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Troops Mark Homes; Kentucky Is Warned of Strong Winds
Environment  (tags: climate, climate-change, destruction, energy, environment, globalwarming, government, habitat, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, politics, protection, science, suffering, trees, water, weather, americans, children, family, philanthropy, sadness, safety )

Kathleen
- 325 days ago - cnn.com
WHY ISN'T THIS ALL OVER IN HERE?!? National Guard troops were going door to door...checking on families...Gov. Steve Beshear called "the biggest natural disaster that this state has ever experienced in modern history. THEY ARE STILL WITHOUT ELECTRICITY
Bottled Water 'Bad as Smoking' - Australia
Environment  (tags: australia, environment, Ian Kiernan, clean up australia, pollution, bottled water, water, ecosystems, CO2emissions )

Chrissy
- 673 days ago - news.com.au
DRINKING bottled water is so anti-environment that it should be made as unfashionable as smoking. A British study has found that drinking a bottle of water has the same impact on the environment as driving a car a kilometre.
Rare Win for Chinese Greens as Beijing Sinks Dam Plans - World - Theage.Com.Au
Environment  (tags: china, tiger leaping gorge, good news, win, dam, hydro power, electricity, green, government, environment, protection, destruction )

Chrissy
- 724 days ago - theage.com.au
CHINA has abandoned controversial plans to build a huge dam that would have submerged one of the country's most renowned tourist areas and forced the relocation of 100,000 people in the south-western province of Yunnan.
The End of Cheap Food
Environment  (tags: world, food eathanol, biofuels globalwarming, economy )

Mimi
- 744 days ago - economist.com
Since the spring, wheat prices have doubled and almost every crop under the sun--maize, milk, oilseeds, you name it--is at or near a peak in nominal terms. The rise in prices is also the self-inflicted result of America's reckless ethanol subsidies.
ACTION: Help People and Animals in California
Environment  (tags: agriculture, animals, environment, health, humans, oceans, pollution, protection, water, wildlife )

Maria
- 780 days ago - care2.com
If you are concerned with civil rights and/or the health and well-being of pets, wildlife, and the oceans please give a moment of your time to this pressing issue in California. People and animals are being sprayed with untested chemicals...
Blind People: Hybrid Cars Pose Hazard
Environment  (tags: carbonemissions, ClimateChange, conservation, eco-friendly, environment, globalwarming, health, humans, interesting, pollution )


- 812 days ago - news.yahoo.com
BALTIMORE - Gas-electric hybrid vehicles, the status symbol for the environmentally conscientious, are coming under attack from a constituency that doesn't drive: the blind.
Program Links Kids to Environs
Environment  (tags: environment, children, drought, crops, water, conservation, farmers, erosion prevention, education, natural resources )


- 821 days ago - al.com
The great drought of 2007 has been devastating to many of Alabama's farm families. On the days I drive from my home in Selma to the state capital in Montgomery, I pass field after field of burned-up corn and knee-high cotton. The economic toll on rural
   
 
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