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Swine Flu: With No Paid Sick Leave, Workers Won't Stay Home
Health & Wellness  (tags: H1N1 flu, no sickdays, .work, health, warning, risks )

Lone
- 6 days ago - abcnews.go.com
Atlanta -- Nearly half of all American workers do not have paid sick leave, and half of these are more likely to go to work feeling unwell -- or send an ill child to school -- rather than take an unpaid day off.
Your Morning Adorable: Monkeys Cool Off With Frozen Fruit in Sao Paulo
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, cooling off, zoos, protection )

Cher
- 6 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
A white-handed gibbon from the Sao Paulo Zoo Foundation eats monkey-friendly ice cream -- a frozen fruit wedge on a string. Temperatures rose to 86 degrees Fahrenheit this week in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the zoo fed its gibbons and black-faced spider
Commuter Cat Goes for a Bus Ride
Offbeat  (tags: animals, cats, bus ride, pets, protection, environment )

Cher
- 6 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Casper, a black-and-white cat living in the U.K., enjoys the occasional bus ride.
Plastic Pollution Prevention ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, pollution, plastic, habitat, nature, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 6 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Plastic is not fantastic! We must find a solution to plastic pollution! Why? Because all plastic that makes its way into our oceans will alter the natural state of ecosystems and harm wildlife. An estimated one million seabirds and 100,000 whales,
One of Yellowstone's Beloved Wolves Killed - Don't Let Her Death Be in Vain ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, wolves, killed, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 6 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Wolf 527 was beloved by wolf-watchers and wildlife biologists who chronicled her courageous life. Sadly, she was also one of the first wolves killed in October -- during Montana's first wolf hunt in modern times.
Protect the Arctic Refuge: America's Polar Bear Nursery ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, arctic, protection, nature, habitat, wildlife )

Cher
- 6 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Rising temperatures are robbing polar bears of vital habitat and melting the sea ice they use for hunting and raising their cubs. In response, the Interior Department has announced a proposal to designate more than 200,000 square miles of critical
Ban the Use of Rozol (Chlorophacinone) Grain Bait to Exterminate Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, grain bait, poison, AnimalWelfare, death, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 6 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Urge your elected officials to pressure the the EPA to immediately ban the use of Rozol (chlorophacinone) grain bait to exterminate black-tailed prairie dogs. This poison is inhumane. Rozol causes internal bleeding to animals who ingest it, and their
   
 
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