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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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Keeping Our Daily Coffee: The Farmers in Peru Adapting to Climate Change
Environment  (tags: climate-change, climate, weather, agriculture, coffee production, world, nature, globalwarming, ecosystems, environment )

Cal
- 9 days ago - theecologist.org
Shade-grown, hand picked coffee is one of Peru's biggest exports, but the country's smallholder farmers face sustained crop losses from extreme weathe
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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
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Could a Changing Climate Set Off Volcanoes and Quakes?
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, environment, weather, volcanoes, climate-change, globalwarming, research, globalwarming, climate, climatechange, nature, humans, world )

Cal
- 18 days ago - e360.yale.edu
A British scientist argues that global warming could lead to a future of more intense volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. And while some dismiss his views as preposterous, he points to a body of recent research that shows a troubling link between climate
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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
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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
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Danger From the Deep: New Climate Threat as Methane Rises From Cracks in Arctic Ice
Environment  (tags: greenhousegases, methane release in the Arctic, Arctic melting, climate, climate-change, globalwarming, world, nature, CO2emissions, environment, ecosystems )

Cal
- 32 days ago - independent.co.uk
Scientists shocked to find greenhouse gas 70 times more potent than CO2 bubbling from deep ocean
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Africa Sitting on Sea of Groundwater Reserves
Environment  (tags: climate, climate-change, green, ecosystems, environment, GoodNews, water, world, climatechange )

Cal
- 33 days ago - uk.reuters.com
Huge reserves of underground water in some of the driest parts of Africa could provide a buffer against the effects of climate change.
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ENVIRONMENT: Help Urge the Bureau of Reclamation to Protect Migratory Birds in the Klamath Basin. PLEASE SIGN!
Environment  (tags: animals, climate, water, weather, wildlife, birds, nature, humans, habitat, green, government, ecosystems, conservation, endangered, protection )

Jim
- 36 days ago - forcechange.com
Over ten thousand migratory birds have died this year as a result of reduced water flow to the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge. The Bureau of Reclamation is responsible for distributing water among the various users in the area and hasn't
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Sea Level Rise Threatens Mekong Rice
Environment  (tags: world, habitat, habitatdestruction, agriculture, ecosystems, environment, destruction, climate-change, climate, globalwarming, green, protection )

Cal
- 38 days ago - ipsnews.net
With Vietnam's fertile Mekong delta threatened by rising sea levels and salt water ingress, the country's future as a major rice exporter depends critically on research underway in the Philippines
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Working to Cope With Climate Change, Jamaica Calculates Costs
Environment  (tags: planning, weather, climate-change, climate, ecosystems, government, green, environment, pollution, nature, politics, humans, habitat, climatechange )

Cal
- 46 days ago - ipsnews.net
Jamaican authorities are aiming to transform an island that experts say faces one of the worst climate risks in the world into a nation "equipped to prepare for and respond to the negative impacts of climate change"
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Call to Ban Palm Oil
Environment  (tags: animals, climate, climate-change, climatechange, CO2emissions, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, environment, forests, globalwarming, habitat, habitatdestruction, Sustainabililty, trees, water, wildlife, world )

Colette
- 46 days ago - tvnz.co.nz
The habitat of the orangutan in Indonesia and Malaysia is being destroyed by palm oil farmers... Link to video clip from TVNZ about Palm Oil and Orangutan habitats. Reducing consumption helps to reduce rainforest destruction and save the Orangutan..
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Climate Change---What's Soot Got to Do With It?
Environment  (tags: CO2emissions, climate-change, ecosystems, globalwarming, protection, nature, humans, environment, destruction, forests, world, climate )

Cal
- 47 days ago - globalpost.com
Commentary: Melting Tibetan glaciers reveal the combustion economy's distant impact.
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Climate Change Vs. Easter Bunnies
Environment  (tags: climate-change, animals, protection, bunnies, habitat, habitatdestruction, green, ecosystems, wildlife, environment, climatechange, climate, globalwarming, weather )

Cal
- 48 days ago - latimes.com
Easter is still a great day for worship, candy in baskets, pagan equinox rituals and running around the yard finding eggs, but every year it gets quite a bit worse for bunnies.The culprit is climate change, and the folks at Climate Nexus found that rising
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Climate Change Report: Time to Start Preparing for the Worst
Environment  (tags: climate-change, climate, green, government, politics, world, globalwarming, healthconditions, nature, humans )

Cal
- 51 days ago - csmonitor.com
It's time to start protecting people from the impact of severe-weather events, a panel says. The report offers further evidence of how the climate change conversation is shifting.
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