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Environment News tagged with disease

Coral Bleaching Increases Chances of Coral Disease
Environment  (tags: environment, coral, bleaching, disease, habitat, nature, protection )

Cher
- 46 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Mass coral bleaching has devastated coral colonies around the world for almost three decades. Now scientists have found that bleaching can make corals more susceptible to disease and, in turn, coral disease can exacerbate the negative effects of
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Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering
Environment  (tags: environment, state regulators, Clean Water Act, water, pollution, illness, disease, protection, prevention, safety )

Dee
- 70 days ago - nytimes.com
Ryan Massey, 7, shows his caps. Dentists near Charleston, W.Va., say pollutants in drinking water have damaged residents' teeth. Nationwide, polluters have violated the Clean Water Act more than 500,000 times.
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EPA Looks at Effects of Waste Plants on Minorities, Poor
Environment  (tags: environment, protection, pollution, humans, ecosystems, conservation, habitat, science, treatment, health, risks, safety, soil, water, contamination, disease, investigation, poor, politics )

Tom
- 120 days ago - latimes.com
A Clinton-era executive order requiring federal agencies to consider the effect of their policies on disadvantaged communities was ignored by the Bush administration. Obama-appointed EPA administrator Lisa P. Jackson has promised to analyze those effects.
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Sign Petition: Protect Your Drinking Water From Toxic Chemicals
Environment  (tags: environment, halliburton, cheney, corruption, lies, cover-up, crime, politics, government, bush, americans, health, risk, disease, epa, exxon, oil, gas, toxic, drinking, water, pollution, ecosystems, destruction, humans, protection, conservation )

Tom
- 165 days ago - humanitarianrelief.change.org
Thanks to a provision slipped into the Energy Policy Act of 2005 at the request of Halliburton, Exxon and other corporations, the oil and gas industry was exempted from the Safe Drinking Water Act that protects drinking water for millions of Americans.
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Siogn Petition: Urge Interior Secretary Salazar to Prohibit Mining Near the Grand Canyon
Environment  (tags: environment, water, animals, mining, grand, canyon, toxic, poison, pollution, humans, habitat, nature, wildlife, protection, ecosystems, conservation, government, obama, disease, risks, safety, business, americans )

Tom
- 182 days ago - change.org
Mining near the Grand Canyon will not only threaten one of our greatest national treasures, but will also threaten the Colorado River that flows through the Canyon. The river provides drinking water for 25 million Americans.
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Sign Petition: Ask the EPA to Acknowledge the Truth About Global Warming
Environment  (tags: environment, animals, habitat, species, endangered, climate change, wildlife, ocean, polar bears, whales, humans, global warming, arctic, malaria, disease, floods, drought, wildfires, hurricanes, starvation, pollution )

Tom
- 183 days ago - change.org
Global warming is the single greatest threat to wildlife, not to mention our children's future. At last, the Environmental Protection Agency is taking steps to formally declare that greenhouse gas emissions are a threat to our public health and welfare.
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Sign Petition: Global Emission and Waste Reform NOW
Environment  (tags: environment, CO2emissions, waste, garbage, ocean, landfills, pollution, recycling, nature, protection, globalwarming, Sustainabililty, wildlife, habitat, conservation, corporations, economy, health, disease, prevention, safety, politics, government )

Tom
- 186 days ago - change.org
Our government's goal is to reduce pollution by 83% by 2050. The health of the people comes before corporations or the economy. We should eliminate endless landfills, trash, and gigantic garbage patches in oceans through planning and recycling by 2020.
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Sign Petition: Urge the Obama Administration to Actively Support Climate Legislation
Environment  (tags: environment, animals, habitat, species, endangered, climate change, wildlife, ocean, polar bears, whales, humans, global warming, arctic, malaria, disease, floods, drought, wildfires, hurricanes, starvation, pollution )

Tom
- 189 days ago - secure3.convio.net
The Union of Concerned Scientists released the Climate 2030 Blueprint, a peer-reviewed study showing that the United States can dramatically cut global warming pollution while saving American households and businesses billions of dollars in energy costs.
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Sign Petition: Make Polluters Pay for ALL Carbon Credits
Environment  (tags: environment, animals, habitat, species, endangered, climate change, wildlife, ocean, polar bears, whales, humans, global warming, arctic, malaria, disease, floods, drought, wildfires, hurricanes, starvation, pollution )

Tom
- 189 days ago - act.truemajorityaction.org
Instead of making polluters pay for messing up our climate like the President asked, House Democrats are now proposing to give the biggest polluters in the country free credits to keep fouling our atmosphere. Use this page to tell Congress that's not OK.
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Sign Petition: Stop Inhumane, Disease Causing Animal Farming
Environment  (tags: animals, suffering, cruelty, death, environment, humans, health, safety, risks, disease, food, illness, money, corruption, business, dishonesty, factory, farming, pig, cow, chicken, fish, water, pollution, meat, steroids, antibiotics, global, warming )

Tom
- 199 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
We are all affected by the pollution from these farms that runs into our waters causing dead zones with no oxygen resulting in dead fish and fish with sores. The waste from these pig, chicken, cow and fish farms are highly toxic and infiltrate our water.
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Take Action: Tell Congress to Pass Tough Global Warming Legislation!
Environment  (tags: environment, animals, habitat, species, endangered, climate change, wildlife, ocean, polar bears, whales, humans, global warming, arctic, malaria, disease, floods, drought, wildfires, hurricanes, starvation, pollution )

Tom
- 244 days ago - nrdconline.org
Global warming threatens to trigger the irreversible melting of the Greenland ice sheet, a 20-foot rise in sea levels and the extinction of countless wildlife species, including the polar bear. Tell Congress to avert a global warming catastrophe.
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WHO Warns Climate Change Poses Health Risks
Environment  (tags: environment, climate-change, global warming, health, humans, disease, food shortages, asia pacific )

Tom
- 423 days ago - gmanews.tv
The World Health Organization called for urgent action Wednesday to address public health risks posed by global warming to countries in the Asia Pacific, including food shortages and a rise in dengue, malaria and other diseases carried by mosquitoes.
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Global Warming - the Beautiful Hoax!
Environment  (tags: climate change, conservation, consumerism, disease, environment, extinction, food shortages, fuel efficiency, global warming, green energy, green fuel, recycle, recycling, rising sea levels, sustainability )

Steve
- 593 days ago - lionsledbysheep.com
Is global warming the most beautiful hoax of all time? The evidence for it has never been conclusive, and fresh evidence now suggests we're panicking over nothing! Is global warming just a crock!?
141 comments
Panic in the Beehive
Environment  (tags: BEES, disease, protection, nature, habitat, habitatdestruction, endangered, ecosystems, conservation, wildlife )


- 650 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
If the UK lost its honey bees the countryside would face devastation, and that is exactly what beekeepers fear could happen.
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Benin Tree-Planting Scheme Brings Hope in Anti-AIDS Fight
Environment  (tags: HIV, AIDS, humans, disease, Africa, trees, protection, habitatdestruction, forests, ecosystems, conservation, environment, endangered, wildlife, world )

Mari
- 723 days ago - news.yahoo.com
COME, Benin (AFP) - Anti-AIDS campaigners in the west African state of Benin are using a "tree of life" to help fight against the disease, in a project that provides food, revenue and hope for HIV-positive people.
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