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Environment News tagged with fires

Greenpeace Says Big Brands Destroying Rainforest
Environment  (tags: Brazil, amazon, rainforest, deforestation, animals, destruction, cattle, fires, burning, pollution, CO2emissions, environment, globalwarming, ecosystems, humans, nature, wildlife, trees, Sustainabililty, conservation, climatechange, research, study )

Tom
- 155 days ago - environmentalleader.com
The expansion of Brazil's cattle sector is driving the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and threatens to undermine Brazil's pledge to cut deforestation by 72 percent by 2018. The cattle industry is the largest source of deforestation in the world.
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Californians Celebrate Annual Wildfire Traditions   video
Environment  (tags: destruction, forests, fires, Habitat Destruction )

Clever
- 420 days ago - youtube.com
Residents took part in rituals like picking through the charred remains of their homes and feigning shock that this could happen to them.
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Greek Summer Fires! Please Help and Sign Petition!!
Environment  (tags: environment, fires, Greece, destruction, nature, habitat, wildlife, forests, trees )

Cher
- 512 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
<p>Please help us make a difference and actually be heard from the Greek government.. Our forests burn every summer.. It's such a pity to lose every bit of green we have left in this country. And remember you don't have to be a Greek citizen to sign</p>
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Fires Undo Forests' Climate Benefits, Scientists Find
Environment  (tags: environment, forests, fires, destruction, climate, wildlife, animals )


- 752 days ago - canada.com
A huge swath of Canada's boreal forest, one of the largest storehouses of carbon on the planet, is now spewing more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than it soaks up, scientists say. "The sink has become a source," says forest ecologist Tom Gower, at
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SOUTH EAST QLD BATTERED BY SEVERE STORMS...VIDEO
Environment  (tags: storms, sth east qld, australia, nsw, storms, houses destroyed, lighting stikes home, fires, hail damage, fallen trees, homes destroyed )

Ali
- 757 days ago - news.com.au
A HOUSE has been struck by lightning and more than 1700 homes are without power after a night of severe storms in south-east Queensland.
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Arson Fires Force Hundreds of Hawaiians to Flee
Environment  (tags: fires, arson, evacuation )

Caree
- 758 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Brush fires that appeared to be arson burned out of control Sunday along the coast of Hawaii's largest island, sending hundreds of people fleeing inland, officials said. 60 fire departments battle blazes apparently set along roads on Big Island.
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Friends of the Earth - Don't Let Armenia Turn Forest Into Smoking Copper Pit - Take Action
Environment  (tags: forests, fires, protection, habitatdestruction, humans, destruction, conservation, environment, government, trees )

Thunderr
- 758 days ago - action.foe.org
Teghut's forest is located in Armenia and is an ancient,pristine forest in a largely deforested nation.Over 1,500 acres of this forest is about to be destroyed to accommodate a massive,open-pit copper mine.Send a message to the U.S. ambassador to Armenia>
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LATEST UPDATE: California Wildfires Force MILLION Evacuated!
Environment  (tags: Latest news, California, fires, firefighters, evacuation, million people evacuated )

ON VACATI
- 763 days ago - reuters.com
Some 1,500 homes and other structures had been destroyed by the fires as of Tuesday evening and the 500,000 people evacuated in their path was the largest in the U.S. since Katrina.
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