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The NRA Wants Loaded Guns in Parks. What Do YOU Want?
Environment  (tags: action alert, national parks, conservation, government )

Cory
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 24 minutes ago - ga1.org
That's right, guns in parks. LOADED guns in parks. For some reason, the NRA thinks it's a great idea to let anyone and everyone posses loaded weapons in our national parks.
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Avalanche Forces Alaska Town to Embrace Conservation
Environment  (tags: climatechange, conservation, environment, globalwarming, goodnews, habitat, nature, pollution, protection, humans, destruction, endangered, green )

Linda
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- 1 hour ago - iht.com
JUNEAU, Alaska: Conservationists swoon at the possibility of it all. Here in Alaska, where melting Arctic ice and eroding coastlines have made global warming an urgent threat, this little city has cut its electricity use by more than 30 percent in a matt
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Take Action:Protect the Refuge, Reject Big Oil
Environment  (tags: arctic national refuge, wildife, drilling, habitat destruction, threatened wild animals, environment, humans, endangered )

Simone
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- 2 hours ago - secure.defenders.org
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been called America’s Serengeti -- one of the most important onshore denning habitats for America’s struggling polar bears and home to caribou, snow fox and millions of migratory birds. But that’s not
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Polar Bear Melodrama
Environment  (tags: animals, climate, climate-change, CO2emissions, climatechange, conservation, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, globalwarming, greenhousegases, habitat, humans, nature, oceans, protection, wildlife )

Judy
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- 3 hours ago - online.wsj.com
Polar bears have thrived in the Arctic for thousands of years, both through periods when their sea-ice habitat was smaller, and larger, than it is now. They will continue to adapt – and the Endangered Species Act can't make the slightest difference.
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Polar Bears Listed As Protected- Now Come The Lawsuits
Environment  (tags: climate, climate-change, climatechange, CO2emissions, conservation, ecosystems, endangered, environment, globalwarming, globalwarming, government, green, greenhousegases, habitat, nature, oceans, wildlife, world )

Judy
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- 4 hours ago - wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com
The big green machine has finally successfully lobbied enough FUD to get the thriving polar bear listed as a threatened species. Never mind the fact that the arctic sea ice has melted before in the last 100 years.
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Barcelona Forced to Import Water, Relying on Seaborne Shipment of Drinking Water, Amid Unprecedented Drought
Environment  (tags: Spain, Barcelona, Catalonia, water shortage, severe drought, lack of rain, seaborne, water shipments, emergency plan, high cost )

Jill
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 5 hours ago - timesonline.co.uk
Unprecedented emergency plan to tackle city's worst drought in decades. Tanker carrying 5M gallons(23M litres)of water is just 1st step to help alleviate growing shortages. 66 shipments/month expected to arrive in summer, providing 6% of needs, at cost of
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EcoBlogger Exposes Fake List Global Warming Skeptic Scientists
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, skeptics, scientists, list, fake, exposed, GoodNews, ecoblogger )

Holly
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- 6 hours ago - ecogeek.org
It turns out that the heartland institute had never told the scientists they were going on the list, nor did they check to see if these people actually had any doubts about the causes of climate change.
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L.A. Prepares Massive Water-Conservation Plan
Environment  (tags: environment, conservation, water, protection, climatechange, climate )

Cal
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 13 hours ago - latimes.com
The initiative would punish water wasters and limit such activities as watering lawns and washing vehicles. And it would revive a controversial effort to recycle sewage water.
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U.S. Major Importer of Illegal Asian Timber, Study Says
Environment  (tags: trees, illegal logging, environment, endangered species, conservation, forests, wildlife, nature, protection )

Cher
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- 14 hours ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Vietnam has become a hub for processing Asia's illegally logged timber, much of which is sold in the United States as outdoor furniture, conservationists say
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World’s Largest Area of Wetlands - Pantanal in Brazil
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, animals, wildlife, nature, environment )

Ivica
StarsGold Notes
- 15 hours ago - nature-blog.com
The Pantanal floods during the wet season, submerging over 80% of the area, and nurturing the world's richest collection of aquatic plants. It is thought to be the world’s most dense flora and fauna ecosystem.
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Spain Goes Ahead Fishing Red Tuna in Mediterranean Sea
Environment  (tags: conservation, ecosystems, oceans, animals, government )

Ramon
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 16 hours ago - oceansentry.org
The Spanish government will go ahead fishing immature red tuna in the Mediterranean Sea, as General Director of Fishery Resources and Aquaculture, Fernando Curcio spoke out defending the legality to this over-fishing as ‘issue of minor importance’.
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Beautiful Terror: Pesticides All Around Us?
Environment  (tags: humans, nature, pesticides, environment, world, artist, interesting, photography )

Holly
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 16 hours ago - motherearthnews.com
With a unique and engaging medium, artist Laurie Tumer reveals the ubiquity of pesticides in our environment.
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Polar Bear Listed as Threatened Species Because of Global Warming
Environment  (tags: environment, globalwarming, endangered, climate-change, animals, suffering, Sustainabililty, protection, pollution, habitatdestruction, government, humans, wildlife )

Linda
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 17 hours ago - iht.com
WASHINGTON: The U.S. government declared the polar bear a threatened species Wednesday because of the loss of Arctic sea ice but also cautioned the decision should not be viewed as a path to address global warming.nterior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne cited
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Work Begins on Massive Planting Scheme to Double Ancient Woodland
Environment  (tags: ancient oak woodlands, Scotland, tree planting, conservation, environment, nature, habitat, protection, forests, wildlife )

Cher
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 18 hours ago - wildlifeextra.com
Pioneering work to double the size of the largest remaining tract of ancient oak woodland in southern Scotland has begun with a massive programme of tree planting.
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Groups Say Amazon Vulnerable After Resignation
Environment  (tags: Amazon rainforests, destruction, activists, trees, protection, nature, humans, habitatdestruction, forests, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, conservation )

Holly
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 18 hours ago - green.yahoo.com
Since assuming her post in 2003, Marina Silva had opposed genetically modified crops, tightened environmental licensing for public works projects and urged limiting biofuel plantations in the rain forest.
 

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