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Improve Air Quality

Stop pollution

NRDC

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In pure Arctic air, signs of China's economic boom

by (author unknown), Reuters: Environment

ZEPPELIN MOUNTAIN, Norway (Reuters) - From a remote snowcapped mountain in the European Arctic you can detect China in the haze....

8 comments | Sep 10, 2007    


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Stop Global Warming

8,000 lbs of carbon

Carbonfund.org

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As Alps Warm, Ice Melts and Mountains Crumble

by (author unknown), NPR Topics: Environment

As temperatures around the globe rise, the world's mountains are changing. In the Alps, retreating glaciers, more landslides and dramatic rockfalls are causing shifts not only in the physical environment, but in jobs, town budgets, and attitudes....

3 comments | Aug 27, 2007    


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Restore Kenyan Land

One year of research

ICRAF

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Africa wages war on scourge of plastic bags

by (author unknown), Reuters: Environment

NAIROBI (Reuters) - They've become as much a symbol of Africa's landscape as the stereotypical lions and plains....

add a comment | Aug 20, 2007    


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Save A Cloud Forest

40 acres of coffee

Root Capital

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Carbon market encourages chopping forests: study

by (author unknown), Reuters: Environment

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The current carbon market actually encourages cutting down some of the world's biggest forests, which would unleash tonnes of climate-warming carbon into the atmosphere, a new study reported on Monday....

1 comment | Aug 14, 2007    


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Prepare for Disaster

Training for 10 people

Catholic Relief Svcs.

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Floods find India wanting as climate change looms

by (author unknown), Reuters: Environment

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Climate change might get some blame for South Asia's catastrophic floods, but government ineptitude has dramatically magnified the misery facing tens of millions of people in India, aid groups and experts say....

add a comment | Aug 08, 2007    

   


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Kansas Town's Green Dreams Could Save Its Future

by (author unknown), NPR Topics: Environment

After a tornado nearly destroyed Greensburg, Kan., in May, city leaders came up with a revival plan: make it the greenest town in America. Among the projects are new homes and buildings that are more efficient than the ones they replaced....

add a comment | Dec 27, 2008    


EU urges big polluters, rich and poor, to "get real"

by (author unknown), Reuters: Environment

TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - The European Union urged the world's biggest polluters to "get real" on fighting climate change on Wednesday and said all large economies had to play their part....

add a comment | Jul 09, 2008    


Cheney’s Office Said to Edit Draft Testimony

by (author unknown), NYT > Environment

The vice president’s office pushed for major deletions in congressional testimony on climate change, a former E.P.A. official said....

add a comment | Jul 09, 2008    


Two Concerns for Olympics: Air and Access

by (author unknown), NYT > Environment

Pollution and media access remain uncertainties as Beijing hustles to get ready for the opening ceremonies....

add a comment | Jul 09, 2008    


Equity or the end of the planet

by Colin Beavan aka No Impact Man, No Impact Man

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add a comment | Jul 09, 2008    


Boxing Sideways

by (author unknown), IdealBite.com Blog

When I visited Portland for a long weekend in June, I spent a good part of my time there helping finish my friend's box of Franzia wine (slogan: "The world's most popular wine"). Boxed-wine pluses: The box is recyclable (the bag that contains the wine...not so much). New boxed-wine technology (i.e.,

add a comment | Jul 09, 2008    


Cow burps help Argentines study climate change

by (author unknown), Reuters: Environment

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine scientists are taking a novel approach to studying global warming -- strapping plastic tanks to the backs of cows to collect their burps....

add a comment | Jul 09, 2008    


G8 set to clash with poorer states on climate

by (author unknown), Reuters: Environment

TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - Big emerging economies including China looked set on Wednesday to clash with G8 rich countries over how to fight global warming....

add a comment | Jul 09, 2008    


Rare California condors threatened by huge fires

by (author unknown), Reuters: Environment

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Naturalists feared on Tuesday for endangered California condors caught up in a massive two week-old blaze still sweeping through the scenic Big Sur area....

add a comment | Jul 09, 2008    


SOUTH ASIA: Eight Nations Unite to Combat Climate Change

by Farid Ahmed , IPS Inter Press Service - Environment

DHAKA, Jul 8 (IPS) - As rising seas, melting glaciers, floods and cyclones are increasingly putting millions of people at risk in South Asia, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) met here last week to find ways to mitigate the impacts of changing climate....

add a comment | Jul 08, 2008