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TAKE ACTION NOW! Tell the Chinese Government to Stop Putting Profit Over Human Life
Environment  (tags: pollution, politics, environment, workers rights, China, world, protection, government, green, ecosystems, destruction )

Cal
- 159 days ago - forcechange.com
Though China is rapidly developing as an industrial powerhouse and major exporter, it has repeatedly failed to take the same important strides with environmental protection and workers' rights. While the country expands as a key player in international co
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Can 'Climate-Smart' Agriculture Help Both Africa and the Planet?
Environment  (tags: climate, climate-change, agriculture, land use, pollution, humans, nature, habitat, habitatdestruction, world, wildlife, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming )

Cal
- 161 days ago - e360.yale.edu
One idea promoted at the Durban talks was "climate-smart agriculture," which could make crops less vulnerable to heat and drought and turn depleted soils into carbon sinks.
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OP-ED: Deniers-in-Chief: How the Most Powerful Leaders in the World Just Guaranteed Us a Climate Disaster
Environment  (tags: climate-change, globalwarming, Durban Talks, protection, environment, destruction, ecosystems, pollution, humans, world, oceans, politics, water, government, green, habitatdestruction, globalwarming )

Cal
- 161 days ago - alternet.org
The Durban deal -- if left unchanged -- guarantees that we will fail to avoid catastrophic and potentially irreversible climate change.
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Gulf Reopens to Drilling, Victoria Principal Aids Fight to Block It
Environment  (tags: energy, destruction, oill leasese, destruciton, environmental destruction, Victoria Principal, greedy oil companies, world, oceans, humans, protection, pollution, environment, ecosystems, habitatdestruction, animals, water, politics )

Cal
- 162 days ago - latimes.com
Sale of gas and oil leases officially restarts in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday, after a hiatus following the BP oil spill in 2010, and environmental groups are stepping up lawsuits, claiming not enough is known about the effects of that spill.
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OP-ED: Analysis: No Stopping Big Hydro Projects, Despite Lao Veto
Environment  (tags: energy, environment, destruction, habitatdestruction, habitat, green, protection, politics, world, conservation, ecosystems, water, humans )

Cal
- 163 days ago - uk.reuters.com
A surge in mega-hydropower projects across the world in the coming decade will only be affected marginally by last week's decision to delay bui
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Persistent Drought in Romania Threatens Danube's Power
Environment  (tags: weather, water, world, drought, Romania, environment, ecosystems, climate-change, globalwarming, protection, nature, habitat )

Cal
- 163 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Drop in the level of the river's waters means that nuclear reactor may have to close down
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Send Brazil's President An Urgent Message to Save the Amazon
Environment  (tags: climate, climate-change, climatechange, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, environment, forests, globalwarming, globalwarming, habitat, habitatdestruction, protection, trees, wildlife, weather, world, Amazon, Brazil )

Gillian
- 163 days ago - wwf.org.uk
A possible veto from Brazil's President against imminent changes to the country's Forest Code could be the last hope for the Amazon. Please join the emergency international campaign to help persuade President Rousseff - and prevent a global catastrophe.
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Climate Changes Faster Than Species Can Adapt
Environment  (tags: species, climate-change, global-warming, nature, wildlife, world, CO2-emissions, endangered, Anima-lWelfare, environment, extinction, study, research, science, animals )

PinkMindy
- 163 days ago - terradaily.com
Study finds: Earth climate through 2100 will be changing 100+ times faster than the normal rate at which global species can adapt to survive.
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GOOD NEWS! Welsh Wetland Turned Over to Wildlife
Environment  (tags: animals, environment, ecosystems, humans, nature, habitat, green, GoodNews, world )

Cal
- 164 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Attempts some time ago to restock about 3.5 hectares with mixed broadleaves and sitka spruce failed due to the wet conditions, so foresters came up with the perfect answer - create a wetland haven for endangered wildlife.
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Protest Belize National Park Being Opened By Corrupt U.S. Oil Exploration to Illegal Logging
Environment  (tags: business, corruption, corporate, dishonesty, pollution, humans, politics, protection, world, forests, ecosystems, destruction, environment, wildlife, habitat, habitatdestruction, green )

Cal
- 164 days ago - rainforestportal.org
With the Prime Minister's permission, Colorado-based oil company US Capital Energy is drilling seismic testing lines through the ecologically spectacular Sarstoon-Temash national park - against international treaty commitments and a Belizean Supreme Court
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UK Uses EU 'Loophole' to Delay Tackling Air Pollution in London Tom
Environment  (tags: pollution, world, protection, law, environment, destruction, humans, CO2emissions )

Cal
- 165 days ago - theecologist.org
Government lawyers set to argue in High Court that EU rules allow them to delay meeting air pollution targets until as late as 2025 in London despite growing health crisis
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Landmark Deal Emerges From Durban Climate Talks
Environment  (tags: Durban Climate Talks, Kyoto, diplomacy, climate-change, globalwarming, politics, world, environment, ecosystems, nature, humans, protection )

Cal
- 165 days ago - enn.com
Yesterday, as the climate talks in Durban were coming to the close, delegates from around the world finally arrived at a compromise.
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Madagascar Tree Diversity Among the Highest Worldwide
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, fauna, environment, trees, forests, world, Madagascar, nature, habitat, GoodNews )

Cal
- 165 days ago - news.mongabay.com
In terms of biodiversity, the hugely imperiled forests of Madagascar may be among the world's richest.
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DURBAN CLIMATE TALKS: Canada Is the Bad Guy at Climate Change Talks
Environment  (tags: Durban Climate Talks, Kyoto, CANADA, diplomacy, climate-change, globalwarming, politics, world, environment, ecosystems, nature, humans, protection )

Cal
- 165 days ago - globalpost.com
Canada's plans to quit the Kyoto Protocol make it a pariah at Durban conference.
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Yellowstone Grizzly Bears: New Cause CéLèBre for Effects of Global Warming?
Environment  (tags: animals, environment, world, wildlife, protection, humans, ecosystems, globalwarming, climate-change, climatechange, climate )

Cal
- 166 days ago - csmonitor.com
For the first time, a US appellate court has ruled that the federal government must continue to protect an animal - in this case, Yellowstone grizzly bears - in part because of consequences of global warming.
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