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Tell Your Representative to Reject a Harmful Energy and Water Spending Bill ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Environment  (tags: environment, destruction, habitat, nature, protection, water )

Cher
- 4 hours ago - secure.nrdconline.org
The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on a spending bill that would threaten the quality of our drinking water and make it harder to kick our dependence on dirty fossil fuels. The bill could get even worse on the House floor, where additional
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Baking Sands Worsen Leatherback Turtle Survival Crisis
Environment  (tags: climate, animals, climate-change, climatechange, conservation, ecosystems, endangered, environment, globalwarming, globalwarming, government, habitat, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, oceans, research, science, Sustainabililty, water, wildlife, world )

Andy
- 13 hours ago - simpleclimate.wordpress.com
Global warming will reduce the hatchling survival rate by at least half for the already endangered leatherback turtle, studying nests has told James Spotila from Drexel University and collagues.
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AUSTRALIA: Climate Change, Irrigation Threaten Murray-Darling Disaster
Environment  (tags: climate-change, world, Australia, wildlife, protection, climatechange, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, conservation, climate, weather, water, green, habitat )

Cal
- 15 hours ago - greenleft.org.au
The rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin are dying. While average inflows decline due to climate change, extractions for irrigation remain at environmentally damaging levels.
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Stop River Tua Dam
Environment  (tags: conservation, destruction, ecosystems, habitatdestruction, habitat, nature, protection, Sustainabililty, wildlife, water, environment )

Marco
- 1 day ago - secure.avaaz.org
A few days ago, the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO, asked to stop working on the construction of the dam at the mouth of the portuguese River Tua, which threatens the classifide area of the Alto Douro Wine Region.
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10 Eye-Opening Facts That Every Meat Eater Should Take the Time to Read
Environment  (tags: climate, climate-change, energy, globalwarming, water, animals, contaminants, bacterial contamination )

Marika
- 1 day ago - thisdishisvegetarian.com
The 500 calories of food energy in a one pound steak requires 20,000 calories of fossil fuels, the majority of which is consumed through the crop cultivation process. (As an interesting and slightly related 'aside', half of America's entire water supply..
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