53| Paper - Topix.net
Tiara Walkins, 27, cuts a ribbon on her new home Saturday. The house on St. Clair Crossing in Northeast Baltimore is one of five recently completed homes by Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake.
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Network Rail volunteers help create new habitat for Duke of Burgundy butterfly
2016-02-26 01:00:00| Railway Technology
UK rail infrastructure manager Network Rail (NR) has announced that a team of its orange army has created a new habitat for the rare Duke of Burgundy butterfly.
Australia: Court rules Shenhua may destroy koala habitat for huge coalmine
2016-02-19 00:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The proposed $1.2bn Shenhua coalmine in New South Wales has been given the go-ahead to destroy the habitat of 262 koalas, which will be moved to another location if the mine goes ahead. The decision was handed down by the NSW land and environment court on Friday in a case brought by local environment group Upper Mooki Landcare against Shenhua Watermark Coal and the NSW Minister for Planning. The environmentalists argued the Planning Assessment Commission failed to assess whether the population...
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