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May 17, 2007
Ecological restoration can mitigate climate change
There is no silver bullet that will bring back the melting polar ice caps or stop the seas from rising, but according to the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) International, a relatively new environmental field has the techniques to mitigate climate change and its effects.

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May 8, 2007
The CIPM Restoration Database Has Moved to the GRN
The Center for Invasive Plant Management has gifted its Restoration Database to the Global Restoration Network. There are over 1200 records including on the ground projects and a wide variety of related publications.

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April 18, 2007
Measuring the Value of Trees
Now, for the first time, the New York City Parks Department can actually translate the value of the city's trees into real dollars and cents. And as expected, it's a big number.

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April 17, 2007
Fragile Creatures give the World a New Climate Warning

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February 27, 2007
Talking Xeric in Albuquerque

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February 12, 2007
Joyce Foundation Grant Will Help Restore Lake Erie
The Conservancy and three other conservation organizations will share $5 million in grants announced Monday (Feb. 12) by the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation. Together, the projects made possible by these grants represent a significant opportunity for tangible and lasting improvements to both water quality and wildlife habitat in the Maumee River â€“ one of the largest sources of pollution to Lake Erie.

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February 11, 2007
How to Get Wall Street to Hug a Tree
Environmentalists and investment bankers are working together to put a price tag on nature. The new 'greens' think that human beings are ready to start paying for Mother Nature's servicesâ€”and that calculating their financial worth will save the planet.

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February 10, 2007
New Paper on Reconciling Sustainability and Discounting in Costâ€“Benefit Analysis
Based on the assumption that applying a discount rate rewards current consumption and, therefore, that it is only possible to introduce a certain intergenerational equity in a Costâ€“Benefit Analysis, in this work we propose an approach to discounting based on a different rationale for tangible and intangible effects.

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February 7, 2007
A Forest Grows on a Brooklyn Landfill
Planting a tree requires an act of faith. They take years, sometimes decades to reach their prime. So, John McLaughlinâ€™s faith in the future is something to admire. Because tree by tree, heâ€™s planting a forest.

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February 5, 2007
Beech Bark Disease on Eco-Invader List
Beech bark disease has taken hold in the refuge, a dagger aimed at the heart of a stalwart native hardwood.

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February 1, 2007
Environmental Retrofit for Highways: Making Wildlife a Priority
The environmental aspects of transportation projects have typically focused on the avoidance and minimization of impacts and compensatory mitigation for unavoidable impacts. Recently, progressive transportation agencies have been expanding beyond the primary focus of project effects and evolving toward a more thorough integration of environmental stewardship in their actions.

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January 30, 2007
U.S. says some gray wolves no longer need Endangered Species Act protection
Once hunted to near extinction, gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region and the northern Rocky Mountains have rebounded so successfully they no longer need federal protection, officials said.

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January 30, 2007
In the Rockies, Pines Die and Bears Feel It
Jesse Logan retired in July as head of the beetle research unit for the United States Forest Service at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Utah. He is an authority on the effects of temperature on insect life cycles. That expertise has landed him smack in the middle of a debate over protecting grizzly bears.

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January 19, 2007
Wetlands grants for 14 U.S. states
Fourteen U.S. states will get a total of $18.8 million to restore or protect coastal wetlands, Deputy Secretary of the Interior Lynn Scarlett said Friday. "This grant program helps protect, restore and enhance estuaries, coastal wetlands, and other coastal habitat through partnerships that are the hallmark of cooperative conservation," Scarlett said announcing funding from the National Coastal Wetlands Grant Program.

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January 10, 2007
After surviving 20 million years, China's goddess of the river is driven to extinction
For 20 million years, the white-fin dolphin, or baiji, swam China's longest river, the Yangtze. But a few years of breakneck development, overfishing and a massive increase in shipping have reduced sightings of this shy, graceful creature to zero.