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Help Greenpeace Deliver a Message to President Obama in Copenhagen-Take Action
Environment (tags: climate-change, CO2emissions, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, politics, protection, world )

Daphna
- 6 hours ago - act.credoaction.com

Greenpeace has asked for our help to deliver a message to President Obama. Be a part of something bigger than yourself. Tell President Obama that you still do have hope -- hope for the future and a belief that yes he can lead us to a solution on climate

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Tell Representative Capps: Don't Miss This Opportunity! -Please Take Action!!
Environment (tags: Sustainabililty, wildlife, oceans, pollution, protection, habitatdestruction, ecosystems )

Tierney
- 8 hours ago - action.foodandwaterwatch.org

Hubbs-Seaworld announced on Wednesday that it will not move forward at this time with plans for an industrial ocean fish farm off the coast of Southern California. Thanks to pressure from you and a complicated regulatory process, Hubbs is now waiting unt

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Oceans' Ability to Absorb Carbon & Protect Against Climate Change Weakening
Environment (tags: environment, climate, climate change, oceans, nature, protection )

Cher
- 8 hours ago - ecoworldly.com

Oceans regulate our climate. They play a key role in keeping the world's "homeostasis" in tact. However, their ability to absorb carbon & keep the climate in balance is dwindling, a new report shows.

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Ask for Renewable Energy That Keeps Wildlands and Wildlife Safe
Environment (tags: energy, conservation, habitat, protection, wildlife, government )

Tierney
- 8 hours ago - action.wilderness.org

Renewable energy is a critical piece of our clean energy future, and new electric transmission lines will be needed to carry wind and solar energy to customers in cities. We have the opportunity to ensure that the proposed SunZia transmission lines in A

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EPA Taking Closer Look at Coal River Mountain Mining
Environment (tags: coal, mountaintop removal mining, pollution, protection, government, endangered, habitatdestruction, water, Sustainabililty )

David
- 11 hours ago - blogs.wvgazette.com

An interesting development just in concerning Massey Energy's Bee Tree Mine, the Southern West Virginia operation where environmentalists had hoped to put a wind energy facility instead of a mountaintop removal job.

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Tropical Rainforest Conservation - Mongabay.Com
Environment (tags: ecosystems, destruction, conservation, energy, environment, forests, habitat, habitatdestruction, protection, science, wildlife, world, Sustainabililty, animals )

Pirjo
- 15 hours ago - mongabay.com

Mongabay.com seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics, and finance on conservation and development

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Wild 9 Calls on Copenhagen to Protect Land
Environment (tags: conservation, climate-change, environment, endangered, habitat, nature, protection, humans, wildlife, Sustainabililty, pollution, politics, ClimateChange, climate )

Elena
- 16 hours ago - manitobawildlands.org

In November 2009, Merida, Mexico hosted the 9th World Wilderness Congress (WILD 9). Wild 9's central theme of wilderness, people and climate change brought over 1500 delegates from 51 countries together and resulted in forty-two targeted resolutions being

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Say No To Bad Wood - Please Take Action!!!
Environment (tags: destruction, animals, environment, habitatdestruction, protection, forests )

Tierney
- 20 hours ago - saynotobadwood.org

Does your decking or furniture come from the home of the Sumatran orang-utan? Sadly, it might. Australia has no safeguards against illegally logged timber imports, so when you buy outdoor furniture, decking or other imported timber products, you have

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Russia Steps Up Pledge for Climate Action
Environment (tags: environment, CO2emissions, climate-change, climate, humans, protection, world, pollution )

Cal
- 1 day ago - uk.reuters.com

Russia toughened its plans to curb harmful greenhouse gas emissions on Wednesday in a rare encouraging development before United Nations climate talks next month.

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2 Million Tons of Coal Mined Next to Bryce Canyon National Park.
Environment (tags: Bryce Canyon, coal energy, protection, habitatdestruction, government, destruction )

David
- 1 day ago - deseretnews.com

he Sierra Club, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the National Parks Conservation Association claim plans for the mine do not adequately address potential detrimental environmental impacts

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Armchair Spooks to Google Culprits Who Are Destroying Rainforests
Environment (tags: trees, destruction, conservation, environment, habitatdestruction, protection )

Marty
- 1 day ago - timesonline.co.uk

Environmentalists across the world are to be enlisted as armchair detectives to monitor satellite images of rainforests and report any illegal logging.

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Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals, Risk to Human Health and Wildlife Survival, Are Polluting Lake Mead
Environment (tags: climatechange, ecosystems, environment, habitatdestruction, pollution, habitat, protection, Sustainabililty, animals, forests, research, suffering, wildlife, water )

Suzybell
- 1 day ago - biologicaldiversity.org

The Center for Biological Diversity submitted condemning evidence to the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection today demonstrating that Lake Mead, Las Vegas Bay, and Las Vegas Wash are being polluted by unregulated endocrine-disrupting chemicals.

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Environmental Coalition Questions Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant Tritium Leak
Environment (tags: energy, pollution, protection, Nuclear Energy )

David
- 1 day ago - app.com

A coalition of environmental groups that opposed the relicensing of the Oyster Creek Generating Station issued a statement accusing the power plant's owners of not taking corrective action that may have prevented leakage of tritium last spring.

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