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Satellite Data Reveals Extreme Summer Snowmelt In Northern Greenland
Environment  (tags: arctic, sea ice, glaciers, climate change )

Pekka
- 22 hours ago - sciencedaily.com
Melting in northern Greenland lasted up to 18 days longer than previous maximum values. The melting index, i.e. the number of melting days times the area subject to melting) was three times greater than the 1979-2007 average
New Book: 'Sarah Takes on Big Oil'
Environment  (tags: endangered, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, greenhousegases, government, habitatdestruction, pollution, protection, suffering, wildlife, world )

Wolfweeps
- 1 day ago - alaskadispatch.com
"Sarah takes on Big Oil" is a book about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her battle with the state's three largest oil producers --- ExxonMobil, BP and ConocoPhillips
Cell-Tower Risks Radiation Dangers
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Environment  (tags: Cell, phone, towers, health, emf, radiation, nutritional, protection, bluetooth, brain, tumor, biopro, sickness, prevention, qlink, cn )

Gregory
- 1 day ago - youtube.com
As part of the current studies, researchers are examining the scientific basis of "electrical sensitivity," a collection of symptoms, such as headaches and fatigue, that some people believe is caused by exposure to wireless phones and towers.
Hominid Exotics Removed From the Galapagos
Environment  (tags: SSCS, CIMEI, Animal Balance, S.P.E.C.I.E.E.S support exotics removal )

Tony
- 1 day ago - seashepherd.org
Humans may not like to admit it, but we are exotics in fragile island ecosystems. An "exotic" is a species that has been introduced into an eco-system causing competition with and destruction of native species of both plant and animals.
November 14-15 Day of Action Against Coal Finance
Environment  (tags: climate, climate-change, climatechange, CO2emissions, ecosystems, energy, environment, globalwarming, globalwarming, green, greenhousegases, pollution, protection, Sustainabililty )

Laurel
- 1 day ago - ran.org
Join Rainforest Action Network, Greenpeace and a cast of thousands on November 14-15 for the National Day(s) of Action against Coal and Coal Finance. Things are heating up for the coal barons and the banks and politicians that love them.
Money Grows on Trees: Deforestation Costs More Than Financial Crisis
Environment  (tags: climate, climatechange, environment, destruction, globalwarming, habitat, nature, pollution, science, trees )

Melva
- 1 day ago - spiegel.de
Our shrinking forests cost us up to $5 trillion a year -- far more than the current banking crisis. Environmentalists hope the sobering calculation, made by a European Union commissioned team, will focus political will on funding conservation.
Meltdown: A Global Warming Travelogue
Environment  (tags: world, climate-change, animals, CO2emissions, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, environment, forests, globalwarming, habitat, greenhousegases, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, oceans, pollution, green, protection, research, science, su )

Robert
- 5 days ago - cnn.com
For a long time -- the first 15 years that we knew about global warming, and did nothing -- there were no pictures -- but now there is the meltdown travelogue to view the environmental damages.
World's Largest Food Fishery in Danger of Collapse
Environment  (tags: fisheries, oceanconservation, destruction, endangered, environment, habitat, habitatdestruction, nature, oceans, protection, Sustainabililty )

Laurel
- 1 day ago - greenpeace.org
The National Marine Fisheries Service just revealed that populations of Alaska pollock, the largest food fishery in the world, have dropped 50 percent since last year.
Canada Sued for Failure to Protect Killer Whale Habitat
Environment  (tags: oceans, whales, canada, environmentalists, endangered, politics, wildlife )

Angela
- 1 day ago - ens-newswire.com
The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans was sued today by six environmental groups from across Canada for failure to safeguard the critical habitat of killer whales that reside in British Columbia coastal waters.
Horizons '08 - Agriculture's Future: Value Or Volume
Environment  (tags: agriculture, food supply, Productivity, humans, environment )

Ingrid
- 1 day ago - terradaily.com
According to CLI Chief Alan Bell, if the world is to maintain the same effective level of food supply in 2050 as there was in 2000, there will need to be a 50 per cent improvement in the world's agricultural productivity.
 
 
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