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Environment News tagged with Environment

Protesters Want Colorado to "Stop Clowning Around" on Clean Air
Environment  (tags: environment, activists, climatechange, pollution, humans, protection, CO2emissions, ecosystems, climate, ClimateChange )

Cal
- 3 hours ago - denverpost.com
Environmental groups advocating an immediate shift to cleaner energy targeted Gov. Bill Ritter on Wednesday. Demonstrators dressed in clown suits and Ritter masks visited his office with a message "to stop clowning around when it comes to confronting glob
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Great Lakes Ecosystems May Be Compromised By... Carp?
Environment  (tags: environment, habitat, nature, wildlife, ecosystems, carp, protection )

Cher
- 5 hours ago - ecoworldly.com
With concerns over climate change globally, you might think that the last thing that environmentalists would worry about would be the natural food chain of wildlife; but for the Great Lakes there could be severe consequences posed if the carp manage to
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BIODIVERSITY: Plants Finally Get DNA Barcodes
Environment  (tags: green, greenliving, environment, flora, plants, Sustainabililty, world, ecosystems )

Cal
- 6 hours ago - ipsnews.net
Advances made in genetic profiling could be used to fight illegal timber trading, provide authentication of herbal medicines and map entire food chains, according to experts at a conference of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
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Keep Offshore Drilling Out of Climate Change Legislation ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, offshore drilling, climate change legislation, habitat, nature, protection )

Cher
- 6 hours ago - thepetitionsite.com
In an effort to pass his climate change bill, Senator Kerry has mentioned he would be willing to accept offshore drilling in previously protected areas in a race for 60 supporting votes. Unfortunately, if Congress follows through on its threat to expand
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Russia Steps Up Pledge for Climate Action
Environment  (tags: environment, CO2emissions, climate-change, climate, humans, protection, world, pollution )

Cal
- 8 hours ago - uk.reuters.com
Russia toughened its plans to curb harmful greenhouse gas emissions on Wednesday in a rare encouraging development before United Nations climate talks next month.
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Oceans' Ability to Absorb Carbon & Protect Against Climate Change Weakening
Environment  (tags: environment, climate, climate change, oceans, nature, protection )

Cher
- 10 hours ago - ecoworldly.com
Oceans regulate our climate. They play a key role in keeping the world's "homeostasis" in tact. However, their ability to absorb carbon & keep the climate in balance is dwindling, a new report shows.
10 comments
Say No To Bad Wood - Please Take Action!!!
Environment  (tags: destruction, animals, environment, habitatdestruction, protection, forests )

Tierney
- 12 hours ago - saynotobadwood.org
Does your decking or furniture come from the home of the Sumatran orang-utan? Sadly, it might. Australia has no safeguards against illegally logged timber imports, so when you buy outdoor furniture, decking or other imported timber products, you have
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ACTION ALERT: Help Protect Oceans From Destructive Fishing Practices!!!!
Environment  (tags: environment, marine animals, oceans, fishing, destructive, habitat )

Simone
- 14 hours ago - change.org
Irresponsible fishing practices are endangering fish, ocean habitat and marine wildlife. Massive trawl nets destroy seafloor habitat, while other gears such as longlines, trawls and gillnets indiscriminately capture hundreds of thousands of marine
8 comments
ENVIRONMENT: Wildfires Spreading as Temperatures Rise
Environment  (tags: environment, destruction, climatechange, climate, humans, nature )

Cal
- 14 hours ago - ipsnews.net
Future firefighters have their work cut out for them. Perhaps nowhere does this hit home harder than in Australia, where in early 2009 a persistent drought, high winds, and record high temperatures set the stage for the worst wildfire in the country's his
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Tell Canada to Stop Spreading the Tar Sands Now!
Environment  (tags: environment, globalwarming, destruction, CO2emissions, climatechange, greenhousegases )

Tierney
- 15 hours ago - ran.thetarsandsblow.org
Big Oil and greedy banks are working to prevent a strong and just global climate framework in Copenhagen - protecting their profits at the expense of people and our planet. Chief among those are Canada's biggest oil companies and Royal Bank of Canada (RB
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Mysterious Warm Periods Found in Antarctic History
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, environment, temperature rise, Antarctic )

Katie
- 16 hours ago - planetearth.nerc.ac.uk
Temperatures in Antarctica during the warm periods between ice ages, called interglacials, may have been higher than previously thought. The findings, reported in Nature today, could help researchers better understand more about how the climate.......
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Help NPCA Secure a Huge Victory for Joshua Tree! -Please Take Action !!
Environment  (tags: conservation, environment, goodnews, habitat, habitatdestruction, protection, trees, water, wildlife, nature )

Tierney
- 20 hours ago - act.npca.org
Recently, NPCA scored a landmark victory in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which invalidated a land exchange needed to proceed with the massive Eagle Mountain landfill--a proposed garbage dump surrounded on three sides by Joshua Tree National Par
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Why Copenhagen Will Be Crawling With Business Lobbyists
Environment  (tags: environment, business, economy, politics, pollution, world, climate-change, climate, CO2emissions )

Cal
- 1 day ago - theecologist.org
Is a business presence at Copenhagen crucial or corrosive? Either way, in a few weeks Denmark is going to be up to its eyes in corporate lobbyists
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CLIMATE CHANGE-THAILAND: Bangkok: A Future Filled With Floods
Environment  (tags: environment, globalwarming, climatechange, ecosystems, protection, humans, world, climate, ClimateChange, climate-change )

Cal
- 1 day ago - ipsnews.net
Thailand's capital, dubbed the 'City of Angels' and the 'Venice of the East', is threatened by long-term flood inundation as rising sea waters triggered by global weather change and monsoonal rains combine.
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The World Challenge Voting Has Closed
Environment  (tags: conservation, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, environment, forests, humans, nature, habitatdestruction, habitat, protection, trees, Sustainabililty )

Gorilly
- 1 day ago - gorilla.wildlifedirect.org
Unfortunately the 'Jiko Rescue' project was not one of the top-three winners, but to be chosen as one of twelve finalists out of nearly a thousand nominations is still a notable achievement.
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The World Challenge Voting Has Closed
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Say No To Bad Wood - Please Take Action!!!
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Oceans' Ability to Absorb Carbon & Protect Against Climate Change Weakening
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Great Lakes Ecosystems May Be Compromised By... Carp?
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