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Tag: Conservation

Power grab topples another defender of California’s environment

March 4th, 2016 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

“The South Coast Air Quality Management District board fired Barry Wallerstein, center, the agency’s longtime leader, despite pleas from environmentalists and public health experts,” reports Steve Lopez.

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Former Glines Canyon Dam/Lake Mills

The Elwha River: Roaring back to life

February 14th, 2016 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

In a special report for The Seattle Times, reporter Lynda V. Mapes tells the story of the resurgence of the Elwha River ecosystem, which is benefiting hugely from the largest dam removal project in human history, completed two years ago.

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Burns Paiute tribal emblem

Tribe: Armed right wing protesters are ‘desecrating’ Oregon land

January 6th, 2016 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

Tribe: Armed right wing protesters are ‘desecrating’ Oregon land “The leader of an Oregon Indian tribe whose ancestral property is being occupied by a small,

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President Obama speaking at Everglades National Park

President Obama delivers Earth Day address from Everglades National Park

April 22nd, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Holidays, Our Environment

Excerpt from transcript: Here in the Everglades, you can see the effect of a changing climate.  As sea levels rise, salty water from the ocean

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California outline and flag

California drought tests history of endless growth

April 4th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

Mother Nature didn’t intend for forty million people to live here… This is literally a culture that since the 1880s has progressively invented, invented and

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President Obama announces plan to protect Arctic Refuge

January 25th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

Great news from the White House: President Obama has announced that the Department of Interior has finished working on revised Comprehensive Conservation plan to better

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Garlic injection could tackle tree diseases

October 7th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

Garlic injection could tackle tree diseases The BBC reports that a concentrated form of garlic might help save trees in the United Kingdom (and elsewhere)

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California Drying

October 4th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

The above images are not satellite photographs. They show how much groundwater has been lost from central and southern California over the past decade, mostly due to agriculture. (Image: NASA, via the Los Angeles Times)

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Ford unveils brilliant parody of Cadillac’s dumb “Poolside” Super Bowl spot

March 29th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Humor & Satire, Our Environment

The Ford Motor Company has produced a brilliant rejoinder to the widely-disliked ad created by General Motors’ Cadillac division for the 2014 Super Bowl. In

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Alaska wolf killings upset National Park Service

March 3rd, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

Alaska wolf killings upset National Park Service The Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s dumb decision to slaughter an eleven-member wolf pack in the eastern

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Effort underway in California to ban wasteful plastic bags

February 27th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

It has become increasingly clear to the public the environmental damage that single-use plastic bags have reaped… This is the beginning of the phase-out of

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