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Climate Change Refugees: Plants, Animals and Insects Will Need to Keep Moving
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, ClimateChange, wildlife, endangered, ecosystems, destruction, habitatdestruction, Sustainabililty )

Red
- 3 hours ago - care2.com
A newly released study shows that the average ecosystem will need to shift a quarter of a mile each year in order to stay in its ideal temperature range.
Conservancy to Preserve 1,300 Acres From South Texas Rancher as Habitat for Endangered Cat
Environment  (tags: preservation, rancher, conservation, habitat, endangered cat, ocelot, environment )

Simone
- 17 hours ago - sfexaminer.com
Few things would venture into the dense thorny scrub favored by the endangered ocelot. But with little of south Texas considered suitable habitat for the remaining 50 or fewer rare cats, the ocelots remain vulnerable.
Ecuador to Be Paid to Leave Oil in the Ground
Environment  (tags: Rainforest preservation, Ecuador, Yasuni National Park, good news )

Little
- 1 day ago - news.mongabay.com
Ecuador will establish a trust fund for receiving payments to leave oil reserves unexploited in Yasuni National Park, one of the world's most biodiverse rainforest reserves, reports the UN Development Programme, the agency that will administer the fund.
Post Copenhagen: New Slavery In A Disappearing World
Environment  (tags: CO2emissions, climate-change, globalwarming, greenhousegases, Sustainabililty )

Daniel
- 2 days ago - danielmargrain.wordpress.com
As widely anticipated, Copenhagen ended up as a farce. Once again, the politicians failed to deliver on activists demands, which included large emissions cuts, the payment of ecological debt to climate victims, and the decommissioning of carbon markets.
Is Earth On The Brink Of A Sixth Mass Extinction?
Environment  (tags: animals, ClimateChange, conservation, environment, globalwarming, habitatdestruction )

Beth
- 2 days ago - care2.com
According to a recent study by UC Berkeley and Penn State University researchers, humans might have helped to bring about the planet's sixth mass extinction even faster thanks to habitat destruction, pollution and now global warming.
Generating Free Electricity
Environment  (tags: save energy climate, save energy, energy, electricity, sustainabality, save electricity )

Alexander
- 3 days ago - thegreeno.com
Across the globe, the need of the hour is to use renewable energy. Renewable energy is energy from natural resources, such as sunlight, rain, wind, tides, and geothermal heat. Energy sources are draining at an exciting rate, which makes it command to use
California Building Power Lines to a Renewable Future
Environment  (tags: renewable energy, climate change, energy, california, schwarzenegger )

Lyn
- 3 days ago - solveclimate.com
California regulators have approved a plan to carry the resources of a rural, wind-rich region of the state to the homes and businesses of Los Angeles, bringing California a step closer to meeting one of the world's most ambitious renewable energy targets
The Copenhagen Accord: Obama Strong Arms the World
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, climatechange, Copenhagen, COP15, Barack Obama )

Jeff
- 3 days ago - trueslant.com
COPENHAGEN-President Obama walked into a meeting of the world's most powerful developing nations last night, divided his opposition, and pressed the larger United Nations assembly into salvaging these two weeks of talks with 'the Copenhagen Accord." How?
The Big Idea The Carbon Bathtub
Environment  (tags: climate, ClimateChange, CO2emissions, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, greenhousegases, habitatdestruction, nature, humans, pollution, protection, world )

Daphna
- 4 days ago - ngm.nationalgeographic.com
It's simple, really: As long as we pour CO2; into the atmosphere faster than nature drains it out, the planet warms. And that extra carbon takes a long time to drain out of the tub.
 
 
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