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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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Time to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Industrial Agriculture?
Environment  (tags: animals, climate-change, conservation, ecosystems, environment, habitatdestruction, healthconditions, pollution, politics, research, science, Sustainabililty, water, weather, wildlife, world )

Kit
- 22 days ago - motherjones.com
How much do we consume directly of this bountiful crop? According to NCGA's figures from 2010, less than 2 percent. More than 40 percent of it goes into the mouths of animals we then consume, in the process squandering huge amounts of resources.
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Avaaz - Save The Coral Sea
Environment  (tags: sea, ocean oceans, marine, fish, endangered, biodiversity, nature, pollution, Sustainabililty, science, wildlife, water, environment, animals, ecosystems, endangered, habitat, oceans, world )

Annelisa
- 35 days ago - avaaz.org
"The reserve will cost money and without massive support right now, the short term financial interests of industry could beat out our hopes for a safe future for our seas." Send a submission to the Coral Sea reserve consultation now!
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'Children, Women Most Affected By Climate Change'
Environment  (tags: climate-change, conservation, ecosystems, endangered, energy, environment, globalwarming, habitat, healthconditions, humans, pollution, protection, science, Sustainabililty, water )

Rosemary
- 37 days ago - daily-mail.co.zm
CLIMATE change mostly affects children and women, resulting in those living in remote areas to walk long distances to fetch water and firewood, Deputy Minister of Lands, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Charles Zulu has said. Continues...
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6 Scary Extreme Energy Sources Being Tapped to Fuel the Post Peak Oil Economy
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Kit
- 39 days ago - alternet.org
Think of this as taking fracking to the next level so that we can continue to speed along on our highway to hell -- peak oil, and the earth, be damned.
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Debating the Future of Our World's Water
Environment  (tags: climate-change, CO2emissions, destruction, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, healthconditions, oceans, politics, pollution, protection, science, Sustainabililty, trees, water, world )

Kit
- 39 days ago - alternet.org
Achieving water democracy is surely a terrific opportunity to fix governance problems from the local to the global, but it's one enormous task.
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Son of Frackenstein
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Kit
- 47 days ago - truth-out.org
In a few short years the term "fracking" went from obscurity, mostly mistaken for an obscenity, to a household word, now often associated with flammable tap water.
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American Infrastructure: Falling Apart
Environment  (tags: climate-change, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, globalwarming, government, greenhousegases, habitatdestruction, healthconditions, nature, oceans, pollution, protection, research, science, Sustainabililty, trees, water, weather, wildlife )

Kit
- 51 days ago - infrastructurereportcard.org
Set aside, if you can the on-going distraction of the politics of today. Begin to think in the long term. From the roads, bridges, water levees, and the grid system all are dangerously deficient. We must demand the US government act now, not later.
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Earth Sends Climate Warning By Busting World Heat Records
Environment  (tags: animals, climate-change, CO2emissions, destruction, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, greenhousegases, habitatdestruction, healthconditions, humans, oceans, politics, pollution, research, science, trees, water, weather, wildlife, world )

Kit
- 55 days ago - commondreams.org
Accelarated climate change, driven by human activity, has led to soaring temperatures around the world and the decade between 2001 and 2010 was the warmest ever recorded in all continents of the globe, according to a new report released by the World-->
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BP Settlement Sells Out Victims -- Greg Palast
Environment  (tags: BP Exxon, climate-change, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, environment, habitatdestruction, healthconditions, pollution, research, science, trees, water, weather, wildlife, world )

Kit
- 57 days ago - truth-out.org
Some deal. BP gets the gold mine and its victims get the shaft. And a few lawyers will get vacation homes - though they won't be so stupid as to build them on the Gulf Coast.
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Explosion, Pollution, Massive Oil Spill Probable: North Sea Gas Leak
Environment  (tags: animals, climate-change, CO2emissions, conservation, energy, environment, Frenchcompany.escape, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, healthconditions, nature, oceans, politics, pollution, research, science, Sustainabililty, wildlife )

Kit
- 57 days ago - commondreams.org
The French energy company Total boasted today that they have discovered the source of the natural gas leak, which is steadily casting a plume of natural gas into the air and a six-mile long 'sheen' in the ocean surrounding the oil and gas platform-->
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INTERVIEW WITH NANCY KNOWLTON: In Fight to Save Coral Reefs, Finding Strategies That Work
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, environment, coral reefs, protection, pollution, humans, nature, habitat, habitatdestruction, green, research, science )

Cal
- 60 days ago - e360.yale.edu
In four decades as a marine biologist, Nancy Knowlton has played a key role in documenting the biodiversity of coral reefs and the threats they increasingly face
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URGENT: Urge President Obama to Protect the Oceans! SIGN
Environment  (tags: oceans, globalwarming, conservation, climate-change, ecosystems, pollution, science, protection, research, politics, obama, animals, wildlife, world, nature )

Jim
- 69 days ago - act.oceana.org
The oceans are in serious trouble. Overfishing is diminishing the ability of our seas to provide valuable protein, while irresponsible commercial fishing practices are leading to the discard of billions of tons of fish annually, the injuring of wildlife
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Poll: Sixty-Five Percent of Americans Want More Fracking Regulations
Environment  (tags: animals, climate-change, CO2emissions, conservation, ecosystems, environment, greenhousegases, habitatdestruction, healthconditions, pollution, politics, science, research, Sustainabililty, water )

Kit
- 70 days ago - truth-out.org
The number of Americans who say they want more regulation of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, outnumber those who want less regulation by a three-to-one margin, according to a Bloomberg poll released Friday.
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The Giant, Underestimated Earthquake Threat to North America
Environment  (tags: climate-change, destruction, earthquake, ecosystems, environment, habitatdestruction, politics, research, science )

Kit
- 70 days ago - discovermagazine.com
Now scientists are calling attention to a dangerous area on the opposite side of the Ring of Fire, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a fault that runs parallel to the Pacific coast of North America, from northern California to Vancouver Island.
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