Yale Environment 360: Forty Percent of Fish Species
Are Imperiled in North America, Study Says

A study by the American Fisheries Society says that 40 percent of fish species in North American lakes, rivers, and streams — including many species of salmon and trout — are endangered, threatened, or vulnerable to extinction. The […]

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Giant Underground Fossil Forests Show Record of Warming

James Owen
for National Geographic News

Huge tracts of prehistoric rain forest ravaged by global warming more than 300 million years ago have been found preserved underneath the U.S. Midwest, according to scientists.
The fossilized forests, including one […]

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Yale Environment 360: Michael Pollan on What’s Wrong with Environmentalism

I don’t know exactly what percentage of greenhouse gas we would reduce if everybody planted a garden, but it would be a percentage and it would be a […]

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Climate change threatens two-thirds of California’s unique plants, study says - Los Angeles Times

The state’s plants are at risk of collapse unless they migrate or are moved to refuges, scientists say. Animals may also be separated from plants on which they depend, according to researchers.
By Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
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Firewood and Invasive Insects - NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation

New York’s forests are under attack from numerous invasive exotic insect pests. In years past, we have been hit with Chestnut blight, European gypsy moth, Dutch elm disease and Beech bark disease, all with devastating results.

One common way many of these insect pests are moved around […]

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