<![CDATA[Care2 News Network - Brain Food found by Debbie H.]]> <![CDATA[The Western Climate Initiative - Show Your Support]]> In the absence of national leadership, states have been forging ahead with the solutions to global warming. Knowing that our western states could accomplish more together than separately, the Western Climate Initiative was launched in February 2007...
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]]> <![CDATA[Shun meat, says UN climate chief]]> People should consider eating less meat as a way of combating global warming, says the UN's top climate scientist.
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]]> <![CDATA[How To Talk To A Climate Sceptic]]> A listing of all the articles in the "How to Talk To A Climate Sceptic" guide, presented as a handy one-stop shop for all the material you should need to rebut the more common anti-global warming science arguments constantly echoed across the internet.
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]]> <![CDATA[Bid to weaken species act deserves to be shot down]]> Plan to let federal agencies avoid review raises conflicts of interest.
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]]> <![CDATA[Palin's Trouble with the Police]]> You have to admire the Republican chutzpah. Still confronting a national scandal about packing the Justice Department with “loyal Bushies,” they pick a vice presidential candidate who – in her two executive jobs in Alaska – ousted top law-enforcement guys
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]]> <![CDATA[UK Taxpayers Bank Details Recovered from Computers Sold on Ebay]]> In two seperate instances over a million sets of bank details have been recovered from computers sold on Ebay.
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]]> <![CDATA[Amazing Dog Helps Find and Save Endangered Species! [photos, video]]]> Rogue, a 4-year-old Belgian sheepdog, helps The Nature Conservancy find rare plants in Oregon that provide shelter for an endangered butterfly. Check out the great video and photos! Why isn't *my* dog this smart?!
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]]> <![CDATA[Troops out now! - Do You care? - NOW is not too late - Tomorrow is another day.]]> (Denver) Today, thousands of activists from across the country rallied at the State Capitol and marched through the streets of Denver to kick off a week of protests during the Democratic National Convention.

The March to End All Incursions Worldwide!..
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]]> <![CDATA[Making Money on the Slaughter of a Few More People]]> The Russia-Georgia clash has generated heated anti-Moscow rhetoric from John McCain and U.S. neoconservatives about a new Cold War... Would you prefer to have your tax dollars spent on renewing an out-dated health care system or funding ANOTHER war?
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]]> <![CDATA[Say No to Coal - Yes to Wind]]> This is a great local effort in West Virginia fighting against coal and for wind power - you can help in their efforts!
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]]> <![CDATA[Help Save Pristine Rainforest in Guyana!]]> Submitted by Tracy B. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> <![CDATA[2YO Filly Gives Birth at Louisiana Downs]]> Owners are seldom at a loss for words but when Marvin and Joel Cunningham were informed that their 2-year-old homebred filly Tiger Eyed had given birth they were speechless.
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]]> <![CDATA[Activists determined to break Gaza blockade despite threats]]> Submitted by pete Odonnell to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> <![CDATA[Bird flu hopes from 1918 victims]]> Survivors of the devastating 1918 influenza pandemic are still protected from the virus, according to researchers in the US.
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]]> <![CDATA[Do you use Ebay?]]> Ebay has changed the auction system. Instead of using a customers ID, they now us numbers, like bidder1, bidder 2, and it is utterly boring.
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]]> <![CDATA[The Original Olympics - In This Upside- Down World-Is A Laugh Impossible?]]> Praise Nike!
(The Goddess of Victory, Not the Shoe Company)
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]]> <![CDATA[Tell more than 350 companies: It's time to stop destroying rainforests for palm oil!]]> E-mail please!! More than 2,000 RAN supporters across 46 U.S. states and five Canadian provinces are going to their local supermarkets and sticking tens of thousands of "Warning: Product May Contain Rainforest Destruction" stickers on products.
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]]> <![CDATA[Birds head north as climate heats up]]> A study by researchers at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) has documented, for the first time in the northeastern United States, that a variety of bird species are extending their breeding ranges to the north, a pattern that ad
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]]> <![CDATA[Protect Gorillas From Deforestation]]> Please urge Congo's Ministry of Environment to deny all deals that were signed illegally under the country's moratorium on new logging contracts.

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]]> <![CDATA[Scientists warn that there may be no ice at North Pole this summer]]> It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.
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]]> <![CDATA[Scientist 'lone anthrax attacker']]> A US scientist who killed himself last week was the sole person responsible for the deadly anthrax attacks in 2001, new FBI papers allege.
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]]> <![CDATA[Destroying the Arctic Refuge Isn't the Answer]]> The Bush/Cheney administration continues to be a one-trick pony for Big Oil, proposing more of the same disastrous drilling plans that further benefit oil speculators and the oil industry – at the expense of our coasts and the ANWR...
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]]> <![CDATA[11th International Coral Reef Symposium: Call to Action]]> 2008 is a critical time for coral reefs. At the 11th ICRS held in July, midway in the International Year of the Reef, over 3000 experts assembled to face some hard truths: coral reefs are teetering on the edge of survival and it is our fault!!
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]]> <![CDATA[Gorilla discovery doubles population estimates]]> Researchers say they've found 125,000 lowland primates in African zone

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]]> <![CDATA[Faulty Findings?: A New Canadian study questions the science of climate change]]> Climate Change Errors? Many biologists who are studying the potential impacts of Climate Change on different species and the environment could be coming to faulty conclusions unless they widen their scope of their research, a new Canadian study suggests.
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]]> <![CDATA[Wal-Mart mobilizes against Democrats, Employees Rights]]> (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc is mobilizing U.S. store managers to lobby against Democrats in November's presidential election, fearing they will make it easier for workers to unionize, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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]]> <![CDATA[A Click For The Forest]]> Help save a Swedish forest - just click the button!
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]]> <![CDATA[Climate change affects ecosystems in northern Bering Sea]]> Latest research shows that in the last 20 years climate change has affected ecosystems in the northern Bering Sea which may threaten the life of apex predators, such as gray whale, walrus, seal in that region.

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]]> <![CDATA[The “EXPELLED” of Global Warming Denialism]]> The Great Global Warming Swindle was a film made as a response to Al Gore's "An Inconvinient Truth". This blog exposes it as bogus propaganda.
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]]> <![CDATA[Ruling expected on climate film]]> Media regulator Ofcom is due to decide whether a Channel 4 documentary broke rules on accuracy and fairness.
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]]> <![CDATA[VIDEO! ANIMAL COPS PHILADELPHIA ~ A Day in the Life of PSPCA Investigator Betty Sorrel ~ Season Premiere Wed, July 16, 10 PM]]> “I’ve just always been into animals, and just kind of really into the idea of standing up for those who can’t speak for themselves. My favorite part of the job is definitely working with the animals themselves. I enjoy handling the animals.”—Betty Sorrel
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]]> <![CDATA[Fatal Attack on Conservationists' Truck in Gorilla Park]]> In an African reserve infamous for gorilla murders, unknown gunners opened fire on a truck belonging to wildlife conservationists on Monday (07/06/2008)
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]]> <![CDATA[Study links global warming to more smog]]> U.S. environmental regulators quietly published a draft study on Thursday that linked global warming to higher levels of smog that could harm human health, a report green groups said stood in contrast to the Bush Administration's slow movement on climate
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]]> <![CDATA[Breaking: 320,000 Acres of Forest Protected for Wildlife and People]]>

In one of the most significant conservation sales in U.S. history, The Nature Conservancy and The Trust for Public Land have preserved 320,000 acres of pristine forest in western Montana that provide valuable habitat for species.


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]]> <![CDATA[The HSUS Exposes More Appalling Abuses of Dairy Cows at Livestock Auction in New Undercover Investigation]]> A new undercover investigation by The Humane Society of the United States reveals that sick and crippled dairy cows continue to be abused in the livestock industry....

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]]> <![CDATA[Key ocean mission goes into orbit]]> A space mission that will be critical to our understanding of climate change has launched from California.
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]]> <![CDATA[US lawmakers pass wiretaps bill]]> US lawmakers have passed a bill to shield telephone companies who helped in the White House's controversial warrantless wiretaps programme.
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]]> <![CDATA[102,387,581 Americans Don't Know How to Go Green]]> According to a Harris survey, more than 90% of Americans are recycling, but over 1/3rd of the entire U.S. population hasn't changed their lifestyle because they "did not know what to do" in order to be more green.
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]]> <![CDATA[Seas off West Coast very acidic, study warns]]> "We did not expect to see this extent of ocean acidification until the middle to the end of the century," said study co-author Chris Sabine.


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]]> <![CDATA[Greenhouse Gases Highest For 800,000 Years-Study]]> Carbon dioxide and methane trapped in tiny bubbles of air in ancient ice down to 3,200 metres (10,500 ft) below the surface of Antarctica add 150,000 years of data to climate records stretching back 650,000 years from shallower ice drilling.
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]]> <![CDATA[At The Movies... Who Killed The Electric Car?]]> This movie inspired and moved me to talk about it with others. With the price of gas soaring,with no end in sight, the electric car is here now, and so are some other alternatives. Please read about this and other important alternatives which are simple
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]]> <![CDATA[Death toll rises in China quake]]> The most powerful earthquake to hit China in 30 years has killed at least 10,000 people in south-western Sichuan province, with thousands more trapped.

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]]> <![CDATA[The battle for DR Congo's wildlife]]> Despite the Democratic Republic of Congo's shaky peace, her five World Heritage site national parks and their wildlife and unique ecosystems remain endangered.
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]]> <![CDATA[Reward Offered After Six Protected Sea Lions Are Killed on the Columbia]]> The Humane Society of the United States is offering a reward of $5,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for killing six federally protected sea lions on the Columbia River
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]]> <![CDATA[Reward Offered In Mutilated Dogs Case]]> JACKSON COUNTY, Mo. -- Several pet rescue organizations have banded together to offer a reward in the case of several dogs found decapitated at a cemetery in Jackson County.

Spay Neuter Kansas City, United Animal Nations and The Humane Society announce
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]]> <![CDATA[Cry 'Save Tara' on St Patrick's Day]]> Ireland's poet laureate and Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney has branded the plan to build a freeway through the Hill of Tara as "ruthless desecration".
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]]> <![CDATA[FDA OKs meat, milk from most cloned animals]]> Food from healthy clones of cattle, swine and goats is as safe as food from non-cloned animals, the Food and Drug Administration said in a report released Tuesday, January 15, 2008. They still refuse to label things as from cloned animals.
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]]> <![CDATA[Mauling survivor said he yelled at tiger]]> One of the two survivors of the San Francisco Zoo tiger attack that left a 17-year-old dead told the victim's father that the three had yelled and waved at the animal while standing atop the railing of the tiger's exhibit.
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]]> <![CDATA[Massey Energy to Pay Huge Penalty for Clean Water Act Violations]]> Coal mining company forced to pay $20 million in fines for over 4,600 Clean Water Act permit violations.

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]]> <![CDATA[TAKE ACTION! Help IDA stop cruel nicotine experiments on monkeys at OHSU]]> OHSU experimenter Eliot Spindel has been killing infant monkeys in nicotine studies for 24 years. But that's not enough for him--Spindel has a ticket to ride the federally-funded gravy train and continue these needless experiments until 2012.
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