WARSAW (AFP) - Ecologists raised the alarm Monday over global warming as environment ministers from more than 30 states met in Warsaw ahead of December's UN Climate summit focused on slashing greenhouse gases.
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]]> Amazon forests in Brazil are shrinking three times faster than in 2007, officials say. A key culprit is the national government itself, according to reports.
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]]> Campesinos in the department of San Pedro occupied Brazilian-owned farms on Oct. 1 to block the entry of transgenic soy, and began planting other crops such as sesame and yucca on the plots
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]]> Back in August, we put out a call for personal stories honoring your older dogs—and you guys really delivered. Thank you so much for your responses, we’re just sorry we couldn’t print them all! Please read on to meet the awesome cast of characters who
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]]> A fibre found in most fruit and vegetables may help ward off cancer, experts believe. An ongoing study by the Institute of Food Research suggested pectin, a fibre found in everything from potato to plums, helped to fight the disease.
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]]> To all who love animals this is for you. As usual the music is free to download. In return please check out my other videos and read about the plight of the albatross, thank you.
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]]> In an unexpected reversal of policy, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service last week requested that Mizzoula, Mont., District Court Judge Donald Molloy overturn their removal of the Northern Rocky Mountain gray wolf population from Endangered list.
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]]> A bipartisan effort is underway that could amount to "two of the most sweeping apologies in American history," website The Politico is reporting.
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]]> Bob is back in the hospital. The picture above is an updated picture of Bob taken on September 20th, 2008. He is on oxygen and definitely needs our assistance. Bob B. is a 100% disabled veteran and is going to be living alone as of January...
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]]> Beluga whale tastes best with soy sauce, says Tocasie Burke, manager of Inuktitut affairs for Nunavut's cultural affairs department.

"It's a delicacy," Burke said, speaking from her office in Iqaluit, pronounced ee-kal-oo-eet, a town of about 8,000.

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]]> Two Rattle snakes making love on a hot autumn day in Texas. I think people who say snakes are cold blooded animals should change there view after viewing these pictures.
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]]> The orphan is one of only 15,000 endangered white rhinos left in the world, driven toward extinction by an illegal trade in rhino horn used for aphrodisiacs in China and dagger handles in the Middle East.
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]]> What you’re doing right, and how to do it better
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]]> Where you put your toothbrush, TV, workout gear, and more can make a huge impact on your habits and your life. Here, the worst place for your stuff and where to move it to feel your best
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]]> "Sarahcuda" at a morning rally in Clearwater shouted vicious lies, deceit, and slander against Obama and the media. And the crowd -- among them New York Jets owner Woody Johnson -- reacted WITHOUT applause to Palin's Joe Six-Pack lines.
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]]> The Tomorrow Today group of 11 of Canada's largest environmental organizations put six questions to the leaders of the five main political parties in Canada's 2008 federal election.
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]]> I think many of us share a similar fear: dying alone, incapacitated, perhaps unable to speak, to remember, to do the simplest thing for ourselves. Read this piece & share your thoughts on prolonging life when real life itself has already departed.
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]]> The most comprehensive assessment of the world’s mammals has confirmed an extinction crisis, with almost one in four at risk of disappearing forever, according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™
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Natural Remedies For Yeast Infections
By the How to Cure Candida TEAM
www.HowToCureCandida.com
Today I’m going to share with you some of the best natural remedies to cure yeast infections (thrush/candida), and I’ll also explain why...
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]]> Cigarettes don’t cause cancer, Saddam had nuclear weapons, and global warming is good for your health. Can you guess which one of those lies did not come from the White House?
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]]> In October 2007, Rep. Robert E. Andrews (D-NJ) introduced a bill in Congress to designate the first Saturday of every October as National Animal Rescue Day in order to
"create awareness for animal rescue programs throughout the year, address the
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]]> It's been long known that mercury from old mines leaks into the San Francisco Bay from the hills above San Jose where the New Almaden Quicksilver Mine operated for more than 120 years before it was shut down in the 1970s.
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]]> In a provocative address to an Indian audience, the Prince echoes Gandhi with a stinging attack on 'commerce without morality'. Geoffrey Lean reports
*clap* *clap* *clap*
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]]> STARBUCKS was blasted by environmental experts last night after The Sun discovered it pours millions of litres of precious water down the drain at its coffee shops.
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]]> The possibility of using genetically modified seeds in Peru continues to be a controversial issue between the Andean country's Environment Ministry and the Ministry of Agriculture
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]]> Just as science begins to solve the mysteries of their seasonal comings and goings, many of the world’s migratory species are in sharp decline
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]]> Jim Cramer, the emotional TV economist, just told consumers to pull our money out of stocks NOW, if they are not financially stable for the next 5 years!!
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]]> WASHINGTON - Conservationists have taken the first detailed look at the world's mammals in more than a decade, and the news isn't good.
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]]> Island Timberlands starts to log giant trees in
Cathedral Grove
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]]> U.S. law allows clothing designers and retailers to omit, on their labels, any mention of animal fur on fur-trimmed jackets. They are even allowed to dye real fur to make it look fake, and sell it without mentioning on the label that it is real fur.


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]]> There is a trend in our society and abroad to address extremely disturbing practices that require attention and reform.
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]]> Over the past weekend, 50.000 adults and children from over 30 European countries took up EuroBirdwatch 2008, BirdLife’s invitation to observe the fascinating migration, as birds move south across Europe for the winter
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]]> Commandments,Directives Before the Strike,by Your Own USA Government.They tell you what they plan on doing,and if no-one notices or gets upset,.they do it.Try to pretend you have a brain for a minute or two,.. BEFORE .. They Come & Get,.. YOU.
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]]> The Smithsonian Institution is now interested in the 3,000-pound whale that beached itself on Wednesday.The huge mammal drew a crowd of onlookers and some desperately tried to save it as it foundered in the surf.

The whale was still getting a lot of at
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]]> At first, Billy Ray Cyrus couldn't wait to get into the pen at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium to get acquainted with the Siberian tiger cub that bears his name.

"Oh, I'm not scared," the country singer said as he watched the cub bound about the encl
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]]> SEASIDE, Ore. (AP) -- A shark that washed up on an Oregon beach was covered with unknown parasites.

Seaside Aquarium officials say the 4-foot salmon shark that washed up in the Cannon Beach area Wednesday was covered with a dense layer of parasites in
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]]> NEW YORK (AP) — Federal health officials have issued a public health warning against rabies after an Iraqi puppy with the disease arrived in the United States.
The dog was part of a rescue operation to unite American soldiers with abandoned animals they
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]]> Three rare white lion cubs have been born near South Africa's Kruger National park. The number of white lions being born in the wild has dwindled significantly over the last 16 years.

News of the latest births will be announced by the Global White Lio
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]]> NEWCASTLE, Wash. - A crew from the Newcastle Public Works Department got quite a surprise recently when they discovered two Pacific giant salamanders.

The species is rare to begin with, and the creatures are usually very elusive and come out only at n
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]]> THE crocodile suspected of killing Vietnam veteran Arthur Booker will be held in captivity once trapped by hunters in the Endeavour River.

Wildlife ranger and croc expert Scott Sullivan yesterday deployed gated land traps and a floating cage in an atte
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]]> PARENTS of a seven-year-old who fed lizards to a crocodile during a reptile park break-in are likely to face civil action.

The boy broke into a Northern Territory reptile farm and sadistically fed a stream of its main exhibits to the resident 3m crocod
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]]> Four days after the Bush administration's financial rescue package ran off the rails in Congress, the House of Representatives gave the plan a second look and — after loading it up with a bunch of goodies — liked what they saw.

The plan, passed by the
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]]> GILCHRIST, Texas - One of North America's renowned bird migration and bird watching areas is strangely silent.

Blame Hurricane Ike.

"We had red-winged blackbirds, sparrows, a bunch of migrating birds," recalled Ernest Stone, 75, leaning on his cane
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]]> Giddy up! A lion rides a horse in a circus show as part of celebrations to mark National Day, the 59th anniversary of the founding of communist China.
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]]> A farmer who shocked the country with his fake photo of the endangered South China tiger, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison in north-west Shaanxi province, state media said Sunday.
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]]> After 12 years of broadcast, Big Cat is going live! An unprecedented three weeks of live webcasting leads the way so you can follow the fortunes of Africa's biggest predators and their prey 24-hours a day.
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]]> Owner Bill Clark’s convertible was struck from behind and that’s when Max went missing.More then three weeks passed with hopeful sightings of Clark’s missing Max but nothing panned out…. watch the video for the full story.


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]]> For more then a month, Shepp, a German Shepherd, was chained on a concrete driveway with at an abandoned home with no food, no water, with a collar embedded into his neck causing a serious wound. Day by day the dogs suffering and pain worsened
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