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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
- 1 day 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
- 1 day 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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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
- 2 days 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
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GOOD NEWS---Gucci Group Commits to Protecting Indonesia's Rainforests
Environment  (tags: environment, RAINFORESTS, destruction, forests, trees, protection, humans, ecosystems )

Cal
- 3 days ago - cms.ran.org
Joining forces with Rainforest Action Network (RAN), the prestigious conglomerate of fashion and luxury brands Gucci Group has decided to eliminate all paper made from Indonesian rainforests and plantations and by controversial suppliers like Asia Pulp an
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The Trees That We Need
Environment  (tags: ClimateChange, climate-change, CO2emissions, globalwarming, trees, forests )

Chris
- 3 days ago - borealbirds.org
North America's primary forests have a big role in preventing climate change. They need our protection...
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UGANDA: Palm Project Accused of Environmental Destruction
Environment  (tags: habitatdestruction, habitat, environment, ecosystems, destruction, forests, trees, world, humans, nature, politics )

Cal
- 4 days ago - ipsnews.net
It is a public-private partnership intended to reduce Uganda's dependence on imported vegetable oil while creating sustainable jobs and income for several thousand people. Its critics say it's destroying forests with no regard for environmental regulation
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Give Trees a Chance
Environment  (tags: environment, trees, forests, habitat, habitatdestruction, protection, nature, world )

Cal
- 4 days ago - alternativesjournal.ca
The meltdown that swept through the world's financial markets in late 2008 was simply the latest setback to hit the beleaguered Canadian forestry industry
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The World's Second Largest Tropical Rainforest
Environment  (tags: conservation, destruction, ecosystems, environment, forests, government, habitat, humans, nature, trees, water, wildlife )

Daphna
- 5 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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HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH AND THE ACCELERATING RATE OF SPECIES EXTINCTION
Environment  (tags: animals, destruction, ecosystems, environment, forests, habitat, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, research, science, wildlife, world, Sustainabililty )

Gorilly
- 9 days ago - earthportals.com
In recent years, some prominent economists have argued that there is no upper limit to human population growth, that finiteness in resources is meaningless, and that prosperity can be had by all.
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M'Sia Plans to Save Orang Utans
Environment  (tags: environment, animals, trees, replanting, Borneo, habitat, orangutans, forests, protection, nature )

Cher
- 10 days ago - straitstimes.com
MALAYSIAN authorities will replant trees in a forest ravaged by logging on Borneo island in the latest effort to restore the natural habitat of endangered orang utans, a global environmental group said on Wednesday
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Google to Fight Deforestation From Space
Environment  (tags: world, trees, protection, humans, nature, habitat, goodnews, environment, destruction, ecosystems, conservation, forests )

Daphna
- 15 days ago - planetsave.com
Google Inc. is joining forces with space agencies around the world and the conservation organization Group on Earth Observations (GEO) to monitor deforestation rates using satellite imagery. Among the space agencies working on the program are NASA, the ES
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NEW Interactive Rainforest Booklet -Please Join!!
Environment  (tags: habitatdestruction, rainforests, ecosystems, destruction, conservation, wildlife, forests )

Tierney
- 16 days ago - rainforestsos.org
The PRP has just released a new online, interactive booklet that describes how rainforests are on the front line in the fight against climate change and explains how a new form of international collaboration could help to reduce tropical deforestation,
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Stop U.S. Agribusiness Giant Cargill From Destroying More Rainforests-Take Action
Environment  (tags: conservation, destruction, ecosystems, forests, animals, habitatdestruction, trees, wildlife )

Tierney
- 16 days ago - ga3.org
Tropical rainforests are home to half the plant and animal species on earth, and only 20 percent of these forests remain on our entire planet. Unfortunately, increasing demand for palm oil for consumer products is pushing palm oil cultivation into the
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Last Remnants of Atlantic Forest to Be Preserved
Environment  (tags: environment, forests, nature, protection, habitat, trees )

Cher
- 16 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Argentina and Paraguay on Tuesday made a historic pledge to save one of the world's most threatened forests.
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NEW Interactive Rainforest Booklet -Please Join!!
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Take Action: Ask the Obama Administration to Save Coal River Mountain
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HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH AND THE ACCELERATING RATE OF SPECIES EXTINCTION
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Take Action: Urge the Obama Administration to Help Save Coal River Mountain
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The World's Second Largest Tropical Rainforest
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