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Clean Up the Oil Industry in the Niger Delta - Tell Nigerian President to Commit
Environment  (tags: Niger Delta, Nigeria, President, govt, Oil Industry, eco-justice, accountability, regulation, clean-up, environment, destruction, soil, water, food, fishing, livelihoods, survival, major health issues, Amnesty Int, UN Environment Program, UNEP )

LucyKalei
- 586 days ago - takeaction.amnestyusa.org
Oil pollution still having devastating impact on life in the Niger Delta, ruining crops, killing fish; contaminating food & drinking H20. Nigeria's govt must hold oil corp's to account, commit to comprehensive clean-up: duty to protect Niger Delta people
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Protect Our Soil - We Can't Live Without It PLEASE TAKE ACTION
Environment  (tags: soil, Sustainabililty, ecosystems, food, farms )

Nancy
- 745 days ago - panna.org
Farmers are the stewards of the land; sadly, politics often dictate how they farm. In the coming days, Congress will make decisions on funding priorities for 2012, and dramatic cuts to soil conservation programs
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A Clearer Picture of How Rivers and Deltas Develop
Environment  (tags: Picture, Rivers and Deltas, Development, Geography, Environment, Soil )

Nancy
- 842 days ago - sciencedaily.com
By adding information about the subsoil to an existing sedimentation and erosion model, researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, The Netherlands) have obtained a clearer picture of how rivers and deltas develop over time.
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Global Warming to Rise, Soil Dries Up
Environment  (tags: Global warming, climate, earth, soil, environment )

Nancy
- 952 days ago - business.rediff.com
The soils in large swaths of the world including vast areas of central India, Australia, Africa and South America have been drying up, a new study has found, warning that this could intensify global warming and reduce vegetation growth.
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The Science of Agriculture and Climate Change Take Action-VIDEO
Environment  (tags: composting, organic farming, organic, soil, Sustainabililty )

Tierney
- 1307 days ago - capwiz.com
Allen explains that the key to reducing and sequestering greenhouse gases is to phase out the use of fossil fuel fertilizers and replace them with organic methods, including cover cropping, rotation and composting.
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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
- 1395 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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Soil: The Secret Solution to Global Warming (Canada Version)
Environment  (tags: ClimateChange, globalwarming, GoodNews, soil, agriculture, solutions, organic )

Leif
- 2122 days ago - quantumshift.tv
QuantumShift TV gives politicians another reason to support organic agriculture: sustainably-farmed soil absorbs up to 30% more carbon from the atmosphere than conventional farming. For the US, UK and World versions, see http://quantumshift.tv.
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