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TAKE ACTION NOW! Tell the Chinese Government to Stop Putting Profit Over Human Life
Environment  (tags: pollution, politics, environment, workers rights, China, world, protection, government, green, ecosystems, destruction )

Cal
- 159 days ago - forcechange.com
Though China is rapidly developing as an industrial powerhouse and major exporter, it has repeatedly failed to take the same important strides with environmental protection and workers' rights. While the country expands as a key player in international co
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OP-ED: Deniers-in-Chief: How the Most Powerful Leaders in the World Just Guaranteed Us a Climate Disaster
Environment  (tags: climate-change, globalwarming, Durban Talks, protection, environment, destruction, ecosystems, pollution, humans, world, oceans, politics, water, government, green, habitatdestruction, globalwarming )

Cal
- 161 days ago - alternet.org
The Durban deal -- if left unchanged -- guarantees that we will fail to avoid catastrophic and potentially irreversible climate change.
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OP-ED: Analysis: No Stopping Big Hydro Projects, Despite Lao Veto
Environment  (tags: energy, environment, destruction, habitatdestruction, habitat, green, protection, politics, world, conservation, ecosystems, water, humans )

Cal
- 163 days ago - uk.reuters.com
A surge in mega-hydropower projects across the world in the coming decade will only be affected marginally by last week's decision to delay bui
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Stop Strip Mining at Bryce Canyon National Park
Environment  (tags: environment, destruction, protection, stripmining, national parks, Bryce Canyon National Park, humans, nature, politics, water, habitat, habitatdestruction, ecosystems, conservation, green )

Cal
- 163 days ago - forcechange.com
The Bureau of Land Management is on the cusp of approving an enormous 3,500 acre strip coal mine just along the outer border of what is officially deemed park-land.Allowing plans for this mine to continue would be reckless and set a terrible example, ess
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GOOD NEWS! Welsh Wetland Turned Over to Wildlife
Environment  (tags: animals, environment, ecosystems, humans, nature, habitat, green, GoodNews, world )

Cal
- 164 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Attempts some time ago to restock about 3.5 hectares with mixed broadleaves and sitka spruce failed due to the wet conditions, so foresters came up with the perfect answer - create a wetland haven for endangered wildlife.
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Protest Belize National Park Being Opened By Corrupt U.S. Oil Exploration to Illegal Logging
Environment  (tags: business, corruption, corporate, dishonesty, pollution, humans, politics, protection, world, forests, ecosystems, destruction, environment, wildlife, habitat, habitatdestruction, green )

Cal
- 164 days ago - rainforestportal.org
With the Prime Minister's permission, Colorado-based oil company US Capital Energy is drilling seismic testing lines through the ecologically spectacular Sarstoon-Temash national park - against international treaty commitments and a Belizean Supreme Court
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Save The Marine Wealth of The Indian Ocean! SIGN!
Environment  (tags: Indian Ocean, destruction, conservation, environment, animals, green, habitat, habitatdestruction, healthconditions, oceans, nature, pollution, protection, water, Sustainabililty )

Lindsey
- 164 days ago - gopetition.com
For ages the Indian Ocean has remained a congenial bowl, bearing flora and fauna, benefitting all the countries in the region. We have had industrial waste coming in, but not at an alarming rate for us to panic. The Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant...
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Costs Mount for Northwest Nuclear Waste Plant
Environment  (tags: energy, conservation, environment, protection, humans, nature, pollution, ecosystems, green, government )

Cal
- 166 days ago - usnews.msnbc.msn.com
The federal government says a one-of-a-kind plant that will convert radioactive waste into a stable and storable substance that resembles glass will cost hundreds of millions of dollars more and may take longer to build, adding to a string of delays and
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Ban Plastic Bags In Florida! SIGN!
Environment  (tags: plastic bags, animals, conservation, ecosystems, environment, green, habitatdestruction, healthconditions, nature, pollution, protection, wildlife )

Lindsey
- 166 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Globally, plastic bags are at the center of an environmental crisis. Not only are large quantities of oil used in manufacturing and transporting the bags around the world, but the bags have also created a massive plastic island in the Pacific, destroy..
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Sign To Save The Amazon! WWF Petition!
Environment  (tags: Brazil, amazon, destruction, conservation, environment, green, habitat, habitatdestruction, nature, pollution, protection, Sustainabililty, trees, wildlife )

Lindsey
- 170 days ago - support.worldwildlife.org
A multi-year effort by leaders of large agribusiness in Brazil to weaken the country's forest law is paying off for them. At a cost to nature. Please sign!
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Tell Your Senators: Restore the Gulf Coast! TAKE ACTION!
Environment  (tags: Gulf, animals, destruction, conservation, environment, green, habitatdestruction, nature, oceans, protection, wildlife )

Lindsey
- 170 days ago - secure3.convio.net
Congress is considering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to restore our Gulf Coast. The RESTORE Act would dedicate billions of dollars in penalties paid by BP and other companies responsible for last year's oil disaster to a massive effort to restore...
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Biomass Is the Next Biofuel 'Land Grab' on Tropical Forests, Warn Campaigners
Environment  (tags: biomass, energy, destruction, environment, conservation, humans, nature, pollution, habitatdestruction, green, trees, politics )

Cal
- 171 days ago - theecologist.org
Just as biofuels have gobbled up farmland that should have been growing food so the push on biomass by Monsanto, Cargill and others will see an 'unprecedented' grab on land, plants and biodiverse-rich forests
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GOOD NEWS! Volcano and Cloud Forests Conserved in Ecuador
Environment  (tags: GoodNews, habitat, conservation, wildlife, world, protection, humans, environment, ecosystems, nature, oceans, politics, green )

Cal
- 172 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Conservation organizations and the Ecuadorian government have succeeded in securing over 250,000 acres (106,000 hectares) of cloud forest and grasslands surrounding the Antisana Volcano for protection.
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GOOD NEWS! Sierra Leone Gola Rainforest Becomes National Park
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, environment, forests, conservation, GoodNews, green, government, world, protection, humans, habitat )

Cal
- 173 days ago - abcnews.go.com
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds says the declaration of the over 71,000-hectare Gola Rainforest as a national park should subdue ongoing threats from logging and mining.
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Community Mapping of African Rainforests Could Show Way Forward for Preservation, REDD
Environment  (tags: rainforests, rainforest preservation, wildlife, protection, nature, conservation, environment, ecosystems, green, habitat, Sustainabililty )

Cal
- 175 days ago - news.mongabay.com
A new initiative to place community mapping of central African rainforests online could prove key to local rights in the region, says the UK-based NGO Rainforest Foundation
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