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For Maldives Climate Deal Is a Survival Issue
Environment  (tags: climatechange, sea level rise, Maldives, island, erosion, Copenhagen talks )

Naoko
- 6 hours ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
If global temperatures rise just 2 degrees Celcius, "We won't be around. We will be underwater", Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed told Rueters in Trinidad and Tobago, where he and other leaders of the 53-nation Commonwealth pleadged support for a
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New Bill May Help Save the Environment
Environment  (tags: environment, government, new bill, wood burning power plants, pollution, protection )

Dee
- 6 hours ago - capitalnews9.com
BOSTON (AP) - Environmental and health advocates, including the American Lung Association, are pushing a bill that would ban the use of old construction and demolition debris in wood burning power plants.
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Climate Change: What Price Will Future Generations Pay?
Environment  (tags: environment, future generations, Climate Change, CO2emissions, globalwarming, humans, pollution, protection, suffering, water, wildlife, destruction )

Dee
- 8 hours ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Climate change poses a huge barrier to a fulfilling future, argues Lord Puttnam, an ambassador for Unicef UK. he asks what price children will have to pay for three or four carbon-happy generations?
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6.2-Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Eastern Indonesia Island : Nature Environment
Environment  (tags: )

June
- 11 hours ago - earthtimes.org
A magnitude-6.2 earthquake struck a remote eastern Indonesian island of Sumba in East Nusa Tenggara Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of injury and damage, officials said. The quake took place at a depth of 30
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China Jails Radical US Environmentalist - He Is Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison on Drug Charges
Environment  (tags: )

June
- 11 hours ago - newser.com
An environmental activist from New Jersey who faces arson charges in the US has been sentenced to 3 years in prison in China on drug charges. Justin Solondz, 30, had been hiding out under a pseudonym in the mountainous town
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Highway Endangers Uncontacted Amazon Indians
Environment  (tags: forests, nature, humans, habitatdestruction, suffering, destruction )

Celia M
- 20 hours ago - survivalinternational.org
Brazil's Attorney General's office has warned that uncontacted Indians in the Amazon are at risk of extinction due to a highway that runs through Rondônia state to the Bolivian border.
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Nature Canada Blog: Blog Action Day: Hot Air, Cool Trees
Environment  (tags: climatechange )

Angela
- 21 hours ago - naturecanadablog.blogspot.com
Canadians are talking a lot about climate change these days in the lead up to the UNFCCC meetings in Copenhagen in December.
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Avoiding Catastrophic Costs of Climate Change Requires Fast-Action Strategies
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, climatechange )

Angela
- 21 hours ago - enn.com
A new report by Dr. Tim Lenton and colleagues published today by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Allianz, a global financial service provider, puts a dollar value on the damages the world faces from passing fast-approaching tipping points for abr
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Stolen E-Mails Raise Questions On Climate Research
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, environment )

Angela
- 22 hours ago - enn.com
A huge pile of e-mails were stolen from a British climate laboratory<br /> and posted on the Internet last week. The correspondence shows that some climate scientists are resorting to bare-knuckle tactics to defend the orthodoxy of global warming.
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BBC News - Battling Siberia's Devastating Illegal Logging Trade
Environment  (tags: )

June
- 22 hours ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Wagons brimming with logs accumulate in the Siberian railway station of Dalnerechensk, more than 8,000km (4,971 miles) east of Moscow. They are waiting to cross the nearby Chinese border. Once in China, they will be processed
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Protecting Jungles: One Way to Combat Global Warming
Environment  (tags: jungles, protection, nature, conservation, global warming, wildife, habitat )

Simone
- 22 hours ago - time.com
There are two important things to know about tracking wild elephants, and it's better to learn both of them before you're actually in the jungle, tracking wild elephants. First, elephants are fast. In thick forest -- in this case, the vast Ulu Masen
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Happy 50th Antarctic Treaty
Environment  (tags: Antarctic Treaty, Greenpeace, celebration, landmark, environment, World Park )

Sophie
- 1 day ago - greenpeace.org
On December 1, 2009, Greenpeace celebrates the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty. From this treaty, an international landmark was created and a World Park was established to protect an entire continent.
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Climate Change Linked to Civil War in Africa
Environment  (tags: ClimateChange, humans, world, Society & Culture, War )

Debbie
- 1 day ago - theecologist.org
Climate change is likely to increase the risk of conflict in African countries over the next 20 years. The reasons are documented in this column.
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In Greenland, Warming Fuels Dream of Hidden Wealth
Environment  (tags: animals, climate, ClimateChange, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, environment, globalwarming, government, habitat, habitatdestruction, nature, humans, oceans, politics, protection, research, suffering, Sustainabililty, wildlife, world, w )

CA
- 1 day ago - news.yahoo.com
Gert Ignatiussen returns to this fjord-front Inuit town with the spoils of his hunting trip. Six seals, all killed with a single shot to the head. With nimble handwork, his wife Bartholine cuts them up on the porch of their wood-frame home, saving..
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Climate Debate Heats Up Caribbean Summit
Environment  (tags: climate, ClimateChange, climatechange, climate-change, conservation, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, government, humans, politics, protection, research, Sustainabililty, world )

CA
- 1 day ago - news.yahoo.com
An approaching global climate summit has raised the temperature at what is usually a low-key meeting of leaders from Britain's former colonial empire.
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In Greenland, Warming Fuels Dream of Hidden Wealth
Environment  (tags: climate-change, globalwarming, politics, nature, environment, endangered, ClimateChange )

Marty
- 1 day ago - my.att.net
Gert Ignatiussen returns to this fjord-front Inuit town with the spoils of his hunting trip. Six seals, all killed with a single shot to the head.
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Everything's Dried Up and Communities Begin to Crack
Environment  (tags: Australia, environment, drought, habitat, animals, water, suffering )

Sally
- 1 day ago - smh.com.au
FISH lie belly-up on the cracked bed of Lake Cargelligo. Like the lake it is built around, the town is drying out. Lake Cargelligo, a settlement of 1300 in the geographical heart of NSW, was once a holiday haven for swimmers and waterskiers.
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