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Coronado sailors clean up imperiled birds' nesting areas
CORONADO —On most days, a three-mile stretch of Silver Strand beach here is used for training Navy SEALs, sailors and Marines. Thursday was not a usual day. Dozens of sailors spent the morning in a slow, head-down walk along the restricted...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Politics, Environmental Issues
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Saving Cameroon's elephants
Check off another majestic animal species your kids will probably never get to see: The forest elephant of Cameroon. Smaller than savanna elephants and with straighter tusks, the intelligent behemoths are being cut down by poachers at a horrifying pace....
Tags: China, Yingluck Shinawatra, Cameroon, Endangered Species, Thailand
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Ginny Wood dies at 95; pioneering Alaska environmentalist
Virginia "Ginny" Hill Wood led a life of adventure beginning at a young age, guiding horseback trips in her native Washington state, bicycling through Europe before and after World War II, serving as a WASP pilot and, after moving to Alaska, building a...
Tags: National Parks, Natural Resources, Energy Resources, Natural Resource Industry, Politics
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Thriving illicit ivory trade decimating African elephant herds
Conservationists battling illicit global trade in endangered species say at least 25,000 African elephants were slaughtered last year by criminal gangs eager to market the lucrative ivory from their tusks. The poachers' take has risen to alarming levels...
Tags: China, Bangkok (Thailand), Yingluck Shinawatra, Malaysia, Marketing
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Generating stunning visual effects, but not enough revenue
This should be a golden age for visual effects in movies. Thanks to the box office success of movies such as "The Avengers" and "Life of Pi," demand for visual effects has never been greater. Studios are spending $100 million or more to put ever more...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Academy Awards, James Cameron, Companies and Corporations, India
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Weekend Escape: On the watery trail in Mojave, Calif.
People travel to the Mojave expecting arid crags, tortured landscapes and vast expanses. But water? Not so much. On a recent winter trip to the Mojave, I stumbled on a new desert lure: bubbling springs, creeks and even a river, the Amargosa. My husband,...
Tags: Bodies of Water, Chocolate Cake, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Hot Springs
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Douglas Adams’ 61st birthday: A hitchhiker’s puzzle filled with clues
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesDouglas Adams' 61st birthday is being marked with a Google Doodle that would make the author of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide ...... -
Furry fishers, don't blame the Gold Rush
The boom in logging and fur trapping triggered by Gold Rush settlement of the Sierra Nevada has long been blamed for the steep decline in California’s population of fishers. But a new study concludes that the small forest animal was in trouble...
Tags: Science and Technology, Fishing, Metal and Mineral, Endangered Species, Gold and Precious Material
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Bid to ban commercial trade in polar bears fails
An unusual coalition between the U.S. and Russia to win an international ban on commercial trade of polar bear parts failed Thursday. Meeting in Bangkok, delegates to the 176-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species voted down a U....
Tags: Trade Dispute, Economic Organization, Natural Resources Defense Council, Hunting, European Union
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Missing hikers: Officials urge volunteer searchers to 'be safe'
Volunteers who are helping authorities search for two missing hikers in Orange County are being urged to take extra precautions of their own. In a statement released by the Orange County Sheriff's Department, authorities said individuals who want to...
Tags: Law Enforcement, Easter, Clark Gable
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Farmers Markets: Oliver Woolley's pork is a hit in Santa Monica
Locally raised pork is rare in Southern California, but in a hilly grapefruit grove north of San Diego, fenced to exclude mountain lions, 14 tasty piglets luxuriate, fattening for sale at the Santa Monica farmers market. They're the dream or folly of...
Tags: Grapefruit, England, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Farms
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