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Environment News tagged with risks

Maine Spectators Ignored Warnings Before Wave Hit
Environment  (tags: environment, weather, oceans, nature, destruction, protection, warning, risks, death )

Dee
- 93 days ago - news.yahoo.com
AUGUSTA, Maine - Rangers at Acadia National Park insisted Monday that they had done all they could to warn visitors before beauty suddenly turned brutal, launching a hurricane-generated wave over a group of gawkers, dragging several into the roiling---
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EPA Looks at Effects of Waste Plants on Minorities, Poor
Environment  (tags: environment, protection, pollution, humans, ecosystems, conservation, habitat, science, treatment, health, risks, safety, soil, water, contamination, disease, investigation, poor, politics )

Tom
- 121 days ago - latimes.com
A Clinton-era executive order requiring federal agencies to consider the effect of their policies on disadvantaged communities was ignored by the Bush administration. Obama-appointed EPA administrator Lisa P. Jackson has promised to analyze those effects.
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When Tree Hugging Goes Too Far
Environment  (tags: environment, nature, trees, treehuggers, protection, safety, risks, prevention, destruction )

Dee
- 137 days ago - online.wsj.com
Do we love big old trees too much? Many homeowners don't give enough thought to what hazards their biggest and oldest trees may pose to people and property.
26 comments
Invasive Mussels Found in Berkshire County
Environment  (tags: environment, destruction, Zebra Mussels, lakes, oceans, water, habitatdestruction, protection, prevention, risks, treatment )

Dee
- 139 days ago - capitalnews9.com
LEE, Mass. (AP) - Invasive zebra mussels, which choke off food for fish and can clog machinery and pipes, have come to Massachusetts. The state Department of Conservation and Recreation confirms that zebra mussels have been found in Laurel Lake- - -
6 comments
Siogn Petition: Urge Interior Secretary Salazar to Prohibit Mining Near the Grand Canyon
Environment  (tags: environment, water, animals, mining, grand, canyon, toxic, poison, pollution, humans, habitat, nature, wildlife, protection, ecosystems, conservation, government, obama, disease, risks, safety, business, americans )

Tom
- 183 days ago - change.org
Mining near the Grand Canyon will not only threaten one of our greatest national treasures, but will also threaten the Colorado River that flows through the Canyon. The river provides drinking water for 25 million Americans.
25 comments
Sign Petition: Stop Inhumane, Disease Causing Animal Farming
Environment  (tags: animals, suffering, cruelty, death, environment, humans, health, safety, risks, disease, food, illness, money, corruption, business, dishonesty, factory, farming, pig, cow, chicken, fish, water, pollution, meat, steroids, antibiotics, global, warming )

Tom
- 200 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
We are all affected by the pollution from these farms that runs into our waters causing dead zones with no oxygen resulting in dead fish and fish with sores. The waste from these pig, chicken, cow and fish farms are highly toxic and infiltrate our water.
31 comments
Sign Petition: Protect Our Oceans, Coastal Communities and Consumers
Environment  (tags: environment, ocean, fish, farming, Bush, NOAA, gulf of mexico, seafood, aquaculture, congress, nature, protection, habitat, humans, ecosystems, conservation, health, risks, humans, food, habitat, pollution, wildlife )

Tom
- 200 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council approved a devastating plan to permit industrial ocean fish farms in U.S. waters. Advertised as a blueprint for ocean waters nationwide, it's now headed to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
41 comments
Take Action: Stop Shell Oil's Human Rights and Environmental Abuses
Environment  (tags: Shell, oil, pollution, gas, flaring, environment, destruction, humans, habitat, nature, ecosystems, crime, abuse, humanrights, business, money, health, risks )

Tom
- 202 days ago - salsa.democracyinaction.org
Shell Oil is charged with serious human rights abuses, including conspiring with Nigeria's military dictatorship to execute Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight fellow activists who led a mass movement against Shell's environmental devastation of the Niger Delta.
24 comments
Top Polluted U.S. Cities With the Worst Air
Environment  (tags: environment, pollution, humans, protection, health, research, risks, warning )

Dee
- 208 days ago - abcnews.go.com
The air that most Americans breathe may not be as clean as they think -- depending on where they live, at least.
3 comments
I Was Shot, Claims Anti-Whaling Activist
Environment  (tags: science, research, investigation, news, humans, interesting, protection, risks, death, prevention, safety, news, rights, ethics, environment, conservation, endangered, whaling, water, suffering, animals, destruction, conflict, violence )

Kim
- 626 days ago - stuff.co.nz
Japan has dismissed as a lie claims by the captain of an anti-whaling ship he was shot at during the latest confrontation with a whaling vessel in the Southern Ocean.
5 comments
Humans Caused the Earth to Enter a New Epoch?
Environment  (tags: africa, asia, abuse, children, death, diet, environment, ethics, family, food, government, health, healthcare, humans, interesting, investigation, news, prevention, protection, research, risks, safety, science, society, study, treatment, warning, conserva )

Michael
- 652 days ago - alternet.org
With more than half of all soils on Earth now being cultivated for food crops, grazed, or logged for wood, how to sustain Earth's soils is becoming a major scientific and policy issue. Dr. Richter cites Africa as an example of this challenge. There, wides
2 comments
Medical Plants 'Face Extinction'
Environment  (tags: Medical, plants, risks, study, research, society, medicine, endangered, environment, conservation, nature, wildlife, extinction )

TW
- 674 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Hundreds of medicinal plants are at risk of extinction, threatening the discovery of future cures for disease, according to experts.
6 comments
In Despair Over the Polar Bear
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, environment, risks, humans )

Mamabear
- 827 days ago - time.com
Pamela Larsen, 41, a mother of two young girls, in Mt. Hood, Ore., gets a stomachache every time she looks up at the volcano nearby: the glaciers at its peak have definitely been receding over the years. As the mountainside gets browner and browner
3 comments
   

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