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Farmers Have Been Told to Go Green or Face the Financial Consequences
Environment  (tags: Farmers, house mouse, combat )

Nancy
- 29 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
English farmers have been given a last chance to adopt greener practices that benefit wildlife and help to combat climate change or face deductions from their state hand-outs of cash.
Take Action- Tell Your Senator to Protect Clean Air Act Authority
Environment  (tags: petition, climate, CO2emissions, destruction, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, nature, humans, pollution, government )

Daphna
- 27 days ago - secure2.convio.net
Senator Bob Menendez is circulating a letter written to Majority Leader Reid asking Reid to stand up to polluters and protect Clean Air Act authority to clean up greenhouse gas pollution from existing coal plants. Please join him in leading the way to a c
Climate Movement Asks: How Can We Sleep While Our Beds Are Burning?
Environment  (tags: music, climate change, annan, midnight oil, anthem )

Lyn
- 63 days ago - solveclimate.com
Midnight Oil's "Beds are Burning" resounded across the airwaves in the late 1980s as a global call to conscience. Now, it's back, sung by dozens of musicians in a Band Aid-style performance as the new anthem of a climate justice movement.
Brazil Eyes Limits on Amazon Sugar Cane Growth
Environment  (tags: environment, globalwarming, world, humans, protection, ecosystems )

Cal
- 74 days ago - uk.news.yahoo.com
The Brazilian government has presented new legislation intended to protect the Amazon from deforestation by banning any new planting of sugar cane, widely cultivated for ethanol production.
Will New GPS System Save Airline Fuel and Curb Emissions?
Environment  (tags: technology, aviation, emissions, efficiency, fuel )

Social
- 73 days ago - thedailygreen.com
Supporters say ADS-B is the ticket to modernize air traffic control, but can it really green up our airspace?
The Oceans Need Your Help
Environment  (tags: world, protection, pollution, humans, oceans, nature, habitat, environment, conservation )

Daphna
- 76 days ago - planetgreen.discovery.com
In the film A Sea Change, co-producer Sven Huseby takes his audience to Alaska, California, Washington, and Norway to learn about the effects that increasing acidification is having on the health of our oceans. It's not only the ozone layer above us that
How Barrier Islands Work
Environment  (tags: world, oceans, habitat, environment, endangered, conservation, humans, nature )

Daphna
- 76 days ago - science.howstuffworks.com
Barrier islands, sometimes called barrier spits, are found on coastlines all over the world, but are most noticeable along the eastern coast of North America, where they extend from New England down the Atlantic Coast, around the Gulf of Mexico and south
How The Nature Conservancy Works
Environment  (tags: conservation, environment, animals, climatechange, humans, nature, oceans, habitat, wildlife, world, Sustainabililty )

Daphna
- 76 days ago - science.howstuffworks.com
We've all known the pleasure of staring into the sky at flocks of birds winging their way toward warmer locales. Did you know that of the 9,700 species of birds in the world, almost half of them -- about 4,500 -- breed in the Americas? And that 25 percent
UN Plans 'Shock Therapy' for World Leaders on Environment
Environment  (tags: United Nations, copenhagen, world, climate-change, CO2emissions, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, habitat, protection, pollution, Sustainabililty )

Daphna
- 76 days ago - guardian.co.uk
The United Nations is planning a form of diplomatic shock therapy for world leaders this week in the hope of injecting badly needed urgency into negotiations for a climate change treaty that, it is now widely acknowledged, are dangerously adrift.
Save Patagonia's Rivers- Take Action-
Environment  (tags: dams, wildlife, water, protection, humans, nature, habitat, environment, conservation, ecosystems )

Daphna
- 76 days ago - salsa.democracyinaction.org
The Home Depot is the largest US buyer of timber products from the Matte and Angelini Groups, two Chilean companies that are part of a consortium planning to build 5 dams on two pristine rivers in Patagonia, southern Chile. The dams and their associated
 
 
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