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Mangroves Lead Battle Against Rising Seas
Environment  (tags: climate-change, water )

Cal
- 3 days ago - ipsnews.net
Sea level rise near Papua New Guinea, a Small Island Developing State (SIDS) in the southwest Pacific, is estimated at seven millimetres per year, double the global annual average of 2.8-3.6 mm.
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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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Tell U.S. Car Manufacturers To Boycott Steel Linked to Rainforest Destruction ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Environment  (tags: environment, destruction, forests, habitat, nature, protection, trees )

Cher
- 6 days ago - forcechange.com
Stop buying steel made with illegally logged timber from the Amazon rainforest
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Greenpeace Makes Social Media Push for Zero Deforestation in Brazil
Environment  (tags: environment, conservation, ecosystems, Amazon, Greenpeace, stopping deforestation, trees, humans, habitat, green, GoodNews, world )

Cal
- 13 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Greenpeace is leveraging social media in its push for a zero deforestation target in Brazil.
39 comments
Liu Jianqiang: What It's Like Being An "Enemy of the State" in China
Environment  (tags: activism, activists, China, world, GoodNews, environment, destruction, conservation, protection, nature, humans, ecosystems, forests, trees, politics, habitat )

Cal
- 14 days ago - theecologist.org
Tom Levitt speaks to one of China's most respected investigative journalists Liu Jianqiang on the rise of environmental activism and how he became an 'enemy of the state'
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ACTIVISM: Nevada Tribe Fights Coal Plant in Pollution Battle
Environment  (tags: environmental activism, activism, native activism, habitat, environment, destruction, nature, humans, politics, protection, trees, water, conservation, government, green )

Cal
- 15 days ago - nativetimes.com
A tiny Native American reservation outside Las Vegas is trying to persuade the federal government that its community faces serious health risks from a nearby coal-fired power plant by appealing to a nationwide campaign to increase visibility at national p
32 comments
Save Cambodia's Dwindling Forests: End Rampant Deforestation. PLEASE SIGN!
Environment  (tags: animals, climate, climate-change, cambodia, wildlife, destruction, trees, forests, habitat, humans, protection, mines, green )

Jim
- 17 days ago - forcechange.com
Only forty years ago, forests covered seventy percent of Cambodia's territory and now that number stands at just three percent. The extensive and relentless construction of mines, roads and other plantations have decimated these once richly diverse
163 comments
ACTIVISM IN CANADA: Standing Up for the Planet and the Future
Environment  (tags: activism, activists, Canada, world, GoodNews, environment, destruction, conservation, protection, nature, humans, ecosystems, forests, trees, politics, habitat )

Cal
- 21 days ago - ipsnews.net
What are you doing on Saturday? Peter Nix, a retiree, will be standing on a railway track on Canada's west coast blocking a coal train destined to ship U.S. and Canadian coal to Asia.
17 comments
Stop Billboard Companies From Poisoning Trees ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Environment  (tags: environment, destruction, trees, protection, habitat )

Cher
- 24 days ago - forcechange.com
Billboard companies have been secretly poisoning trees that threaten to block the view of billboards. While illegal tree poising and felling has allegedly been going on for years, the person or company at fault usually goes unidentified.
34 comments
Molai Woods---A Forest One Man Planted
Environment  (tags: animals, ecosystems, environment, forests, GoodNews, green, habitat, nature, trees, wildlife )

Kenneth
- 24 days ago - newearthdaily.com
A truly wonderful story of making a difference! Seeing how ~ with little, we can create an entire forest by sheer determination of compassion!
58 comments
TAKE ACTION NOW! End Old Growth Temperate Rainforest Logging in Alaska's Tongass National Forest
Environment  (tags: old growth forests, trees, environment, destruction, ecosystems, protection, humans, world, wildlife, green, forests, conservation, politics, nature )

Cal
- 28 days ago - forests.org
Please urge the federal government to see the salmon and ecosystems through the dwindling old growth trees for timber, and shift the focus from logging to an ecological protection economy in Earth's largest temperate rainforest
104 comments
TAKE ACTION NOW! STOP OIL SHALE DEVELOPMENT ON THE WEST'S PUBLIC LANDS
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, environment, destruction, pollution, habitat, conservation, trees, water, nature, humans, politics )

Cal
- 31 days ago - action.biologicaldiversity.org
We need your help keeping our western wildlands naturally rich and beautiful. Please tell the BLM to protect our public lands from any new oil-shale and tar-sand development.
61 comments
GREEN ACTIVISM: Evgenia Chirikova: 'Putinomics' the Biggest Threat to Russia's Environmental Movement
Environment  (tags: activism, activists, Russia, world, GoodNews, environment, destruction, conservation, protection, nature, humans, ecosystems, forests, trees, politics, habitat )

Cal
- 34 days ago - theecologist.org
Goldman Prize winner Evgenia Chirikova describes what it's like to be green in Russia the why a culture of impunity and corruption risks destroying the country's natural heritage
25 comments
LET'S HAVE SOME FUN: How Much Do You Know About Earth Day? Take Our Quiz!
Environment  (tags: EARTH DAY, Earth Day, environment, conservation, humans, habitat, protection, ecosystems, politics, nature, trees, oceans, animals )

Cal
- 36 days ago - csmonitor.com
April 22 marks the 42nd anniversary of Earth Day, a day intended to inspire awareness and promote appreciation for the Earth's natural environment. In honor of the holiday, test your knowledge of Earth Day history, trivia, and statistics.
12 comments
Will Mega-Dams Destroy the Amazon?
Environment  (tags: research, environment, Amazon, dam building, habitatdestruction, habitat, world, wildlife, protection, humans, pollution, conservation, ecosystems, nature, destruction, green, trees, water )

Cal
- 37 days ago - news.mongabay.com
More than 150 new dams planned across the Amazon basin could significantly disrupt the ecological connectivity of the Amazon River to the Andes with substantial impacts for fish populations, nutrient cycling, and the health of Earth's largest rainforest,
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Save Cambodia's Dwindling Forests: End Rampant Deforestation. PLEASE SIGN!
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Mangroves Lead Battle Against Rising Seas
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