1. Bonn Climate Change Conference This Week
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![Photo credit: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/cecco1965/8255396436/">Francesco 65</a> via <a href="https://visualhunt.com/re/794661">VisualHunt</a> / <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/"> CC BY-NC-ND</a> air pollution](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjmwWXaPY4p9tclTk400qtoh3PiAZb4Zo1-xxJQ7rIGcyXWpg6Jnyzcvpbxz7C5cPFLNVdsUB3CL2G-FbKLkW2SeNFvdMhyphenhyphen_Q7Eup3oaPQ43pLANnJLR3p069CFCCJ7GHbC2-exTJJGyU/s320/air-pollution.jpg)
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Scott Pruitt, has replaced 18 of the 44-members on the Scientific Advisory Board.These experts are tasked with reviewing the scientific information the EPA uses to make key policy decisions. One of his replacements, smog researcher Robert Phalen says, “modern air is a little too clean for optimum health.” The new chair of the board, Michael Honeycutt, suggests that “EPA air quality regulations and ozone limits are unnecessary because Americans spend 90% of their time indoors.”
3. Half of Hawaii’s Coral Reefs Bleached in One Year
![Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii coral bleaching AP Photo: Caleb Jones coral bleaching, Hawaii, Oahu, Kaneohe Bay](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPKpigJ-6AjmdBGr_qfep3xtf_t0Tx6uZlTeVkxQRT88G9JfY2LxaCHi0seIpzIFW_3hAf3QLIXuSgUPFiLUX42mpfPfzHTXYk_ed5UZxafiZkccF-pFbLCMaLtthe6IKCzzWUrqRY8ys/s320/coral-bleaching-hawaii.jpeg)
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4. Congressman Bishop Attempts to Invalidate the Endangered Species Act![Endangered species: polar bear photo by:Photo credit: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/38485387@N02/3582475670/">flickrfavorites</a> via <a href="https://visualhunt.com/re/794661">Visual Hunt</a> / <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"> CC BY</a> polar bear, endangered species act](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihDl7Z3zGdFuW75dwcYQnv7wjNxf0F1ga0fwS7R1phZAUzVTXiAqKZxqyluKvrrKDbF_SxrF4Q0VcU0DFdzyLLMvmknQ0x6VJYA6YpdMQ4eCMJVv0vkCEhXd11nozwpnVAvhBGhfl5eL4/s320/polar-bear.jpg)
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![dead sea turtle Photo by: MARN El Salvador sea turtle, dead sea turtle, El Salvador](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJfetsjGjPu2T8dz-O9vh_Ib4Jb1mHB61jA8IYVIZGhYTA3vqPJAP8Z_MkkN1JH86yjPiFywiA-_Ph1H1Xe342_1jbqcygszuRv6Kbth8UT_AZOAnyNLjkPvXXp9fdkopMo_US_ifA1Aw/s320/dead-sea-turtle.jpg)
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6. Vaquita Porpoise Dies in Captivity
The plan to capture a vaquita, the most endangered marine mammal in the world, has ended with the death of a female that was captured and put into an ocean pen. The loss occurred after a female calf had been caught and released because it showed signs of stress. The VaquitaCPR project, a desperate measure to save the 30 vaquita that remain in Mexico's Gulf of California, has been suspended, although acoustic monitoring will continue. Now it is up to conservationists to clean up gillnets in the vaquita’s habitat and stop the illegal fishing of the totoaba fish, which fetches a high price in the black market.
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6. Vaquita Porpoise Dies in Captivity
![Vaquita porpoise calf caught by VaquitaCPR Photo by: SEMARNAT vaquita, vaquita porpoise, vaquita calf](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzOHMFKv8eBN7Z8WjhiQfrW-dYhxEyx64VbBVxvwKZRU6N0hIbOErZ0jrPVlmn5kFycokKxnJmnRk72MuDzT9jnsxLnZsa2aaciNgxWFIjww19sDT9glGsCiS7V6EDYM7i0iOnyKt7Olc/s320/vaquita-female-calf.jpg)
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![Lewis Pugh swims in the Antarctic photo by: Kelvin Trautman Lewis Pugh, Antarctica](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjHtDYB5bF-vF7yOhwMKqvSl6n4mGHYW_wpOx3_zrn89xNl05CNMpCNPiu1lRkyuU3n-ndRbdlk2hfZdjGK13sm7xmFF8CKS_lLzXTXHdPkJOVn2vJP04x7BV3tulK0iOecdGBO2Uyz2o/s320/lewis-pugh-antarctica.jpg)
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