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Environment News tagged with UN

Greenhouse Gas Concentrations at Highest Level Since Second World War
Environment  (tags: News, UN, environment, climatechange, globalwarming, greenhouse gases )

Katie
- 4 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Concentrations of greenhouse gases, the major cause of global warming, are at their highest levels since the Second World War and still climbing, the UN has warned.
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Drought, Death Grips Kenyan Heartland
Environment  (tags: Kenya, drought, death, World Food Program (WFP), Kenyan government, climate change, failedcrops, UN, massive shortfalls, emergency programs, economic crisis )

Rosemary
- 84 days ago - cnn.com
MOUNT KENYA, Kenya (CNN) -- For as long as anyone cares to remember, the pastoralists of Kenya's Rift Valley have fled with their herds to the fertile slopes of Mount Kenya when times are tough. Hundreds of dead cattle litter the slopes> Continued
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Call for 350ppm Becomes Breakthrough Moment for Climate Movement
Environment  (tags: climate, climate-change, ClimateChange, climatechange, CO2emissions, conservation, destruction, environment, globalwarming, globalwarming, greenhousegases, humans, nature, pollution, protection, research, science, world, news, JimHansen, UN )

SirRobert
- 93 days ago - guardian.co.uk
When Jim Hansen and other leading climate scientists looked at phenomena like the Arctic ice melt of the last two summers, they produced new data demonstrating that 350ppm has now become the bottom line!
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Reforestation of US Mountaintop Mine Sites Gets UN Endorsement
Environment  (tags: reforestation, mountain top mine sites, Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initi, USA, UN, environment, protection, nature, wildlife )

Cher
- 244 days ago - planetsave.com
With the help of conservation groups, the U.S. Office of Surface Mining launched the Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative to attempt to rescue the thousands forest acres left barren by mountaintop coal mining.
5 comments
World Tree Planting Drive Sets Goal of 7 Billion
Environment  (tags: environment, trees, forests, UN, climate change, global warming )

Pekka
- 563 days ago - reuters.com
A campaign to plant trees worldwide set a goal on Tuesday of seven billion by late 2009, just over one for each person on the planet, to help protect the environment and slow climate change.
8 comments
UN Finds Climate Truth 'Terrifying'
Environment  (tags: climate, UN, gvernments to blame, environment, globalwarming, greenhousegases, humans, pollution, research )

Ali
- 740 days ago - news.com.au
GOVERNMENTS must do more to fight global warming, spurred by a new UN scientific report and damage to nature that is already as frightening as science fiction, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.
3 comments
Defenders of Wildlife: Urge Your Senators to Support the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
Environment  (tags: wildanimals, marine life, laws, UN, animals, conservation, water, protection, habitat, whales, world )

Thunderr
- 767 days ago - secure.defenders.org
Ratifying the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea -- a 25 year-old treaty that virtually every other developed, ocean-going nation has already joined -- is an important step in protecting dolphins and other marine wildlife and in restoring America's place
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Bush to Skip U.N. Talks on Global Warming
Environment  (tags: Climate Change, global warming, carbon dioxide, UN )

Glenn
- 795 days ago - nytimes.com
Dozens of world leaders are to gather at the United Nations on Monday for a full agenda of talks on how to fight global warming, and President Bush is skipping all the day's events but the dinner.
4 comments
U.N. Wildlife Pact Allows Ivory Sale to Japan
Environment  (tags: Japan, Africa, ivory, illegal trade, poaching, wildlife, elephants, UN, United Nations )

Julia
- 907 days ago - reuters.com
A United Nations wildlife pact has allowed the export of 60 tonnes of ivory from three southern African countries to Japan amid concerns about the growth of the illegal ivory trade and elephant poaching in parts of Africa.
4 comments
   

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