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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
- 2 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
- 6 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
- 6 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
- 9 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
- 11 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.
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Oil Spill Off Australian Coast Poses Major Threat to Marine Life
Environment  (tags: Oil, risk, Timor Sea, Australia, science, environment, threat, marine life )

Sophie
- 13 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.
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Arctic Lake Undergoing Unprecedented Changes Due to Warming
Environment  (tags: environment, globalwarming, climate-change, ecosystems, climate, science )

Cal
- 17 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
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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
- 29 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.
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Ancient Rainforests Resilient To Climate Change
Environment  (tags: environment, ecosystems, globalwarming, habitat, habitatdestruction, nature, climate, investigation, science, research, study, discovery, ancient, rainforests )

Tom
- 32 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.
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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
- 35 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."
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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
- 37 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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World's River Deltas Sinking Due To Human Activity, Says New Study
Environment  (tags: environment, ocean storms, flooding, water, rivers, humans, endangered, destruction, suffering, Sustainabililty, protection, research, science, nature )

Dee
- 47 days ago - sciencedaily.com
A new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder indicates most of the world's low-lying river deltas are sinking from human activity, making them increasingly vulnerable to flooding from rivers and ocean storms and putting tens of millions..
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Impact Of Renewable Energy On Our Oceans Must Be Investigated, Say Scientists
Environment  (tags: Environment, oceans, energy, marine life, endangered, conservation, protection, research, science, suffering, Sustainabililty )

Dee
- 48 days ago - sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (Sep. 20, 2009) -- Scientists from the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth are calling for urgent research to understand the impact of renewable energy developments on marine life
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The Sermilik Fjord in Greenland: A Chilling View of a Warming World
Environment  (tags: environment, Sermilik, fjord, Greenland, melting, glacier, icebergs, catastrophic, climatechange, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, pollution, ecosystems, CO2emissions, humans, nature, habitat, science, oceans, government, endangered, animals, wildlife )

Tom
- 60 days ago - guardian.co.uk
The melting has been recorded since 1979; scientists put the annual net loss of ice and water from the ice sheet at 300-400 gigatonnes (equivalent to a billion elephants being dropped in the ocean), which could hasten a catastrophic sea level rise.
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