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50,000 Dead Starfish Found on Irish Beach
Environment  (tags: environment, weather, oceans, starfish, dead )

Katie
- 1 day ago - friendsoftheirishenvironment.net
Extreme weather conditions have killed tens of thousands of starfish and left them strewn across a sheltered beach. A carpet of pink and mauve echinoderms, a family of marine animals, appeared yesterday morning on Lissadell Beach in north Co Sligo.
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4th Typhoon in Month Lashes Philippines; 7 Killed
Environment  (tags: 4th typhoon, philippines, nature, weather, death )

Lone
- 7 days ago - sacbee.com
MANILA, Philippines -- A typhoon battered the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces still reeling from recent flooding, sending residents of one town clambering onto rooftops Saturday to escape rising waters. Seven people died and at least five
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Climate Change Will Devastate Africa, Top UK Scientist Warn
Environment  (tags: world, environment, Africa, globalwarming, climate-change, weather, humans, protection, ecosystems, climate, ClimateChange, habitat, habitatdestruction, globalwarming )

Cal
- 9 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Professor Sir Gordon Conway warns continent will face intense droughts, famine, disease and floods
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Australia Needs National Plan for Rising Seas
Environment  (tags: environment, climate-change, ClimateChange, climate, globalwarming, humans, habitat, protection, weather, world )

Cal
- 10 days ago - uk.reuters.com
Australia needs to adopt a national policy to combat rising sea levels, which may see people forced to abandon coastal homes and banned from building beachside homes, said a parliamentary climate change committee
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Stop Streamlined Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Permits- Take Action
Environment  (tags: petition, wildlife, trees, weather, water, protection, humans, nature, habitat, globalwarming, environment, destruction, ecosystems, conservation )

Daphna
- 20 days ago - secure2.convio.net
Currently, companies can apply for streamlined permits for mountaintop removal coal mining from the Army Corps of Engineers. However, on July 15, 2009, the Corps announced its intention to prohibit these permits, known as Nationwide Permit 21, in the Appa
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Global Warming to Triple Heavy Rain Over Taiwan: Scientist
Environment  (tags: weather, globalwarming, environment, climatechange, climate, greenhousegases, world )

Cal
- 22 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Global warming will cause the amount of heavy rain dumped on Taiwan to triple over the next 20 years, facing the government with the urgent need to beef up flood defences, a scientist warned on
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Some Canadian Rivers at Risk of Drying Up
Environment  (tags: environment, climatechange, ecosystems, globalwarming, world, climate-change, ClimateChange, climate, weather, humans, protection, habitat, nature )

Cal
- 22 days ago - panda.org
Some Canadian rivers are at risk of drying up as impacts of climate change intersect with growing water demand from the country's cities, industries and agriculture, a new WWF report has found
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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
- 30 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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Climate Change Threatens Mekong Basin
Environment  (tags: environment, climatechange, globalwarming, weather, climate, world, humans, ecosystems )

Cal
- 32 days ago - enn.com
Intense floods and droughts, coastal erosion, higher seas and heat waves in coming decades threaten rice, fruit and coffee crops and fisheries on which many of the basin's 65 million people depend, says the report by global conservation group WW
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Sting Sends His Rainforests SOS for The Prince's Rainforests Project   video
Environment  (tags: animals, climate, CO2emissions, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, forests, greenhousegases, habitatdestruction, humans, protection, trees, water, weather, world )

Kim
- 38 days ago - youtube.com
Sting re-works his classic 'Message in a Bottle' with a rainforest twist to launch his Rainforest SOS and encourage sign ups to the Prince's Rainforests Project
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Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilisation?
Environment  (tags: humans, climate-change, survival, agriculture, weather, world, pollution, globalwarming, environment, ecosystems, CO2emissions, climate )

Cal
- 38 days ago - ipsnews.net
The tripling of world wheat, rice, and corn prices between mid-2006 and mid-2008 signaled our growing vulnerability to food shortages. It took the worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression to lower grain prices.Rising temperatures bring crop-shri
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Maldives President Pleads for Climate Action
Environment  (tags: environment, climate-change, globalwarming, CO2emissions, oceans, weather, water, world )

Cal
- 45 days ago - news.xinhuanet.com
In an emotional speech, President of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed told world leaders on Tuesday that his country's fate depends on their ability to stop the political bickering and come to an agreement on global warming.
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Take Action: Keep BLM Lands Near Katmai and Lake Clark National Parks Closed to Mining
Environment  (tags: petition, wildlife, trees, weather, protection, pollution, humans, habitatdestruction, nature, environment, endangered, conservation )

Daphna
- 49 days ago - act.npca.org
One million acres of prime wolf, bear, and salmon habitat adjacent to Lake Clark and Katmai National Parks could be opened to new mining claims with the stroke of a pen. Closed to mining since 1971, these wild Alaska lands are integral to Bristol Bay's sa
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The Last Nomads: Drought Drives Kenya's Herders to the Brink
Environment  (tags: environment, climate-change, globalwarming, humans, protection, world, weather )

Cal
- 53 days ago - guardian.co.uk
In the isolated border lands between Kenya and Somalia, families have always clung to a precarious existence. Now a decade of droughts has tested their endurance
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Guatemala Drought Threatens Food Shortages
Environment  (tags: world, government, humans, suffering, politics, weather, climate )

Cal
- 58 days ago - alertnet.org
Guatemala aims to truck food aid to more than 400,000 families in the coming months as a severe drought threatens food shortages, President Alvaro Colom said
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