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Keeping Our Daily Coffee: The Farmers in Peru Adapting to Climate Change
Environment  (tags: climate-change, climate, weather, agriculture, coffee production, world, nature, globalwarming, ecosystems, environment )

Cal
- 9 days ago - theecologist.org
Shade-grown, hand picked coffee is one of Peru's biggest exports, but the country's smallholder farmers face sustained crop losses from extreme weathe
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Could a Changing Climate Set Off Volcanoes and Quakes?
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, environment, weather, volcanoes, climate-change, globalwarming, research, globalwarming, climate, climatechange, nature, humans, world )

Cal
- 18 days ago - e360.yale.edu
A British scientist argues that global warming could lead to a future of more intense volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. And while some dismiss his views as preposterous, he points to a body of recent research that shows a troubling link between climate
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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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ENVIRONMENT. TAKE ACTION: Don't Let Monsanto Destroy the Environment. SIGN!
Environment  (tags: climate, climate-change, climatechange, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, environment, Monsanto, pollution, protection, wildlife, weather, green, globalwarming, nature, oceans )

Jim
- 28 days ago - forcechange.com
In September 2011, Monsanto Company silently purchased Beelogics, one of the world's leading research firms dedicated to restoring bee health. Now, studies have come out showing evidence that the pollen released from Monsanto's genetically modified corn
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ENVIRONMENT: Help Urge the Bureau of Reclamation to Protect Migratory Birds in the Klamath Basin. PLEASE SIGN!
Environment  (tags: animals, climate, water, weather, wildlife, birds, nature, humans, habitat, green, government, ecosystems, conservation, endangered, protection )

Jim
- 36 days ago - forcechange.com
Over ten thousand migratory birds have died this year as a result of reduced water flow to the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge. The Bureau of Reclamation is responsible for distributing water among the various users in the area and hasn't
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Working to Cope With Climate Change, Jamaica Calculates Costs
Environment  (tags: planning, weather, climate-change, climate, ecosystems, government, green, environment, pollution, nature, politics, humans, habitat, climatechange )

Cal
- 46 days ago - ipsnews.net
Jamaican authorities are aiming to transform an island that experts say faces one of the worst climate risks in the world into a nation "equipped to prepare for and respond to the negative impacts of climate change"
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Son of Frackenstein
Environment  (tags: animals, climate-change, CO2emissions, destruction, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, greenhousegases, habitatdestruction, healthconditions, humans, nature, politics, pollution, research, science, Sustainabililty, trees, water, weather, wildlife, wo )

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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Climate Change Vs. Easter Bunnies
Environment  (tags: climate-change, animals, protection, bunnies, habitat, habitatdestruction, green, ecosystems, wildlife, environment, climatechange, climate, globalwarming, weather )

Cal
- 48 days ago - latimes.com
Easter is still a great day for worship, candy in baskets, pagan equinox rituals and running around the yard finding eggs, but every year it gets quite a bit worse for bunnies.The culprit is climate change, and the folks at Climate Nexus found that rising
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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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"Yes" to Tar Sands, "No" to Coal: Obama Confounds Climate Community
Environment  (tags: climate-change, CO2emissions, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, healthconditions, pollution, politics, trees, water, weather, wildlife, world )

Kit
- 53 days ago - truth-out.org
How, puzzled critics asked, could the Obama administration endorse a tar sands pipeline project that's been labeled the 'fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the planet' while simultaneously laying the groundwork for kicking coal to the curb as-->
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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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Four Hundred Chernobyls: Solar Flares, Electromagnetic Pulses and Nuclear Armageddon
Environment  (tags: animals, climate-change, CO2emissions, destruction, ecosystems, environment, energy, government, habitatdestruction, healthconditions, nature, oceans, politics, pollution, protection, radia-active, Sustainabililty, trees, water, weather, wildlife, world )

Kit
- 60 days ago - truth-out.org
There are nearly 450 nuclear reactors in the world, with hundreds more being planned or under construction. There are 104 of these reactors in the United States and 195 in Europe.
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Anguilla Battles a Shrinking Coastline
Environment  (tags: weather, water, habitat, environment, destruction, ecosystems, trees )

Cal
- 72 days ago - ipsnews.net
When Hurricane Luis, a category four storm, lashed the tiny Caribbean island of Anguilla on Sep. 4, 1995, its forceful waves eroded all of the beaches, leaving vast areas of the shoreline carpeted with dead sea grass and debris torn from the coral reefs.
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Can You Really Hide From a Tornado?
Environment  (tags: animals, climate, climate-change, conservation, destruction, environment, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, healthconditions, nature, pollution, weather )

Kit
- 74 days ago - livescience.com
In the chilling scenario that a tornado warning is issued for your area, what do the experts feel are the best choices for avoiding serious injury or loss of life?
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