On June 26th, the House narrowly passed historic legislation intended to address global warming. As usually happens in Congress, the original bill was significantly weakened in order to get votes from representatives who had particular concerns about
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]]> Please contact your Senators and urge them to strengthen and pass the energy bill that includes a national Renewable Electricity Standard (RES). The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved the energy bill, The American Clean Energy Leaders
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]]> Carrier bags are the scourge of sealife and our environment..and while the UK may have drastically reduced it's usage,it has a lloonngg long way to go.Asda (owned by Walmart ) have voiced opposition to the government's campaign against the bag.
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]]> CAPITAL REGION, N.Y- It's a wet night and lights are out in the Capital Region. Scattered thunderstorms hit the area, knocking out power and bringing heavy rain and hail.

In Saratoga County, there are more than 36,000 power outages.
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]]> What would happen to the ocean and the coastal communities along the Gulf of Mexico if 8.4 million gallons of oil and 180 million cubic feet of gas a day spilled?
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]]> We now know that we must decrease our dependence on fossil fuels. Between the environmental hazards and the threat to our national security fossil fuels cause the debate for whether or not we need to move to greener energy sources is over.
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]]> Coal-fired power plants are the largest source of global warming pollution in the United States-yet right now, our country is poised to increase these emissions by building many new dirty coal plants
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]]> Dam projects planned in Montenegro will likely harm Lake Skadar, the largest lake in the Balkans and a protected wetland site that is home to crucial bird and fish habitats, according to a study by WWF and Green Home.
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]]> Dam projects planned in Montenegro will likely harm Lake Skadar, the largest lake in the Balkans and a protected wetland site that is home to crucial bird and fish habitats, according to a study by WWF and Green Home.
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]]> The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) estimated agriculture could lose crops worth £200 million if bees continue to decline.

In a damning report the powerful committee said the Government had not done enough to address the problem. Only half of
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]]> Europe faces a rising wave of wildlife extinctions yet it continues to massively under-resource and under-enforce nature and wildlife protection, according to the WWF following the release of a report by the European Commission showing 65 percent of
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]]> ScienceDaily (July 15, 2009) — Global warming may exact a toll on salt marshes in New England, but new research shows that one key constituent of marshes may be especially endangered.
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]]> Why We Love to be Hated
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]]> THE Belize Barrier Reef System and Los Katios National Park in
Columbia are the two natural sites added to the List of World Heritage in Danger, following the advice of IUCN.
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]]> Does Sarah Palin understand global warming, why it's happening, and how to slow it down? In the wake of her opinion piece in today's edition of The Washington Post, in which she rehashes several false arguments against carbon cap and trade, as well as
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]]> Last Saturday morning, July 11, 2009, for the first time in history, a protest action was launched by San Juan Island residents against commercial whale watch boats following resident orca whales.
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]]> The expression "shark attacks" has taken on a new and ominous meaning. The number of people bitten each year by sharks is minuscule.
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]]> Mexico's navy has seized more than a tonne of cocaine stuffed inside frozen sharks.
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]]> The background for this issue is that gradual tree "back planting" of uplands and field perimeters will enhance oxygen quality, increase the world's carbon sink, provide shelter for domestic animals and increased habitat for indigenous species.
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]]> New laws for commercial net fishermen will now afford greater protection for the local dugong population around Facing Island off the coast of Gladstone.
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]]> We can make all of the personal changes we want,but it won't be enough to deal with human-made climate change.No major shift happens without real political change..and as we can see governments and industry are largely offering only greenwash.
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]]> State parks are a critical resource for local economies, a haven for individuals who love the outdoors and home to some of our nation's most diverse yet threatened wildlife species. But over 200 of California's state parks are in danger of closure if
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]]> Amazing and shocking
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]]> he UK Government will help provide raised housing, flood-friendly crops and storm shelters in Bangladesh to protect the country from the impacts of climate change.
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]]> Energy costs are at an all time high, and reports indicate that they will continue to increase. With a growing population, our addiction to and dependency on petroleum and coal based fuels also continues to escalate. However, we have the technology
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]]> Both the End of Oil and the imperative to stop and reverse global climate change require a drastic redesign of all that we use today. I invite all creative people to join the movement to create and demand the development of a 100% sustainable world, for
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]]> Here are two pledges from the rainforest site that have been up for awhile... lets get them filled!
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]]> More lowland birds are flying off to live in the highlands and this is an indicator of deforestation and climate change.
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]]> There's apparently a huge gap between what scientists understand about human-propelled global warming, and what the public understands. According to the latest Pew Research Center science survey (done jointly with the American Association for the
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]]> Authoritative new study sets out a grim vision of shortages and violence – but amid all the gloom, there is some hope too

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]]> Together, you and I are going to stop mountaintop removal coal mining this year. That's right, we are. It is time to end the human and environmental tragedy that is mountaintop removal by getting our powerful banks and our political leaders to take
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]]> From the EPA to fighting fires to protecting wildlife on wildlife refuges, our nation's environmental needs have been significantly shortchanged in recent years.


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]]> Unless changes are made soon, our children may be the last generation who are able to see coral reefs and the wonderful wildlife that can be found living on them. Due to the combined effect of ocean acidification and ocean warming, coral reef survival
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]]> Ambitious plans to grow 24 million trees to soak up carbon dioxide and restore the rainforest have got underway in Ghana.

The first million seedlings are being planted in a pilot scheme in an area that has been heavily logged in recent years.
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]]> Do we love big old trees too much? Many homeowners don't give enough thought to what hazards their biggest and oldest trees may pose to people and property.

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]]> (Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- Coastal marine ecosystems are at risk worldwide as a result of human activities, according to scientists at UC Santa Barbara who have recently published a study in the Journal of Conservation Letters. The authors have performed
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]]> G8 leaders today recognized the need to keep temperature increases below the two degree limit recognised as presenting unacceptable risks of catastrophic climate change - but have yet to outline immediate actions to achieve this goal.
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]]> The Prince of Wales has praised Henry VIII as an environmentalist with a keen interest in architecture.
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]]> Coral reef survival is balancing on a knife edge as the combined effects of ocean acidification and ocean warming events threaten to push reefs to the brink of extinction this century, warned a meeting of leading scientists.
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]]> Developing countries refuse to back targets set by the Group of 8, which balk at any swift moves of their own.
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]]> I’m hanging from Mount Rushmore, writing to you from my cell phone! If you tune in right now you can see live streaming video of me and the other Greenpeace climbers, and see the banner we just hung.
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]]> The Mogul emperor Akbar was said to own a thousand of the beasts as part of his 16th-century hunting retinue. Since then, however, India’s cheetahs have turned from hunter to quarry — the last three known were shot by the Maharajah of Surguja in 1947.

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]]> Sign the petition and tell Congress to include forests in future climate policy.
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]]> At the end of June, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a much-touted global warming bill called the American Clean Energy and Security Act. Tragically, the bill contains greenhouse gas reduction targets so low that it will give us less than a
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]]> Together we achieved a huge victory for the Arctic in February when the North Pacific Fishery Management Council voted unanimously to close the Arctic to any new industrial fishing until it can be shown that such activities would not impact the health
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]]> California has one of the most progressive energy plans in the U.S., which includes development of 20 percent renewables by the year 2010. However, this is under threat as the state is fast-tracking the import of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from around
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]]> An ethanol trade association recently petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to raise the allowable ethanol content of gasoline from 10 percent to 15 percent.
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]]> We'd all love to plant a forest. But closer to home, we can do something small each day to lessen our carbon footprint upon the earth.


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]]> For eight years, the Bush environmental policy was to disregard environmental policy. With a nod and a wink from the White House, industry forged ahead with complete disregard for the environmental impacts of destructive development.
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]]> WildEarth Guardians will use the Outstanding National Resource Waters (ONRW) provision of the CWA to petition for protection of streams and waterways inside the inventoried roadless forests of the four corners region. Once waters are designed as ONRW,
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