The state of Alaska has filed a lawsuit in federal district court (District of Columbia) challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act due to global warming. The Act was hailed as a breakthrough political gesture that officially acknowledged global warming […]

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After the last gloomy post on plastic bags, a flurry of good news on the environmental front.
Wired has written that ‘vulnerable birds are rebounding in Europe’ while in Peru conversation efforts “are reducing damage to the Amazon rain forest.” In the U.S, “black-footed ferrets are making a comeback in Wyoming”.
Have a good week.

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