WWF and TRAFFIC today released a new report that shows the need for a more concerted effort in managing shark fisheries in the Coral Triangle, to help conserve dwindling populations of these threatened species. The report, An Overview of Shark Utilization in the Coral Triangle Region (PDF, 600 KB), examines the catch, trade, and management of sharks […]
Lance Armstrong has been banned from running in next month’s Chicago Marathon, a spokesman for the suspended American cyclist said on Friday. “Lance was going to be running as a fundraising team member of Team Livestrong at Chicago,” Mark Higgins said in an email to Reuters. “One of the Lance Armstrong Foundation staffers had communicated that to the race organizers and she was […]
It’s been tough for Kristen Stewart to be back out in public after revelations of an affair that led to her breakup with “Twilight” co-star Robert Pattinson. Yet there’s no place she would rather be than at the Toronto International Film Festival alongside her colleagues for the adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s 1950s Beat Generation novel, “On the […]
Mitt Romney rejected claims by President Barack Obama that he would sign off on more tax breaks for the wealthy if elected president, but again declined to offer specifics on how exactly he would accomplish his goal of lowering taxes for other Americans while also balancing the budget. In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the […]
Michelle Obama has done it again. With unlikely nail color and a few dramatic hand gestures, the First Lady has catapulted a new beauty trend into the mainstream. On Tuesday during her impassioned speech at the Democratic National Convention, the First Lady’s blue-gray nails got as much buzz as her Tracy Reese dress. Equal parts […]
It won’t take a lot for the U.S. Ryder Cup team to get fired up for the biennial matches at Medinah. With a home-course advantage and the 2010 Ryder Cup likely still in the back of their minds, there’s no question captain Davis Love III and his entire team will be motivated to wrest the […]
A bomb hoax in Philadelphia that turned a Dallas-bound flight around and led to a full-scale SWAT response was apparently triggered by a spiteful ex-girlfriend who telephoned authorities to say her former beau was aboard the US Air flight armed with liquid explosives, police told ABC News. According to authorities, Christopher Shell, a salesman in […]
A 14-year-old boy from Ohio says he is lucky to have a second life after he was swallowed up by a sewer drain pipe and carried 1,500 feet by rising waters. Jeff LaPorta suffered scrapes and bruises on his legs and received six stitches in his arm, but that only tells a part of his […]
The IUCN World Conservation Congress, the world’s largest and most important conservation event, begins today on Jeju Island, South Korea. More than 8,000 people from more than 170 countries are in Jeju to discuss, debate and vote on solutions to some of the globe’s most pressing environmental and development issues. A TRAFFIC delegation is attending […]
Five-time champion Roger Federer was knocked out of the U.S. Open by Tomas Berdych. Eventually it became clear even to Federer that he was going to lose Wednesday night – that for the first time since 2003, he was he not going to participate in the U.S. Open semifinals. “So many moments, I thought, ‘Man, […]
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