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Global Warming: Western U.S. Feels the Heat
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, ecosystems, climate, pollution, habitatdestruction, habitat, humans )

Cal
- 14 hours ago - enn.com
High-elevation white bark pines, which have endured droughts and lightning and insect attacks in life spans as long as 1,000 years, are being killed by a tiny beetle whose numbers were once limited by a bitter winter climate.
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Exxon Let PCBs Leak for Years Off Santa Barbara Coast
Environment  (tags: environment, ecosystems, CO2emissions, destruction, habitatdestruction, pollution, suffering, wildlife )

Susie
- 10 days ago - ens-newswire.com
Between 2002 and 2005, two large electrical transformers on an Exxon Mobil offshore oil and gas platform in the Santa Barbara Channel leaked nearly 400 gallons of fluid contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, PCBs
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LifeStraw : The Most Humanistic Gadget Ever
Environment  (tags: africa, water, pollution, gadgets, science, humans )

Esra
- 22 days ago - vubx.com
LifeStraw is an instrument which instantly purifies the water and makes it ready to drink with the chromatographic techniques and other well-known filter methods. Great for African people who are fighting with the diseases because of dirty water sources
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An Endangered Act
Environment  (tags: endangered, habitat destruction, nature, pollution, trees, water, wildlife, forests, oceans, bad politics )

Karen
- 24 days ago - nytimes.com
The Bush administration has never masked its distaste for most environmental laws or its ambitions to thwart Congress's will. Now in its waning months, it is trying to undermine the Endangered Species Act.
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Tell Congress: You Won't Stand for Polluted Water. PETITION Please. All Can Sign TY.
Environment  (tags: Clean water, pollution, rivers, streams, protection, minning waste )

Jocelyn
- 25 days ago - action.earthjustice.org
It's time for Congress to stand up for what's right and put a stop to the devastation of our rivers, streams and headwaters. Sign this petition to support the Clean Water Protection Act, which would protect our waters from being filled with millions of
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Keep Holding On
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Environment  (tags: climate-change, climatechange, CO2emissions, endangered, globalwarming, environment, destruction, ecosystems, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, oceans, science, suffering, pollution, globalwarming, animals, world, bushadministration, corruption, cover-u )

Mari
- 26 days ago - youtube.com
Global Warming: Keep Holding On! (YouTube Video)
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Cattle Don't Have Much to Do With Global Warming
Environment  (tags: animals, climate, climate-change, CO2emissions, ecosystems, globalwarming, globalwarming, greenhousegases, protection, pollution, Sustainabililty )

Marty
- 27 days ago - news.google.com
The EPA report titled "U.S. Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks" crunched the numbers to determine that 80 percent of annual greenhouse gas emissions come from the combustion of fossil fuels and only 2.3 percent from food animal production
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Plz Take Action: Ask Conoco Phillips Not to Drill in Polar Bear Habitat
Environment  (tags: animals, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, environment, habitat, nature, humans, protection, pollution, habitatdestruction, wildlife, endangered )

BiLL
- 28 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
ConocoPhillips was the high bidder for drilling rights to tens of thousands of acres of pristine polar bear habitat.They proclaim they are environmently friendly. Hold them to their word by signing this petition. Thank You!
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Second Fish Kill Found--Nearly 4 Million Reported in Pamlico River
Environment  (tags: dramatic drop in oxygen, algae, pollution, destruction, environment )

Kathy
- 30 days ago - enctoday.com
Nearly 4 million fish were found dead Wednesday in the Pamlico River just east of Washington. It was the second large fish kill reported this week in Eastern North Carolina rivers. On Tuesday, an estimated 750,000 dead fish were found in
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ACTION ALERT: Ask Sen. Obama to Oppose Drilling -- PLZ SIGN
Environment  (tags: environment, ecosystems, pollution, habitat, oceans, protection, energy )

Brenda
- 30 days ago - environmental-action.org
More oil drilling will mean more oil spills, more destruction to our ocean ecosystems, and a continuation of our dependence on oil. Please support bold new clean energy programs, and not the dirty and dangerous answers from the past.
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Saving The High Seas
Environment  (tags: environment, water, oceans, pollution, protection )

Michael
- 34 days ago - nature.org
The high seas -- the area beyond any nation's jurisdiction, and 50 percent of the Earth's surface have no owner and no steward. And we have abused this wilderness with quite shocking indifference as human populations and demands have grown.
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Beijing Shrouded in Haze 11 Days Before Olympics
Environment  (tags: environment, climatechange, world, green, pollution )

Cal
- 39 days ago - reuters.com
Olympic host city Beijing was shrouded in haze on Monday 11 days before the Games begin, raising anxieties about whether it can deliver the clean skies promised for the world's top athletes.
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TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to Oppose Offshore Drilling!
Environment  (tags: conservation, ecosystems, energy, government, habitatdestruction, oceans, pollution )

Tim
- 46 days ago - action.earthjustice.org
There's a lot of speculation these days over who is to blame for our rising gas prices. But one thing is for certain: drilling for oil off our coasts won't get us out of this predicament. Yet the threat of offshore drilling.........
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What Have We Done To The Earth
Environment  (tags: environment, humans, nature, pollution, destruction )

Vladimir
- 47 days ago - popgive.com
Mission of humans on earth, interesting cartoon.
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Native Americans: Navajo Indians Targeted for Brutal Genocide, in Arizona, USA ...By Sen. John McCain & a Few Greedy Senators
Environment  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', politics, world, nature, pollution, suffering )

Alicya
- 52 days ago - cain2008.org
A video about Senator McCain's Personal Holocaust against the Human Rights & Religious Freedom of the Dineh-Navajo in AZ. At a cost of $400 million to the US Taxpayer. And the man claims he's "against Pork Barrel spending" ??
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Exxon Let PCBs Leak for Years Off Santa Barbara Coast
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