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Child Dies After Ingesting Pesticide Also Used to Kill Lions
Environment  (tags: environment, pesticides, habitat, nature, wildlife, humans, death )

Cher
- 5 days ago - ecoworldly.com
According to reports, little Kimutai, a three-year-old child from Kenya, died hours after ingesting carbofuran, an odorless pesticide used to control insects on many crops including rice, beans, bananas, pineapple, coffee and vegetables.
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Truly Eco- and Bird-Friendly Wind Turbine
Environment  (tags: environment, wind turbines, birds, death, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 14 days ago - all-creatures.org
The death of avian life is perhaps one of the most common arguments against wind farms. The idea that wind turbines kill birds started originally from the large rate of bird deaths, around 4,700 annually, at the wind farm in Altamont, CA
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4th Typhoon in Month Lashes Philippines; 7 Killed
Environment  (tags: 4th typhoon, philippines, nature, weather, death )

Lone
- 20 days ago - sacbee.com
MANILA, Philippines -- A typhoon battered the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces still reeling from recent flooding, sending residents of one town clambering onto rooftops Saturday to escape rising waters. Seven people died and at least five
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Shark Nets in Qld Will Not Be Removed
Environment  (tags: whales, sharknets, death )

Claudia
- 38 days ago - news.brisbanetimes.com.au
Shark nets along the Gold Coast will not be removed, despite yet another young whale being caught in a net off Burleigh Heads on Tuesday - the fifth so far this migration season.
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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
- 77 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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Maine Spectators Ignored Warnings Before Wave Hit
Environment  (tags: environment, weather, oceans, nature, destruction, protection, warning, risks, death )

Dee
- 88 days ago - news.yahoo.com
AUGUSTA, Maine - Rangers at Acadia National Park insisted Monday that they had done all they could to warn visitors before beauty suddenly turned brutal, launching a hurricane-generated wave over a group of gawkers, dragging several into the roiling---
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Police: 400 Missing In Taiwan Mudslide -
Environment  (tags: suffering, mudslide, typhoon, death, Taiwan, disaster, China )

Raffi
- 102 days ago - justnews.com
A mudslide touched off by a deadly typhoon buried a remote mountain village, leaving at least 400 people unaccounted for Monday, and military rescue helicopters unable to land because of the slippery ground dropped food to desperate survivors.
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Million People Flee Their Homes as Typhoon Marakot Turns Toward China-Video!
Environment  (tags: typhoon, Morakot, destruction, evacuation, death, phenomena )

Raffi
- 103 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
A ten story building collapses into the sea as a million people flee from deadly Typhoon in China A day earlier, the storm lashed Taiwan dumping 100 inches of rain in just 24 hours. It caused the island's worst flooding in half a century.
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As Iraq Runs Dry, a Plague of Snakes Is Unleashed
Environment  (tags: death, water, rivers, snakes, vipers, Iraq, farmers )

Raffi
- 148 days ago - independent.co.uk
An unprecedented fall in the water levels of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers has left the rural population at the mercy of heat, drought - and displaced wildlife. As Iraq runs dry, a plague of snakes is unleashed An unprecedented fall in the water
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New Climate Change Forecast: "Mass Starvation" - Agricultural Expert Warns
Environment  (tags: food, agriculture, commodities, business, u.s., world, environment, starvation, hunger, health, death, climate-change, global-warming, government, politics, climate, weather, science, tech, finance, humans, destruction, endangered, nature, warning, warni )

SirRobert
- 153 days ago - worldnetdaily.com
Don Coxe, a leading agricultural industry expert warns, that crop failures are coming, perhaps as early as this year and will lead directly to "mass starvation"!
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Take Action - URGENT: Peru Is Murdering Amazon Protesters To Secure Oil Expansion!!!
Environment  (tags: peru, rainforests, government, environment, Hillary Clinton, secretary-of-state, u.s., UnitedStates, america, americans, protests, murder, death, oil, forests, trees, humans, clinton, corruption, crime, democrats, ethics, climate-change, conservation )

SirRobert
- 161 days ago - ga3.org
In the past several days the Peruvian government has murdered dozens of indigenous protesters, who tried to unite in peaceful protests against an oil expansion in Peru's rainforests! Take Action Now, because time is running out for many!!!
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Petition for An International Ban of Plastic Shopping Bags ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: animals, death, AnimalWelfare, environment, plastic bags, habitat, protection, wildlife, pollution, nature, ecosystems, destruction )

Cher
- 162 days ago - change.org
Introduced just over 30 years ago in 1977, the ugly truth about our plastic bag addiction is that society's consumption rate is now estimated at well over 500,000,000,000 (that's 500 billion) plastic bags annually, or almost 1 million per minute.
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Act Now To Protect Oceans From Acidification
Environment  (tags: oceans, seawater, climate-change, global-warming, CO2, environment, ecology, ecosystems, endangered species, extinction, marine life, death, petition, acidification, acidic, chemistry, science, tech, technology, research, world, CO2emissions, conservation )

SirRobert
- 169 days ago - salsa.democracyinaction.org
Oceans absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and although this acts as a buffer against global warming, CO2 in higher concentrations alters seawater chemistry making oceans acidic, which is already causing marine life mutations and ultimately a mass extinction!
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'Turbines Wind Up My Goats'
Environment  (tags: environment, animals, AnimalWelfare, wind turbines, death, goats, protection, suffering, energy, nature )

Cher
- 182 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Officials investigating the unexplained deaths of scores of the animals on the windy island chain in the Taiwan strait believe that the introduction of noisy wind turbines could have given the unfortunate goats a fatal case of exhaustion.
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