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Take Action To Save Bristol Bay ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Environment  (tags: environment, destruction, habitat, nature, protection )

Cher
- 8 hours ago - secure2.convio.net
Threatened by a massive open-pit mine, the pristine Bristol Bay Rivers in Alaska were #2 on the list of America's Most Endangered Rivers® of 2011. The battle has continued in this region that is host to one of the last great salmon fisheries on earth.
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Tell Congress: No More Big Oil Bailouts ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Environment  (tags: destruction, environment, habitat, nature, protection )

Cher
- 8 hours ago - secure.sierraclub.org
Big Oil is taking our money and standing in our way -- but still gets taxpayer subsidies. Tell Congress: No more Big Oil bailouts
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Blind Prawns Saved From Extinction at Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo
Environment  (tags: GOOD NEWS, Israel, prevention of extinction of bind prawn )

Beth
- 9 hours ago - israel21c.org
Human development has put this blind shrimp, or prawn to be more precise (Typhlocaris Galilea), at severe risk of extinction. The prawn is found in a remarkable habitat: It lives in one chamber of an ancient Roman cistern in a forgotten city on the north
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True Nature: Revising Ideas On What Is Pristine and Wild
Environment  (tags: nature, humans, habitat, environment, ecosystems, Sustainabililty, protection, trees )

Cal
- 13 hours ago - e360.yale.edu
New research shows that humans have been transforming the earth and its ecosystems for millenniums -- far longer than previously believed.
16 comments
TAKE ACTION: TELL THE EPA YOU WANT LOWER, NOT HIGHER, LIMITS ON MONSANTO'S ROUNDUP!
Environment  (tags: government, healthconditions, politics, protection, climatechange, destruction, environment )

Beverly
- 13 hours ago - salsa3.salsalabs.com
When does one plus one not equal two? When mounting evidence says glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup pesticide, does more damage to our health and environment than we thought.
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TAKE ACTION: TELL CALIFORNIA DECISION MAKERS: DON'T FRACK OUR FOOD AND FARMS!
Environment  (tags: government, fracking, ethics, protection, humanrights )

Beverly
- 17 hours ago - petitions.moveon.org
California is the largest producer of food in the U.S. Fracking and farming cannot co-exist. If we frack California's farms, we put the entire country's food supply at risk. Please stop auctioning off California's public lands to the oil and gas industry
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TAKE ACTION: TELL HOME DEPOT AND LOWE'S TO STOP SELLING BEE-KILLING PESTICIDES.
Environment  (tags: world, endangered, environment, destruction, protection, Sustainabililty )

Beverly
- 17 hours ago - action.foe.org
Retailers should stop the sale of neonicotinoid pesticides to protect honey bees and other pollinators essential to our food supply and the environment.
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HALL OF SHAME: The Toxic 100 Water Polluters
Environment  (tags: water, pollution, environment, destruction, nature, humans, research )

Cal
- 21 hours ago - peri.umass.edu
The Toxic 100 Water Polluters index identifies the top companies and Federal agencies responsible for industrial water pollution
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Fish Feeling the Heat From Global Warming
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, animals, environment, climate-change, globalwarming, world, wildlife, protection, nature, humans )

Cal
- 22 hours ago - ecowatch.com
A study featured in the current issue of Nature reveals that ocean warming has already affected fisheries around the world over the past four decades as fish populations shift in response to changing sea temperatures.
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Tell Secretary of State John Kerry: Investigate Big Oil's Influence on the Keystone XL Review ACTION
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, habitatdestruction, Keystone XL, globalwarming, water, wildlife, health, Kerry, environment, corruption )

Nancy
- 1 day ago - action.foe.org
It turns out that he report was written by a contractor with deep ties to the oil industry. What's worse, State Department employees attempted to hide these ties.
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Applaud Agreement to Save Pacific Northwest Waterways ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Environment  (tags: destruction, environment, habitat, nature, protection )

Cher
- 1 day ago - forcechange.com
Congratulate McLerran on an agreement with Seattle greatly reducing sewage pollution to the city's surrounding waterways
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Don't Let Pipeline Further Destroy Sacred Native American Land ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Environment  (tags: environment, destruction, habitat, nature, protection )

Cher
- 1 day ago - forcechange.com
Stop the development of the Keystone XL pipeline on historic Native American land
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Demand An Investigation of the Keystone XL Conflict of Interest ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Environment  (tags: environment, destruction, habitat, nature, protection )

Cher
- 1 day ago - secure.sierraclub.org
Secretary of State John Kerry has always been a climate champ, not a climate chump. Tell him not to flip-flop now, and to stand strong by halting the Keystone XL process until a full investigation can be completed!
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In Landmark Ruling, Indonesia's Indigenous People Win Right to Millions of Hectares of Forest
Environment  (tags: environment, ecosystems, development, destruction of naturnative rights, indigenous peoples rights, politics, Idle No More Movement, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', government, humanrights, politics, ethics, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', world, news, world, protection, nature )

Cal
- 1 day ago - news.mongabay.com
In a landmark ruling, Indonesia's Constitutional Court has invalidated the Indonesian government's claim to millions of hectares of forest land, potentially giving indigenous and local communities the right to manage their customary forests
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