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No matter how we try to minimize fossil fuel impacts, we can't avoid the fact that these substances are inherently dirty. Oil, gas and coal are at their core, toxic substances. And as a result they are dangerous to humans and wildlife. 
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Today the Yamuna Biodiversity Park in Delhi with wetland is home to nearly 200 different species of birds and over 900 species of plants, but it has become synonymous to a filthy dead drain.
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A Healthy Environment - A Healthy Humanity
If you've recently spent some time in a "greenspace"--an area of undeveloped landscape--you may have found that it improved your mood, reduced feelings of stress, and left you feeling more relaxed.
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January 24, 2012 5:35 PM
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Ecosystem services underpin many of the basic services on which our societies depend, including our supply of drinking water, carbon uptake and pollination of crops. There are therefore important social and economic reasons for protecting them wherever possible.
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Killer whales and other ocean predators are targeting and killing the pups of a threatened northern sea lion species at an increasingly high rate, scientists warned this week.
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One billion people rely on fish as an important source of protein. - WWF An international group of ecologists and economists warned that the world will run o... Via Fabrice Leclerc
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Like dominoes given one nudge, climate change in the form of reduced winter snowfall on mountaintops has subtle but powerful cascading effects felt throughout entire ecosystems, a new study finds.
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![Birds of a Feather: Genetic Classification Reveals Pigeons' Exceptional Diversity [Slide Show]: Scientific American | BIODIVERSITY IS LIFE – | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/1DGtCaZYDuQiFRfolyZjbjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
City dwellers may regard pigeons as pests, but they are among the most beautiful and divergent of all bird species...
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Planet Earth is a free magazine aimed at non-specialists with an interest in environmental science. Natural Environment Research Council Via pdjmoo
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Why Does Monsanto Have so Much Power Over Government and Science? Why are they protected by Homeland Security? Just what exactly are Monsanto and Solutia afraid of. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRxFPk3eme8 The focus of the piece is on a small village just east of St. Louis known as Sauget. Years ago this tiny area was incorporated as Monsanto Via pdjmoo
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Yale Environment 360 is an online magazine offering opinion, analysis, reporting and debate on global environmental issues.
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“Genetic variation is crucial for species to adapt to changing climate,” said researcher Inger Greve Alsos, associate professor at the University of Tromsø in Norway. “If a species with limited seed dispersal perish from an area, it means that this species as a whole will experience an irrevocable loss of genetic diversity.”
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“The most practical thing that Cyprus could do would be to show through example and through leadership what it takes to run an economy in a water scarce area,” McGlade said. One way to do that would be instead of just planning extra desalination plants to try and use the natural capacity of Cyprus in a way that would avoid the huge energy requirements to fuel those plants.
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Animal and insect species in Europe are losing the fight to keep up with rapid changes in climate in a new phenomenon dubbed "climatic debt", according to an international study.
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Emagazine.com : A bat disease has killed off an estimated 5.7 million to 6.7 million bats, with no end in sight....
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Shortsighted intervention of introducing an invasive species to consume another: Manoa HI (SPX) Jan 23, 2012 -
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UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS One of the most frequently mentioned benefits of genetically engineered crops is a reduction in chemical pesticide use on corn and cotton.These chemicals typically kill not only pest insects but also beneficial insects that help control pests or pollinate crops. They may also harm other friendly organisms like birds. But in reality, corn engineered to kill certain insect pests—AKA Bt corn—has mainly resulted in the replacement of one group of chemical insecticides with another.
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A dream became a reality in Ecuador. Marcela Aguiñaga, the Minister of the Environment, announced a pioneering national forest conservation program that will benefit landowners and indigenous communities willing to conserve their forests.
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Sugar is now 20 percent of the American diet, but it's not just our health that suffers from its pervasiveness.
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Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa Some 15 million Africans abandon the countryside every year in pursuit of better lives in the city. Climate change and further desertification will only exacerbate that trend. How will these ballooning urban populations survive? The best strategy, they're finding, is to begin sowing seeds right where they are.
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Our environment is under attack by the United States Congress! Current members in the U.S. House of Representatives have cast the most anti-environment votes of any Congress in history. Gray Wolf (Canus lupis) photo courtesy of Rocky Mountain Tracking
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Many scientists now believe that over the last 200 years, mankind’s impact on the Earth has become so powerful that we have ushered in a whole new geological age, which they call the Anthropocene, or Age of Man. Scientists say the principal agents of this change are the machinery of the industrial age and its chemical toxins. ... http://chimalaya.org/2012/01/25/global-warming-welcome-to-the-age-of-mankind/
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The forests in Africa absorb over 1.2 billion tonnes of carbon annually. With these diverse and natural forests, grasslands and prairie lands disappearing under investment schemes and the development of monoculture plantations for supposed "green" energy alternatives like agrofuels, not much else remains to absorb the shocks of hunger and climate change.
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Recent studies shed light on the key question of whether certain species, including slow-moving amphibians, can move swiftly enough to new territories as their old habitats warm.
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As we watch the world debate how best to address climate change, and as carbon emissions continue to soar, at least one climate strategy strikes me as a "no-brainer." We should do everything we can to save the world's forests. REDD+ alone will not solve the climate change challenge -- we must urgently address carbon pollution from all sources. But REDD+ is a critical piece of the puzzle in addressing this global challenge, and it has the potential to be transformative in benefiting communities, ecosystems, biodiversity and the global climate.
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