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Newsday - Of the world's 394 primate species, 114 are classified as threatened with extinction by the World Conservation Union. The report by Conservation International and the International Primatological Society in Hainan, China, focuses on the plight of the ...

Newsday - ... of the marsh only a few clumps of spartina alterniflora remain, spindly stalks poking through mud littered with empty shells. "They've just kind of melted away," said Mushacke, a marine biologist with the state Department of Environmental Conservation ...

Xinhua News Agency - Indonesia must cope with the global oil shocks by either increasing domestic fuel prices or launching energy conservation campaign. "But the government would not go to the first option (price hike) because of its potential massive social ...

Denver Post - Estate planning was a driving force behind Mike and Cathy McNeil's decision to put the bulk of their 3,033-acre ranch in the San Luis Valley into conservation easements. The the primary reason ranchers like the McNeils put their properties into ...

Detroit Free Press - Students are lucky to gain a rudimentary knowledge of issues such as conservation, greenhouse gases and climate change, issues that are rapidly changing the world around them. Teaching students to understand the impact just might entice some of them ...

Detroit Free Press - As you try to help the planet and save money, adopt a paper conservation technique at home that businesses use. Whether it's your child's drawing tablet or a phone message pad, always use both sides of the paper. Thrifty, easy, effective

Oregonian - Loomis, godfather of the high-tech, graphite fishing rod industry, is the organizer and head cheerleader behind the appearance in the Pacific Northwest of the Coastal Conservation Association, a 30-year-old Texas-based organization founded to help ...

Los Angeles Times - Lawmakers from states such as California that don't traditionally get much in the way of subsidies acquiesced when extra money was added for conservation, nutrition and specialty crops of the kind grown here, such as tree nuts and vegetables. Yet all ...

Los Angeles Times - David Nahai, after all, is a Century City attorney, the longtime chief of the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board and a bigwig within the League of Conservation Voters. Nahai was appointed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa last week to head ...

News.com.au - Her statements have reignited debate about global warming with a spokeswoman from Alaska Conservation Solutions labelling her claims as embarrassing. "This is the same kind of 'uncertainty' that existed with tobacco in the 1990s. It's manufactured ...