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Rich Nations Accused of Green Imperialism on Climate Change
Rich countries are being hypocritical in criticizing China's greenhouse gas emissions while using the country's cheap labor in industries that pollute, Asian business and government leaders said Monday.

Ecuador Wants Habitat on Endangered List
Ecuador says tourism is threatening the Galapagos Islands and has asked UNESCO to add the habitat that inspired the theory of evolution to its endangered list, the culture agency said Friday.

EPA Proposes Tougher Smog Standards
Pollution standards are too weak to protect people from the air they breathe, the EPA's chief declared Thursday. He recommended tougher limits on the smog that makes children cough and asthmatics wheeze from Los Angeles to Houston to New York.

U.S. Climate Law May Linger Intil Next President
Global warming is the focus of at least seven bills on Capitol Hill, but whether any of them will become law before President Bush leaves office in 2009 is a matter of keen debate.

Captive Indian Crocodiles Turn Protectors
Dozens of crocodiles bred in captivity in eastern India have been enlisted to protect their endangered counterparts in the wild and are being released in forests to scare away poachers, authorities said on Monday.

Shark Bite Leads to Reproduction Mystery
A recent study had documented the first confirmed case of asexual reproduction, or parthenogenesis, among sharks: a pup born at a Nebraska zoo came from an egg that developed in a female shark without sperm from a male.

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Bald Eagle Population Exceeds 11,000 Pairs in 2007
By: the Center for Biological Diversity
The Center for Biological Diversity released a report today showing the bald eagle population in the lower 48 states and the District of Columbia is 11,040 pairs in 2007. This is a nearly 1,300-pair increase from the 2006 estimate of 9,789 pairs. Just 417 pairs remained in 1963.

Timucuan Preserve's Fanning Island Protected
By: the Trust for the Public Land
The Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit land conservation organization, announced today that it has acquired for conservation a 25-acre site on Fanning Island in the Timucuan National Ecological and Historic Preserve. The property, which was purchased from Fanning Island Partners, LLC, will become part of the Timucuan Trail State and National Parks-a unique cooperative partnership between the City of Jacksonville, the State of Florida, and the National Park Service. The Timucuan parks include some of the last unspoiled coastal wetlands on the Atlantic Coast and preserve the area's rich historic and prehistoric sites.

Multidisciplinary Teams Tackle Climate Change with Innovative Plans for Healthy, Sustainable Communities
By: Royal Institute of British Architects - USA
At a symposium at the A + D Museum (Architecture Plus Design Museum) in Los Angeles on June 8 through 10, four winning teams were selected from among twelve finalists who presented proposals as part of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) – USA California chapter's competition, Building A Sustainable World: Life in the Balance. The competition, sponsored by Autodesk, Inc. attracted 65 registrations from 18 different countries, encompassing over 200 participants, either as individuals or in multi-disciplinary teams. It challenged participants to develop concepts for healthy, vibrant communities designed to address climate change and reverse, rather than add to, environmental damage.

Protection Sought for Desert Fish
By: the Center for Biological Diversity
The Center for Biological Diversity, Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation, Great Basin Chapter of Trout Unlimited, and Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club filed a petition today to protect the least chub, a rare fish species found only in Utah, as a threatened or endangered species under the federal Endangered Species Act. The least chub has been reduced to just six fragile wild populations, three of which occur in the Snake Valley, where planned pumping of water for runaway growth in Las Vegas is a serious threat to the tiny fish's survival. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has 12 months to determine whether protection is warranted.

Agreement Would Protect Point Judith Park
By: the Trust for the Public Land
The Trust for Public Land (TPL), a national nonprofit conservation organization, announced today that it has signed an option agreement to purchase 5 acres near the southernmost tip of Point Judith. The property, popularly known as the Rose Nulman Park, had long been owned by Saul Nulman, who died this March. Nulman had a longstanding policy of public access to the property's picnic areas, parking, and oceanfront views, and it was his wish that the land become a permanent public park.

International Conference on Hawks and Other Raptors to be Held in Pennsylvania in September
By: the Hawk Migration Association of North America
Where will raptor enthusiasts and professionals be this September? Several hundred from all across North America will flock to Fogelsville, Pennsylvania, from September 12-16, 2007. The joint national meeting of the Hawk Migration Association of North America and the Raptor Research Foundation will be hosted by the hemisphere's first sanctuary for birds of prey, the famed Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, based near in east central Pennsylvania near Kempton.

New Atlantic Salmon Conservation Agreement
By: the Atlantic Salmon Federation
A new Greenland Conservation Agreement will suspend commercial salmon fisheries in Greenland's territorial waters for seven years, beginning with the 2007 season. The fishermen of Greenland have agreed to continue a moratorium which began in 2002 under an earlier agreement. The moratorium has already saved thousands of wild Atlantic salmon that originate in rivers of North America and Southern Europe, migrate to feeding grounds off West Greenland and then return to their home rivers to spawn.

Conservationists Request Stronger Plan for Grizzly Bear Recovery
By: the Center for Biological Diversity
Yesterday the Center for Biological Diversity submitted comments to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service requesting a revision of the 1993 Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan. The comments ask the Service to adopt a more rigorous scientific approach to conserving the species throughout broad areas of its historic range.

Collier Construction Enlists Coptix to Build Online Differentiation
By: Coptix, Inc.
Collier Construction is on a mission to let Chattanooga know what differentiates its services from those of other residential and commercial builders in the city. Collier Construction's main point of differentiation is its commitment to value, longevity, and green building. Collier enlisted Chattanooga's leading integrated design firm, Coptix, Inc. to spread the good news.

Protection Sought for Dusky Tree Vole in Oregon's Tillamook : Study Finds 215 At-Risk Species
By: the Center for Biological Diversity
The Center for Biological Diversity, Oregon Chapter of the Sierra Club, Portland Audubon, Cascadia Wildlands Project, and Oregon Wild petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect the dusky tree vole as a threatened or endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. The Center also released an extensive report identifying all known species of concern in the Tillamook Rainforest and North Coast, including a total of 215 species, many of which are critically imperiled.

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