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How to Stop Global Warming
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, suffering )

Steve
- 4 days ago - lionsledbysheep.com
Global warming could devastate the world's food production, displace millions of people, and decimate biodiversity. Can we stop such a catastrophe?
Dreaming of a Climate Bailout
Environment  (tags: environment, climate-change, climate, globalwarming )

Cal
- 2 days ago - enn.com
No one really knows how bad it will get, but as theStern Report concluded in 2006 doing nothing about it now is going to massively increase the costs of mitigation further down the line.
"Hemp, Is the First Necessity"... Thomas Jefferson - Help Save Our Earth !
Environment  (tags: )

Scott
- 5 days ago - care2.com
The last 3,000 of which, it was the largest agricultural crop in the world. Undoubtedly the planets premier annually renewable resource, hemp can be used as the raw material for products that are currently produced out of cotton, petroleum, timber,
Bush EPA to Give Factory Farms a Free Pass on Emissions
Environment  (tags: animals, protection, factory farms, environment, greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, climate-change, government, corruption, politics )

Tom
- 9 days ago - redgreenandblue.org
The EPA proposes to eliminate a rule that currently requires large livestock facilities to track and report their noxious gas emissions. An individual factory farm can be responsible for as much greenhouse gas emissions as an entire major American city.
100 Companies No Environmentalist Should Ever Support
Environment  (tags: Environment, companies, Violation, Rights, Law )

Jollygirl
- 10 days ago - x-raytechnicianschools.org
If you're worried about environmental issues, take a look at this list of offenders and make sure you're not contributing to their assault of the environment.
Climate Change May Save Grey Nurse Shark
Environment  (tags: nurse sharks, ocean, climate-change, globalwarming, ecosystems, nature, wildlife, research )

Tom
- 11 days ago - abc.net.au
Although conservationists fear Australia's grey nurse shark could become extinct by 2050, "This is probably one of those one in a hundred examples where climate change may actually be somewhat beneficial for this particular species."
Take Action: Keep Harmful Pesticides Out of Salmon Rivers
Environment  (tags: salmon, chemicals, ecosystems, conservation, nature, protection, pollution, habitat, destruction )

Tom
- 13 days ago - action.earthjustice.org
The federal government has the opportunity -- and the duty -- to protect people and salmon from dangerous pesticides like chlorpyrifos, diazinon, and malathion. You know that the government is hearing from the chemical companies. Let them hear from you!
North Pole Ever Closer To Having No Ice
Environment  (tags: climate-change, globalwarming, animals, endangered, environment, nature, humans, politics )

Tom
- 17 days ago - seattlepi.nwsource.com
GOP vp candidate Sarah Palin has cranked up the heat on the frigid North. The Alaska governor filed a lawsuit against Endangered Species Act protections for polar bears and is urging expanded oil exploration in the ecologically sensitive Arctic climate.
EPA Allowing US Tech Trash to Pollute the Globe
Environment  (tags: EPA, toxic electronics, Government Accountability Office, House Foreign Affairs Committee, global pollution, envrionmental destruction, trash-dumping )

Ombretta
- 17 days ago - washingtonpost.com
In a report commissioned by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Government Accountability Office accused the Environmental Protection Agency of of failing to stop the world-wide dumping of hazardous electronic & tech waste.
Conservation Is Important
Environment  (tags: )

Hans
- 16 days ago - care2.com
The CO2 emissions from deforestation are greater than the emissions from the world's entire transportation sector-all the cars, trucks, planes, trains, and ships combined.
 
 
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