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Nature Feeds Our Families
It's Tuesday—market day. Idamane Supreme leaves her husband and children and heads down the dusty hill, past hundreds of neighbors milling around in front of their small homes. At 9 am, it's alrea…
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Extinction Rates Soar in Brazil’s Fragmented Forests
By Stephen Messenger, TreeHugger While much is made about pervasive threats faced by Brazil's Amazon Rainforest (and rightfully so), the nation is home to another biologically diverse region that'…
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Guitar Company Admits To Using Illegal Rainforest Wood
By Lloyd Alter, TreeHugger A year ago, John covered the raid on Gibson Guitars, where the US Fish and Wildlife Service suspected that the company was guilty of violations of the Lacey Act, which …
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Norway Cuts Palm Oil Consumption 64% in One Year
By Michael Graham Richard, TreeHugger Kudos to Regnskogfondet! An Example for the Whole World As we've written a lot about before, growing palm oil in the way that the biggest producers of it…
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12 Ways Technology Is Saving Endangered Species
By Derek Markham, TreeHugger Our human tendency toward innovation and ingenuity, coupled with our advancing technology, is helping to come up with solutions for saving some of the other species o…
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Water Filter Saves Lives, Trees in Cambodia
A simple water filter made from rice husk is helping the poor of rural Cambodia improve their health prospects and stem the deforestation that is destroying the nation's jungles. This week iDE-Hydrolo…
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8 Beautiful Endangered Plants (Slideshow)
It's not just polar bears and tigers that are threatened by endangerment. Indeed, there are a number of fascinating, beautiful, and odd plants that are on the brink of extinction. Click thro…
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Energy Efficiency in the Warm Heart of Africa
Villagers in Malawi fight back against the relentless tide of deforestation by using new stove technology, which allows them to use far less wood. Science News by NewsLook var nl_rand = "Hrl…
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The Girl Scouts Work Towards Greener Cookies
The Girl Scouts of the USA are working on a new merit badge: sustainability. The Girl Scouts' use of palm oil in the cookies they sell annually has become a topic of debate recently, with experts a…
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5 Environmental Crises To Care About
By Mickey Z., Planet Green Imagine for a minute if corporate-sponsored mouthpieces like Limbaugh and O'Reilly were correct on either of these points: Global warming is a hoax Humans are n…
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