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Goodbye Fish and Shellfish? Meet the Biggest Threat to Our Oceans
Environment  (tags: oceans, food chain, seafood, acidification of the oceans, ecosystems, environment, animals, wildlife, protection, habitatdestruction, habitat, green, greenhousegases, water, nature, humans, government, climate-change, destruction, conservation )

Cal
- 22 hours ago - alternet.org
As emissions continue to rise, the world's oceans are becoming corrosive, threatening shellfish, corals and the entire ocean food web. LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Si
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International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB)
Environment  (tags: conservation, environment, wildlife, protection, healthconditions, oceans, humans, nature, pollution, Sustainabililty, water, trees, world, endangered, energy, conservation, ecosystems, climate, animals, climate-change, green, habitat, science, politics )

Elena
- 5 days ago - cbd.int
Marine Biodiversity is the theme for this year's International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB). Designation of IDB 2012 on the theme of marine ecosystems provides Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and everyone interested in marine
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Romney Marsh Could Be UK's Nuclear Dumping Ground
Environment  (tags: radia-active, nature, pollution, humans, politics, protection, environment, ecosystems, conservation, destruction, world, habitat, habitatdestruction, green, government, wildlife )

Cal
- 6 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The wildlife-rich wetlands of Romney Marsh in Kent could become a radioactive dumping ground for Britain as part of Government plans to find a suitable spot to store future nuclear waste.
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ARGENTINA: Tribe Partners to Protect Argentina's Most Endangered Forest
Environment  (tags: environment, conservation, humans, politics, nature, world, green, ecosystems, protection, habitat, GoodNews )

Cal
- 8 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Last month, three Guarani communities, the local Argentine government of Misiones, and the UK-based NGO World Land Trust forged an agreement to create a nature reserve connecting three protected areas in the fractured, and almost extinct, Atlantic Forest
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BOLIVIA: Sacred Lake Titicaca Is Being Drowned By Pollution
Environment  (tags: pollution, environment, ecosystems, native spiritual places, protection, habitat, green, habitatdestruction, conservation )

Cal
- 10 days ago - indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com
What was once a sacred place to the Inca is now in danger from pollution, as population growth in the Titicaca watershed overwhelms the area's infrastructure.
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OP-ED: We Should Help Solve Illegal Logging, Not Be Part of the Problem
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, environment, crime, illegal logging trade, deforestation, habitatdestruction, habitat, protection, pollution, humans, politics, world, conservation, green, government, nature )

Cal
- 12 days ago - news.mongabay.com
As documented in a 2012 report by the World Bank, Justice for the Forests, illegal logging is now a massive criminal enterprise, rivaling the illegal drug trade and robbing developing nations of up to $US15 billion in revenues annually.
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Greenpeace Makes Social Media Push for Zero Deforestation in Brazil
Environment  (tags: environment, conservation, ecosystems, Amazon, Greenpeace, stopping deforestation, trees, humans, habitat, green, GoodNews, world )

Cal
- 13 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Greenpeace is leveraging social media in its push for a zero deforestation target in Brazil.
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ACTIVISM: Nevada Tribe Fights Coal Plant in Pollution Battle
Environment  (tags: environmental activism, activism, native activism, habitat, environment, destruction, nature, humans, politics, protection, trees, water, conservation, government, green )

Cal
- 15 days ago - nativetimes.com
A tiny Native American reservation outside Las Vegas is trying to persuade the federal government that its community faces serious health risks from a nearby coal-fired power plant by appealing to a nationwide campaign to increase visibility at national p
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Save Cambodia's Dwindling Forests: End Rampant Deforestation. PLEASE SIGN!
Environment  (tags: animals, climate, climate-change, cambodia, wildlife, destruction, trees, forests, habitat, humans, protection, mines, green )

Jim
- 17 days ago - forcechange.com
Only forty years ago, forests covered seventy percent of Cambodia's territory and now that number stands at just three percent. The extensive and relentless construction of mines, roads and other plantations have decimated these once richly diverse
163 comments
GOOD NEWS! Japan Shuts Down Last Nuclear Reactor
Environment  (tags: nuclear power, no nukes, world, japan, radia-active, politics, conservation, energy, ecosystems, environment, greenhousegases, globalwarming, government, green, protection, healthconditions, Sustainabililty )

Cal
- 19 days ago - cnn.com
Over the weekend, Japan's last remaining nuclear reactor shut down for regular maintenance. In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, reactors have not been allowed back on. Japan is now the first major economy to see the modern era without nuclear p
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Molai Woods---A Forest One Man Planted
Environment  (tags: animals, ecosystems, environment, forests, GoodNews, green, habitat, nature, trees, wildlife )

Kenneth
- 24 days ago - newearthdaily.com
A truly wonderful story of making a difference! Seeing how ~ with little, we can create an entire forest by sheer determination of compassion!
58 comments
TAKE ACTION NOW! Regulate Communcations Towers That Are Killing Birds
Environment  (tags: animals, environment, destruction, ecosystems, wildlife, protection, humans, habitat, nature, green, politics )

Cal
- 25 days ago - forcechange.com
Enact strict, environmentally responsible regulations on communications towers that kill millions of migratory birds every year
100 comments
TAKE ACTION NOW! Safeguard America's Environmental Future
Environment  (tags: green, environment, nature, humans, climate, climate-change, wildlife, habitat, ecosystems, government )

Cal
- 26 days ago - forcechange.com
Pass environmental legislation to protect our ecosystems from pollution and destruction.According to the World Wildlife Fund, the Safeguarding America's Future Environment Act (SAFE) offers aid to governmental agencies that supervise and control the natur
68 comments
ENVIRONMENT. TAKE ACTION: Don't Let Monsanto Destroy the Environment. SIGN!
Environment  (tags: climate, climate-change, climatechange, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, environment, Monsanto, pollution, protection, wildlife, weather, green, globalwarming, nature, oceans )

Jim
- 28 days ago - forcechange.com
In September 2011, Monsanto Company silently purchased Beelogics, one of the world's leading research firms dedicated to restoring bee health. Now, studies have come out showing evidence that the pollen released from Monsanto's genetically modified corn
123 comments
TAKE ACTION NOW! End Old Growth Temperate Rainforest Logging in Alaska's Tongass National Forest
Environment  (tags: old growth forests, trees, environment, destruction, ecosystems, protection, humans, world, wildlife, green, forests, conservation, politics, nature )

Cal
- 28 days ago - forests.org
Please urge the federal government to see the salmon and ecosystems through the dwindling old growth trees for timber, and shift the focus from logging to an ecological protection economy in Earth's largest temperate rainforest
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