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Massive Storm Disrupts Holiday Travel
Environment  (tags: )

Gran
- 5 hours ago - msnbc.msn.com
Blizzard warnings for parts of 7 states; white Christmas in store for many
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Tug Grounds on Same Reef as Exxon Valdez Tanker
Environment  (tags: conservation, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, energy, environment, government, habitat, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, politics, oceans, pollution, protection, research, science, suffering, Sustainabililty, water, wildlife, world )

Cynthia
- 5 hours ago - news.yahoo.com
Two decades after the Exxon Valdez disaster, a tugboat working to prevent another oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound ran aground on the same reef and left a three-mile sheen of fuel oil on the water.
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Best Animals Camouflage
Environment  (tags: animals, photos, camouflage )

Draganesc
- 5 hours ago - timeidol.com
Unusual colors spiders and other insects serve to confuse predators as birds while decides to grab or not grab prey, the insects can escape on time.
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Climate Change Refugees: Plants, Animals and Insects Will Need to Keep Moving
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, ClimateChange, wildlife, endangered, ecosystems, destruction, habitatdestruction, Sustainabililty )

Red
- 7 hours ago - care2.com
A newly released study shows that the average ecosystem will need to shift a quarter of a mile each year in order to stay in its ideal temperature range.
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Build-a-Bear Takes Heat for Global-Warming Webisodes
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, environment, business, politics, climate-change )

Cal
- 9 hours 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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PARAGUAY: Bottled Water Scare Exposes Threat to Groundwater
Environment  (tags: water, environment, world, pollution, ecosystems )

Cal
- 9 hours 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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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
- 9 hours 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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Climate Change Deniers Without Borders
Environment  (tags: climate-change, corporate manipulation, climate, climate change deniers, globalwarming, CO2emissions, greenhousegases, environment, world, humans, climatechange, ClimateChange )

Cal
- 23 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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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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New Warbler Discovered in Laos
Environment  (tags: birds, species, wildlife, new species, Southeast Asia )

Crystal
- 1 day ago - sciencedaily.com
A new bird species found in Southeast Asia.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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