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Canada: Residents win prolonged legal battle over wind turbines

World-wide: Fear of water shortages threatens wars and violence in the future

Zimbabwe: Big game hunter killed when an elephant shot by another hunter falls on him

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Canada: Alberta’s Wood Buffalo National Park threatened by energy development, hydro dams and poor management

Japan: Hundreds of radio-active wild boars now a threat following the Fukushima meltdown

Canada: Road to be closed for salamanders crossing during the mating season

Thailand: Sea turtle has operation to remove 915 coins thrown into fountain (excellent video)

Canada: Clam digging threatened as oil spill cannot be completely cleaned up

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Canada: Monarch butterfly “birthplaces” identified in effort to save the species

Arctic: Pollution posing a threat to polar bear health

China: Says all commerce in ivory will be banned by the end of 2017 – let’s hope they deliver on this…

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U.S.A: “Several thousand” migrating snow geese die after landing in the toxic waters of an old open pit mine

Canada: Humpback whale dies after becoming tangled in equipment at empty fish farm

China: Need to increase coal supply takes precedence over pollution concerns

Africa: Shrinking giraffe population now on “endangered species” list

China: Senior environmental officials detained on suspicion of tampering with monitoring station to falsify air quality reports

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Canada: “Toxic brew” of pollution in some of Toronto’s ravines – Conservation Authority expresses concern

Russia: Drive on to greatly reduce reindeer herds in order to assist oil and gas companies taking over increasingly large parts of the North – Nenets reindeer herders expected to revolt, as in 1941

China: Significant efforts being made to combat environmental damage caused by industrialization – detailed analysis

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U.S.A: Vandals destroy popular “Duckbill” rock formation in Oregon

Agroforestry: “Farming with forests” necessary to maintain agricultural stability

Norway: 323 wild reinder killed by lightning strikes, including 70 calves
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Nine bears killed simply because people are “baiting local bears with easy-access garbage and plentiful fruit trees”

Area targeted for deep-sea mining supports “an abundant and diverse ecosystem” – more than half of the species collected there are new to science

“Pinky” the flamingo at Busch Gardens euthanized after a man grabbed her from an animal viewing area and threw her to the ground – “the bird suffered injuries so ‘traumatic’ that she could not be saved”

Early turtle fossil indicates protective shell was developed to facilitate burrowing underground

World-wide: Preventing the extinction of gorillas, rhinoceroses, elephants, lions, tigers, wolves, bears and the world’s other largest mammals “will require bold political action and financial commitment”

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World-wide: Illegal logging, land clearance and habitat destruction all contribute towards a net global loss of around 6.6 billion trees each year – unmanned aerial vehicle mapping initiative could help with replanting

Indonesia: Forest fires released 11.3 million tonnes of carbon per day in 2015

Colorado: Experiment with controlled pulse of water to the Colorado River Delta shows that large dry water-courses release greenhouse gasses when flooded

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Petition: Bayer, BASF and Syngenta are suing the European Commission to overturn a ban on the pesticides that are killing millions of bees around the world

U.S.A: Government involvement skews data to reflect the government’s agenda – “political intervention in climate science has corrupted the outcome”

Arctic Sea: Russian rocket appears to have missed Canadian territory amid fears that the highly toxic hydrazine fuel could pollute hunting grounds used by Inuit from nearly a dozen communities in Canada and Greenland

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