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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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Melting Sea Ice Could Lead to Pressure on Arctic Fishery
Environment  (tags: environment, destruction, ecosystems, Arctic fishery, climatechange, globalwarming, protection, world, humans, habitat, habitatdestruction, conservation, climate-change, animals )

Cal
- 9 days ago - enn.com
With melting sea ice opening up previously inaccessible parts of the Arctic Ocean, the fishing industry sees a potential bonanza. But some scientists and government officials have begun calling for a moratorium on fishing in the region until the true stat
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Keeping Our Daily Coffee: The Farmers in Peru Adapting to Climate Change
Environment  (tags: climate-change, climate, weather, agriculture, coffee production, world, nature, globalwarming, ecosystems, environment )

Cal
- 9 days ago - theecologist.org
Shade-grown, hand picked coffee is one of Peru's biggest exports, but the country's smallholder farmers face sustained crop losses from extreme weathe
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Vietnam's Climate Woes Ignite National Strategy
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, environment, destruction, politics, government, world, protection, climate-change, conservation, climatechange, globalwarming, water )

Cal
- 18 days ago - ipsnews.net
Vietnam is hailed as a development success story for lifting millions out of poverty and staying on track to meet all of its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. But the country's future progress is severely threatened by the impact of global cli
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Could a Changing Climate Set Off Volcanoes and Quakes?
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, environment, weather, volcanoes, climate-change, globalwarming, research, globalwarming, climate, climatechange, nature, humans, world )

Cal
- 18 days ago - e360.yale.edu
A British scientist argues that global warming could lead to a future of more intense volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. And while some dismiss his views as preposterous, he points to a body of recent research that shows a troubling link between climate
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Cut Global Warming Pollution From Power Plants ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Environment  (tags: environment, destruction, habitat, nature, pollution, protection, globalwarming )

Cher
- 18 days ago - action.biologicaldiversity.org
Cleaning up harmful carbon pollution from power plants -- the largest single source of CO2 emissions in the United States -- would make a huge difference in the increasingly critical fight to slow global warming.
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GOOD NEWS! Japan Shuts Down Last Nuclear Reactor
Environment  (tags: nuclear power, no nukes, world, japan, radia-active, politics, conservation, energy, ecosystems, environment, greenhousegases, globalwarming, government, green, protection, healthconditions, Sustainabililty )

Cal
- 19 days ago - cnn.com
Over the weekend, Japan's last remaining nuclear reactor shut down for regular maintenance. In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, reactors have not been allowed back on. Japan is now the first major economy to see the modern era without nuclear p
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Stop the Polar Bear Extinction Plan ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Environment  (tags: environment, destruction, globalwarming, nature, protection, animals, wildlife )

Cher
- 23 days ago - action.biologicaldiversity.org
Please use the form to ask the Fish and Wildlife Service to create a real polar bear conservation rule that addresses the most pressing threat to its survival: global warming.
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ENVIRONMENT. TAKE ACTION: Don't Let Monsanto Destroy the Environment. SIGN!
Environment  (tags: climate, climate-change, climatechange, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, environment, Monsanto, pollution, protection, wildlife, weather, green, globalwarming, nature, oceans )

Jim
- 28 days ago - forcechange.com
In September 2011, Monsanto Company silently purchased Beelogics, one of the world's leading research firms dedicated to restoring bee health. Now, studies have come out showing evidence that the pollen released from Monsanto's genetically modified corn
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Danger From the Deep: New Climate Threat as Methane Rises From Cracks in Arctic Ice
Environment  (tags: greenhousegases, methane release in the Arctic, Arctic melting, climate, climate-change, globalwarming, world, nature, CO2emissions, environment, ecosystems )

Cal
- 32 days ago - independent.co.uk
Scientists shocked to find greenhouse gas 70 times more potent than CO2 bubbling from deep ocean
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'Children, Women Most Affected By Climate Change'
Environment  (tags: climate-change, conservation, ecosystems, endangered, energy, environment, globalwarming, habitat, healthconditions, humans, pollution, protection, science, Sustainabililty, water )

Rosemary
- 37 days ago - daily-mail.co.zm
CLIMATE change mostly affects children and women, resulting in those living in remote areas to walk long distances to fetch water and firewood, Deputy Minister of Lands, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Charles Zulu has said. Continues...
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Full-Cost Pricing: Getting the Market to Tell the Truth
Environment  (tags: climatechange, conservation, deforestation, destruction, ecosystems, economy, endangered, energy, environment, forests, globalwarming, greenhousegases, habitat, habitatdestruction, humans, politics, pollution, protection, Sustainabililty, trees, world )

Rosemary
- 37 days ago - sustainablog.org
Moving the global economy off its current decline-and-collapse path depends on reaching four goals: stabilizing climate, stabilizing population, eradicating poverty, and restoring the economy's natural support systems. These goals-comprising ... Cont.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Sea Level Rise Threatens Mekong Rice
Environment  (tags: world, habitat, habitatdestruction, agriculture, ecosystems, environment, destruction, climate-change, climate, globalwarming, green, protection )

Cal
- 38 days ago - ipsnews.net
With Vietnam's fertile Mekong delta threatened by rising sea levels and salt water ingress, the country's future as a major rice exporter depends critically on research underway in the Philippines
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6 Scary Extreme Energy Sources Being Tapped to Fuel the Post Peak Oil Economy
Environment  (tags: animals, climate-change, conservation, destruction, CO2emissions, ecosystems, endangered, energy, environment, forests, globalwarming, greenhousegases, habitatdestruction, healthconditions, habitat, humans, nature, oceans, politics, pollution, science, Su )

Kit
- 39 days ago - alternet.org
Think of this as taking fracking to the next level so that we can continue to speed along on our highway to hell -- peak oil, and the earth, be damned.
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Debating the Future of Our World's Water
Environment  (tags: climate-change, CO2emissions, destruction, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, healthconditions, oceans, politics, pollution, protection, science, Sustainabililty, trees, water, world )

Kit
- 39 days ago - alternet.org
Achieving water democracy is surely a terrific opportunity to fix governance problems from the local to the global, but it's one enormous task.
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