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Keystone XL Pipeline: 4 Animals and 3 Habitats in Its Path
2014-02-14 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Climate change has been the focus of much of the opposition to TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline. But many conservationists are also concerned about more immediate environmental consequences. They're worried about the pipeline construction's impact on wildlife and ecosystems, and of possible spills of the heavy crude oil that will flow through the pipeline at the rate of 830,000 barrels a day. (See related: "Interactive: Mapping the Flow of Tar Sands Oil.") Some people, seeing a map of the...
Idaho's 'Ag-Gag' Law Latest to Criminalize Defenders of Animals
2014-02-14 00:45:17| Agriculture - Topix.net
Activists with Mercy for Animals protest an 'Ag-Gag' bill in Tennessee in this file photo.
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In The News: PETA Targets Kids & Abuses Animals
2014-02-10 21:39:31| Beef
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) group is sure hard to take seriously -- what with their nude stunts on street corners and outlandish statements made just to earn some sensational headlines in the media. But the group has fallen to a new low with its most recent activity. BEEF Daily read more
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Producers Urged to Recapture the Dignity of Raising Animals
2014-02-10 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - Activists are using religion and children as two powerful tools to wage war against the livestock industry, and producers and their industry need to recapture the moral high ground in raising livestock, says Dr Nelson Kloosterman.
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Fur and Feathers Keep Animals Warm by Scattering Light
2014-01-23 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
In work that has major implications for improving performance of building insulation, scientists at the University of Namur in Belgium and the University of Hassan I in Morocco have calculated that hairs that reflect IR light may contribute insulating power to exceptionally warm winter coats of polar bears and other animals. Paper titled "Radiative contribution to the thermal conductance in animal furs and other wooly insulators," was published in OSA's Optics Express open-access journal. This story is related to the following:Trade Associations
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