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Red List Update Shows Up Global Failure to Slow Biodiversity Loss
World  (tags: environment, global crisis, report, wwf, failure )

Katie
- 1 day ago - panda.org
The latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species should cause alarm over the continuing unprecedented loss of species and the failure so far of mechanisms to arrest biodiversity loss, WWF said today.
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Leaking Oil Rig in Timor Sea Catches on Fire
World  (tags: News, world, Oil leak, environment )

Katie
- 2 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
A massive fire erupted on an oil rig that has been leaking into the Timor Sea and Australia's government Monday promised an investigation, the latest drama in a 10-week saga to plug the hole.
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India to Investigate Rising Elephant Death Toll.
World  (tags: environment, wildlife, elephants, death, toll )

Katie
- 2 days ago - guardian.co.uk
An alarming rise in elephant deaths in India because of habitat loss and poachers' bolder forays into government-protected zones has led officials to arrange a meeting to address the problem.
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U.N. Needs More Muscle in Environment Fight: Study
World  (tags: UN, world, environment, humans, news, Study report )

Katie
- 6 days ago - uk.reuters.com
The United Nations needs to beef up and better coordinate efforts to help fight threats such as climate change, deforestation or over-fishing, two experts said on Thursday.
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Guilty! Rich Nations Slammed At Climate Change Court
World  (tags: world, society, interesting, humans, government, politics, CO2emissions, environment, globalwarming )

Daphna
- 16 days ago - treehugger.com
Thai and Bangladeshi farmers, a Nepalese mountain climber, a Filipino fisherman and an Indonesian women's advocate testified against developed countries in a trial yesterday that found the wealthiest nations responsible for the damages caused by global wa
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WATER-ZIMBABWE
: New Wells Protect Environment, Build Peace
World  (tags: world, environment )

Cal
- 18 days ago - ipsnews.net
Twenty years ago, Isaac Chidavaenzi would worry when his neighbours set up vegetable gardens on river banks, trying to get closer to water sources. The number of gardens on the rivers' banks has now decreased, but Chidavaenzi is even more worried.
1 comment
Take Action on Tibet ! Four Petitions ! TAKE ACTION !
World  (tags: tibet, humans, environment, protection, humanrights )

Cher
- 46 days ago - change.org
On Monday, a high-level delegation sent by President Obama met with the Dalai Lama at his home in Dharamsala, India to discuss the Obama administration's strategy on Tibet and how the President can assist in pushing for a resolution to the issue during
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Bank Urges Climate 'Action Now'
World  (tags: world, government, climate-change, conservation, environment, globalwarming )

Daphna
- 48 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Climate change will be a serious barrier to growth in poorer nations and must be curbed, says the World Bank. The bank's World Development Report (WDR) urges a rapid scaling-up of spending on clean energy research and protection for poorer co
5 comments
Lead Poisoning Sickens 600 Kids in China
World  (tags: world, China, lead poison, contamination, environment, pollution, children, illness, health, prevention, protection, risks )

Dee
- 81 days ago - abcnews.go.com
More than 600 children have been sickened with lead poisoning in a northern Chinese province where authorities shut a smelter earlier this week thought to have caused the contamination,
4 comments
U.S.-China Talks to Focus on Global Economy, Environmental Policy
World  (tags: china, usa, politics, environment, economy, world )

Cal
- 99 days ago - latimes.com
The meeting is likely to highlight Beijing's unease about its U.S. bond holdings, Washington's desire to reduce China's reliance on exports and the need to reach consensus on tackling climate change.
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Peru's Indigenous People Win One Round Over Developers
World  (tags: world, peru, amazon, rainforest, indians, indigenous, people, human, rights, freedom, civil, liberty, politics, government, money, business, logging, hunting, fishing, habitat, destruction, environment, private, investment )

Tom
- 118 days ago - latimes.com
Private investment in the Amazon brought misery to its indigenous people. Logging and other activities ruined tribal lands and set off protests leading to the revocation of laws to further open the Amazon to outsiders. The Indians beat them by a knockout.
18 comments
Partial Victory in Peru, Laws to Be Repealed
World  (tags: humanrights, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', environment, goodnews, freedoms, world, society )

Cal
- 132 days ago - indiancountrytoday.com
Some 350,000 Amazon Natives finally got Peruvian President Alan Garcia's government to make good on a year-old promise to sit down for talks while the government party in Congress works to repeal a set of laws threatening Native lands.
1 comment
India, Enlightened
World  (tags: India, poverty, slums, environment, society, HumanRights )

LaJana
- 143 days ago - onearth.org
Raise a Billion People out of Poverty Without Destroying the Environment. Can It Be Done?
2 comments
Protesters Gird for Long Fight Over Opening Peru's Amazon To Oil Drilling and Logging Deforestation
World  (tags: peru, amazon, rainforest, climate-change, global warming, protests, deaths, oil, oil-drilling, logging, deforestation, world, americas, violence, corruption, news, environment, ecosystems, government, forests, habitatdestruction, HumanRights )

SirRobert
- 143 days ago - nytimes.com
Faced with a simmering crisis over dozens of deaths in the quelling of indigenous protests last week, Peru's Congress this week has suspended the decrees that had set off the protests, which were focused upon saving the Amazon rainforests.
19 comments
Sign Petition: Tell Peru to Protect Indigenous Rights & Save The Amazon
World  (tags: world, violence, amazon, rainforests, indigenous, peoples, protesters, ecology, environment, ecosystems, globalwarming, conservation, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, protection, government, corruption, oil, gas, money, business, corporate, greed )

Tom
- 145 days ago - change.org
Indigenous peoples have peacefully protested for two months demanding their lawful say in decrees that will contribute to the devastation of the Amazon's ecology and peoples, and be disastrous for the global climate. Pres. Garcia responded with violence.
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