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Be a Hero.Save the Climate!
Environment  (tags: environment, climatechange, globalwarming, light a candle, vigil, climate )

Beatrice
- 1 hour ago - greenidol.in
World leaders have failed us. They have walked away from the global summit in Copenhagen without a treaty to save the climate. They still have a chance to get it right and we will not let them fail. The future of 6.5 billion people is at stake... You are
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Canadian Gold Giant Faces Honduras Inquiry Into Alleged Toxic Heavy Metal Contamination
Environment  (tags: Honduras, inquiry, mining giant, Goldcorp, Canada, toxic heavy metals, arsenic, contamination, fields, water, Acid Mine Drainaige, llness, people, death, livestock, 12, 000 tons extracted, advocacy group, Cafod, studies, concrete evidence, toxic legacy )

Alba
- 2 hours ago - guardian.co.uk
Villagers/NGOs accuse Goldcorp of poisoning people & livestock, complaints backed by 2 studies. Goldcorp pulling out, but community says damage done. Inquiry comes at critical time- record gold prices encouraging other mining corporations to explore new..
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New Year's Eve Party Game: You Might Be An Environmentalist If ...
Environment  (tags: climatechange, CO2emissions, environment, ecosystems, globalwarming, nature, humans, habitatdestruction )

Daphna
- 2 hours ago - treehugger.com
The last couple weeks of December can be goofy. Especially when you get into the rut of watching too much TV and spending too much time in your pajamas. You might find yourself watching a Comedy Central marathon of "Blue Collar Comedy," with Jeff Foxworth
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Play Music Trivia, Provide Clean Water ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, water, music trivia, habitat, protection )

Cher
- 5 hours ago - change.org
You can keep answering questions for as long as you like - the quiz is never-ending! Come back once a week to play or play every day! Test your music trivia skills now and support the basic right to clean water.
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Get a Green Degree: 6 of the Most Eco-Friendly Colleges in America
Environment  (tags: green, Sustainabililty, education, college )

Kathy
- 5 hours ago - mycollegeguide.org
If you're a treehugger looking for a green school where you can set down roots, look no further than these great options.
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TANZANIA: Community Still Worried By Mine Contamination
Environment  (tags: environment, pollution, conservation, ecosystems, world )

Cal
- 11 hours ago - ipsnews.net
Susanna Solomon is still tending her shamba, but she won't eat the harvest from her farm when it's ready.
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New Tree Species Found in Gorge
Environment  (tags: trees, nature, GoodNews, ecosystems, environment, world )

Cal
- 12 hours ago - independent.co.uk
Cheddar Gorge may be a well-known tourist spot but discoveries are still being made about the wildlife-rich site - including three new species of tree uncovered by a recent scientific survey
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Christmas Lights? No, It's the Wagtail Tree: Hundreds of Roosting Birds Cover Every Twig and Branch
Environment  (tags: wagtail tree, roosting birds, Christmas light )

Alisa
- 16 hours ago - dailymail.co.uk
With most town centres currently festooned with fairy lights, you might not give this tree a second glance.But take a closer look and you'll realise that it's not been decorated but is in fact alive with little birds.
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Christmas Eve Tornado Outbreak; Over 20 Tornadoes Confirmed Across 3 States
Environment  (tags: tornadoes, Christmas eve, severe weather, meteorologist, meteorology, weather, storms, Longview, Texas, Lufkin, Acadia, Louisiana, Scott, Parish, squall line, news, National Weather Service, Shreveport, Lake Charles, NWS, SPC, Storm Prediction Center )

Johnny
- 17 hours ago - examiner.com
The National Weather Service Offices in Lake Charles and Shreveport have been busy confirming multiple tornadoes from a severe weather outbreak that unfolded on Wednesday afternoon (December 23rd) and continued into Christmas Eve (December 24th).
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Anti-Mining Activists Killed in El Salvador [Plus Video]
Environment  (tags: environmental activists murdered )

Ellyn
- 21 hours ago - democracynow.org
For the second time in a week, a prominent anti-mining activist has been assassinated in El Salvador. On Saturday, thirty-two-year-old Dora "Alicia" Recinos Sorto was shot dead near her home. One of her children was also injured in the shooting.
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Unique Wildflowers to Be Saved By Clifftop Work
Environment  (tags: flora, ecosystems, humans, GoodNews, environment, protection, world )

Cal
- 22 hours ago - thisissouthdevon.co.uk
Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust's Loving our Limestone project aims to protect the future of fragile habitat, properly known as 'squill-spurge fescue grasslands
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Indonesia to Relax Forest Protection on Key Projects
Environment  (tags: environment, ecosystems, habitatdestruction, habitat, trees, world )

Cal
- 23 hours ago - uk.reuters.com
Indonesia will allow some infrastructure projects deemed in the public interest such as toll roads and geothermal energy plants to operate in protected forests, the chief economics minister said
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Moon Rising
Environment  (tags: conservation, ecosystems, environment, forests, GoodNews, habitat, nature, world )

Daphna
- 1 day ago - environmentalgraffiti.com
The iconic image of the Moon as it appears in E.T. - when the wide-eyed Elliot and lovable E.T. make their flight to the forest on a bicycle - has been described as one of the most magical moments in cinema. Yet Moons as big as the one said boy and alien
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Iberian Spot Power Hits Year-Low On Wind, Demand
Environment  (tags: energy, globalwarming, government, goodnews, science )

Alexander
- 1 day ago - thegreeno.com
MADRID - Iberian spot power prices sank to their lowest levels since 2007 on Tuesday due to a combination of low, festive-season demand and hefty supplies of wind and hydropower, traders said.
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Boralex Adds 47 MW Wind Power Capacity in France
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, environment, ecosystems, energy, globalwarming, greenhousegases )

Alexander
- 1 day ago - thegreeno.com
Canadian power producer Boralex Inc said it had, along with its European partner Cube Infrastructure Fund, acquired three wind farms in France to add 47 MW of capacity for about C$115 million.
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UAE to Sell Nuclear Power
Environment  (tags: energy, ecosystems, globalwarming, GoodNews, green )

Alexander
- 1 day ago - thegreeno.com
DUBAI - A $40 billion deal by the United Arab Emirates to acquire nuclear reactors puts it ahead in a drive to meet fast growing power needs among its Gulf neighbors, while also allowing it to export more of its oil.
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French Nuclear Sector Re-Think After UAE Setback
Environment  (tags: energy, GoodNews, government, greenhousegases, green )

Alexander
- 1 day ago - thegreeno.com
PARIS - The French nuclear power sector is to re-focus its strategy, notably in Britain and the United States, after losing out to a South Korean consortium on a 20.4-billion-dollar project in the United Arab Emirates.
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Brazil's Lula Signs Law Cutting CO2 Emissions
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, greenhousegases, pollution, Sustainabililty, world )

Alexander
- 1 day ago - thegreeno.com
BRASILIA - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Tuesday signed a law requiring that Brazil cut greenhouse gas emissions by 39 percent by 2020, meeting a commitment made at the Copenhagen climate change summit.
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