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"Aquarium Dumping Linked To Giant Tahoe Goldfish"
NPR, 02/25/2013"You're going to need a bigger fishbowl.
"High-Stakes Fight Over Soybeans at High Court"
AP, 02/19/2013Today the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case testing the reach of GMO companies' market power based on intellectual property claims -- and while environment and health are not immediately before the court, a case that could have wide impacts on both.
"Genetically Modified Apples Raise Concerns"
Yakima Herald, 02/11/2013"Neal Carter wants to bring some interest and excitement to those big displays of apples in the local supermarket."
"Seeds of Discontent: A Texas Organic Cotton Farmer Takes On Monsanto"
Texas Observer, 02/08/2013The case of a Texas organic cotton farmer -- and a class-action lawsuit -- illustrates how the victims of genetic pollution can be sued by the behemoth agribusiness giants who are harming them -- and the environment.
"Great White Sharks May Be Listed as Endangered Species"
San Jose Mercury News, 02/06/2013"SAN JOSE, Calif. -- They've been called everything from killing machines to misunderstood predators who are key to healthy ocean environments. Now great white sharks may be called something else: endangered."
"U.S. Seeks To List Wolverines as Threatened, Cites Global Warming"
Reuters, 02/04/2013"The U.S. government on Friday proposed adding wolverines, feisty but rare members of the weasel family, to the federal threatened and endangered species list because global warming is reducing the mountain snows the animals need for survival."
"Sandy's Wake Leaves Shore Birds in Dire Straits"
AP, 02/04/2013"When red knots descend on the beaches of Delaware Bay this spring famished from their marathon flight toward the Canadian Arctic from the tip of South America, the rosy-breasted shorebirds may find slim pickings instead of the feast of horseshoe crab eggs they count on to fuel the rest of their migration."
"Climate Change Threatens Wolverines; Protections Proposed"
LA Times, 02/04/2013"Citing shrinking mountain snowpacks as a result of climate change, federal wildlife officials are proposing to list wolverines as threatened under the Endangered Species Act."
"Common Pesticides 'Can Kill Frogs Within An Hour'"
Guardian, 01/25/2013"New research suggests the chemicals are playing a significant and previously unknown role in the global decline of amphibians."
"Solomon Islands Villagers Kill 900 Dolphins in Conservation Dispute"
Guardian, 01/25/2013"Islanders claim Berkeley-based Earth Island Institute failed to fulfill deal to pay $400,000 to stop hunt."
Wood Bison To Be Reintroduced In Alaska
Reuters, 01/21/2013"ANCHORAGE -- North America's largest living land mammals could roam the Alaska wilderness again by 2014, a century after they vanished in the state, under an agreement announced on Thursday to reintroduce wood bison to the lower Yukon River area."
Washington State Proposal Would Require Genetically Modified Label
AP, 01/04/2013"Any food sold in Washington state and made with genetically engineered crops would have to be labeled under a ballot initiative submitted Thursday."
"Scientists Trying To Thwart Kudzu Bug’s Destructive March"
Macon Telegraph, 01/04/2013"At last, the “Vine that Ate the South” may have met its match. To most longtime Southerners, it sounds great: a bug that loves to eat kudzu and can kill off half an infestation of the tangled vine in a couple of years. What’s not to like?"
"Scientists Try To Save the Frogs as Time Runs Out"
Wash Post, 12/31/2012"EL VALLE, Panama — In moist, mossy rooms, rows of glass aquariums bathed in eerie light shelter the last of the last of the frogs. It is a secure facility, for here reside the sole survivors of their species, rescued from the wild before a modern plague swept through their forests and streams in a ferocious doomsday event that threatens the planet’s amphibians with extinction."
"Genetically Altered Salmon Are Safe, FDA Says"
Wash Post, 12/24/2012"Salmon that has been genetically engineered to grow twice as fast as its natural counterpart inched a little closer toward the nation’s dinner tables on Friday."

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