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HARPER: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH - Sign Petition
Environment  (tags: climate, ClimateChange, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, globalwarming, government, habitat, nature, endangered, humans, protection, politics, world, Sustainabililty, wildlife, science, suffering, research, pollution, green, greenhousegases, climat )

Elena
- 21 hours ago - avaaz.org
Petition to Prime Minister Harper: We call on you to uphold Canada's values, stop blocking UN climate talks and immediately start working with other countries towards a new international climate agreement.
'Acidifying Oceans' Threaten Food Supply, UK Warns
Environment  (tags: News, environment, marine life, Oceans, acidification )

Katie
- 3 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Acidification of the oceans is a major threat to marine life and humanity's food supply, Hilary Benn is to warn as the UN climate summit resumes.
PHOTOS: Ten Environmental Wins of 2009
Environment  (tags: News, Animal, photos, bear, New Species )

Katie
- 3 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
In October the U.S. government proposed designating more than 200,000 square miles (500,000 square kilometers) of land, sea, and ice along Alaska's north coast as critical habitat for the polar bear, which is listed as threatened with extinction..........
Black Soot Might Be Main Culprit of Melting Himalayas
Environment  (tags: News, environmental, climate-change, ice melting, himalayas )

Katie
- 2 days ago - livescience.com
Tiny particles of pollution known as "black carbon" -- and not heat-trapping greenhouse gases -- may be causing most of the rapid melting of glaciers in the Himalayas, a key water source for much of Asia.
PHOTOS: Ten Environmental Losses of 2009
Environment  (tags: News, photos, Environmental, loss, 2009 )

Katie
- 1 day ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Drought-Stricken Kenya Loses Out on Rain, Again. Tens of elephants and hundreds of other animals have perished so far amid the worst drought to hit Kenya in more than a decade, conservationists announced this past summer. The so-called long rains.....
Worcester Wildlife Trust Buys Rare Flower Meadows
Environment  (tags: environment, meadows, habitat, protection, nature )

Cher
- 5 hours ago - wildlifeextra.com
Piddle Brook Meadows in Naunton Beauchamp have been bought by the Worcestershire Wildlife Trust. This is thanks to local waste management contractor Severn Waste Services and the wonderful response to a fundraising appeal from Wildlife Trust members and
Birdlife Launches Project to Save Last Ethiopian Forests
Environment  (tags: environment, forests, protection, nature, habitat )

Cher
- 6 hours ago - wildlifeextra.com
NABU (BirdLife in Germany), in cooperation with the Ethiopian Government and other partners, will run a special project to protect the last natural forests where the world famous 'Arabica' coffee is produced. In the last 10 years, almost 43% of these
Shell Oil Beaufort Sea Drilling Plans Challenged
Environment  (tags: energy, conservation, ecosystems, environment, humans, nature, protection, habitat, world, animals )

Cal
- 21 hours ago - pacificenvironment.org
Conservation and Alaska Native groups called for a timeout on oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Sea today, filing a legal challenge against Shell Oil's permit to drill in the region next summer.
ENVIRONMENT: Honduras Heads List for Climate Risk
Environment  (tags: climate, destruction, climatechange, CO2emissions, globalwarming, world, protection, humans, environment )

Cal
- 1 day ago - ipsnews.net
Honduras has been hit harder by extreme weather events than almost any other country over the last 18 years, says a study of weather-related losses, released here as the climate summit continues this week.
Copenhagen Negotiators Struggle to Save Talks
Environment  (tags: environment, Copenhagen Summit, copenhagen summit, climate-change, CO2emissions, globalwarming, protection, humans )

Cal
- 1 day ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Climate change negotiators have been working through the night in Copenhagen to try to rescue plans for a global agreement from collapse.
 
 
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