March 2012
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Earth Hour 2012: New countries, dares and a view...
Earth Hour began as one idea with the message that individuals can and should do something about climate change.
Individual ideas have sometimes caught hold of the world’s imagination, enough to change the way people see things. Earth Hour, celebrated every March, also began as one bright idea with the message that individuals can and should do something about climate change.
The one...
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“How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than...”
– Paulo Coelho
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Let's Make the Seal Hunt History!
signatures: 14,892
deadline: ongoing
signature goal: 25,000
Target: Canadian Government
Sponsored by: International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)
Canada’s commercial seal hunt has reached a crucial moment. The markets for seal products are disappearing. There are now seal product restrictions around the world, and the value of seal pelts has dropped dramatically — from over...
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Signs of Thawing Permafrost Revealed from Space
ScienceDaily (Mar. 27, 2012) — Satellite are seeing changes in land surfaces in high detail at northern latitudes, indicating thawing permafrost. This releases greenhouse gases into parts of the Arctic, exacerbating the effects of climate change. Permafrost is ground that remains at or below 0°C for at least two consecutive years and usually appears in areas at high latitudes such as Alaska,...
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gulfnews : Earth needs more than just an hour in... →
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Interpol demands crackdown on 'serious and...
Ivory poaching and illegal logging requires needs tougher enforcement and intelligence input, says Interpol director
Stanley Johnson, in Lyon
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 March 2012 16.04 BST
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A member of Brazil’s national police elite unit patrols the Amazonic forest reserve of Trairao, northern Brazil, looking for illegal deforestation. Photograph: Lunae...
A BEAUTIFUL LIE: FIFA, UEFA, a model and a... →
ablorg:
FIFA kicks off with day of action for Earth Hour
The world’s football governing body FIFA, has promised to kick a winning goal for Earth Hour this year. The Fédération Internationale de Football Association is going well beyond the hour in 2012, switching off lights at its HQ in…
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What is your tax money spent on? →
Millions of lives are saved for less than 1% of the U.S. budget. Sign our petition to Congress:
As you make difficult choices in the budget, please protect programs that fight HIV/AIDS and hunger, save lives and help the world’s poor pull themselves out of poverty.
Newsworthy: UNICEF and Youth Digitally Map... →
unicefgis:
A Program to Create Safer Environments
One of the 111 youth mappers recently trained in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil talks to the local media about UNICEF GIS. He is explaining how the youth can use mobile phones and kites to reveal the most dangerous environmental hazards inside their community. Help us make news around the world by liking and re-blogging this post.
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Rare Sumatran orangutans dying as fires rage in...
A third of the population of 200 might already be dead – with the remainder in severe danger, say conservationists
Associated Press in Jakarta
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 28 March 2012 18.29 BST
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A Sumatran orangutan mother with her baby. All of the animals living in the Tripa forest could be wiped out, according to conservationists. Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP
Fires...
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Robert Walker: Planet Under Pressure →
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Extreme Weather of Last Decade Part of Larger...
ScienceDaily (Mar. 25, 2012) — The past decade has been one of unprecedented weather extremes. Scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany argue that the high incidence of extremes is not merely accidental. From the many single events a pattern emerges. At least for extreme rainfall and heat waves the link with human-caused global warming is clear, the...
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Save the Rhinos! →
The rhino is being hunted into extinction and could disappear forever unless we act now. Shocking new statistics show 440 rhinos were brutally killed last year in South Africa alone — a massive increase on five years ago when just 13 had their horns hacked off. European nations could lead the world to a new plan to save these amazing creatures but they need to hear from us first! Fueling...
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Cities on front line of climate change
The world’s cities face the brunt of climate change but some are starting to respond vigorously to the threat, experts say at a conference here staged ahead of the June Rio summit.
Volunteers paint a school’s roof with a special white paint that reflects nearly 80% of sunlight, helping to keep the roof much cooler, while reducing energy use, air conditioning bills, and carbon emissions in...
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International Coastal Cleanup Day 2011 Collects 9... →
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Great Barrier Reef suffering from Australia's...
WWF says Australian government’s lifting of three-month moratorium on diuron could spell disaster for 1,600-mile reef
Alison Rourke in Sydney
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 27 March 2012 17.00 BST
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The Great Barrier Reef is being contaminated by the pesticide diuron, says the WWF. Photograph: Doug Steley B / Alamy/Alamy
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef will suffer...
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Petition against the production and Importation of...
signatures: 40,713
signature goal: 100,000
Target: John Dalli, European Commissioner and the UK Parliament
Sponsored by: Fiona Munro
Foie gras, French for “fatty liver,” is made from the grotesquely enlarged livers of male ducks and geese. The “delicacy” known as foie gras is one of the most sickening examples of cruelty promoted as “luxury.”“...
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Extreme weather events increased over past decade,...
Planet hit by more storms, heatwaves and floods than ever before as evidence points to human-induced climate change
Reuters
guardian.co.uk, Monday 26 March 2012 12.42 BST
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A dead fish lies on the cracked earth of the drought-stricken La Sorrueda reservoir near Santa Lucia village, at the Spain’s Canary island of Gran Canaria. Photograph: Borja Suarez/Reuters
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Chris Mooney: The Science of Truthiness: Why... →
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Time is running out to stop irreversible climate...
Time is running out to minimize the risk of setting in motion irreversible and long-term climate change and other dramatic changes to Earth’s life support system, according to scientists speaking at the Planet Under Pressure conference, which began in London today. The unequivocal warning was delivered on the first day of the four-day conference opening with the latest readings of...
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for...”
– Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
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“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles...”
– William Blake
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Don't Let Exxon Valdez Happen Again
signatures: 10,476
deadline: April 30, 2012
signature goal: 20,000
Sponsored by: Center for Biological Diversity
It’s been 23 years since the now-infamous oil tanker Exxon Valdez spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil off Alaska’s coast. The spill was one of the most devastating environmental disasters in history, with far-reaching consequences for wildlife and people. Tens of...
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The Devastating Cost of Not Switching to Clean...
Nathan Siemers/CC BY-SA 2.0
Clean energy is just too … yawn … expensive. You’ve heard that before, certainly. Clean energy critics have been harping on that line since the first solar panel rolled off the assembly line decades ago, but the charge has picked up steam over the last few years, ironically, as renewable sources like wind and solar have grown more abundant and drawn...
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Richard Steiner: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill a... →
