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50,000 Dead Starfish Found on Irish Beach
Environment (tags: environment, weather, oceans, starfish, dead )

Katie
- 2 hours ago - friendsoftheirishenvironment.net

Extreme weather conditions have killed tens of thousands of starfish and left them strewn across a sheltered beach. A carpet of pink and mauve echinoderms, a family of marine animals, appeared yesterday morning on Lissadell Beach in north Co Sligo.

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Take Action: Ask the Obama Administration to Save Coal River Mountain
Environment (tags: Petition, CO2emissions, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, energy, environment, forests, humans, nature, pollution, protection, habitatdestruction, trees, water )

Daphna
- 12 hours ago - ga3.org

Save Coal River Mountain and help preserve our clean energy future. Contact the Obama Administration today. Two weeks ago Massey Energy began blasting Coal River Mountain and with it, the hopes of citizens who have developed plans for a green wind proje

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Protect Yellowstone/Greater Rockies=Please Take Action !
Environment (tags: habitatdestruction, environment, destruction, forests, government, conservation, wildlife, trees, water, nature, habitat, protection )

Tierney
- 12 hours ago - secure.nrdconline.org

Tell the Obama Administration to abandon its plan to hand over Wyoming's Red Desert lands to the oil and gas industry

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Protect Polar Bears and the Places They Live
Environment (tags: conservation, climatechange, endangered, environment, habitatdestruction )

Tierney
- 12 hours ago - secure.defenders.org

Rising temperatures are robbing polar bears of their homes and access to the food they need to survive. In response, the Interior Department has announced a proposal to designate more than 200,000 square miles of critical habitat for these struggling bear

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Take Action- Tell Your Senator to Protect Clean Air Act Authority
Environment (tags: petition, climate, CO2emissions, destruction, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, nature, humans, pollution, government )

Daphna
- 15 hours ago - secure2.convio.net

Senator Bob Menendez is circulating a letter written to Majority Leader Reid asking Reid to stand up to polluters and protect Clean Air Act authority to clean up greenhouse gas pollution from existing coal plants. Please join him in leading the way to a c

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Snow Will Soon Disappear From Mount Kilimanjaro
Environment (tags: environment, climate-change, snow, mountains, habitat, nature, protection )

Cher
- 15 hours ago - ecoworldly.com

Despite the fact that Mount Kilimanjaro is located in one of the world's warmer climates, like any other mountain with such high altitude, it has snowy peaks and glaciers that add interest to climbers, (although it doesn't do much for the wildlife on

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HELP SAVE COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment (tags: environment, protection, Coal River Mountain, habitat, nature, wildlife )

Cher
- 16 hours ago - change.org

Today, organizations across the nation are joining forces with iLoveMountains.org to send a powerful message to the Obama Administration that blasting on Coal River Mountain needs to stop now. More than 500,000 people across the country are being asked

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Degraded Habitats Push More Species to Extinction
Environment (tags: habitatdestruction, habitat, animals, ecosystems, environment, humans, protection, world, green )

Cal
- 17 hours ago - enn.com

The latest global assessment of biodiversity ruled yesterday that an additional 11 species are either fully extinct or extinct outside of captivity.

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Climate Treaty May Need Extra Year
Environment (tags: environment, globalwarming, CO2emissions, climate-change, greenhousegases, world, politics, conservation, protection )

Cal
- 17 hours ago - uk.reuters.com

A U.N. climate treaty may need an extra year beyond a December deadline to agree details, delegates at U.N. talks said on Thursday even as a U.S. Senate committee approved a carbon-capping bill.

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Gore's Book a Toolbox for Fixing Climate Crises
Environment (tags: Al Gore, ecosystems, globalwarming, CO2emissions, climatechange, greenhousegases, politics, protection, research, humans, world )

Cal
- 17 hours ago - usatoday.com

With global warming taking center stage in world affairs, Al Gore can't be far behind: The Nobel-Prize-winning former-vice president-turned-energy entrepreneur is releasing his plan to crack the climate conundrum.

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Toxic Junk: From Our Homes to Our Landfills
Environment (tags: landfills, toxic waste, pollution, destruction, health hazard )

Lone
- 17 hours ago - localnews8.com

Are you like many of us? Holding on to that old T.V. or computer? Maybe you have cans of old paint you don't know how to get rid of. We all know we have to properly dispose of them, but what is the best way

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Snows of Kilimanjaro May Soon Be Lost
Environment (tags: environment, globalwarming, climate, ClimateChange, habitat, nature, world )

Maria
- 20 hours ago - dsc.discovery.com

The snows of Kilimanjaro may soon be gone. The African mountain's white peak -- made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway -- is rapidly melting, researchers report.

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Truly Eco- and Bird-Friendly Wind Turbine
Environment (tags: environment, wind turbines, birds, death, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 23 hours ago - all-creatures.org

The death of avian life is perhaps one of the most common arguments against wind farms. The idea that wind turbines kill birds started originally from the large rate of bird deaths, around 4,700 annually, at the wind farm in Altamont, CA

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West Australia Oil Leak Still Pouring Oil Into the Sea After 2 Months - Marine Life Disaster
Environment (tags: environment, oil spill, destruction, pollution, habitat, nature, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 1 day ago - wildlifeextra.com

The area affected by the major oil spill off Australia's Kimberley coast contains a huge amount of marine life, including some of the most iconic and threatened species in the ocean, according to a marine wildlife survey conducted by WWF

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Strange Bedfellows: Glenn Beck, PETA Join Forces to Give Al Gore What for! Please Take Poll!!!
Environment (tags: environment, Gore, Beck, Peta, habitat, nature, vegetarians, wildlife, protection )

Cher
- 1 day ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com

All right, so Beck's strange leap onto PETA's bandwagon just so happens to give him some ammunition against another of his regular targets, former Vice President Al Gore.

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