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In Brazil, a Showdown Over Rainforest Deforestation
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, environment, protection, humans, nature, government, politics, world, wildlife, conservation, animals, habitatdestruction, habitat )

Cal
- 3 hours ago - csmonitor.com
Brazil's president is scheduled to sign a reform package today that could retroactively legalize the deforestation of millions of acres in the Amazon.
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Securing the Nation's Power Grid
Environment  (tags: conservation, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, nature, pollution, politics, power grids, Sustainabililty )

Kit
- 3 hours ago - truth-out.org
To avert future costly blackouts, the United States must modernize its energy system. Currently, the nation's power grid is based on a 100-year old approach that centralizes power generation.
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Tell KFC to Stop Destroying Rainforests ACTION
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, APP, environment, destruction, wildlife, money, corporate, KFC )

Nancy
- 5 hours ago - kfc-secretrecipe.com
KFC has no policies to tackle deforestation and has been caught using paper made by Asia Pulp and Paper. APP is one of the world's most notorious forest destroyers and a company recently found using illegal timber.
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Dilma's Dilemma: Urge Brazil to Veto Forest Code ACTION
Environment  (tags: Amazon, Brazil, President Dilma, destruction, ecosystems, wildlife, habitatdestruction )

Nancy
- 8 hours ago - amazonwatch.org
With the world's largest environmental summit being hosted in Brazil in just a few weeks, she can't afford to look the world in the eyes as the leader who approved the slashing of environmental protections and rainforest destruction
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Goodbye Fish and Shellfish? Meet the Biggest Threat to Our Oceans
Environment  (tags: oceans, food chain, seafood, acidification of the oceans, ecosystems, environment, animals, wildlife, protection, habitatdestruction, habitat, green, greenhousegases, water, nature, humans, government, climate-change, destruction, conservation )

Cal
- 22 hours ago - alternet.org
As emissions continue to rise, the world's oceans are becoming corrosive, threatening shellfish, corals and the entire ocean food web. LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Si
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Tell EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson: Prevent the Rubber-Stamping of the Keystone XL Pipeline Through Oklahoma
Environment  (tags: Keystone XL Pipeline, Canadian oil, politics, activism, protests, environment, destruction, protection, nature, ecosystems, humans, pollution, conservation, wildlife, GoodNews, news )

Cal
- 22 hours ago - salsa.democracyinaction.org
In less than 45 days, Canadian oil giant TransCanada could receive the rubber stamp it wants to build the southern leg of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline from Oklahoma through Texas to the Gulf Coast -- unless we convince the Environmental Protecti
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The Pollution Fallout From Zimbabwe's Blood Diamonds
Environment  (tags: world, pollution, humans, blood diamonds, water pollution, protection, healthconditions, habitat, environment, destruction, ecosystems )

Cal
- 1 day ago - e360.yale.edu
After large-scale diamond processing began in 2009 and intensified in the past year or two, complaints have mounted of human and animal ailments stemming from drinking river water.
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NEW STUDY: High Concentrations of Toxic Mercury in the Arctic From Circumpolar Rivers
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, environment, research, world, climate-change, destruction, oceans, nature, humans, pollution, protection, water, wildlife, habitat )

Cal
- 1 day ago - enn.com
The implications of this finding are significant for predicting future levels of the toxic heavy metal. The levels in the Artic will likely be increasing from the thawing of Arctic soils, releasing mercury into the hydrological cycle.
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Rich People Vs. Wildlife Conservation Trusts
Environment  (tags: law, government, freedoms, religion, media, literature, politics, news, middle-east, politics, freedoms, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', world, environment, ecosystems, pollution )

Cal
- 3 days ago - motherjones.com
The legal battles have become so ubiquitious that the land trusts have been forced to set up an insurance company to help them pay the bills. The trusts typically win the cases, but which can take a decade or more to resolve, as the Times reports:
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Mangroves Lead Battle Against Rising Seas
Environment  (tags: climate-change, water )

Cal
- 3 days ago - ipsnews.net
Sea level rise near Papua New Guinea, a Small Island Developing State (SIDS) in the southwest Pacific, is estimated at seven millimetres per year, double the global annual average of 2.8-3.6 mm.
30 comments
Arrest of BP Scapegoat -- Greg Palast
Environment  (tags: animals, BP corruption, climate-change, destruction, ecosystems, environment )

Kit
- 3 days ago - gregpalast.com
The Justice Department went big game hunting and bagged a teeny-weeny scapegoat. More like a scape-kid, really. Today, Justice arrested former BP engineer Kurt Mix for destroying evidence in the Deepwater Horizon blow-out.
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The Clean Water Act at 40: There's Still Much Left to Do
Environment  (tags: water, pollution, healthconditions, humans, Clean Water Act, conservation, ecosystems, environment, oceans, nature, politics, protection )

Cal
- 4 days ago - e360.yale.edu
The Clean Water Act of 1972, one of the boldest environmental laws ever enacted, turns 40 this year, with an impressive record of cleaning up America's waterways. But from New York Harbor to Alaska's Bristol Bay, key challenges remain.
14 comments
Guatemalan Communities Have No Say in Exploitation of Resources
Environment  (tags: activism, resistance, world, protection, humans, habitat, environment, destruction, ecosystems, politics, nature )

Cal
- 4 days ago - ipsnews.net
In Guatemala, a fierce battle is raging between locals opposed to a hydropower dam and the security forces who back the forces of development supported by multi-naitonal corporations and local government officials..
14 comments
Uranium-Tainted Water Still a Concern on Wind River Reservation
Environment  (tags: pollution, humans, environment, ecosystems, water, protection, nature, conservation, politics )

Cal
- 4 days ago - indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com
In early May, the Department of Energy announced that uranium at nearly twice the legal limit had been found in the tap water of four households on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming
20 comments
Chemical Weapon and Radiation Fear at Scottish RAF Base
Environment  (tags: radia-active, protection, humans, environment, destruction, pollution, ecosystems, habitat )

Cal
- 5 days ago - theecologist.org
RAF Kinloss in Moray, Scotland, at the centre of an investigation into radioactive contamination and chemical weapons buried at the site
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