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Ancient Mayans Did Forest Conservation 3,000 Years Ago

According to a new investigation, it would appear that the Mayans were in the habit of practicing forest conservation, archaeological pieces of evidence point out. They also conserved the land and water on their territories, and historians now believe that the time when they abandoned these practices spelled nothing ...

23 July 2009
14:01 GMT

WWF's Dr. Neil Hamilton on Global Warming in the Arctic

As I am trying to offer you, the readers, the most conclusive data on the threats of climate change, and the best possible ways of dealing with them, I thought I should enlist a second opinion, coming from one of the top environmental groups in the world. Dr. Neil Hamilton, the Director of the WWF International Arcti...

11 July 2009
10:11 GMT

Researchers Discover Largest Leatherback Turtle Population

Scientists announced yesterday that they had just discovered the largest population of the critically endangered leatherback turtles, on the beaches of Gabon, in West Africa. Anywhere between 15,730 and 41,373 females inhabit the beaches of the area, land and airborne surveys of the region have shown, which means tha...

19 May 2009
06:49 GMT

US Congress Passes Crucial Conservation Laws

Wednesday could very well go down in history as one of the days when nature conservation efforts won an important victory in the United States. The Congress has passed a set of some 160 bills, setting the basis for more accurate and protective environmental regulations, which will affect millions of acres of land thr...

26 March 2009
16:01 GMT

Renewable Energy vs. Conservation Efforts

More than 500,000 acres of land in the Mojave Desert are currently the target of extensive bidding on the part of renewable energy companies, which want to construct either solar power plants or wind farms here. However, their plans may be upset by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who said last Friday that the respective land ...

25 March 2009
04:52 GMT


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