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Witnesses Pull Driver From Burning Tanker Before Explosion
Environment  (tags: explosion, truck, interstates, indiana )

Venetia
- 58 days ago - wthr.com
A semi tanker carrying liquid propane exploded on the southbound ramp from I-69 to I-465 Thursday morning
Project to 'Grow Carbon Sinks'
Environment  (tags: environment, Ghana, rainforest, logging, deforestation, seedlings, climate change, carbon dioxide, nature, carbon emissions, protection, conservation, destruction, prevention, endangered )

Dee
- 160 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Ambitious plans to grow 24 million trees to soak up carbon dioxide and restore the rainforest have got underway in Ghana. The first million seedlings are being planted in a pilot scheme in an area that has been heavily logged in recent years.
When Tree Hugging Goes Too Far
Environment  (tags: environment, nature, trees, treehuggers, protection, safety, risks, prevention, destruction )

Dee
- 160 days ago - online.wsj.com
Do we love big old trees too much? Many homeowners don't give enough thought to what hazards their biggest and oldest trees may pose to people and property.
Your Planet Needs You! Millions of People Around the World Will Unite to Combat Climate Change for World Environment Day 2009
Environment  (tags: United Nations Environment Programme - U )

Marieemma
- 199 days ago - unep.org
People around the world will unite for the planet on 5 June for World Environment Day 2009, with a strong call for environmental action just six months before the crucial United Nations climate change talks in Copenhagen.
Cata-Logging: 2 Acres of Canada's Borial Forest Gone - Every Minute
Environment  (tags: animals, ClimateChange, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, habitat, Sustainabililty, trees, wildlife )

Katii
- 323 days ago - forestethics.org
Victoria's Secret alone sends out 1 Million catalogs - every day. Please watch and share this video here: http://forestethics.org/article.php?id=2231 ... When you get a catalog in your mailbox please contact the sender and tell them to "stop it."
Baja and the Gulf of California. A Magical Underwater Kingdom
Environment  (tags: animals, conservation, ecosystems, environment, GoodNews, habitat, nature, oceans, protection, world )

Teresa
- 324 days ago - nature.org
Jacques Cousteau called it the world's aquarium. Mexico's Baja California Peninsula boasts some of the most unique terrestrial and marine environments in the world. The peninsula's Pacific coastline extends more than 700 miles from the U.S. border south
RIGHTS OF NATURE
Environment  (tags: animals, conservation, ecosystems, endangered, environment, destruction, forests, GoodNews, habitat, nature, protection, Sustainabililty, wildlife, world )

Katii
- 341 days ago - realitysandwich.com
Over the past year, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund was invited to assist the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly to develop and draft parts of their new constitution to include rights for nature, or ecosystem rights.
Nine Fishermen Convicted of Poaching
Environment  (tags: Sweden, protected species, cod, 9 fishermen fined and sentenced for ill )

Tony
- 406 days ago - thelocal.se
A Swedish court has found nine fishermen guilty of illegally fishing more than 100 tonnes of cod in the country's largest ever poaching case.
Killer Whales Are Discriminating Diners
Environment  (tags: wildlife, orca, echolocation abilities to zone in on Ch )

Tony
- 406 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
killer whale's favorite meal is king salmon, according to a new study that found these sophisticated predators scan wide ocean regions listening for their favorite fish.
Filling Up the Open Spaces: Bush Adminstration Set to Okay Development in Montana Forestland
Environment  (tags: Montana, forest land, Plum Creek Timber Company, US Forest Service, environmental destruction, open space, real estate development, secret agreements )

RC
- 531 days ago - washingtonpost.com
A closed-door deal between Plum Creek Timber Company (the largest private land owner in the US), and the US Forest Service would open hundreds of thousands of acres of Montana forest to real estate development. Oh beautiful for spacious skies...where?
 
 
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