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Alliance for Climate Protection | Send a Message to the EPA-Take Action
Environment  (tags: CO2emissions, Petition, conservation, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, humans, nature, pollution, science )

Daphna
- 1 day ago - acp.climateprotect.org
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed new standards that will improve the gas mileage of new cars and light trucks. The deadline to submit comments is Wednesday, November 25th. Add your name by filling out the form on the right and we will deli
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Jane Goodall on 'The Daily Show With Jon Stewart'
Environment  (tags: animals, conservation, nature, humans, Jane Goodall, habitat, politics, pollution, science, globalwarming )

Daphna
- 5 days ago - mnn.com
Jane Goodall weighs in on animal rights extremists and discusses her new community program, Roots and Shoots.
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The Big Issue: Plastic Bags
Environment  (tags: climate, conservation, ecosystems, environment, forests, habitat, humans, nature, oceans, pollution, science, wildlife, world )

Daphna
- 10 days ago - earth911.com
Over the past year, the buzz about paper, plastic and reusable bags has grown louder by the day. In the last two years, four states - California, New York, Rhode Island and Delaware; five cities - Tucson, Chicago, New York City, San Juan Capi
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Forests in the Desert: The Answer to Climate Change?
Environment  (tags: climatechange, environment, protection, globalwarming, CO2emissions, climate, trees, science, nature, world, habitat, climate-change )

Cal
- 15 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Climate change could be cancelled out in a staggeringly ambitious plan to plant the Sahara desert and Australian outback with trees
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Sea Slime Killing U.S. Seabirds
Environment  (tags: environment, algae blooms, destruction, globalwarming, habitat, habitatdestruction, oceans, pollution, protection, research, science )

Dee
- 18 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Hundreds of birds--including this loon pictured on the Oregon coast in fall 2009--are washing up on the shores of the U.S. Pacific Northwest coated with a foamy sea slime, scientists say.
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Climate Chief Lord Stern: Give Up Meat to Save the Planet
Environment  (tags: environment, cows, pigs, methane, meat, CO2emissions, climatechange, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, ecosystems, conservation, climate, pollution, wildlife, world, oceans, destruction, water, animals, science, research )

Tom
- 19 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
"Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better." Direct emissions of methane from cows and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases.
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HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH AND THE ACCELERATING RATE OF SPECIES EXTINCTION
Environment  (tags: animals, destruction, ecosystems, environment, forests, habitat, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, research, science, wildlife, world, Sustainabililty )

Gorilly
- 22 days ago - earthportals.com
In recent years, some prominent economists have argued that there is no upper limit to human population growth, that finiteness in resources is meaningless, and that prosperity can be had by all.
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Statisticians Reject Global Cooling
Environment  (tags: environment, globalwarming, climatechange, CO2emissions, climate, humans, science, research, climate-change )

Cal
- 24 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
An analysis of global temperatures by independent statisticians shows the Earth is still warming and not cooling as some global warming skeptics are claiming.
35 comments
Oil Spill Off Australian Coast Poses Major Threat to Marine Life
Environment  (tags: Oil, risk, Timor Sea, Australia, science, environment, threat, marine life )

Sophie
- 26 days ago - independent.co.uk
Sea birds are dying and thousands of marine creatures are at risk from a massive oil spill in the Timor Sea, off north-west Australia, warn the first scientists to survey the isolated site.
21 comments
Arctic Lake Undergoing Unprecedented Changes Due to Warming
Environment  (tags: environment, globalwarming, climate-change, ecosystems, climate, science )

Cal
- 30 days ago - news.mongabay.com
The Arctic should be growing cooler, but a new sediment core taken from an Arctic lake reveals that the lake's ecology and chemistry has been transformed by unnatural warming beginning in the 1950s
13 comments
How Old Is the Earth?
Environment  (tags: climate, ClimateChange, climate-change, climatechange, ecosystems, energy, environment, forests, globalwarming, globalwarming, nature, habitat, green, research, science, trees, water, weather, world )

Gorilly
- 42 days ago - extremescience.com
In the very beginning of earth's history, this planet was a giant, red hot, roiling, boiling sea of molten rock - a magma ocean.
17 comments
Ancient Rainforests Resilient To Climate Change
Environment  (tags: environment, ecosystems, globalwarming, habitat, habitatdestruction, nature, climate, investigation, science, research, study, discovery, ancient, rainforests )

Tom
- 45 days ago - sciencedaily.com
These discoveries radically change our understanding of the Earth's first rainforests. We used to think these were stable ecosystems, unchanged for tens of millions of years. Now we know they were incredibly dynamic, constantly buffeted by climate change.
9 comments
Bill Maher Slams GOP Climate Change Skeptics (VIDEO)
Environment  (tags: climate, climate-change, environment, globalwarming, CO2emissions, ecosystems, habitat, habitatdestruction, nature, protection, humans, pollution, wildlife, trees, water, science, oceans, greenhousegases, conservation, energy, government, research )

Tom
- 48 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
On "Real Time" Friday night Bill Maher pilloried climate change skeptics, particularly skeptics in the Republican party such as GOP Sen. James Inhofe and Rep. Joe Barton, insisting that they must "stop pretending climate change is a future problem."
35 comments
Post-Human Earth: How the Planet Will Recover From Us
Environment  (tags: climate, ClimateChange, climate-change, climatechange, CO2emissions, conservation, environment, globalwarming, ecosystems, globalwarming, greenhousegases, humans, research, science, Sustainabililty )

Gorilly
- 50 days ago - newscientist.com
WHEN Nobel prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen coined the word Anthropocene around 10 years ago, he gave birth to a powerful idea: that human activity is now affecting the Earth so profoundly that we are entering a new geological epoch.
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