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Parks, Not Pipelines! | NPCA's Park Advocate | News and views of the National Parks Conservation Association
Energy infrastructure proposals are popping up like weeds in our parks, and the potential harm is serious. Heavy machinery and development from construction causes erosion of hillsides and the heavy sedimentation of stream beds, damaging spawning habitat for species like the endangered Atlantic sturgeon of the James River. Changes in the landscape can cause a loss of biodiversity and an influx of invasive species.
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Concern over Scottish marine protected areas
Fishermen's leaders warn the creation of Marine Protected Areas around Scotland's coast could result in a modern-day "clearance" that would devastate small fishing communities. Environmentalists have described the claims as "exaggerated".
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Two Australian reptiles kick up a skink over coal mining
The two endangered reptiles blocking construction of a giant coal mine are not the first Australian animals to cause developers grief.
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Fast-growing fish species face greatest collapse risk
A study of global fish populations suggests fast-growth fish species are more vulnerable to population collapses than previously thought.
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River of waste: EPA accidentally causes wastewater disaster in Animas River
Colorado's river disaster is another reminder of the dangers of human error. Southwest Colorado's Animas River is closed to the public after a toxic spill from an old gold mine transformed the river into an orange mess of sludge on Aug. 6.
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Patient told Dr. Walter Palmer's office plans to reopen in September
A patient tells Fox 9 that they were told River Bluff Dental is planning to reopen by mid-September, and they are hopeful that Dr. Walter Palmer will return to work. A message left with River Bluff...
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Public Review and Comment Sought on Proposal to Control Exotic Species in Kelly Warm Spring - Grand Teton National Park
This spring has been a target for illegal dumping of aquarium fish since the 1940s. A number of tropical and warm water aquatic species that are harmful to native fish, and capable of surviving a range of water temperatures, persist in both the spring and its outflow areas of Savage Ditch and Ditch Creek.
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Government Documents Reveal That Killing Cormorants Won't Help Columbia River Salmon
Conservation groups today called for an investigation after agency documents, released last week under court order, showed that killing double-crested cormorants will not benefit salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River Basin. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s own biologists found that fish not eaten by cormorants would be eaten by other predators, but nevertheless authorized the killing of more than 10,000 double-crested cormorants
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The Great Boot Debate: Is it time for Louisiana to change its map?
Given the amount of land loss along the coast, some believe Louisiana's iconic boot-shaped map is due for a makeover.
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$140M in Conservation Work Proposed for Gulf of Mexico
Ten watersheds around the rim of the Gulf of Mexico — from Florida to Texas — are being looked at as sites for $140 million in proposed conservation projects under a plan to restore the Gulf from BP's catastrophic 2010 oil spill. On Thursday the Gulf Coast Restoration Council, a body set up...
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Clark County fish activist to receive top award
For more than a decade, Dave Brown has quietly helped boost wild fish populations locally with little more than his own determination and a small army of volunteers.
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The World's Most Trafficked Mammal Is One You May Never Have Heard Of
The pangolin, a shy, scaly animal resembling an anteater, is being hunted into extinction, conservationists say. New efforts are underway to protect this exotic creature.
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Walter Palmer's Dental Office Reopens After Cecil the Lion Killing
The office has started seeing patients again, but Palmer is absent
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Humans are 'unique super-predator'
Humans' status as a unique super-predator is laid bare in a new study published in Science magazine. The analysis of global data details the ruthlessness of our hunting practices and the impacts we have on prey. It shows how humans typically take out adult fish populations at 14 times the rate that marine animals do themselves. And on land, we kill top carnivores, such as bears, wolves and lions, at nine times their own self-predation rate.
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This Week at Interior August 21, 2015
Published on Aug 21, 2015 This Week: Secretary Jewell mourns three U.S. Forest Service firefighters who died fighting a wildland fire near Twisp, Washington; for the first time since 2006 active duty military personnel are being mobilized to fight western wildfires; Interior releases its National Seed Strategy to help landscapes and habitats
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Protect America's Coral Reefs from Irresponsible Development! - National Parks Conservation Association
Developers are looking to construct a mega-yacht marina in Coral Bay on St. John, US Virgin Islands, which is surrounded by the lands and waters of Virgin Islands National Park and Coral Reef National Monument.
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The forests of the world are in serious trouble, scientists report
By threatening the world's forests, humans ultimately harm themselves.
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Too Wild to Drill: Help protect these six amazing places from oil and gas development
New report spotlights the wildest lands that are most at risk of being exploited for the resources that lie beneath them. These lands are Too Wild to Drill.
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Boaters mapping Pacific garbage to arrive in San Francisco
Scientists and volunteers who have spent the last month gathering data on how much plastic garbage is floating in the Pacific Ocean will return to San Francisco and share preliminary findings.
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Activists Take to the Sea to Help Stop Future Oil Spills
Activists in Santa Barbara, California took to the sea to take a stand against offshore oil drilling.
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