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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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TAKE ACTION NOW! Tell EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson: Prevent the Rubber-Stamping of the Keystone XL Pipeline Through Oklahoma
Environment  (tags: Keystone XL Pipeline, Canadian oil, politics, activism, protests, environment, destruction, protection, nature, ecosystems, humans, pollution, conservation, wildlife, GoodNews, news )

Cal
- 22 hours ago - salsa.democracyinaction.org
In less than 45 days, Canadian oil giant TransCanada could receive the rubber stamp it wants to build the southern leg of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline from Oklahoma through Texas to the Gulf Coast -- unless we convince the Environmental Protecti
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Rich People Vs. Wildlife Conservation Trusts
Environment  (tags: law, government, freedoms, religion, media, literature, politics, news, middle-east, politics, freedoms, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', world, environment, ecosystems, pollution )

Cal
- 3 days ago - motherjones.com
The legal battles have become so ubiquitious that the land trusts have been forced to set up an insurance company to help them pay the bills. The trusts typically win the cases, but which can take a decade or more to resolve, as the Times reports:
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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.
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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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Guatemalan Communities Have No Say in Exploitation of Resources
Environment  (tags: activism, resistance, world, protection, humans, habitat, environment, destruction, ecosystems, politics, nature )

Cal
- 4 days ago - ipsnews.net
In Guatemala, a fierce battle is raging between locals opposed to a hydropower dam and the security forces who back the forces of development supported by multi-naitonal corporations and local government officials..
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Uranium-Tainted Water Still a Concern on Wind River Reservation
Environment  (tags: pollution, humans, environment, ecosystems, water, protection, nature, conservation, politics )

Cal
- 4 days ago - indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com
In early May, the Department of Energy announced that uranium at nearly twice the legal limit had been found in the tap water of four households on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming
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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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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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Pebble Mine Project Could Degrade Alaska Streams If Not Properly Managed, EPA Claims
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, environment, destruction, pollution, humans, protection, politics, nature )

Cal
- 7 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
Failure of a large-scale mine planned near the headwaters of one of the world's premier salmon fisheries in Alaska could wipe out or degrade rivers and streams in the region for decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a draft watershed a
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TAKE ACTION NOW! No More Dumping Mining Waste Into Our Waters!
Environment  (tags: environment, water, pollution, politics, laws, activism, ecosystems, nature, humans, habitat )

Cal
- 7 days ago - secure.earthjustice.org
Ever since President George W. Bush created a massive loophole in the Clean Water Act in 2002, mining companies have been able to dump their toxic and dangerous mining waste directly into the waters we all rely on.
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ARGENTINA: Tribe Partners to Protect Argentina's Most Endangered Forest
Environment  (tags: environment, conservation, humans, politics, nature, world, green, ecosystems, protection, habitat, GoodNews )

Cal
- 8 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Last month, three Guarani communities, the local Argentine government of Misiones, and the UK-based NGO World Land Trust forged an agreement to create a nature reserve connecting three protected areas in the fractured, and almost extinct, Atlantic Forest
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