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The Pollution Fallout From Zimbabwe's Blood Diamonds
Environment  (tags: world, pollution, humans, blood diamonds, water pollution, protection, healthconditions, habitat, environment, destruction, ecosystems )

Cal
- 1 day ago - e360.yale.edu
After large-scale diamond processing began in 2009 and intensified in the past year or two, complaints have mounted of human and animal ailments stemming from drinking river water.
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The Clean Water Act at 40: There's Still Much Left to Do
Environment  (tags: water, pollution, healthconditions, humans, Clean Water Act, conservation, ecosystems, environment, oceans, nature, politics, protection )

Cal
- 4 days ago - e360.yale.edu
The Clean Water Act of 1972, one of the boldest environmental laws ever enacted, turns 40 this year, with an impressive record of cleaning up America's waterways. But from New York Harbor to Alaska's Bristol Bay, key challenges remain.
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The Enviro Disaster You Know Nothing About: The Eco-Devastating Quest for "Frac Sand" in Rural America
Environment  (tags: fracking, Frack is Whack, activism, activists, environment, destruction, ecosystems, protection, humans, healthconditions, conservation, water, pollution, politics, business, environment, dishonesty, news, society, SustainableDevelopment, usa, polit )

Cal
- 5 days ago - alternet.org
Midwestern rural communities are being devastated by energy companies searching for a form of sand to use in their destructive fracking operations elsewhere in rural America.
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International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB)
Environment  (tags: conservation, environment, wildlife, protection, healthconditions, oceans, humans, nature, pollution, Sustainabililty, water, trees, world, endangered, energy, conservation, ecosystems, climate, animals, climate-change, green, habitat, science, politics )

Elena
- 5 days ago - cbd.int
Marine Biodiversity is the theme for this year's International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB). Designation of IDB 2012 on the theme of marine ecosystems provides Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and everyone interested in marine
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GOOD NEWS! Vermont First State to Ban Fracking
Environment  (tags: fracking, Frack is Whack, activism, activists, environment, destruction, ecosystems, protection, humans, healthconditions, conservation, water, pollution, politics, business, environment, dishonesty, news, society, SustainableDevelopment, usa, polit )

Cal
- 8 days ago - cnn.com
Vermont's governor has signed a bill making it the first U.S. state to ban fracking, the controversial practice to extract natural gas from the ground.
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IN NIGERIA, TOXIC SHIP CEMETERY POSES GRAVE ENVIRONMENTAL THREAT
Environment  (tags: pollution, world, Nigeria, environment, destruction, humans, healthconditions, protection, habitat, ecosystems, water )

Cal
- 10 days ago - worldcrunch.com
Off the Nigerian coast, near the country's largest city of Lagos, is a "graveyard" of some 100 grounded and rusted vessels that pose an environmental and security challenge to the oil-producing African country.
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What the Frack? New York Gas Drillers In Marcellus Shale Region Wrangle Over Limitations
Environment  (tags: Fracking, Frack is Whack, activism, activists, environment, destruction, ecosystems, protection, humans, healthconditions, conservation, water, pollution, politics, business, environment, dishonesty, news, society, SustainableDevelopment, usa, polit )

Cal
- 12 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
With all the restrictions in proposed state regulations and local bans, gas companies say about half of their lease holdings in the lucrative Marcellus Shale region in New York state will be off-limits or inaccessible to drilling if the state gives the gr
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Tell EPA and USDA to Ban Bayer's Insecticides & Monsanto's GMO--!Save the Bees!
Environment  (tags: animals, bees, Monsanto, genetically engineered crops, activism, ecosystems, environment, destruction, politics, humans, protection, healthconditions )

Cal
- 14 days ago - organicconsumers.org
Monsanto's Mon810 corn, genetically engineered to produce a synthetic version of the insecticide Bt, has been banned in Poland following protests by beekeepers who showed the corn was killing honeybees.Let's ask the EPA to do this in the US alsol
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UK Environment Agency Backs Fracking, Nuclear Power
Environment  (tags: fracking, Frack is Whack, activism, activists, environment, destruction, ecosystems, protection, humans, healthconditions, conservation, water, pollution, politics, business, environment, dishonesty, news, society, SustainableDevelopment, usa, politworld )

Cal
- 17 days ago - uk.finance.yahoo.com
The chairman of the environment agency for England and Wales voiced support for shale gas extraction - which critics say can pollute ground water and cause earth tremors - and he backed government plans to expand nuclear power generation.
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TAKE ACTION NOW! TELL NY GOVERNOR CUOMO AND THE LEGISLATURE--Stop the Rush to Frack!
Environment  (tags: Fracking, Frack is Whack, activism, activists, environment, destruction, ecosystems, protection, humans, healthconditions, conservation, water, pollution, politics, business, environment, dishonesty, news, society, SustainableDevelopment, usa, polit )

Cal
- 18 days ago - secure3.convio.net
Tell the Governor and legislature to put the brakes on fracking and support a bill pending in the legislature that would extend the moratorium on issuing fracking permits until June 1, 2013, A7400-A/S.6261.
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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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45 Days to Stop Keystone XL ACTION
Environment  (tags: Keystone XL Pipeline, tar sands oil, protection, ecosystems, habitatdestruction, ecosystems, healthconditions )

Nancy
- 20 days ago - credoaction.com
News broke Thursday that TransCanada has secretly submitted its permit application for the Southern portion of the Keystone XL Pipeline to the Army Corps of Engineers. The Army Corps, which has an abysmal environmental track record, could approve the...
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REPORT: Nuclear Waste 'May Be Blighting 1,000 Sites' in the UK
Environment  (tags: nuclear waste, research, politics, protection, pollution, humans, healthconditions, environment, ecosystems, destruction, world, nature, radia-active, government )

Cal
- 21 days ago - theecologist.org
Hundreds of sites across England and Wales could be contaminated with radioactive waste from old military bases and factories, according to a new government report.
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