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Declining Herring Posted by: assignearth
Video duration: 307 seconds To protect depleted populations of Atlantic herring -- a vital food source for larger fish, whales and other marine life -- Federal authorities consider banning large trawl fishing boats from the inshore Gulf of Maine during summer spawning months. Related: boats, endangered, environment, fish, food, herring, nature, northeast, wildlife |
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Costa Rica Eco-Tourism Posted by: assignearth
Video duration: 216 seconds Successful ecotourism on the Osa peninsula raises new challenges. Related: america, central, conservation, costa, eco, endangered, green, rica, tourism, travel |
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Indian Wind Posted by: assignearth
Video duration: 218 seconds Indian Tribes in the western United States are investing in the future of renewable wind energy on their reservations. Related: energy, indian, renewable, resource, tribe, wind |
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Bees in Trouble Posted by: assignearth
Video duration: 277 seconds Some scientists suspect that pesticides are the cause of plummeting bee populations, which could have serious consequences for pollination and production of food crops. Related: bees, crops, endangered, environment, pesticides, pollinators, science |
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Chronic Wasting Disease Posted by: assignearth
Video duration: 162 seconds Related to mad cow disease, CWD is spreading across the Rockies with unpredictable threats to wildlife. To learn more, visit AssignmentEarth.org. Related: cow, disease, endangered, environment, mad, species |
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Dead Zone Posted by: assignearth
Video duration: 170 seconds Flowing down the Mississippi, fertilizer runoff has a devastating effect in the Gulf of Mexico, creating a vast area devoid of life. Related: contamination, environment, gulf, nature, southeast |
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New York Rats Posted by: assignearth
Video duration: 174 seconds At night in New York, rats own the streets and lead the good life, feasting on thousands of tons of daily garbage. Related: garbage, new, rats, scavengers, york |
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Ape Smuggling Posted by: assignearth
Video duration: 246 seconds Investigators claim smugglers have shipped endangered chimpanzees and gorillas from Africa to buyers in the Middle East. They blame governments, airlines and international law enforcement for failing to protect Africa's great apes. Related: animal, apes, chimpanzees, chimps, monkeys, smuggling, trade |
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Mega Fish Posted by: assignearth
Video duration: 253 seconds Like other big fish species worldwide, Mongolia's giant trout faces extinction. Visit AssignmentEarth.org to learn more. Related: conservation, endangered, environment, extinct, fish, species |
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Elk Test and Slaughter Posted by: assignearth
Video duration: 227 seconds With a strategy to fight a disease threatening cattle, critics say, authorities in Wyoming are unnecessarily capturing, testing and killing wild elk. Related: animals, cattle, conservation, cow, disease, elk, endangered, environment, species |
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Hudson River Eagles Posted by: assignearth
Video duration: 190 seconds Just a few dozen miles from Manhattan, bald eagles have been re-introduced and are thriving in New York's Hudson River Valley. Related: birds, eagles, endangered, new, river, york |
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Tidal Power Posted by: assignearth
Video duration: 179 seconds New York City is pioneering the use of tidal flows to generate electric power. Related: electricity, environment, generator, new, power, tidal, water, york |
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Tasmanian Devils Posted by: assignearth
Video duration: 176 seconds In Tasmania, an infectious cancer is wiping out dwindling numbers of an iconic, feisty marsupial. Related: animals, conservation, environment, marsupial, tasmania |
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Eaten to Extinction Posted by: assignearth
Video duration: 229 seconds China's appetite for turtles threatens the survival of many species, even in the United States. Related: asia, china, conservation, endangered, environment, global, species, threatened, turtles, warming |
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Mexican Wolves Posted by: assignearth
Video duration: 233 seconds U.S. wildlife authorities have reintroduced a rare sub-species of gray wolf in Arizona and New Mexico, but cattle interests, political pressures and poachers have all but doomed the recovery program. Related: animals, cattle, conservation, endangered, environment, poaching, politics, west, wildlife, wolves |
