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Great Green Job of the Week: Development Director, WildEarth Guardians

WildEarth Guardians is seeking a full-time Development Director in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
WildEarth Guardians is a regional conservation organization committed to preserving and restoring native wildlands, wildlife and wild rivers in the American West. The Development Director reports to the Associate Director and will initiate and implement development strategies to enable the organization to meet [...]

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Targets to Save World’s Forests Won’t be Met by 2010

The world’s forests are shrinking at an alarming rate – some disappearing altogether – and we know we’ve got to do something about it. But, so far, efforts to save forests around the globe simply aren’t enough to meet the targets set under the Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD), according to a new analysis.
From Nature.com:
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Sarah Palin Files Suit to Avoid Protecting Whales in Alaska

What’s the biggest threat to beluga whales in Alaska’s Cook Inlet? Two words: Sarah Palin. Belugas already have a lot stacked against them. Cloudy water in the summer forces them to rely heavily on echolocation to get around, and they must venture into dangerously shallow waters to find food. Palin, who is already infamous for [...]

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Update: Oil Leases in Utah Parklands Canceled

The Obama administration is canceling Bush-era oil drilling leases on more than 130,000 acres near two national parks and other protected areas in Utah. Bush’s Interior Department had planned to auction off the land in December for oil and gas drilling, but the auction was disrupted by activist Tim DeChristopher. The land sale had been [...]

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Unnaturalism: Stunning Eco-Themed Artwork by Don Simon

Artist Don Simon creates thought-provoking works focusing on the juxtaposition of nature and the modern world. Simon uses colored pencils and a surrealistic style to speak about the conflict between nature and industry. His subjects include deer peeking out from a jungle of pipes, monkeys making their home at a construction site, creatures of the [...]

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10 Steps to Protect Oceans from Pollution

One need only look at photos of the Pacific Ocean Trash Gyre to realize that we’re abusing the world’s oceans. For such an important part of our ecosystem (did you know that phytoplankton provide half the world’s oxygen?), we sure do treat it with very little respect. Oil, fertilizer, trash, toxic chemicals, invasive species – [...]

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