Category: RT Newswire

USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.

Reclaiming an Ecosystem: A California Success Story

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Published on Sunday, August 10, 2008 by The Baltimore Sun
Reclaiming an Ecosystem: A California Success Story
by Louis Sahagun

LEE VINING, Calif. – Not long ago, it was rare to see a yellow warbler around Rush Creek.

But on a recent bright and sunny morning, a yellow warbler plunged through a gap in a stream-side cottonwood forest, flying back to her nest and her chicks. Suddenly, she was stopped in midair – tangled in a mist net.

Field biologist Chris McCreedy found the bird in his snare a few minutes later. “Hi there, sweetie,” he said as he untangled the bird, recorded its vitals – a 2-year-old female that weighed 10 grams, about as much as a ball point pen – and gently clamped an identification band to one of her legs.

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California Court Rules Land-use Decisions Must Address Global Warming: Plans for Palmwood Mega-Resort Thrown Out

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 8, 2008
10:04 AM

 CONTACT: Center for Biological Diversity
Jonathan Evans, Center for Biological Diversity, (213) 598-1466
Joan Taylor, Sierra Club, (760) 408-2488

California Court Rules Land-use Decisions Must Address Global Warming:
Plans for Palmwood Mega-Resort Thrown Out
 
INDIO, California – August 8 – In response to a lawsuit from the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club, a California court has rejected a proposal to build a controversial luxury resort and golf course because the project’s environmental study failed to analyze the project’s greenhouse gas emissions. The lawsuit had challenged the city of Desert Hot Springs’ approval of the Palmwood resort near Joshua Tree National Park.

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Canada Ill-Prepared for Climate Disasters

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<http://www.environmental-expert.com/resultEachPressRelease.aspx?cid=23745&codi=35591&idproducttype=8&level=0>

Excerpts:
     * The number of flood disasters along
Canadian rivers seems to be on the rise, with 70%
of floods over the past century occurring after
1959.
     * Between 1950 and 2000, Canada experienced
at least 37 major droughts, about two thirds of
which occurred in the Prairie provinces.

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