::: ENN Daily Newsletter - Monday, February 15, 2005 :::
READ ALL TODAY'S NEWS Senators Introduce Ocean Trash Bill
HONOLULU — A bipartisan group of U.S. senators from coastal states introduced legislation Thursday calling for removal of the thousands of tons of ocean debris that wash up on U.S. shores each year. Congressional Challenges in 2005 -- An ENN Commentary
With the official start of the second Bush administration, much of the environmental community's focus is on the actions of the Executive Branch. However, the expanded Republican majority in both chambers of Congress has the potential to seriously weaken the nation's environmental laws, such as the Endangered Species Act, and severely restrict the public's access to the courts by confirming ideologically extreme judges. Global Warming Treaty Set to Take Effect
NEW YORK — After seven politically painful years, the Kyoto Protocol finally enters into force on Wednesday, reining in industrial emissions of carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse gases" in a first attempt to control climate change. U.S. Wildlife Experts to Teach Brazilian Environmental Police
BRASILIA, Brazil — American wildlife experts will teach Brazil's federal police how to crack down on environmental crimes, the government said. Instructors from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will give a two-week course for 30 top federal police agents, who will learn about surveillance, covert operations and international investigation, the government said. Report Warns Great Barrier Reef Could Die in 20 Years
CANBERRA, Australia — It could take less that 20 years for rising sea temperatures caused by global warming to kill Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest chain of living coral, a newspaper reported Saturday. Council Votes to Restrict Bottom Trawling in Aleutian Islands
SEATTLE — A federal fishing council moved to ban bottom trawling on more than 370,000 square miles off Alaska's Aleutian Islands to try to protect coral beds and other sensitive fish habitat. The unanimous vote of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council on Thursday covers more than half the fishable water around the Aleutians and pockets in the northern Gulf of Alaska. Earth's 'Lung,' the Amazon Forest, Breathes Uneasily in a Time of Climate Change
SANTAREM, Brazil — As the light plane banked left, the smell of smoke reached the cockpit. The landscape below was an ashen green, the sun above an orange glow behind sooty billows of gray. Birders Eye Winter Hummingbirds, Vagrants
ALBANY, N.Y. — Chickadees, cardinals and titmice are common visitors to a snowy bird feeder. But hummingbirds? That's what Janet Allen saw last year in her yard in suburban Syracuse. For several days in dreary November, a young ruby-throated hummingbird shivered on a snow-laced feeder, sipping sugar water when it should have been flitting among tropical blossoms in sunny Mexico. 
READ ALL NON PROFIT NEWS 8th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count Invites Everyone to Go out and Count for the Birds in America's Great Backyard
— By Cornell Lab of Ornithology & National Audubon Society The Mangrove Action Project News, 150th Edition
— By Mangrove Action Project
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