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Help Save a Forest With a Daily Click!
Environment  (tags: wildlife, suffering, Sustainabililty, trees, water, weather, world, protection, pollution, politics, nature, greenhousegases, animals, climate, ClimateChange, climate-change, climatechange, CO2emissions, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, endange )

Alice
- 309 days ago - care2.com
One month left before deadline comes and on the 19th of March the whole forest is logged down. destroyed with all its inhabitants, if not enough money is raised. Please help by donating whatever you can, and by clicking every day for free!
Conflicts Fuelled By Climate Change Causing New Refugee Crisis, Warns UN
Environment  (tags: climate change, refugees )


- 554 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Climate change is fuelling conflicts over scarce resources and helping to drive the number of people forced out of their homes to new highs, the head of the UN's refugee agency said yesterday, revealing an increase of more than three million refugees.
Climate Change Refugees - the Forgotten People
Environment  (tags: australia, pacific, climate change, refugees )


- 554 days ago - theage.com.au
The communities that bear little responsibility for climate change will ironically often carry the greatest burden, for example the villages already lost to rising sea-levels in the Pacific neighbours of Australia, which should help the displaced refugees
Aggressive Promotion of Biofuels
Environment  (tags: biofules, environment, habitatdestruction, ecosystems, food, hunger, Sustainabililty, world )

Elena
- 594 days ago - rightoncanada.ca
Bill C-33 provides a $2.2 billion subsidy for biofuels and requires that all gasoline include 5% biofuel content by 2010. Yet there is increasing evidence to show that the rush to biofuels will do more environmental harm than good.
Greece's Asopos River Runs Purple & Town Tap Water Contaminated With Chromium 6 Carcinogen
Environment  (tags: Greece, environmental rights, Asopos River, polluted, putrid stench, bubbling sludge, tap, drinking water, contaminated, chromium 6, carcinogen, WHO, Erin Brockovich, deaths, cancer rate )

Alba
- 746 days ago - reuters.com
Since 1989, deaths caused by cancer has risen to 32% from 6% previously. Factories dumping waste in river for >30 yrs & nearby tourist beaches declared unfit for swimming, but no official warnings to towns people. Official tests only this year !
Support Old Growth Forests
Environment  (tags: forests, old grove, sweden, wildlife, AnimalWelfare, activists, ClimateChange, conservation, environment, trees, protection, ecosystems, GoodNews, endangered )

Mari
- 748 days ago - ettklickforskogen.se
A click for the forest won the annual swedish "Women Of The Earth" Award! Our vision is that all of Sweden's animal and plant species that are dependent on old growth forest for their survival shall live in a safe living environment
Video Tour of PATAGONIA: NRDC/Biogems Defends Endangered Wilderness Treasure - Petition   video
Environment  (tags: Patagonia, wilderness, Chile, natural treasure, endangered, NRDC-Biogems, energy industry threat, economic growth, profit, $$$ )

Alba
- 832 days ago - youtube.com
Today, energy co Endesa-Spain pushing to build massive hydro-electric dams on > 6 rivers in heart of Patagonia wilderness. Scheme to lay waste to thriving region, flood acres of irreplaceable wildlife habitat. Endesa claims essential Chile economic growth
Failure to Complete Study Set Superferry on Doomed Course
Environment  (tags: wildlife, whales, endangered, superferry, public debacle, environment risk, drown it! )

Tony
- 841 days ago - starbulletin.com
The Hawaii Superferry presents a classic case of how not to do business in Hawaii. Lack of planning and violation of the Hawaii Environmental Protection Act has created a public debacle, inconvenienced its customers and put Hawaii's environment at risk.
Indonesia: West Java Elementary School Goes Green
Environment  (tags: asia, GoodNews, education, indonesia )

Ola
- 840 days ago - thejakartapost.com
While most schools focus on textbooks to teach their students about the environment, one elementary school in Sukabumi regency in West Java is bringing their students closer to nature to learn hands-on.
Low-Emission Coal Test Success
Environment  (tags: carbonemissions, environment, pollution, globalwarming, GoodNews )

Jim
- 846 days ago - theaustralian.news.com.au
AUSTRALIA will have a blueprint for a near-zero-emission coal-fired power plant by the end of next year after drill tests proved the central Queensland coal and gas fields could safely store greenhouse gas underground. Amid a highly charged political
 
 
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