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Carpe Diem Voice Newsletter / The GE-GMO Food Issue
Environment  (tags: safe food, GMO Free Mendocino, gm, GMO's )

Larry
- 593 days ago - care2.com
Did you know that there are two kinds of GMO (genetically-modified organisms, also known as genetically-engineered or GE) foods? Bt toxin (toxins resistant to insects, etc. which are put in our food without government labeling) and plants resistant to he
Whales Die on Beach
Environment  (tags: oceans, whales )


- 593 days ago - nzherald.co.nz
Two whales have died after stranding on a beach at Poverty Bay.
World's Biggest Consumer Goods Company To Use Certified Sustainable Palm Oil : TreeHugger
Environment  (tags: animals, climate, climate-change, climatechange, CO2emissions, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, environment, forests, nature, humans, habitatdestruction, wildlife, world, suffering, protection, pollution, research, science, Sustainabilil )

Gorilly
- 593 days ago - treehugger.com
In another move that shows public pressure can have a positive effect on big companies and their suppliers..But also go to link listed in story PICTURES..How Unilever Palm Oil Suppliers are Burning Up Borneo, Big Gorilly Hugs...
Antibiotics in Our Livestock
Environment  (tags: animals, climate-change, CO2emissions, pollution, water, Sustainabililty, research, politics, ecosystems )

Ralph
- 593 days ago - latimes.com
Los Angeles Times editorial regarding Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production's final report and recommendations to ban non-therapeutic uses of antimicrobials in food animals.
Red Tree Vole - Arborimus Longicaudus - Red Tree Vole Populations Are Declining Due to Clear-Cutting and Other Non-Sustainable F
Environment  (tags: protection, environment, wildlife, suffering, humans, conservation, forests, trees, nature, habitat, habitatdestruction, ecosystems, wildlife, Sustainabililty, protection, conservation )

Thunderr
- 593 days ago - kswild.org
The red tree vole is a small rodent found in the coastal mountains and western Cascades of Oregon.Their coats vary depending on location ranging from dark reddish brown towards the northern range,lightening to an orange-red and cinnamon along the southern
Bring Biodiversity Into Your Backyard
Environment  (tags: gardening, biodiversity, native habitat, wildlife, ecosystems )

Larry
- 593 days ago - sfgate.com
Wildlife is increasingly threatened by development and farming, which destroy its habitat; roads, which dissect ecosystems; cars, which kill millions of animals every year; and invasive species, which can destroy entire ecosystems.
Fishing Company Guilty on 1st Degree, Sea Shepherd Brazil Turns Up The Heat
Environment  (tags: Predatory, drag-net fishing, brazil, Sea Shepherd, good news, environment, destruction of marine biodiversity, ecosystems, public civil action suit )


- 593 days ago - seashepherd.org
The case is the first public civil action suit in Brazil filed against a fishing company. Picture: Sea Shepherd volunteer Daniel Fracasso "Xs' out" an illegal fishing boat.
Industrial Farms - Corporations Pushing Chemicals & Govt Accomplices Destroying Our Health & Rural America
Environment  (tags: Industrial farms, trends, FDA, USDA, chemical corporations, propaganda, chemical-soaked, food supply, GMOs, antibiotic resistance, pesticides, fertilizers, neurotoxins, children, saliva, pig farms, beef, Humane Society, whistle blower, organic )

Alba
- 592 days ago - alternet.org
Danger of what is seeping from food supply into environment doesn't stop with antibiotics. Impact of pesticide use on health of farmers, gardeners, consumers & their children emerging in scientific studies with alarming results. More from "War on Bugs"
Tree-Lined Streets Mean Lower Rates Of Childhood Asthma, Study Suggests
Environment  (tags: nature, tree )

Michael
- 592 days ago - sciencedaily.com
New York City is also planning to plant 1 million extra trees by 2017, which could provide the perfect opportunity to discover exactly what impact tree density has on asthma, they add.
Global Warming: 'Ocean Deserts' Are Growing
Environment  (tags: animals, climate-change, CO2emissions, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, environment, globalwarming, greenhousegases, humans, oceans, pollution, research, science, suffering )

Dan
- 592 days ago - nature.com
Low-oxygen 'underwater deserts' in the tropical oceans have expanded over the past 50 years due to global warming, according to new measurements. This is threatening all marine species. Sunstroke author David Kagan warns of this in Doomwatch Legacy.
 
 
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