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Forest-Saving Deal Could Lift Climate Summit Hopes
Environment  (tags: climate, ClimateChange, CO2emissions, globalwarming, forests, trees )

Chris
- 3 days ago - news.yahoo.com
In a potentially valuable boost to fighting climate change, rich and poor countries are close to an agreement to end the destruction of the world's forests in 20 years, government negotiators said.
NEW Interactive Rainforest Booklet -Please Join!!
Environment  (tags: habitatdestruction, rainforests, ecosystems, destruction, conservation, wildlife, forests )

Tierney
- 47 days ago - rainforestsos.org
The PRP has just released a new online, interactive booklet that describes how rainforests are on the front line in the fight against climate change and explains how a new form of international collaboration could help to reduce tropical deforestation,
ENVIRONMENTAL SATIRE---Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds Of Secret Arctic Lairs
Environment  (tags: SATIRE, satire, envirnment, globalwarming, world, humans, climatechange )

Cal
- 69 days ago - theonion.com
Claiming it to be one of the most dramatic and visible signs of climate change to date, researchers said Monday that receding polar ice caps have revealed nearly 200 clandestine lairs once buried deep beneath hundreds of feet of Arctic ice.
Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilisation?
Environment  (tags: humans, climate-change, survival, agriculture, weather, world, pollution, globalwarming, environment, ecosystems, CO2emissions, climate )

Cal
- 69 days ago - ipsnews.net
The tripling of world wheat, rice, and corn prices between mid-2006 and mid-2008 signaled our growing vulnerability to food shortages. It took the worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression to lower grain prices.Rising temperatures bring crop-shri
The Sermilik Fjord in Greenland: A Chilling View of a Warming World
Environment  (tags: environment, Sermilik, fjord, Greenland, melting, glacier, icebergs, catastrophic, climatechange, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, pollution, ecosystems, CO2emissions, humans, nature, habitat, science, oceans, government, endangered, animals, wildlife )

Tom
- 91 days ago - guardian.co.uk
The melting has been recorded since 1979; scientists put the annual net loss of ice and water from the ice sheet at 300-400 gigatonnes (equivalent to a billion elephants being dropped in the ocean), which could hasten a catastrophic sea level rise.
New Analysis Projects Stat-By-State Temprature Increases
Environment  (tags: ClimateChange, climate-change, climatechange, CO2emissions, climate, science )

Chris
- 91 days ago - nature.org
A new analysis of U.S. climate projections from The Nature Conservancy finds that temperatures in the worst-hit states could be up to 10 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than present-day levels by the year 2100.
Will Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap Continue to Defy Selling Out to Corporate Culture?
Environment  (tags: climate, climate-change, conservation, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, green, habitat, nature, politics, pollution, protection, Sustainabililty )

Kit
- 131 days ago - alternet.org
You can use it in a river. You can use it in the shower. You can lather up outside, and it doesn't hurt a flower! Yes, you got it. It's Dr. Bronner's magical soap. "Constructive capitalism is where you share the profit with the workers and the earth....
Climate Change Clouds Fate of Ancient Polish Woods
Environment  (tags: forests, environment, world, protection, humans, habitat, wildlife, climate-change, globalwarming )

Cal
- 131 days ago - uk.reuters.com
Europe's last ancient forest, home to its largest herd of bison, faces an uncertain future because of climate change, but residents worry that tougher conservation efforts will damage the local economy.
Toxic Tsunami
Environment  (tags: protection, pollution, destruction, environment, humans, habitatdestruction )

Cal
- 131 days ago - newsweek.com
Inside the largest industrial spill in American history. How coal ash ruined one Tennessee town--and why it could happen again.
Grand Canyon Threatened By Uranium Mining - AUDIO FILES!
Environment  (tags: US, Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon, uranium mining, Canada, Supai, AZ, Sierra Club, Havasupai Tribe, federal goverment, mining )

Kristmas
- 136 days ago - earthcycles.net
Protest against the federal govt, a gathering/protest is being held this weekend-south of Grand Canyon at the Sacred Red Butte Supai, AZ-hosted by the Havasupai Tribe in alliance with Sierra Club.
 
 
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