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Conservationists are calling on the Government to revoke dozens of new licences for oil and gas exploration in UK waters, fearing hundreds of thousands of seabirds could be at risk if they are granted. Read more from the original source: Seabirds in danger from new oil exploration, RSPB warns

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Time is running out to craft a plan to save Earth's rich diversity of mammals, a quarter of whose species could be wiped out, biologists warned on Tuesday. See the original post here: Time for new strategy to save mammals, say biologists

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Kenyan MPs and the UN's World Heritage Committee have called on Ethiopia to halt construction of the controversial Gibe III dam on the Omo River. Read more: International Condemnation of Controversial Dam Grows

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One of the world's most endangered cats, the Iberian lynx, may not be doomed by its tiny population size. Read more: Iberian lynx 'not doomed' by low genetic diversity

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Corals and molluscs are able to protect themselves from the affects of acidic oceans, but only to a point, say marine scientists who have measured individual species resilience to pH change. Read more: Calcifiers cover up changes in ocean pH

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Australia's parliament endorsed the world's first national scheme that regulates the creation and trade of carbon credits from farming and forestry on Monday, to complement government plans to put a price on carbon emissions from Continue reading here: Australia passes CO2 offset laws, carbon pricing next

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Animals and plants are shifting their natural home ranges towards the cooler poles three times faster than scientists previously thought. Excerpt from: Species flee warming faster than previously thought

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Climate change represents a threat not only to the existence of individual species, but also to the genetic diversity hidden within them, researchers say. The finding promises to complicate assessments of how climate change will affect biodiversity, as well as conservationists' task in preserving it. Original post: Climate change will hit genetic diversity

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The explosive growth of cities worldwide over the next two decades poses significant risks to people and the global environment, according to a meta-analysis published August 19 in PLoS ONE. View original post here: Growth of Cities Endangers Global Environment, According to New Analysis

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Dow AgroSciences, a unit of chemical conglomerate Dow Chemical is launching a genetically altered soybean seed aimed as a direct assault on the dominance of global seed leader Monsanto Co. Go here to see the original: Dow takes on Monsanto with new biotech soybean