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• UAW, American Axle reach tentative deal
Times and locations of meetings for workers at plants in New York and Three Rivers, Mich., were still being arranged, the statement said. It was unclear when votes would take place or when the workers could return to their jobs.
• In Egypt, Bush says Saudi oil boost not enough
They include opening a coastal strip of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil exploration and production and making it easier to build new oil refineries and nuclear power plants in the United States.
• Experts list warming, impacts ties
Those impacts range from permafrost thawing in the Arctic, to plants blooming earlier across Europe and lakes declining in productivity in Africa.
• 'Nitrogen cascade' called threat to ecosystems
The researchers propose ways to reduce nitrogen use, ranging from encouraging its uptake by plants to recovering and reusing nitrogen from manure and sewage and decreasing nitrogen emissions from fossil fuel combustion.
• Oil hits new high
Also pushing oil prices higher was speculation that China’s demand for diesel needed to fuel its power plants would rise due to reconstruction efforts after this week’s earthquakes.

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• Science: Biology: Flora and Fauna: Plantae  (11,866)
• Science: Environment: Forests and Rainforests  (71)
• Society: Issues: Environment: Conservation and Endangered Species: Ecosystems and Habitats: Forests  (47)

» Aquatic Subsurface Injection Systems - Seagrass restoration using patented planting and fertilization techniques. Services, photos, and contact information.
» Australian Network for Plant Conservation - Objectives are to develop, maintain, and co-ordinate a national network of organisations and individuals, promoting co-operation and information exchange for plant conservation and contribute to the recovery and long term survival of threatened plants.
» Botanic Gardens Conservation International - Provides technical guidance, data and support for botanic gardens in almost 100 countries worldwide.
» Brooklyn Botanic Garden - Information for the gardener about plant classification, structure, anatomy, physiology and a section on plant conservation.
» California Native Plant Society - The CNPS is a non-profit organization dedicated to the appreciation and conservation of California native plants through education, science, horticulture and advocacy.
» Canadian Botanical Conservation Network - A registered charitable organization which helps conserve biological diversity through networking tools and conservation programs for botanical gardens and arboreta.
» Center for Plant Conservation - A national consortium of 28 botanical gardens and arboreta dedicated to saving America's endangered plants.
» Cloud Forest Conservation - Exhibit on cloud forest biodiversity conservation from the Strybing Arboretum Society. Details on rare and endangered plant species, collaborations with institutions world-wide and plant collecting expeditions to Southeast Asia.
» Flora Locale - Promotes the managed use of native plants for ecological restoration projects in the UK and Ireland. Includes details of training courses and other events, a bulletin board, and descriptions of current projects.
» Georgia Plant Conservation Alliance - Study and preserves Georgia's flora through multidisciplinary research, education, and advocacy; facilitate the recovery of rare, threatened, and endangered plants of Georgia and the southeast U.S. through collaborative efforts in our state; and communicate the importance of preserving biodiversity worldwide.
» Institute for Plant Conservation - A small unit within the University of Cape Town's Faculty of Science, undertaking research and extension and post-graduate teaching directed at improving the conservation status of the Cape Floristic Region.
» Maryland Native Plant Society - Dedicated to Protecting, Conserving, and Restoring Maryland's Native Plants and Habitats.
» The National Council for the Conservation of Plants - Information on the conservation of the biodiversity of garden plants for the benefit of horticulture, education and science.
» National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens - Information from the Gloucestershire group of the NCCPG including a newsletter, the programme for 2002, photographs and contact details.
» Native Plants Network - Main site for the scientific "Native Plants Journal", also hosting a native plant propagation protocol database.
» Plant Conservation Alliance - Information about projects, grants and funding, meetingsand members.
» Plant Conservation Biotechnology - Plant Conservation Group at the University of Abertay, Dundee whose main activity is the application of biotechnological techniques to plant conservation problems.
» Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit - Responsible for acquiring, characterising, maintaining, evaluating, documenting and distributing genetic resources of agricultural and horticultural crops, including wild species.
» Plant Talk - A magazine providing information, encouragement and advice on plant conservation.
» Plantlife - The wild plant charity, which carries out plant species and habitat conservation, owns and manages nature reserves, campaigns, and raises awareness through education.
» Pukaha Mt. Bruce: Plant Conservation - Program to protect threatened plant species within the park. Staff takes seeds and cuttings to create more breeding stock for the area flora.
» Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, UK - Conservation policy and aims and links to current projects.
» Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - Housing the largest living plant collection in the world, Kew Gardens also undertakes reaserch into taxonomy, economic and ethnobotany and conservation.
» Tropical Marine Plant Conservation Working Group - Provides information about marine algae and marine Spermatophytes growing on the coasts of Ryukyu archipelago