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UN Warns 25 Percent Of World Land Highly Degraded.
Environment  (tags: pollution, over-population, hunger, malnutrition, climate change )

Craig
- 180 days ago - cnbc.com
Land needed for agriculture for a growing population is being spoiled by climate change, poor agricultural processes, and pollution.
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ACTION ALERT: Fossil Fuel Frenzy Taking Toll on Sea Turtles! PLEASE SIGN !
Environment  (tags: climate change, destruction chevron, sea turtles, habitat, threatened, australian government, protection )

Simone
- 182 days ago - salsa.democracyinaction.org
With climate change beginning to take its toll on sea turtle nesting beaches and food supplies, destroying habitat and generating new global warming gases would seem to be a counter-productive response.
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Taking a Close Look at the "Last Ice Area"
Environment  (tags: Ice Area, Environment, Climate Change, Arctic )

Katie
- 185 days ago - treehugger.com
Every winter, less seasonal snow and ice forms in the Arctic--spanning Northern Canada, Russia, Alaska, and Greenland in addition to the Arctic Ocean--meaning that the melting from the preceding summer is not replenished.
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Amphibians Facing "Terrifying" Rate Of Extinction.
Environment  (tags: Amphibians, frogs, salamanders, extinction, climate change, habitat destruction )

Craig
- 187 days ago - commondreams.org
Almost half of Amphibian species could die out in the next 50 years due to climate change, disease, and habitat destruction.
20 comments
ACTION ALERT: President Obama: Stand With Africa; Act NOW for Climate Justice! PLEASE SIGN !
Environment  (tags: enviornment, climate change, climate justice, protection, obama administration, habitat, healthconditions, nature, humans, weather, climate )

Simone
- 188 days ago - change.org
The impacts of climate change no longer just await us in the future; they are with us today. In the United States, we have been affected by tornadoes, severe floods, droughts, wild fires, and heat waves.
48 comments
Globalisation and the Environment: Humanities and Climate Change
Environment  (tags: Humanities, Climate Change, Enviroment )

Olivia
- 193 days ago - globalisation-and-the-environment.blogspot.com
Humanties Professors at Stanford look at climate change under the banner of "human experience".
12 comments
TAKE ACTION: Pledge to Oppose ANY Tar Sands Oil Pipeline
Environment  (tags: climate change, tar sands oil, Keystone XL pipeline, Obama, 350.0rg )

Myron
- 196 days ago - act.350.org
From 350.org and Bill McKibben: pledge to take bold action to stop the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, and any similar project designed to transport tar sands oil, should it be approved by President Obama's Administration or any other.
17 comments
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Exceed 'Worst Case' Scenario
Environment  (tags: Greenhouse Gas, Climate Change, Wrost case, environment )

Katie
- 200 days ago - treehugger.com
With a growing consensus among climate scientists that the unabated release of greenhouse gases will have dire effects on our planet's ecosystems by century's end, one might expect to see, at least, a leveling-off of global carbon output.
5 comments
You WIll Probably Live to See 'Dangerous' Levels of Climate Change
Environment  (tags: Dangerous, Climate Change, Environment, Science )

Katie
- 214 days ago - treehugger.com
As far as Americans are concerned, climate change is a perpetually distant and ambiguous threat. Some glaciers thousands of miles away might melt, some poor people might suffer through droughts in Africa, some polar bears might drown.
31 comments
After Helping Cause Climate Change, Big Oil Now Set to Profit From Melting Arctic
Environment  (tags: Climate Change, Arctic, Melting, Greenhouse gases )

Katie
- 220 days ago - treehugger.com
Oil companies have done much to contribute to climate change. Of course, they extract, distribute, and sell a product that, when burned, emits heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
8 comments
Texas Censors Scientists' Work Revealing Impacts of Climate Change
Environment  (tags: Climate Change, Scientists, Texas, Research, Environment )

Katie
- 225 days ago - treehugger.com
According to the Houston Chronicle, Anderson now believes that the state is attempting to censor any findings that might suggest that humans are causing global warming.
13 comments
EPA Delays Greenhouse Gas Regulations, Raising Concerns Over Climate Change And Public Health
Environment  (tags: Climate Change, Greenhouse Gases, Coal-Fired Power Plants, Environmental Regulations, Epa, Jobs Crisis, Public Health, Green News )

Michael
- 251 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's announcement yesterday that it will miss a Sept. 30 deadline for issuing new rules on greenhouse gas emissions has sparked an increasingly familiar pair of contrasting reactions: livid criticism and loud cheers.
12 comments
Choking the Oil Sands
Environment  (tags: Climate change, global warming, Oil Sands, oil pipeline, Keystone XL pipeline, Enbridge )

Dianne
- 272 days ago - www2.macleans.ca
Environmental protests planned for Sept in Wash.D.C over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta's Oil Sands to the Gulf of Mexico are discussed in this Sept 5/11 Maclean's Mag. (Canadian) article. Long but worth the read!
9 comments
CLIMATE CHANGE: Vietnam's Rice Bowl Threatened By Rising Seas
Environment  (tags: world, development, climate change, politics, government, world, protection, humans, habitat, environment, climate-change, climate, climatechange, ecosystems, water, weather, globalwarming )

Cal
- 277 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Climate change is turning rivers of Mekong Delta salty, spelling disaster for millions of poor farmers
5 comments
Raging Storms and Rising Seas Swelling the Ranks of Climate Refugees
Environment  (tags: Raging Storms, Rising Seas, Climate change, Environment )

Katie
- 283 days ago - treehugger.com
One of the defining characteristics of our time is the swelling flow of environmental refugees, including those displaced as a warmer climate brings more-destructive storms and rising seas.
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