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Antarctica Study Challenges Warming Skeptics
 msnbc.com
Challenging warming skeptics who note that parts of Antarctica have gotten colder, researchers on Wednesday reported that overall the continent has gotten warmer since the 1950s, and that even those colder spots would be warmer were it not for the ozone hole.
Federal Government Promotes Development without Damaging the Environment: President Calderón
 Presidencia de la República
During his inauguration of the Mexican Ecological Parks Wind Energy Station, in the Ejido de la Ventosa, in the Municipality of Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, which will generate electricity by using the wind, President Felipe Calderón declared that it is possible to respect the environment while making people prosperous.
 Antarctic Ice Shelf Set to Collapse Due to Warming
 Alister Doyle
A huge Antarctic ice shelf is on the brink of collapse with just a sliver of ice holding it in place, the latest victim of global warming that is altering maps of the frozen continent.
Second Annual Turtle Love Brunch Benefit
 Cristy Holden
You can help the residents of Playas Punta Negra, Careyero, Malinal and Litibu protect nesting turtles and their eggs from encroaching development and black market egg thieves at the 2nd Annual Turtle Love Brunch Benefit on Sunday, February 15th.
Rare Mexican Bird Visits US for 1st Time
 Michelle Roberts
Birders with binoculars and cameras are flocking to a remote state park in search of a small yellow-chested bird that apparently crossed the U.S. border for the first time from its high-mountain habitat to the south.
Revealed: The Environmental Impact of Google Searches
 Times Online
Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea, according to new research.
Think Pink: Galapagos' Rosy Lizard is New Species
 Jeanneth Valdivieso
Scientists have documented a new species, the iguana "rosada," (pink in Spanish), which may be one of the archipelago's oldest, according to research published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Pelicans Fall Out of Sky Along West Coast
 Pat Brennan
Pelicans suffering from a mysterious malady are crashing into cars and boats, wandering along roadways and turning up dead by the hundreds across the West Coast, from southern Oregon to Baja California, Mexico, bird-rescue workers say.
Mexico Establishes Eight New Nature Reserves
 Presidencia de la República
Environment and Natural Resource Secretary Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada declared that the decree establishing eight new Nature Reserves, has enabled Federal Government to meet 37% of its goal for this administration.
Californians Shape Up as Force on Environmental Policy
 Lyndsey Layton
California Democrats will assume pivotal roles in the new Congress and White House, giving the state an outsize influence over federal policy and increasing the likelihood that its culture of activist regulation will be imported to Washington.
Mexico Works to Protect Endangered Sea of Cortez Porpoise
 Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources
During the first two years of government, President Felipe Calderón's administration assigned over $174 million pesos to promote actions to protect the vaquita porpoise, $157 million of which were allocated to conservation and technological and productive reconversion, and $25 million to actions to preserve biodiversity in the Vaquita Sanctuary.
Once World's Smoggiest, Mexico City Cuts Pollution
 Times of India
Not long ago, air in this throbbing capital was so bad that cyclists wore surgical masks. Birds fell dead in mid-flight, and children used brown crayons to draw the sky. Ozone exceeded safe levels on 97 percent of days in the year.
Mexico Legislating on Plastic Bags
 Prensa Latina
The Legislative Assembly of the Federal District of Mexico studies a reformation proposal to the law on solid residuals of the Mexican capital to avoid the damages that plastic bags cause to the environment.
Amazon Unsafe 20 Years After Crusader's Killing
 Bradley Brooks
The shotgun blast that tore through the chest of Chico Mendes made the Brazilian rubber tapper an environmental icon and his fight to save the Amazon a global crusade. But the battle against clear-cutting in remote jungles hasn't gotten any safer in the 20 years since two gunmen hid in Mendes' backyard and patiently awaited their target.
Will Environmental Justice Finally Get Its Due?
 Brentin Mock
Obama's environment, energy, and urban affairs appointees are poised to enact policies that environmental justice activists have long been pushing for.
EPA Veils Hazardous Substances
 Journal Sentinel
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency routinely allows companies to keep new information about their chemicals secret, including compounds that have been shown to cause cancer and respiratory problems, the Journal Sentinel has found.
Abrupt Climate Shifts May Come Sooner, Not Later
 Earth Institute
The United States could suffer the effects of abrupt climate changes within decades - sooner than some previously thought - says a new government report.
 Nayarit Turtle Fest - Education in Action
 Cristy Holden
Punta de Mita, Emiliano Zapata, Higuera Blanca, and La Cruz de Huanacaxtle school children recently learned all about the ecology of the turtles on our beaches while participating in a Turtle Fest in the village of Emiliano Zapata.
Climate Change Crisis: An Entire Nation Being Washed Away
 PBS/NOW
For many island nations like Kiribati and Niue in the South Pacific, climate change is already more than just a theory - it is a pressing, menacing reality.
New Online Report on Massive Jellyfish Swarms Released
 Lily Whiteman
Massive swarms of stinging jellyfish and jellyfish-like animals are transforming many world-class fisheries and tourist destinations into veritable jellytoriums that are intermittently jammed with pulsating, gelatinous creatures.
Climate Change: Latin America Could Show the Way
 Ramesh Jaura
The World Bank has urged the international community to look to Latin America, the world's most bio-diverse region, for innovative solutions to avert a climate crisis.
Year's Biggest Full Moon Lights Up Sky
 Space.com
The full moon tonight will be the biggest one of the year as Earth's natural satellite reaches its closest point to our planet.
Mexico Pledges Greenhouse Gas Cuts
 Vanessa Gera
Mexico announced a plan Thursday to halve greenhouse gas emissions from 2002 levels by 2050, making it one of the few developing countries to set a specific reductions target.
Greenpeace Bids to Turn Japan Against Whaling
 Isabel Reynolds
Greenpeace launched a campaign to turn Japan against whaling on Tuesday, with directors of the group from around the world delivering a letter to Prime Minister Taro Aso, urging him to halt the hunts.
UN: Climate Talks to Fail Without Tough CO2 Goals
 Alister Doyle & Anna Mudeva
e United States and other rich nations must pledge by the end of next year specific targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 to win agreement on a U.N. climate pact, the UN's top climate official said on Tuesday.
Earth Hour Participation Could Reach One Billion in WWF's Call to Action on Climate Change
 WWF-Canada
Launched today against the backdrop of United Nations climate negotiations in Poland, Earth Hour 2009 aims for one-sixth of the world's population to participate in its global lights-out event next March.
Pollution Causing Feminization of Males Across Multiple Species
 Geoffrey Lean
The male gender is in danger, with incalculable consequences for both humans and wildlife, startling scientific research from around the world reveals.
Earth Needs Asteroid Shield, UN Told
 London Telegraph
An international network must be established to search the skies for asteroids on a collision course with Earth, they warned. The system would also need to be responsible for deploying spacecraft that could destroy or deflect incoming objects.
Mexico Planting Own 'Green Wall' Along Border
 Jeremy Schwartz
On the U.S. side of the river, in Del Rio, plans are moving ahead for a controversial security wall that will eventually stretch across 670 miles of the southwest border. But on the Mexican side, authorities have begun work on an entirely different kind of wall: a so-called green wall - a line of trees to serve as protest and boost environmental awareness.
Climate History May Explain Empires' Fall
 Andrew Stern
An analysis of rings on a stalagmite from a cave near Jerusalem reveals a drier climate in the region at a time in history when the Roman and Byzantine empires were in decline, scientists reported on Thursday.
Birds Of A Feather Flock Together To Riviera Nayarit in Mexico
 TravelVideo.tv
In Riviera Nayarit, nature runs wild. Along with an abundant variety of wildlife, this new destination stretched along the Pacific coast of Mexico is also home, once a year, to an impressive 80% of the Pacific migratory shore bird population.
Health - A Victim of Climate Change
 Diego Cevallos
More malaria, diarrhea, and asthma: these diseases are on the rise around the world because of environmental destruction and kill some three million children under five and two million adults a year.
EPA, Interior Dept. Chiefs Will Be Busy Erasing Bush's Mark
 Juliet Eilperin
Few federal agencies are expected to undergo as radical a transformation under President-elect Barack Obama as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department, which have been at the epicenter of many of the Bush administration's most intense scientific and environmental controversies.
Power Shift 2009
 Peter Rothberg
In November of 2007 the Energy Action Coalition brought together more than 6,000 young activists for the first ever national youth conference to solve the climate crisis. Watch highlights from the historic and inspiring Power Shift.
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