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World News tagged with habitat

Like Arriving at An Earthquake With a Dustpan & Brush - Climate Financing Utterly Lacking Says Maldives Pres.
World  (tags: CO2emissions, climatechange, ecosystems, globalwarming, habitat, humans, nature, oceans, world, government, politics )

Daphna
- 14 days ago - treehugger.com
Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed is becoming one of the most vocal national critics of climate change inaction -- with good reason, his nation is going to be underwater in less than one hundred years because of it. At a two-day meeting in the Maldives o
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Degraded Borneo Land to Be Restored to Orangutans
World  (tags: WWF, world, restoration, habitat )

Katie
- 28 days ago - panda.org
Almost 1000 hectares of degraded land in the area designated Heart of Borneo is to be restored as orangutan habitat, following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between WWF-Malaysia and the State of Sabah yesterday.
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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
- 139 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.
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Allegations of Corporate Crimes Against Humanity Going to Trial
World  (tags: world, business, Shell, oil, money, environment, crimes, humanity, nigeria, human rights, abuses, corporate, corruption, ethics, gas, flaring, pollution, humans, habitat, nature, ecosystems, health, illness, risks, death )

Tom
- 201 days ago - law.com
Possibly for the first time, a corporation goes on trial for crimes against humanity. Southern District of New York Judge Kimba Wood rejected all but one motion to dismiss by Shell Petroleum, N.V. and other defendants in Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Petroleum.
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Obama Overrides Bush Rule on Endangered Species Act
World  (tags: world, obama, animals, wildlife, endangered, protection, environment, habitat, extinction, politics )

Tom
- 265 days ago - latimes.com
President Obama overrode the Bush administration on applying the Endangered Species Act, restoring a requirement that federal agencies consult with experts before launching construction projects that could affect the well-being of threatened species.
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Earth Hour: Switch Off the Lights March 28 to Save Earth
World  (tags: world, Earth Hour, lights, Kyoto Protocol, climate change, energy, global warming, environment, conservation, Sustainabililty, humans, habitat, ecosystems )

Tom
- 272 days ago - joburg.org.za
2009 is a critical year for action on climate change, with the world's leaders meeting at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December to sign a new deal to supersede the Kyoto Protocol.
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Tigers Killing Illegal Loggers, But Losing Battle for Survival
World  (tags: world, loggers, Indonesia, humans, crime, animals, tigers, habitat, endangered, extinction )

Tom
- 272 days ago - livenews.com.au
Sumatra's few remaining tigers may be trying to send mankind a message. The critically-endangered big cats killed six people this month. Most were illegal loggers, plying their trade in protected national parks in Indonesia's Jambi province.
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Top 10 Signs We Might Be Experiencing a Modern-Day Mass Extinction
World  (tags: world, oceans, species, dinosaurs, fossils, biology, extinction, animals, humans, wildlife, environment, habitat, ecosystems, destruction, climate )

Tom
- 274 days ago - animal.discovery.com
The idea that we're in the middle of a widespread, human-caused mass extinction is prevalent in the scientific community. Researchers have documented a fraction of the species on Earth, so how can we know if we are in the middle of a mass extinction?
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80% of Wars Between 1950-2000 Took Place in Biodiversity Hotspots
World  (tags: world, war, animals, biodiversity, conflict, humans, culture, wildlife, extinction, endangered, ecosystems, environment, nature, habitat, violence )

Tom
- 274 days ago - news.mongabay.com
The richest storehouses of life on Earth are also regions of the most human conflict. Essential for both biodiversity conservation and human well-being, millions of poor people live in these hot spots and depend on healthy ecosystems for their survival.
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Thirsty World: The Desperate Quest For Water
World  (tags: climate-change, conservation, government, habitat, humans, nature, protection, science, research, suffering, world, endangered, water crisis, planet in peril )

SirRobert
- 400 days ago - cnn.com
Planet in Peril: Billions of human beings around the globe each day are in a desperate search for fresh clean drinking water. What we take for granted becomes more valuable than gold to them, but these circumstances are beginning to change and spread!
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Protests as 400 Kangaroos Face Slaughter
World  (tags: endangered, nature, AnimalCruelty, habitat, killing )

Ruth
- 619 days ago - edition.cnn.com
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Protesters gathered at an abandoned military site in the Australian capital Saturday to prevent the planned slaughter of 400 kangaroos blamed for ruining the habitat of rare lizards and insects.
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New Crisis Point for KI Firefighters - Australia
World  (tags: australia, south australia, kangaroo island, fire, firefighters, devastation, habitat )

Chrissy
- 712 days ago - news.com.au
A WIND change on Kangaroo Island has left weary firefighters with a new crisis ahead of the forecast cool change they desperately need. The Country Fire Service and an army of firefighters from interstate know the hot and windy conditions that have just
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