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Good Morning , Friday, November 20, 2009

Today's headlines
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"Extinct" Crocodile Claws Its Way Back to Survival
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Member Releases
Inferno on Earth: Wildfires Spreading as Temperatures Rise
November 20, 2009 By: Earth Policy Institute
"Future firefighters have their work cut out for them.," says Janet Larsen, Director of Research for the Earth Policy Institute, in a recent release, "Inferno on Earth: Wildfires Spreading as Temperatures Rise".

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Conservation Organizations Join Legal Effort to Protect Endangered Blue Whale
November 20, 2009 By: Center for Biological Diversity
SAN FRANCISCO— Friends of the Earth, Pacific Environment, and the Center for Biological Diversity, national and international conservation organizations with a combined membership of more than 120,000 people, today joined a notice of intent to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service (submitted by the Environmental Defense Center in August) for the agency's failure to implement the 1998 Blue Whale Recovery Plan. Among other actions, the recovery plan mandates that the Fisheries Service identify and implement methods to eliminate or reduce blue whale mortalities from ship strikes. The agency has failed to take this required action for more than a decade, despite the ship-strike deaths of at least five blue whales in Southern California in 2007, and two additional ship-strike mortalities along the California coast in October 2009.

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New Earthcast: An Economy Fit for a Low Carbon World – The Pre-COP Earthcast
November 18, 2009 By: EARTHCAST
Free, live and interactive web event!

  • Can economies be redesigned for a low-carbon future?
  • What opportunities does the financial crisis present?
  • Is a constructive agreement likely at Copenhagen?
Wednesday, 25th November, 5:00pm UK Time, 9:00 am Pacific Standard Time, 12:00 pm Eastern Standard Time

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Lawsuit Imminent Over Water Diversions Killing Salmon and Steelhead
November 18, 2009 By: Center for Biological Diversity
San Francisco— The Center for Biological Diversity, Northern California River Watch, and Coast Action Group today sent notice of intent to sue California's State Water Resources Control Board for authorizing water diversions that harm federally protected salmon and steelhead trout in the Russian River and Gualala River watersheds.

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Lawsuit Challenges Uranium Mine That Threatens Water and Wildlife of the Grand Canyon
November 17, 2009 By: Center for Biological Diversity
Flagstaff, Ariz.— Monday the Center for Biological Diversity, Grand Canyon Trust, and Sierra Club filed suit in an Arizona federal court challenging the Bureau of Land Management's approval of the restart of a defunct uranium mine just north of Grand Canyon National Park.

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