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Canada To Investigate Disappearing Pacific Salmon
Environment  (tags: Animal, disappearing, bird, Canada, investigation )

Katie
- 1 hour ago - planetark.com
anada will launch an investigation into why far fewer sockeye salmon than scientists had predicted returned to the Fraser River on the Pacific Coast this summer.
Scores Dead After Flooding in El Salvador as Hurricane Ida Roars Towards the US
Environment  (tags: Flood, Landslide, Country, Mud )

Nancy
- 1 hour ago - timesonline.co.uk
Mud and boulders loosened by heavy rains swept down a volcano and partly buried a small town in El Salvador yesterday, swallowing up homes as flooding and landslides across the country killed at least 124 people.
Sizing Up Palm Oil
Environment  (tags: palm oil, environment, ecosystems, habitatdestruction, habitat, nature, protection, wildlife, world, humans )

Cal
- 1 hour ago - cms.ran.org
Made from the flesh of fruit from oil palm trees, palm oil stepped into the void when towering oil prices put pressure on companies worldwide to find alternative sources for products from biofuel to shampoo. Demand for the oil surged by an average of 2.2
Hunting Across Southeast Asia Weakens Forests' Survival
Environment  (tags: animals, ecosystems, environment, nature, humans, world, protection, conservation, forests )

Cal
- 1 hour ago - news.mongabay.com
In the Southeast Asian tropics an astounding 80 percent of seeds are spread not by wind, but by animals: birds, bats, rodents, even elephants. But in a region where animals of all shapes and sizes are being wiped out by uncontrolled hunting and poaching--w
CLIMATE CHANGE: Dark Clouds Gathering Over Copenhagen
Environment  (tags: environment, globalwarming, CO2emissions, climatechange, humans, world )

Cal
- 1 hour ago - ipsnews.net
It has been a bad week for the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month. During the week the last meeting in the formal round of pre- Copenhagen talks collapsed in Barcelona. Then, meeting here on the weekend, the G20 finance ministers put the seal
Vanishing Glaciers Jolt Smokestack China
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, ecosystems, climatechange, climate, world, habitat, habitatdestruction, environment )

Cal
- 1 hour ago - timesonline.co.uk
AS an expedition from Chinese state television worked its way across the remote Tibetan plateau earlier this year, the explorers were amazed by what they found.
Senegalese NGO Plants 34 Million Mangroves to Offset Carbon Emissions
Environment  (tags: senegal, africa, Mangrove trees, carbon emissions )

Ingrid
- 2 hours ago - terradaily.com
A Senegalese environmental NGO announced Friday that it had planted 34 million mangrove trees in three months in a project largely financed by French dairy giant Danone to offset its carbon footprint.
Japan About To Launch A Space Solar Power Satellite--Now!
Environment  (tags: Hope Or Death From Space? )

Dan
- 3 hours ago - physorg.com
It intends to collect solar energy in space and zap it down to Earth via concentrated microwaves--enough energy as average-sized nuclear power plant. Problem: major biohazards of high-intensity microwaves as described in the book Sunstroke by David Kagan.
Can Closing the Ozone Hole Also Help Combat Climate Change?
Environment  (tags: News, environment, Ozone Layer, climatechange )

Katie
- 4 hours ago - scientificamerican.com
Finding alternatives to refrigerants such as hydrofluorocarbons will help prevent the ozone hole being healed at climate's expense.
Ecosystem in Peru Is Losing a Key Ally
Environment  (tags: environment, world, ecosystem, peru, trees )

Katie
- 5 hours ago - nytimes.com
A small grove of huarango, the storied Peruvian tree that can live over a millennium, rests like a mirage amid the sand dunes on this city's edge. The tree has provided the inhabitants of this desert with food and timber since before the Nazca............
Success! EPA Regulates Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Environment  (tags: ClimateChange, CO2emissions, globalwarming, GoodNews, greenhousegases )

Chris
- 8 hours ago - care2.com
Thousands of Care2 members have submitted signatures to the Environmental Protection Agency in the last few years urging the U.S. government to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This week, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson took a critical first step..
Ecosystem in Peru Is Losing a Key Ally
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, destruction, trees, habitatdestruction, nature, humans )

Marty
- 11 hours ago - nytimes.com
A small grove of huarango, the storied Peruvian tree that can live over a millennium, rests like a mirage amid the sand dunes on this city's edge. The tree has provided the inhabitants of this desert with food and timber since before the Nazca
Statisticians Reject Global Cooling
Environment  (tags: ClimateChange, globalwarming )

Michael
- 12 hours ago - climate.weather.com
Have you heard that the world is now cooling instead of warming? You may have seen some news reports on the Internet or heard about it from a provocative new book. Only one problem: It's not true, according to an analysis of the numbers...
Why Is Newsweek Lobbying for the Oil Industry?
Environment  (tags: corruption, congress, politics, propaganda, government, ethics, environment, globalwarming, ClimateChange )

David
- 13 hours ago - globalwarming.change.org
TPM Muckraker reported that Newsweek is partnering with the American Petroleum Institute (API) -- the lobbying arm of the oil industry -- to host a panel discussion entitled "Climate and Energy Policy: Moving?" featuring lawmakers, the API & newsweek
Environment Group Condemns Attitude of Agitatiors
Environment  (tags: environment, hanakon, ind-bharat, green, medha patkar )

Sukhmeet
- 15 hours ago - greencitizens.net
The Karavali Development and Environment Lovers Association has condemned the attitude of the anti-thermal power plant agitators of Hanakon.
Coldest October in 64 Years
Environment  (tags: climate, ClimateChange, climate-change, climatechange, CO2emissions, environment, globalwarming, globalwarming, nature, oceans, science, weather )

Judy
- 15 hours ago - stuff.co.nz
It will come as little surprise to most New Zealanders that the country shivered through the coldest October in 64 years. In its climate summary for the month, the Niwa said the average temperature nationwide was 10.6degC _ 1.4degC below average.
The Slow Apocalypse
Environment  (tags: Environment, Green, wildlife, pollution, trees, climat )

Roger
- 16 hours ago - environmentbreakingnews.blogspot.com
The slow apocalypse
Japan Eyes Solar Station in Space as New Energy Source
Environment  (tags: jaxa, energy, technology, electricity, renewable energy, ssps, greenhouse gas, satellite )

Sukhmeet
- 16 hours ago - greencitizens.net
Japan's space agency it wants to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth, using laser beams or microwaves by 2030.
10 Reasons to Really Love Trees (as If You Didn't Already)
Environment  (tags: climate, climate-change, conservation, ecosystems, globalwarming, habitat, humans, nature, trees, wildlife, pollution )

Daphna
- 17 hours ago - planetgreen.discovery.com
Why be a friend to the trees? If nothing else, there's a little something I like to call survival. As you'll soon see, trees are essential to our species and many, many others. Sure, trees are fun to climb, to swing on, to picnic under, or to hug...but we
Honeybees Face Towering Threat From Cell Phones
Environment  (tags: pollution, endangered, nature, science )

Shirley
- 1 day ago - articles.mercola.com
Studies have brought out evidence to support the theory of colony collapse disorder among honeybees due to bioactive radiation from cellphones & their relay towers.
3 Year Old CHILD DIES After EATING FURADAN in Kenya
Environment  (tags: environment, habitat, humans, suffering, death, crops )

Gorilly
- 1 day ago - stopwildlifepoisoning.wildlifedirect.org
I do beleive the headline says it all... Gorilly
Old King Coal
Environment  (tags: greenhousegases, CO2emissions, destruction, globalwarming, coal mining, habitatdestruction, pollution, politics )

Marty
- 1 day ago - theage.com.au
The single biggest contributor to global warming is also one of Australia's biggest money earners. So can Australia wean itself off coal? And what would the implications be if it did?
Help Save Coal River Mountain -Please Take Action!
Environment  (tags: destruction, environment, trees, weather, water, nature, protection, habitatdestruction )

Tierney
- 1 day ago - secure2.convio.net
Last week, coal companies started setting off explosives on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia to prepare for a massive mountaintop removal coal mining operation which will destroy the local landscape and pollute surrounding communities
Fertilizer, Exhaust Tied to Alpine Lake Pollution
Environment  (tags: environmental, pollution, water, alpine, lake )

Katie
- 1 day ago - msnbc.msn.com
Airborne nitrogen pollution from vehicle exhaust and farm fertilizer is turning algae in the alpine lakes of Rocky Mountain National Park into junk food for fish, a study says.
Palm Oil in the Spotlight: Plantations Threaten Rare Cats, Peatland Emissions Increasing + A Small Victory
Environment  (tags: palm oil, deforestation, wildlife, big cats, habita, conservation, ecosystems, environment )

Simone
- 1 day ago - treehugger.com
Three stories coming in focusing on deforestation, climate change and biodiversity: Scientists point out that when it comes to carbon emissions from peatland loss SE Asia leads the way; development of palm oil plantations on Borneo is threatening several
   

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