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World failing to halt biodiversity decline: Group 
The Times of India
The Times of India
Text: GENEVA: Governments are failing to stem a rapid decline in biodiversity that is now threatening extinction for almost half the world's coral reef species, a...
Earth biodiversity in ‘dire’ shape, experts warn
MSNBC
MSNBC
updated 8:15 p.m. ET July 1, 2009 GENEVA - Governments are failing to stem a rapid decline in biodiversity that is now threatening extinction for almost half the world's coral reef species, a third of amphibians and a...
Part memoir, part tale of a biodiversity crisis
Philadelphia Daily News
Philadelphia Daily News
Waking Up in Eden By Lucinda Fleeson Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 310 pp. $13.95 Reviewed by Mike Weilbacher Who doesn't want to wake up one day in a tropical paradise? Lucinda Fleeson had the luck and pluck to do...
Lighten up non-smokers, you've got it all your way
Canberra Times
Canberra Times
Bryan Cossart (Letters, June 11) complains about the ''shivering smokers'' he had to pass in the entryway to the airport after his smoke-free ride in the aircraft, and his smoke-free passage through the terminal. The...
More than 800 wildlife species now extinct
Yahoo Daily News
Yahoo Daily News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than 800 animal and plant species have gone extinct in the past five centuries with nearly 17,000 now threatened with extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature...
Thousands of species under threat
Independent online (SA)
Independent online (SA)
By Deborah Zabarenko Washington - More than 800 animal and plant species have gone extinct in the past five centuries with nearly 17 000 now threatened with extinction, the International Union for Conservation of...
2010 species pledge set to fail: conservation group
Yahoo Daily News
Yahoo Daily News
PARIS (AFP) – The world's paramount authority on species loss has warned that pledges to roll back the threat to biodiversity by 2010 were running into the sand. The goal set by UN parties under the Convention...
DENR, GTZ to embark on two major climate change projects
The Daily Tribune
The Daily Tribune
06/28/2009 The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is embarking on two major projects that would help address climate change, with funding support of some 4,430,000 euros from the Republic of Germany...
News Corporation's Wapping redevelopment runs into double trouble
The Guardian
The Guardian
News International HQ redevelopment proposal criticised by planning committee and by mayor Boris Johnson...
Bu Tinah Shoals get official backing in recognition bid
Gulf News
Gulf News
Abu Dhabi: As competition between hundreds of nominations from across the globe vying for a place among the New7Wonders of Nature intensifies, the Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD) has announced its official support...
Gambier Islanders oppose plan to sink ship in tranquil bayProponents say 'creating eco-tourism through artificial ...
Canada Dot Com
Canada Dot Com
Harvard Museum of Natural History: extended hours and half-price admission
The Examiner
The Examiner
Harvard Museum of Natural History The museum will have extended hours with half-price admission on three Thursday nights this summer from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm on the third Thursday in June, July, and August. Each night...
