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<div>Excerpts: "<font face="Geneva">Despite what you might think
from the howls of business groups and conservative commentators, the
enforcement system is not nearly as strong as it should
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<div><font face="Geneva">"Unfortunately, environmental
enforcement problems seem to have continued into this century. A 2012
report by General Accounting Office says that the Environmental
Protection Agency still reported 'substantial rates of noncompliance
in some programs.'"</font></div>
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<b>CLIMATE CHANGE PLUS HUMAN PRESSURE CAUSED LARGE MAMMAL EXTINCTIONS
IN LATE PLEISTOCENE<br>
</b>NASA Earth Observatory -- MEDIA ALERT -- September 30, 2004<br>
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"Of more than 150 genera of megafauna -- that is, animals weighing
more than 44 kilograms (97 pounds) -- living on Earth 50,000 years
ago, at least 97 were extinct by 10,000 years ago. If you look
at localized extinctions instead of global extinctions, 121 genera
disappeared from at least one continent."</font><br>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000"><b>"'One thing
we can do, as conservationists, is to create and connect natural
areas' to allow animals to move around, he added."</b><br>
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<b>"Observed heat wave intensities in the current decade are
larger than worst-case projections."<br>
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</b>Auroop R. Gangulya, et al. Higher trends but larger uncertainty
and geographic variability in 21st century temperature and heat
waves.<i> PNAS</i>, September 15,<b> 2009<br>
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