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Cultural Heritage is a Human Right. Climate Change is Fast Eroding It.

Union of Concerned Scientists

The subsequent 1966 Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights also recognizes the right of “everyone to take part in cultural life” and requires signatories to take the steps “necessary for the conservation, the development, and the diffusion of science and culture.”

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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Sawfish?

Ocean Conservancy

Watching the sawfish in the aquarium also made me sad—as it houses some of the most endangered ocean animals in the world, the aquarium is one of the last places we will be able to catch a glimpse of them. In the toolbox of ocean animals, sawfish and hammerhead sharks are indeed related. Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 2003.

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Kathleen Hebert: Protecting the Puget Sound through Activism and Investment

Washington Nature

by Anya Blaney The catastrophic demise of sea stars prompted Kathleen Hebert, a tidepool enthusiast, to start working immediately on the conservation of the waters surrounding her home in the Pacific Northwest. In 2015, she became a Northwest Conservation Philanthropy Fellow.

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The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.

Circle of Blue

Hatcheries like the Carson National Fish Hatchery, pictured here, breed millions of salmon and let them grow until they are mature enough to be released so they can try to swim to the ocean. Nearly 250 million young salmon, most of them from hatcheries, head to the ocean each year — roughly three times as many as before any dams were built.

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

Circle of Blue

A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. Not far away, Tim Stutzman, another conservation-minded farmer, feeds cattle and farms 2,800 acres in Morenci. In the last decade, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S.