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Court Rebukes Administration in Global Warming Case
 Reuters
In a defeat for the Bush administration, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that a U.S. government agency has the power under the clean air law to regulate greenhouse gas emissions that spur global warming.
US Capital Threatens Cucapa Community
 Mary Tamburro
La Bocana is one of the primary fishing areas for the Cucapa. The river has dried up due to the US building up dams and redirecting water mainly to water crops in So California and to provide water for Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
Brazil Offers Internet Access to Native Tribes
 Peter Muello
Brazil's government said it will provide free Internet access to native Indian tribes in the Amazon in an effort to help protect the world's biggest rain forest.
Calderón Praises Wind Power
 Kelly Arthur Garrett
Felipe Calderón visited Oaxaca for the first time as president Thursday, making only a brief and indirect reference to the violent unrest that paralyzed the state capital last year. The president mostly limited his remarks to the benefits of the new La Venta II wind power plant he had come to inaugurate.
World Bank Study: Mixteco Region is Ecological Disaster
 El Universal
The prognosis for the country´s environment is not a good one. According to the Mexican Center for Environmental Law, within eight years the nation will be faced with a critical water shortage.
Water Detectives Hunt Down Waste
 Vivian Song
The "water detectives" proudly show off their ID badges, affixed to crisply pressed, button-down shirts. The school kids walk with purpose, clipboards in hand, patrolling the parched streets of Matamoros, Mexico, looking for locals who are wantonly wasting water.
Famous Mexican Wrestler Picks a New Fight, for Baja California Environment
 Associated Press
Mexican wrestling star El Hijo del Santo was picking a new fight on Wednesday, on behalf of Baja California state's environment. Working with the environmental nonprofit group Wildcoast, the masked professional wrestler toured the Tijuana slum of Canyon de los Laureles.
Scientist Accuses White House of "Nazi" Tactics
 Joel Havemann
A government scientist, under sharp questioning by a federal panel for his outspoken views on global warming, stood by his view today that the Bush administration's information policies smacked of Nazi Germany.
Canada's Annual Seal Slaughter
 Michael Werbowski
Spring is approaching in the northern latitudes and one perennial event that Canadians pay little attention to domestically but gets lots of international media coverage is about to get underway: the annual mass slaughter of seals.
Caring for Creation: The Greatest Moral Crisis of Our Age
 J. Matthew Sleeth, MD
As a physician, environmentalist, and evangelical Christian, I can state without reservation that global warming is real and that it disproportionately harms our one billion neighbors who live on a dollar a day or less.
Cancun, Nature at War Over Beaches
 Julie Watson
Mexico spent $19 million to replace beaches washed away by Hurricane Wilma in 2005, but erosion has shrunk Cancun's sandy playground to the point where waves at high tide lap against some hotel patios.
Mexican Wrestler Campaigns for Environment
 Istra Pacheco
Mexico's famous professional wrestler "Hijo del Santo," or "Son of the Saint" broadened his battle arena March 8 to encompass the Pacific Ocean's eastern coastline, where overfishing, turtle egg hunting, and pollution are threatening marine resources.
Global Warming Is Human Rights Issue: Nobel Nominee
 Deborah Zabarenko
It sounds like a sick joke about global warming, with a series of horrible punch lines: How hot is it? So hot that Inuit people around the Arctic Circle are using air conditioners for the first time. And running out of the hard-packed snow they need to build igloos. And falling through melting ice when they hunt.
Climate Change Impact More Extensive Than Thought
 Volker Mrasek
Global climate change is happening faster than previously believed and its impact is worse than expected, information from an as-yet unpublished draft of the long-awaited second part of a United Nations report obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE reveals.
New Rules Protect Animals Hurt by Climate Change
 Guillermina Guillén
A group of edible, but endangered, animals will soon be federally protected under new regulations announced by the National Commission for Protected Natural Areas (CONANP). The new rules affect species that CONANP says face possible extinction due to the wide-ranging effects of climate change.
EU: 20% Cut in Gas Emissions by 2020
 Aoife White
European Union environment ministers agreed Tuesday on an ambitious target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 in one of the boldest moves yet to contain global warming - a goal likely to lead to mandatory limits for cars and pollution allowances for airlines.
Warmest January Ever Recorded Worldwide in 2007: US Scientists
 Agence France-Presse
World temperatures in January were the highest ever recorded for that month of the year, US government scientists said. The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was 1.53 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the 20th-century average of 53.6 degrees F.
What is a Wave Worth?
 Will Henry
Quality surfing waves have an enormous social and economic value that is often underestimated by political leaders and businesspeople. What was once considered a sport for beach bums and dirtbags has become a major industry, with a demographic that has completely changed since its early years.
Frog in Amber May Be 25M Years Old
 Associated Press
A miner in the state of Chiapas found a tiny tree frog that has been preserved in amber for 25 million years, a researcher said. If authenticated, the preserved frog would be the first of its kind found in Mexico.
Science and Sophistry
 Alan Burkhart
Ever since the release of the highly publicized and politicized IPCC Report Summary, those who prefer to continue absorbing the available facts have been ridiculed and demonized with harsh rhetoric and false accusations by those who either blindly accept the summary or have political motivations for wanting it to be accepted as absolute truth.
Gore Announces Live Earth Concerts for Climate Change
 CBC Arts
Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore has announced a series of worldwide concerts on July 7 to focus on the issue of climate change. A powerhouse lineup of music stars has agreed to participate in the seven Live Earth concerts, promised to rival the Live 8 event in 2005.
Glory Foam Launches PUR-Foam 'Green' Board Blanks
 Surfersvillage Global Surf News
Glory Foam today announced a significant breakthrough in their environmentally safer foam surfboard blanks with the unveiling of its new PUR-Foam product. PUR-Foam is an environmentally safer surfboard foam that also maintains a bright white appearance.
Cactus-Eating Moth Reaches Mexico
 Mark Stevenson
Experts say a moth whose larvae threaten to decimate Mexico's emblematic flat-leafed cactus has invaded the country's mainland for the first time, something authorities have feared for decades.
Mexico Considers Recasting a Way of Life to Save Endangered Porpoise
 James C. McKinley Jr.
The fishermen gathered in the early evening light where the desert meets the blue gulf, to talk over the way they had always lived off the sea and the fate of a small, endangered porpoise few of them had ever seen.
A Cool $25 Million for a Climate Backup Plan
 John Tierney
On Friday, when Richard Branson offered a $25 million prize to anyone who figures out how to remove a billion tons of carbon dioxide per year from the atmosphere, Al Gore sat by his side and called it an “important and welcome” initiative. For once, Mr. Gore couldn’t be accused of hype.
Chavez Takes Up Energy Conservation
 Ian James
His ambitious social programs are built on Venezuela's petroleum wealth, but President Hugo Chavez is increasingly talking up environmental causes and urging the world to cut back on oil use to fight global warming.
Bush Backers Offer Payoffs to Undercut Global Warming
 Chris Floyd
The new report by the IPCC has just been released, and it looks like bad news for the home team, i.e., the entire human race. But not to worry: That nattering nest of neo-cons, the American Enterprise Institute, has come up with a perfect solution to this threat to the life of the world: bribing scientists to say it ain't so.
Science Panel Calls Global Warming ‘Unequivocal’
 Elisabeth Rosenthal & Andrew C. Revkin
In a grim and powerful assessment of the future of the planet, the leading international network of climate scientists has concluded for the first time that global warming is “unequivocal” and that human activity is the main driver, “very likely” causing most of the rise in temperatures since 1950.
Reforms to Wildlife Protection Law Signed
 El Universal
Felipe Calderón on Thursday promulgated reforms to the national wildlife protection law despite concerted lobbying efforts from the tourism development industry and 16 state governors.
Bush Administration Accused of Doctoring Scientists' Reports on Climate Change
 Suzanne Goldenberg
The Bush administration was yesterday accused of systemic tampering with the work of government climate scientists to eliminate politically inconvenient material about global warming.
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