http://www.mail.com/subjects/12912-environmental-conservation-preservation.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/12912-environmental-conservation-preservation.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2105472-2-brown-bears-rescued-captivity-kosovo.html MRAMOR, Kosovo (AP) — Two brown bears have been released into a special sanctuary after being held in a 20-square-meter cage almost their entire lives to amuse visitors at a Kosovo restaurant. Ari and Arina, both 10 years old, were taken to their new, much larger home, by the international animal charity group Four Paws, which helped sedate and transport ... Thu, 23 May 2013 15:11:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2105472-2-brown-bears-rescued-captivity-kosovo.html 2013-05-23T15:11:24Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2095032-sea-turtle-comeback-corner-caribbean.html GRANDE RIVIERE, Trinidad (AP) — Giant leatherback turtles, some weighing half as much as a small car, drag themselves out of the ocean and up the sloping shore on the northeastern coast of Trinidad while villagers await wearing dimmed headlamps in the dark. Their black carapaces glistening, the turtles inch along the moonlit beach, using their powerful front flippers to move... Sat, 18 May 2013 16:57:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2095032-sea-turtle-comeback-corner-caribbean.html 2013-05-18T16:57:50Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2087620-senate-votes-to-extend-federal-water-projects-law.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Wednesday put aside its partisan differences to extend the federal government's main water resources law, which promotes investment in port improvements, flood protection, dam and levee projects and environmental restoration. The smooth passage of the Water Resources Development Act on a 83-14 vote was in sharp contrast to ... Wed, 15 May 2013 16:23:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2087620-senate-votes-to-extend-federal-water-projects-law.html 2013-05-15T16:23:33Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2085932-report-card-great-lakes-big-problems.html TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A decades-old effort to nurse the battered Great Lakes to health has made progress toward reducing toxic pollution and slamming the door on invasive species, but the freshwater seas continue to face serious threats, a U.S.-Canadian agency said Tuesday. The International Joint Commission, which advises both nations on issues aff... Tue, 14 May 2013 22:36:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2085932-report-card-great-lakes-big-problems.html 2013-05-14T22:36:07Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2083682-wind-farms-pass-eagle-deaths.html CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. (AP) — Wind farms in this corner of Wyoming have killed more than four dozen golden eagles since 2009, one of the deadliest places in the country of its kind. But so far, the companies operating industrial-sized turbines here and elsewhere that are killing eagles and other protected birds have yet to be fined or prosecuted - even tho... Tue, 14 May 2013 21:47:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2083682-wind-farms-pass-eagle-deaths.html 2013-05-14T21:47:07Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2084404-kenyan-protesters-release-pigs-parliament-pay.html NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Nearly three dozen piglets were released and animal blood spilled Tuesday at an entrance to Kenya's parliament as civil society activists protested what they called parliament's greedy salary demands. Police fired tear gas and water cannons and swung their batons to disperse the protesters, who gathered in what was dubbed the "Occupy... Tue, 14 May 2013 16:31:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2084404-kenyan-protesters-release-pigs-parliament-pay.html 2013-05-14T16:31:01Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2081770-elephant-protectors-kenya-arrested-with-ivory.html NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities say that two employees of an elephant conservation group in one of Kenya's most popular wildlife parks have been charged with ivory smuggling. The Amboseli Trust for Elephants confirmed the charges in a statement Monday. The group said it is confident that an investigation will exonerate the two, a mother and a son. A spo... Mon, 13 May 2013 14:20:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2081770-elephant-protectors-kenya-arrested-with-ivory.html 2013-05-13T14:20:47Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2061504-fishermen-want-humpback-whales-endangered-list.html HONOLULU (AP) — A group of Hawaii fishermen is asking the federal government to remove northern Pacific humpback whales from the endangered species list, saying the population has steadily grown since the international community banned commercial whaling nearly 50 years ago. Hawaii Fishermen's Alliance for Conservation and Tradition Inc., a coalition of f... Fri, 03 May 2013 20:55:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2061504-fishermen-want-humpback-whales-endangered-list.html 2013-05-03T20:55:31Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2060354-timber-forest-service-asks-to-return-cash.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service is in the business of preventing fires, not starting them. Yet the agency set off alarms in Congress and state capitols across the West by citing automatic spending cuts as the basis for demanding that dozens of states return $17.9 million in federal subsidies. And it's all come down to a bureaucratic squabble ove... Fri, 03 May 2013 16:48:34 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2060354-timber-forest-service-asks-to-return-cash.html 2013-05-03T16:48:34Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2058390-expert-rhino-population-wiped-mozambique.html JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Mozambique's rhinoceros population was wiped out more than a century ago by big game hunters. Reconstituted several years ago, the beasts again are on the brink of vanishing from the country by poachers seeking their horns for sale in Asia. A leading expert told The Associated Press that the last rhino in the southern African nation ha... Thu, 02 May 2013 16:21:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2058390-expert-rhino-population-wiped-mozambique.html 2013-05-02T16:21:09Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2047300-draft-rule-ends-protections-gray-wolves.html BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials have drafted plans to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states, a move that could end a decades-long recovery effort that has restored the animals but only in parts of their historic range. The draft U.S. Department of Interior rule obtained by The Associated Press contends the roughly 6... Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:47:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2047300-draft-rule-ends-protections-gray-wolves.html 2013-04-26T22:47:36Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2042072-nm-grapples-with-tough-choices-drought-persists.html HATCH, N.M. (AP) — In southern New Mexico, the mighty Rio Grande has gone dry — reduced to a sandy wash winding from this chile farming community to the nation's leading pecan-producing county. Only puddles remain, leaving gangs of carp to huddle together in a desperate effort to avoid the fate of thousands of freshwater clams, their shells empty and broken on the river bottom. Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:31:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2042072-nm-grapples-with-tough-choices-drought-persists.html 2013-04-24T17:31:59Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2039334-appeals-court-upholds-epa-block-wva-mine.html MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had the legal authority to retroactively veto a water pollution permit for one of West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal coal mines years after it was issued, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reversed a lower court's ruling i... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:44:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2039334-appeals-court-upholds-epa-block-wva-mine.html 2013-04-23T19:44:25Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2035932-river-views-trump-permanent-flood-protection.html CLARKSVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Her Missouri hamlet soon to celebrate its 200th birthday, Mayor Jo Anne Smiley embraces Clarksville's perilous place along the Mississippi River, never mind that that the waters again threaten to wipe it and its potpourri of specialty shops off the map. In places like Clarksville and the Illinois town of Grafton just across the riv... Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:19:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2035932-river-views-trump-permanent-flood-protection.html 2013-04-22T22:19:29Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2026686-neb-opposition-muted-ahead-keystone-xl-hearing.html LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A proposed Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline would run just 1,000 feet from Terri Funk's doorstep, but the Nebraska farmer and her husband don't plan to protest or even attend the U.S. State Department's lone public hearing on the contentious proposal Thursday. That's because the company building the pipeline has pledged to restore any of ... Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:34:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2026686-neb-opposition-muted-ahead-keystone-xl-hearing.html 2013-04-17T22:34:04Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2024784-colorado-river-tops-2013-endangered-waterways-list.html LAS VEGAS (AP) — Drought and demand are pushing the Colorado River beyond its limits — with the needs of more than 40 million people in seven Western states projected to outstrip dwindling supply over the next 50 years, according to an endangered rivers list released Wednesday. The annual top-10 list by Washington, D.C.-based American Rivers points to a t... Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:56:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2024784-colorado-river-tops-2013-endangered-waterways-list.html 2013-04-17T19:56:12Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2019900-boat-filled-with-protected-species-hits-coral-reef.html MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Chinese boat that ran into a coral reef in the southwestern Philippines held evidence of even more environmental destruction inside: more than 10,000 kilograms (22,000 pounds) of meat from a protected species, the pangolin or scaly anteater. The steel-hulled vessel hit an atoll on April 8 at the Tubbataha National Marine Park,... Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:17:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2019900-boat-filled-with-protected-species-hits-coral-reef.html 2013-04-16T00:17:31Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2015310-barrick-suffering-big-setbacks-latin-america.html SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A Chilean court's halt to construction of Barrick Gold Corp.'s $8 billion, border-straddling mine on the high spine of the Andes is only the latest setback in Latin America for the world's largest gold miner. Barrick also faces growing environmental resistance in Argentina, which shares the Pascua-Lama mine project, and the Dominica... Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:22:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2015310-barrick-suffering-big-setbacks-latin-america.html 2013-04-12T12:22:55Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2010754-barrick-halts-work-mine-chile-court-rules.html SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Barrick Gold Corp. suspended construction on its Pascua Lama mine Wednesday after a Chilean court ruled in favor of indigenous communities that say the world's highest-altitude gold mine threatens their water supply and pollutes glaciers. The appeals court in the northern city of Copiapo charged the Toronto-based mining company with... Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:03:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2010754-barrick-halts-work-mine-chile-court-rules.html 2013-04-11T01:03:24Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2010906-agency-by-agency-guide-to-obamas-2014-budget.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has proposed a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2014 that aims to slash the deficit by a net $600 billion over 10 years, raise taxes and trim popular benefit programs, including Social Security and Medicare. The White House claims deficit reductions of $1.8 trillion, but Obama's proposal would negate more than $1 trillion in automatic ... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:41:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2010906-agency-by-agency-guide-to-obamas-2014-budget.html 2013-04-10T23:41:12Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2011242-alarm-vanishing-frogs-caribbean.html PATILLAS, Puerto Rico (AP) — A curtain of sound envelops the two researchers as they make their way along the side of a mountain in darkness, occasionally hacking their way with a machete to reach the mouth of a small cave. Peeps, tweets and staccato whistles fill the air, a pulsing undercurrent in the tropical night. To the untrained ear, it's just a mis... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:12:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2011242-alarm-vanishing-frogs-caribbean.html 2013-04-10T21:12:16Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2010630-headquarters-john-denver-foundation-sale.html SNOWMASS VILLAGE, Colo. (AP) — The 950-acre property that John Denver bought in the late 1970s as headquarters for his Windstar Foundation is being sold, a move seen by some environmentalists as the unofficial end to the singer's vision to protect some of the land west of Aspen from being overrun by developers. The property in Old Snowmass is under contra... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:42:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2010630-headquarters-john-denver-foundation-sale.html 2013-04-10T16:42:51Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2004750-swanky-beach-enclave-seeks-relief-bird-stench.html SAN DIEGO (AP) — La Jolla's jagged coastline is strictly protected by environmental laws to ensure the San Diego community remains the kind of seaside jewel that has attracted swanky restaurants, top-flight hotels and some of the nation's rich and famous, including billionaire businessman Irwin Jacobs and former presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Tourist... Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:55:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2004750-swanky-beach-enclave-seeks-relief-bird-stench.html 2013-04-08T19:55:10Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1993424-feds-send-corrective-order-to-exxon-oil-leak.html LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Federal pipeline safety officials on Tuesday issued a corrective action order to ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. after one of its pipelines ruptured last week in central Arkansas. The order from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration comes after ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline ruptured Friday in the small city of Mayflow... Wed, 03 Apr 2013 01:37:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1993424-feds-send-corrective-order-to-exxon-oil-leak.html 2013-04-03T01:37:40Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1990170-pattycake-gorilla-nycs-bronx-zoo-dies-40.html NEW YORK (AP) — Pattycake, the first gorilla born in New York City, has died at the Bronx Zoo. She was 40 years old and suffering from chronic cardiac problems. The Wildlife Conservation Society, which operates the zoo, made the announcement on Sunday and said a necropsy would be performed to determine the cause of death. It said Pattycake surpassed the m... Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:28:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1990170-pattycake-gorilla-nycs-bronx-zoo-dies-40.html 2013-04-01T14:28:43Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1986070-requirements-ballast-water-dumped-ships.html TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has issued new requirements for cleansing ballast water dumped from ships, which scientists believe has provided a pathway to U.S. waters for invasive species that damage ecosystems and cost the economy billions of dollars. Commercial vessels are equipped with tanks that can hold millions of ... Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:11:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1986070-requirements-ballast-water-dumped-ships.html 2013-03-29T07:11:18Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1981590-nyc-aquarium-rebounds-rebuilds-sandy.html NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Aquarium has cherished its big-city setting by the sea for half a century. But the ocean that is the aquarium's lifeblood dealt it a shattering blow last fall. Superstorm Sandy's surge overran carefully calibrated tanks with oily, debris-filled water, knocked out even backup power to all the exhibits and made it impossible to ... Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:48:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1981590-nyc-aquarium-rebounds-rebuilds-sandy.html 2013-03-27T16:48:25Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1981552-western-environmentalists-oppose-wolf-delisting.html CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Western environmental groups say they're alarmed that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering a plan to end federal protections for gray wolves in vast areas where the animals no longer exist. The groups say ending federal protections would keep wolves from expanding their range back into states that could support them, inc... Wed, 27 Mar 2013 05:17:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1981552-western-environmentalists-oppose-wolf-delisting.html 2013-03-27T05:17:03Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1971598-sierra-club-blasts-plan-to-improve-fracking.html PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Sierra Club and some other environmental groups are harshly criticizing a new partnership that aims to create tough new standards for fracking. The criticism Thursday came a day after two of the nation's biggest oil and gas companies made peace with some national and regional environmental groups, agreeing to go through an independen... Fri, 22 Mar 2013 02:02:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1971598-sierra-club-blasts-plan-to-improve-fracking.html 2013-03-22T02:02:51Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1970196-mayors-press-federal-focus-miss-river.html ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mayors from communities along the Mississippi River said Thursday that they would work with federal lawmakers to sharpen the national focus on the waterway after two years in which shipping has been threatened by flooding and then drought. Looking to wield more clout on river matters, about a dozen mayors from Minnesota to Louisiana gathe... Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:34:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1970196-mayors-press-federal-focus-miss-river.html 2013-03-21T19:34:11Z