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MADAGASCAR: Worrying Lapse in Forest Management
Environment  (tags: forests, deforestation, habitatdestruction, trees, habitat, ecosystems, destruction, world, humans, politics )

Cal
- 1 day ago - ipsnews.net
The illegal logging of precious wood rose sharply during the political crisis that gripped Madagascar during 2009. Forest communities, who could be part of the preservation of these resources, have been swept up in the rush for rosewood.
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Don't Let the Senate Sneak Offshore Drilling Into the Climate Change Bill - Take Action
Environment  (tags: petition, world, wildlife, water, protection, pollution, humans, oceans, habitat, globalwarming, environment, destruction, conservation, CO2emissions )

Daphna
- 1 day ago - change.org
News reports are saying that the Senate is considering opening previously protected areas to offshore oil drilling as part of a "trade" to get a climate change bill passed. Offshore drilling is not only counterproductive to the goal of stoppi
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Take Action- Help Enact New Protections for Threatened Marine Species Worldwide
Environment  (tags: petition, world, oceans, protection, pollution, humans, nature, politics, government, environment, CO2emissions, conservation, ecosystems )

Daphna
- 1 day ago - takeaction.oceana.org
Despite the dramatic decline of many ocean creatures due to exploitation for international trade, very few are internationally protected. In 2010, CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) will consider listin
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Plants and Animals Race for Survival as Climate Change Creeps Across the Globe
Environment  (tags: environment, climatechange, animals, globalwarming, wildlife )

Cal
- 1 day ago - guardian.co.uk
Lowland tropics, mangroves and deserts at greater risk than mountainous areas as global warming spreads, study finds
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Global Warming Hike May Be Steeper
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, environment, CO2emissions, climate-change, world, research, pollution, greenhousegases )

Cal
- 1 day ago - independent.co.uk
Global temperatures could rise substantially more because of increases in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than previously thought, according to a new study by US and Chinese scientists.
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COMING EVENTS! JANUARY 13--WEAR BLUE FOR OCEANS!
Environment  (tags: oceans, water, protection, ecosystems, environment, conservation, nature, humans )

Cal
- 1 day ago - healthygulf.org
On January 13th, people around the country will be wearing blue for oceans to support the first-ever national ocean, coast, and Great Lakes policy.To help overcome the threats facing our oceans and coasts, we need a unifying, national ocean policy that pr
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Act Now - Change the Future
Environment  (tags: petition, world, wildlife, Sustainabililty, protection, pollution, habitatdestruction, nature, habitat, humans, government, globalwarming, environment, destruction, climatechange, CO2emissions )

Daphna
- 1 day ago - greenpeace.org
World leaders walked away from the global summit in Copenhagen without a treaty that will save the climate. The US, EU and Australia put short-term national interests before the fate of our planet. Together, we must let leaders know that we expect nothing
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Take Action! Protest French Company Shipping Madagascar's Illegally Logged Rosewood Timbers to China
Environment  (tags: rainforest destruction )

Katrin
- 1 day ago - rainforest-rescue.org
Mongabay reports that Delmas shipping company is planning to take as many as 200 containers (worth $40M) of illegally logged rosewood rainforest timbers out of Vohemar port in Madagascar on the 21st or 22nd of December [1]. They reported four shipping com
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Industries Step Up Underground Tank Monitoring
Environment  (tags: green articles, green business, environment, sustainability, green idnustry )

Alexander
- 1 day ago - thegreeno.com
Increasing awareness of financial, environmental and legal consequences has pushed many organizations to add new leak monitoring systems to liquid storage tanks.
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ACTION ALERT: Support Plan for Worldwide Ocean Reserves!!
Environment  (tags: marine reserves, protection, habita, environment, nature, oceans, protection )

Simone
- 1 day ago - thepetitionsite.com
The environmental organization Greenpeace, has established a plan to set aside 40% of the worlds oceans as reserves as wildlife protected ares, where fish and other ocean life can live and breed without disturbance from reckless industrial and pirate
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U.S. Senate: Time Is Running Out for Climate! - The Petition Site
Environment  (tags: climate, ClimateChange, destruction, conservation, CO2emissions, environment, globalwarming, habitat, humans, nature, politics, world, Sustainabililty, protection, science )

Daphna
- 1 day ago - thepetitionsite.com
Citizens across the U.S. and around the world had long hoped that the United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen would result in a fair, ambitious and binding global treaty to reduce global warming pollution. But, the U.S. Senate's failure to pass a stron
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Climate Change Deniers Without Borders
Environment  (tags: climate-change, corporate manipulation, climate, climate change deniers, globalwarming, CO2emissions, greenhousegases, environment, world, humans, climatechange, ClimateChange )

Cal
- 16 hours ago - motherjones.com
How American oil money is pumping up climate change skeptics abroad--and how they could derail any progress made in Copenhagen.
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Oregon: NORML and THCF Members Join Together for Adopt-A-Highway Community Outreach
Environment  (tags: Adopt a Highway, NORML, THCF )

Crrh
- 12 hours ago - hemp.org
Members of Oregon NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) and THCF (The Hemp and Cannabis Foundation) worked together recently, contributing to Oregon's community outreach program Adopt-a-Highway.
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Build-a-Bear Takes Heat for Global-Warming Webisodes
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, environment, business, politics, climate-change )

Cal
- 1 hour ago - latimes.com
Conservative bloggers are calling for a boycott of the company. Executives say the series, in which Santa is warned the North Pole could melt before Christmas, was intended to inspire children.
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Role of Scotland's Forests to Become More Prominent
Environment  (tags: trees, forests, ecosystems, environment, climate-change, ClimateChange, climate, globalwarming, conservation, nature, humans, greenhousegases, world )

Cal
- 1 hour ago - forestry.gov.uk
With the threat of climate change being the biggest challenge facing the planet, Scotland's national forest and woodlands are of greater relevance and value to society than ever before.
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PARAGUAY: Bottled Water Scare Exposes Threat to Groundwater
Environment  (tags: water, environment, world, pollution, ecosystems )

Cal
- 1 hour ago - ipsnews.net
It all started with a warning on the quality of bottled water in Paraguay. But concern has now spread about the extent of pollution of the country's underground water reserves
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Wonderful Tropical Hawaiian Flowers
Environment  (tags: nature, environment, flowers )

Martin
- 1 hour ago - allpics4u.com
Aloha! and enjoy these wonderful images of tropical flowers from Hawaii.
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