Author: Toledo Blade Environment
Illinois state agencies at odds over endangered species protections

The state’s top transportation authority has been running afoul of Illinois’s wildlife regulators according to internal documents obtained by WBEZ and Grist.
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Will Canada protect the piping plover before it returns to Wasaga Beach?

The stretch of the popular southern Ontario beach used by the endangered bird is no longer provincially protected. Environmental groups are taking the federal government to court over delays in stepping in.
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Banding Birds and Breaking Ice

The mission to band 100,000 birds and how icebreakers keep freighters moving in winter.
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Tracking the Birds of the Great Lakes
Check out @SciNC’s video about the Crush Truck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpDRtKC92DU And the full Earth Month playlist from PBS: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnNZYWyBGJ1F8ofFm4H9UTrHxqU8zngK4 For years, scientists believed that many migrating birds would avoid crossing the […]
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Ohio Plastic Waste Plant to Expand Nationally

By James Bruggers, Inside Climate News This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Belching smoke […]
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