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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – From reducing your carbon footprint with Michael Pollan to keeping the Greater Sage-Grouse off the Endangered Species list to tracking the original chicken, please enjoy these select stories from the newest issue of Audubon magazine below.
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FOOD & SUSTAINABILITY
1. How to Cook Like Michael Pollan by Rene Ebersole
Want to reduce your carbon footprint and cut calories? Michael Pollan reveals how to do both without a trip to a crowded farmer’s market.
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Sustainable food guru @MichaelPollan tells @audubonsociety his mid-week go-to meal & other tips: http://ow.ly/DTh7u
2. Michael Pollan Q and A by Rene Ebersole
The food guru explains how farming and agriculture could help stop climate change.
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.@MichaelPollan explains how agriculture could absorb carbon instead of creating it:http://ow.ly/DThoa via @AudubonSociety
3. Blackbirds Eating in the Dead of Night by Manon Verchot
A new study shows urban light pollution is turning Blackbirds into night owls.
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As our cities keeps expanding, their bright lights are keeping Blackbirds up later.http://ow.ly/E51Dw via @AudubonSociety
CLIMATE CHANGE
4. Citizen Scientist: The Futurist by Rachel Nuwer
Jessical Zelt’s database of bird sightings helps us understand how climate change is already affecting North American bird populations.
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Jessica Zelt built a citizen science empire now used to study #ClimateChange’s effects on birds http://ow.ly/E5er9 Via @AudubonSociety
5. Galapagos Journal: A Quest to See a Place Untouched by Climate Change by Doug Peacock
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.@DougPeacock captures essence of the Galapagos before #ClimateChange starts to affect wildlife http://ow.ly/DThXk via @AudubonSociety
6. Strangers in Your Backyard? Thank Climate Change by Jennifer Balmer, PhD
In the past two decades, the cast of birds that frequent winter feeders has changed. Global warming may be to blame.
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Notice strange birds in your backyard? Might be due to #climate change per @jennifer_balmer http://ow.ly/E51z4 via @AudubonSociety
BIRDS & WILDLIFE
7. Rehab: A Birdy Love Story, in Pictures by Robert Szypko
Photographer Annie Marie Musselman found her focus by helping injured birds.
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Beautiful photos in @AudubonSociety magazine as a photographer brings a new perspective to wildlife rehabilitation http://ow.ly/DWxAF
8. Rethinking the Endangered Species List by Hillary Rosner
Keeping the Greater Sage-Grouse off the Endangered Species List may be a good thing for the bird (and the ESA).
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The Greater #SageGrouse may stay off the Endangered Species List. Why @AudubonSociety thinks that could be a good thing http://ow.ly/E51w0
9. Chicken Run by Andrew Lawler
How a small town in Georgia is home to the last genetically pure Red Junglefowl, aka the progenitor of all chickens.
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20 billion chickens peck on any given day. And every one of them is descended from Red Junglefowl http://ow.ly/DWxS9 via @AudubonSociety
10. From Fins to Wings by Purbita Saha
A surreal metamorphosis from bird to fish to bird again by Austrian artist Thomas Medius.
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From fish to bird to fish to bird. This glass artwork reflects the surrealism found in nature.http://ow.ly/E51Hj via @AudubonSociety
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