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Take Action: Ask the Obama Administration to Save Coal River Mountain
Environment  (tags: Petition, CO2emissions, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, energy, environment, forests, humans, nature, pollution, protection, habitatdestruction, trees, water )

Daphna
- 22 hours ago - ga3.org
Save Coal River Mountain and help preserve our clean energy future. Contact the Obama Administration today. Two weeks ago Massey Energy began blasting Coal River Mountain and with it, the hopes of citizens who have developed plans for a green wind proje
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Protect Yellowstone/Greater Rockies=Please Take Action !
Environment  (tags: habitatdestruction, environment, destruction, forests, government, conservation, wildlife, trees, water, nature, habitat, protection )

Tierney
- 22 hours ago - secure.nrdconline.org
Tell the Obama Administration to abandon its plan to hand over Wyoming's Red Desert lands to the oil and gas industry
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Protect Polar Bears and the Places They Live
Environment  (tags: conservation, climatechange, endangered, environment, habitatdestruction )

Tierney
- 22 hours ago - secure.defenders.org
Rising temperatures are robbing polar bears of their homes and access to the food they need to survive. In response, the Interior Department has announced a proposal to designate more than 200,000 square miles of critical habitat for these struggling bear
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Climate Treaty May Need Extra Year
Environment  (tags: environment, globalwarming, CO2emissions, climate-change, greenhousegases, world, politics, conservation, protection )

Cal
- 1 day ago - uk.reuters.com
A U.N. climate treaty may need an extra year beyond a December deadline to agree details, delegates at U.N. talks said on Thursday even as a U.S. Senate committee approved a carbon-capping bill.
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Action Alert: No to Copenhagen 'Carbon Logging': GOOD REDD Fully Protects and Restores Old Forests as a Global Climatic Imperati
Environment  (tags: petition, world, trees, protection, pollution, humans, habitatdestruction, nature, government, globalwarming, environment, destruction, conservation, CO2emissions, forests )

Daphna
- 1 day ago - climateark.org
Copenhagen climate talks must not provide 'Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation' (REDD) carbon market funds for old, natural forest logging, or for conversion of natural or semi-natural forests and other ecosystems to plantations. Ending d
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Take Action: Urge the Obama Administration to Help Save Coal River Mountain
Environment  (tags: petition, wildlife, pollution, habitatdestruction, environment, destruction, conservation, forests, humans, habitat, nature )

Daphna
- 2 days ago - secure.nrdconline.org
Mountaintop removal strip mining has leveled hundreds of Appalachian peaks, leaving scarred landscapes, polluted water and impoverished communities behind, and now the last remaining mountain in West Virginia's Coal River valley is in danger. Send a messa
9 comments
Take Action- Act to Restore America's Everglades
Environment  (tags: petition, world, wildlife, habitatdestruction, nature, humans, habitat, environment, destruction, conservation )

Daphna
- 2 days ago - secure2.convio.net
For 81 years, a single road has cut off the flow of water to America's Everglades. In the next few weeks, the National Park Service will decide whether to lift up the road and reconnect the Everglades again.
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Take Action- Remove Shark Nets Home
Environment  (tags: world, Petition, water, oceans, nature, humans, habitatdestruction, environment, destruction, conservation )

Daphna
- 3 days ago - removesharknets.com
"Remove Shark Nets" is a campaign to act to remove the shark nets from QLD and NSW in Australia. Inspired by the many campaigns for the removal of the nets within the Kwa-zulu Natal Coast Shark Net Program (South Africa) I decided to start a movement for
7 comments
Indigenous Use of Ancestral Lands Threatened
Environment  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, Environment, destruction, conservation, habitatdestruction, pollution )

Kat
- 4 days ago - indiancountrytoday.com
BOULDER, Colo. - Climate change may be only the latest of many challenges facing Indian country, but it is having devastating effects in parts of the far North where at least one Native village faced with inundation by melting polar ice is suing...
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Forty Days to Get a Climate Deal
Environment  (tags: environment, ecosystems, politics, humans, climatechange, globalwarming, conservation, nature, world )

Cal
- 4 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Global warming has brought hard times to Hebei, the dry northern province of China that envelops Beijing. Rising temperatures and unpredictable rain patterns have forced farmers and nomads to flee the land and move to cities.
3 comments
10 Of The Most Influential Environmentalists Of All Time | Iamgreenâ,,¢
Environment  (tags: conservation, endangered, environment, government, habitat, nature, politics, protection, wildlife, world )

Daphna
- 4 days ago - sayiamgreen.com
A Brazilian rubber tapper turned union organizer and environmentalist. Chico Mendes was one of the earliest and most vocal opponents of the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. When rubber prices fell, and cattle ranchers started buying up the jungle and
3 comments
The World's Second Largest Tropical Rainforest
Environment  (tags: conservation, destruction, ecosystems, environment, forests, government, habitat, humans, nature, trees, water, wildlife )

Daphna
- 4 days ago - treehugger.com
Why I didn't know much about Mesoamerica's Maya Forest (or 'Selva Maya' in Spanish), I'm not sure (and yes, am admittedly embarrassed). My guess is that since the Amazon takes the gold for being the largest rainforest, it receives the most attention. (A q
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10 Animals on the Verge of Extinction
Environment  (tags: animals, ClimateChange, conservation, endangered, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, oceans, pollution, wildlife, world )

Daphna
- 5 days ago - mnn.com
Capitalism, Communism, Globalism, Tribalism, every element of mankind are the cause(s), we all know that. But, living in the United States and being one part of the problem myself do KNOW that Capitalism is an IMMENSE NEGATIVE when talking about LIFE on E
26 comments
Climate Chief Lord Stern: Give Up Meat to Save the Planet
Environment  (tags: environment, cows, pigs, methane, meat, CO2emissions, climatechange, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, ecosystems, conservation, climate, pollution, wildlife, world, oceans, destruction, water, animals, science, research )

Tom
- 6 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
"Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better." Direct emissions of methane from cows and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases.
29 comments
Prince Charles Making Progress in Effort to Save Rainforests
Environment  (tags: trees, goodnews, globalwarming, CO2emissions, ClimateChange, conservation )

Chris
- 6 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Prince Charles of Great Britain has emerged as one of the world's highest-profile promoters of a scheme that could finally put an end to destruction of tropical rainforests.
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Take Action: Urge the Obama Administration to Help Save Coal River Mountain
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Climate Treaty May Need Extra Year
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