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John McCain accepts global warming, and vows to act on climate challenges.

David Wilcove is a professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. He answers questions related to his work to conserve the native scrub ecosystem in Florida, and to save the northern spotted owl and old-growth forest habitat in the Pacific Northwest.

Wales, a beautiful corner of the United Kingdom on the western edge of England, helped fuel Britain’s industrial revolution, not to mention its pea-soup pollution "fogs." Since gaining some degree of autonomy from the United Kingdom in 1999, Wales is now setting more aggressive environmental targets.

Last week the non-profit Sierra Club launched a new website, sierrasportsmen.org, which appeals directly to the environmental concerns of hunters and anglers.

The non-profit Climate Counts, funded by organic yogurt maker Stonyfield Farm, Inc., last week released its second annual scorecard rankings.

Fifteen members of the Rockefeller family publicly called on ExxonMobil Corporation, the company which emerged from family patriarch John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil empire, to start looking beyond short-term oil profits in planning for a carbon-constrained future.

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) last week announced that it is committing some $63 million toward preserving biodiversity in Asia’s so-called Coral Triangle.