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Bill Clark named Ontario conservation officer of the year - (www.nugget.ca)Bill Clark of Sturgeon Falls is the 2010 Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ontario Conservation Officers Association's officer of the year.
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Discovering Sudbury's hidden world of bugs (www.thesudburystar.com)Jennifer Meehan works on a cabinet of insects caught at Laurentian university this summer. Two biology students are collecting insects for a survey of bugs in Sudbury.
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Canadian Environmental Assessment Archives (www.ceaa.gc.ca)Search Criteria Keyword(s) / Reference Number: sudbury
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4.Nations Ignoring Biodiversity Treaty, U.N. Says - NYTimes.com (www.nytimes.com)
Governments are largely ignoring a biodiversity protection treaty they signed 17 years ago, allowing the rate of species decline to continue at an alarming rate, the United Nations said in a report released today.
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Amazing Insect Images By Igor Iwanowicz (acidcow.com)Amazing Insect Images
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Video: Ocean activist speaks in Sudbury (www.youtube.com)Sudbury - Captain Paul Watson, a founder of the environmental organization Greenpeace and the Sea Shepherd
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7.Scientists find colonies of microscopic life vital to oceans, one size of Greece (ca.news.yahoo.com)
But scientists probing seas around the globe say they have discovered a profound diversity of microbes and bacteria that are critical to the survival of the world's oceans and the planet.
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How will tree diseases react to climate change? (www.fs.fed.us)A summary of scientific information that addresses this question Citations and summaries for over 1000 records of journal articles and working papers on forest pathogens and climate are retrievable by author, topic, species, or geographic area
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Nature diarists now scientists (www.ecoearth.info)On New Year's Day 35 years ago, Larry Weber was out walking when a flock of goldfinches flew over.That's unusual, Weber thought. He made a note of it -- and he's been making similar notes for the 13,000 days since then.That makes Weber a phe-nol-o-gist -- a person who watches and records bird migrations, insect hatches, plant blooms and other events in nature.
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Sudbury Regreening: 3,350 hectares done, but 30,000 hectares to go (www.northernlife.ca)Stephen Monet, Greater Sudbury manager of environmental initiatives, said the city still has a huge area that has not been regreened by liming the soil and planting trees and shrubs
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Extinction Countdown: Scientific American Blogs (www.scientificamerican.com)It's all part of the Golden Gate National Parks Endangered Species Big Year, a yearlong contest where participants can seek out 36 endangered species, including mammals, fish, plants and insects within the confines of the 88,000-square-acre park system.
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City revamps biodiversity plan (www.northernlife.ca)Greater Sudbury has finalized its biodiversity plan for increasing the variety and number of plant and animal species in its landscape.The plan, entitled Living Landscape: A Biodiversity Action Plan for Greater Sudbury, was released Dec. 23 by city staff after a series of public and stakeholder consultations from June to August, 2009.
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Biodiversity Action Plan (www.greatersudbury.ca)Building on the success of the City's Regreening Program, a Biodiversity Action Plan for Greater Sudbury has been developed that defines the vision and prioritized goals for ecological recovery.
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Biodiversity - Conservation International (www.conservation.org)Biodiversity conservation provides substantial benefits to meet immediate human needs, such as those for clean, consistent water flows; protection from floods and storms; and a stable climate.
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Canadian Institute for Sustainable Biodiversity (www.rbg.ca)"Sustainable Biodiversity" is our approach to the study, use and conservation of the natural and cultural diversity of the living world, with a focus on plants.
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Extinction countdown (www.thesudburystar.com)Going, going, gone.Extinction is a threat for a third of the 47,667 species assessed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the most comprehensive information source on the status of the world's plant and animal species.
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Greener will look different (www.thesudburystar.com)Forty years from now, reduced soil acidity and a warmer climate could make wild blueberries in Sudbury a rarity. But apples, pears, cherries and perhaps even peaches may be common. And Sudbury's forests, some as old as 80 years, may be candidates for selective harvesting
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Mining companies contribute $2.25 million to increase biodiversity (www.northernlife.ca)The city's ecology got a boost Oct. 30 from both Vale Inco and Xstrata Nickel.The mining companies are contributing a total of $2.25 million over the next five years to increasing biodiversity in the Greater Sudbury area, both on their land and in other parts of the city.
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Ontario's Plant a Tree Challenge (www.mnr.gov.on.ca)Climate change is affecting every part of our world. Ontario’s Plant A Tree Challenge encourages people to plant trees to fight climate change.
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Whitewater Lake Lake Water Quality (www.city.greatersudbury.on.ca)Whitewater Lake is located in Rayside, Snider and Creighton townships, near the town of Azilda. Whitewater Lake is 949.1 hectares in size and has a shoreline perimeter of 29.5 kilometres. The maximum depth of Whitewater Lake is 11 metres.
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A Timely Reminder of the Real Limits to Growth (e360.yale.edu)Bill McKibben is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. His The End of Nature, published in 1989, is regarded as the first book for a general audience on global warming
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The Half Billion Dollar Ecological Gift that Keeps on Giving (www.worldchanging.com)There's a little-known, but highly successful federal program in Canada that encourages Canadians to gift ecologically sensitive lands to eligible environmental charities that promise to take care of them in perpetuity.
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World losing mixture of plant, animal species at accelerated rate: scientists (ca.news.yahoo.com)The international group of experts warns that Canada and more than 100 other signatories to a UN convention have failed to live up to a pledge to significantly reduce biodiversity loss by 2010
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World Environment Day June 5 2009 (www.unep.org)World Environment Day (WED) was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. Commemorated yearly on 5 June, WED is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action.
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