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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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ACTION! Restore Orangutan Habitat! OFI
Environment  (tags: forests, conservation, habitat, habitatdestruction, protection, wildlife, endangered, restore, orangutans, habitat )

K. J.
- 3 hours ago - thepetitionsite.com
The purpose of this petition is ask OFI to partner with TFTF so that Care2 members can contribute their butterfly credits to the restoration of Orangutan habitat.
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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
35 comments
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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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
Romney Marsh Could Be UK's Nuclear Dumping Ground
Environment  (tags: radia-active, nature, pollution, humans, politics, protection, environment, ecosystems, conservation, destruction, world, habitat, habitatdestruction, green, government, wildlife )

Cal
- 6 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The wildlife-rich wetlands of Romney Marsh in Kent could become a radioactive dumping ground for Britain as part of Government plans to find a suitable spot to store future nuclear waste.
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New Bill Ends All Fossil Fuel Subsidies ACTION
Environment  (tags: fossil fuels, greenhousegases, habitatdestruction, pollution, energy, environment )

Nancy
- 8 days ago - act.rootsaction.org
Senator Bernie Sanders and Congressman Keith Ellison have just introduced legislation that would eliminate all oil, coal and gas production subsidies. Will take zip or postal code.
54 comments
Stop the Amazon Chainsaw Massacre ACTION
Environment  (tags: Amazon, Brazil, President Dilma, destruction, ecosystems, wildlife, habitatdestruction )

Nancy
- 9 days ago - avaaz.org
The Brazilian Congress has just passed a catastrophic forestry bill that gives loggers and farmers free rein to cut down huge swaths of the Amazon. Now only President Dilma can stop it.
105 comments
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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Wildlife in the Tropics Plummets By Over 60 Percent
Environment  (tags: environment, ecosystems, animals, habitat loss, animal welfare, biodiversity, nature, habitatdestruction, habitat, world, protection, conservation, destruction )

Cal
- 10 days ago - news.mongabay.com
In 48 years wildlife populations in the tropics, the region that holds the bulk of the world's biodiversity, have fallen by an alarming 61 percent, according to the most recent update to the Living Planet Index.
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BOLIVIA: Sacred Lake Titicaca Is Being Drowned By Pollution
Environment  (tags: pollution, environment, ecosystems, native spiritual places, protection, habitat, green, habitatdestruction, conservation )

Cal
- 10 days ago - indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com
What was once a sacred place to the Inca is now in danger from pollution, as population growth in the Titicaca watershed overwhelms the area's infrastructure.
12 comments
OP-ED: We Should Help Solve Illegal Logging, Not Be Part of the Problem
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, environment, crime, illegal logging trade, deforestation, habitatdestruction, habitat, protection, pollution, humans, politics, world, conservation, green, government, nature )

Cal
- 12 days ago - news.mongabay.com
As documented in a 2012 report by the World Bank, Justice for the Forests, illegal logging is now a massive criminal enterprise, rivaling the illegal drug trade and robbing developing nations of up to $US15 billion in revenues annually.
24 comments
Will Our Last Hope Be a River of Acid? ACTION
Environment  (tags: Louisiana, Coastal Restoration, habitatdestruction, wildlife, environment, ecosystems )

Nancy
- 14 days ago - secure3.convio.net
Right now, there are plans to build a dirty coal terminal which will pollute wetlands that we so desperately need to restore. In fact, the proposed terminal would be built next to one of Louisiana's premier wetlands restoration projects.
22 comments
Plastic Seas Altering Marine Ecology
Environment  (tags: marine ecology, marinea nimals, pollution, plastic, ecosystems, environment, humans, nature, protection, habitat, habitatdestruction, wildlife, world, oceans, water )

Cal
- 15 days ago - ipsnews.net
Plastic trash is altering the very ecology of the world's oceans. Insects called "sea skaters", a relative of pond water striders, are now laying their eggs on the abundant fingernail-sized pieces of plastic floating in the middle of the North Pacific Oce
15 comments
 
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