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ACTION: Help People and Animals in California
Environment  (tags: agriculture, animals, environment, health, humans, oceans, pollution, protection, water, wildlife )

Maria
- 2026 days ago - care2.com
If you are concerned with civil rights and/or the health and well-being of pets, wildlife, and the oceans please give a moment of your time to this pressing issue in California. People and animals are being sprayed with untested chemicals...
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Could Genetically Modified Crops Be Killing Bees?
Environment  (tags: agriculture, contamination, endangered, environment, ecosystems, pollution )

Larry
- 2263 days ago - sfgate.com
Unlike the more common problems, this new die-off has been virtually instantaneous throughout the country, not spreading at the slower pace of conventional classical disease. I think it might be fruitful to investigate the role of genetically modified or
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Environment at Risk? Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming Have LARGE Deposits of Oil Shale
Environment  (tags: agriculture, animals, carbonemissions, climate, ClimateChange, conservation, destruction, eco-friendly, ecosystems, endangered, energy, environment, forests, globalwarming, greenhousegases, habitatdestruction, health, humans, government, pollution, protec )

Michael
- 2019 days ago - ostseis.anl.gov
Estimates of the oil resource in place within the Green River Formation range from 1.2 to 1.8 trillion barrels. Not all resources in place are recoverable; however, even a moderate estimate of 800 billion barrels three times greater than Saudi Arabia
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1,000 Trees Planted on Maghtab's Lower Slopes
Environment  (tags: agriculture, nature, trees, nature )

Brian
- 1956 days ago - independent.com.mt
People driving down the Coast Road past the Maghtab landfill in recent weeks might have noticed a sight that would have been practically unimaginable 5yrs ago a blush of green on the lower slopes of what could be considered Malta's most dreadful eyesore.
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Bees Face Problems in Parts of European Union
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, contamination, pollution, sustainability, emissions, agriculture )

Jouni
- 2245 days ago - truthout.org
A mysterious decimation of bee populations has German beekeepers worried, while a similar phenomenon in the United States is gradually assuming catastrophic proportions.
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Mysterious Collapse of Honeybee Populations Threatens National Food Supply
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, honeybee, agriculture, sustainability, food, endangered )


- 2254 days ago - newstarget.com:80
The honeybee population in the United States is currently suffering a devastating collapse. Honeybees are flying off in search of pollen and nectar and simply never returning to their colonies, or is something more frightening occurring in our ecosystem?
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'Stop Emission of Green House Gases to Save LDC's From Fury of Nature'
Environment  (tags: ClimateChange, greenhousegases, environment, wForest, Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock, orld, humans )


- 2004 days ago - nation.ittefaq.com
Decades of development in many countries including Bangladesh will be reversed by climate change, threatening the lives of millions of people, environmentalists and civil society organisations warned yesterday. Developed countries are responsible for this
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Arctic Vault Takes Shape for World Food Crops
Environment  (tags: environment, crops, seeds, artic, climate, agriculture )


- 2071 days ago - news.yahoo.com
LONGYEARBYEN, Svalbard (Reuters) - In a cavern under a remote Arctic mountain, Norway will soon begin squirreling away the world's crop seeds in case of disaster. Dynamited out of a mountainside on Spitsbergen island around 1,000 km (600 miles) from the
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Canadian Farmer Forces GM Giant Monsanto Back To Court
Environment  (tags: Canada, agriculture, GE crops, Monsanto, corporate bullying, aggressive tactics, Percy Schmeiser )

LucyKalei
- 1943 days ago - guardian.co.uk
When Monsanto sued Canadian farmer for growing firm's GM crops, which he claimed blew onto his land, company's eventual victory in Canadian supreme court was overshadowed by accusations of aggressive tactics & corporate bullying. Now suing for cost
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Wild Medicinal Plant Harvesting: Global Standard Set
Environment  (tags: agriculture )

Ceci
- 2282 days ago - ens-newswire.com
NUREMBERG, Germany, February 20, 2007 (ENS) - A new standard to promote sustainable management and trade of wild medicinal and aromatic plants was launched Friday in Nuremberg at Biofach, the World Organic Trade Fair. The standard is needed to ensure...
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U.S. Bees Succumbing to Mystery Disease
Environment  (tags: agriculture, endangered, ecosystems, health, bees )

Corinne
- 2280 days ago - worldwatch.org
oneybee populations in the United States are being decimated by a mysterious new disease, the Associated Press reported last week. The previously unknown ailment, termed "colony collapse disorder," is killing
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Spare a Pig and Save the World!
Environment  (tags: environment, agriculture, pollution, bush, globalwarming )

Billye
- 2284 days ago - netnewsasia.com
In a report published last November, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimated that livestock accounts for 18% of the world's greenhouse gasses. As we all know by now, airlines account for just 2%. The livestock sector emerges as one
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A World Without Bees Is a World Without Chocolate / Professor Says Urban Gardeners Could Avert An Ecological Catastrophe
Environment  (tags: agriculture, bees, ecosystems, environment, health )

Larry
- 2272 days ago - sfgate.com
By documenting bee diversity and populations in urban gardens throughout California, he's discovering which flowering plants attract native bees and determining whether urban gardens can support bees. He said the declining native bee population is compara
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Bees on Their Knees
Environment  (tags: agriculture, bees, animals, conservation, ecosystems, environment, endangered, habitatdestruction, pollution, research, scientists, wildlife, world )

Jadonia
- 2206 days ago - loe.org
A mysterious ailment is killing the nation's honeybees, and it's spreading over nearly half the United States. Steve Curwood talks with Jerry Hayes, chief of the Apiary Section of Florida's Department of Agriculture.
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