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Size of California Wildfires Doubles Overnight; 125,000 Acres Already Charred

Air/Publish Date: 08/31/2009
Event Date: 08/31/2009

Between Aug. 30 and Aug. 31, 2009, the size of the wildfires in California doubles. Smoke plumes from the fires can be seen from space. Two Los Angeles firefighters are killed in a vehicle ...

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Too Many Wild Horses? 33,000 Need "Adoption"

Air/Publish Date: 12/07/2008
Event Date: 12/07/2008

Leasing of open range in the American West to ranchers has reduced forage sites for 33,000 wild horses; the herd faces thinning unless the horses can be adopted by those who have or will buy land for them.

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"Green" Beret in Special Ops to Save Brazilian Ranforest

Air/Publish Date: 09/10/2008
Event Date: 09/10/2008

Former Army Ranger John Carter, a cattle rancher in Brazil, runs "special ops" to encourage environmentally responsible farming in the Amazon rainforest, and limit and control clear-cutting, burning and soil erosion.

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Fight to Stop Smuggling of Exotic Wildlife From Indonesia

Air/Publish Date: 09/04/2008
Event Date: 09/04/2008

U.S. Wildlife agents work with Indonesian police to stop the smuggling of exotic animals -- turtles, birds, snakes -- to China and the U.S. Exotic animal trafficking is one of the largest illegal businesses in the world.

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Yellowstone Recovers But Faces New Threats 20 Years After Major Fire

Air/Publish Date: 07/28/2008
Event Date: 07/28/2008

20 years after a 1988 wildfire burned 40 percent of Yellowstone National Park, wildlife and new growth are evident, along with new housing developments that threaten wildlife feeding grounds.

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Costa Rica's Earth University Teaches Sustainable Agriculture, Development

Air/Publish Date: 05/08/2008
Event Date: 05/08/2008

Students at Earth University in Costa Rica make a banana plantation into a model of sustainable agriculture and "green" economic development, recycling materials and avoiding chemicals.

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University Students Nurse Damaged Coral Reefs

Air/Publish Date: 04/24/2008
Event Date: 04/24/2008

Students from the University of Missouri work to repair coral reefs off Thailand, damaged by divers and the tsunami in 2004, by growing coral fragments in underwater nurseries for later transplant.

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A Win for Biodiversity: Costa Rica Reforests Cleared Land

Air/Publish Date: 04/23/2008
Event Date: 04/23/2008

In Costa Rica in 2008, an effort to reforest the country -- home to 5 percent of the world's biodiversity -- is a success: forests now cover half the country; 20 years ago, trees covered only 21 percent.

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Take Some, Leave Some: Logging Company Avoids Clear-Cutting

Air/Publish Date: 04/16/2008
Event Date: 04/16/2008

Collins Companies, a lumber company in the Pacific Northwest, develops "sustainable logging" -- only thinning a forest by cutting some trees, and allowing remaining trees to re-seed the forest habitat.

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Developer Gives Up Millions in Profits to Protect Bald Eagles

Air/Publish Date: 03/13/2008
Event Date: 03/13/2008

Florida real estate developer Bobby Ginn voluntarily halts his plans for a housing development and sets aside 120 acres near Port Saint Lucie as a nature preserve after finding a family of bald ...

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Tourists vs. Tortoises: Visitors Threaten Galapagos Islands

Air/Publish Date: 11/25/2007
Event Date: 11/25/2007

By 2007, 140,000 tourists visit the Galapagos Islands each year, bringing in population, pollution and trash; a quarter of island plants and half its wildlife species are now endangered, says the UN.

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Monarch Butterflies Migrate Thousands of Miles, from U.S. to Mexico

Air/Publish Date: 05/16/2007
Event Date: 05/16/2007

NBC's Meredith Vieira visits a colony of wintering Monarch butterflies that have migrated from N. America to Mexico by the millions. Lumber poaches are destroying the butterflies' habitat.

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