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- Hatchets are buried as the chainsaws fall silent in Australian native forest
  Posted by senselessthing from The Age
  The last of the chainsaws are due to fall silent as the final licence to log in the Otways expires, ending years of bitter confrontations between loggers and conservationists in the native forest 100 miles south-west of Melbourne.
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- Your Meat Is Green : Tips for responsible carnivores - CHOW
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  Tips for responsible carnivores. There is no getting around it: Meat production has a huge impact on the earth. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations says that the livestock sector is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions globally, and that it affects water quality and biodiversity. Here are some ways to help you make decisions about meat that take into account both the welfare of the animals and the health of the environment.
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- Amazon Indians lead battle against power giant's plan to flood rainforest - Americas, World - The In
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  The Amazonian city of Altamira played host to one of the more uneven contests in recent Brazilian history this week, as a colourful alliance of indigenous leaders gathered to take on the might of the state power corporation and stop the construction of an immense hydroelectric dam on a tributary of the Amazon.
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- Glossy magazine wakes up on 'wheat sheets'
  Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail
  Paper-making development could help alleviate some of the pressure on Canadian forests. For the first time in North America, a glossy magazine will be published on paper made from the pulp of wheat straw, a development advocates say could herald the birth of a new resource industry that would alleviate some of the pressure on Canadian forests.
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- Subway cars find new life on ocean floor
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  Jeff Tinsman, Delaware's reef program coordinator, said a 600-car reef in that state's waters had increased the local fish population by 400 times, and boosted the number of angling trips to 13,000 a year from 300 before the reef was created.
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- Polar Bear to Be Designated As Threatened Species
  Posted by Jeff from Wall Street Journal
  The Bush Administration Wednesday handed environmentalists a major victory, determining there was sufficient scientific evidence to declare the polar bear a threatened animal under the Endangered Species Act, the Interior Department said.
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- America is rotting from the inside
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Scholarsandrogues
  Politicians are failing to comprehend the breadth of the US infrastructure crisis. Only disasters move our representatives to act - and in an election year, even those actions seem spotty at best and disingenuous at worst. The United States has much more than failing bridges to find, fund and fix. A comprehensive report by Dr. Denny Wilkins.
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mozellagi2000 comments on:
Energy Probe - The Deniers: Our spotless sun

A-ha. Actual scientific analysis of weather potentialities ! How refreshing ! Chill out Global Warming Wonks !

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10:21 am 6/30/08
Jeff comments on:
New satellite photos show Amazon deforestation exploding

This story is very disheartening. I wish we could send our military down to help Brazil protect the Amazon (rather than having them bogged down in Iraq).

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12:36 pm 6/10/08
sgtwildey comments on:
Polar Bear to Be Designated As Threatened Species

Government taken to court? When will that ever happen? Let’s remember the Supreme Court has been hand selected by king bush himself.

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7:18 pm 5/20/08
matt2 comments on:
Polar Bear to Be Designated As Threatened Species

That’s just cover-your-ass speak so that he’s not held responsible when the government is taken to court for failing to actually enforce the protections.

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5:47 pm 5/14/08
carley comments on:
Polar Bear to Be Designated As Threatened Species

I’m both shocked and pleased that the Bush Administration approved this – after all, it will gasp make it more difficult for us to acquire all that delicious fossil fuel from the Arctic! However, I find Mr. Kempthorne’s comment to be a bit contradictory: "While the legal standards under the ESA compel me to list the polar bear as threatened, I want to make clear that this listing will not stop global climate change or prevent any sea ice from melting. Any real solution requires action by all major economies for it to be effective. That’s why I’m taking administrative and regulatory action to make certain the ESA isn’t abused to make global warming policies."
Who else is all for abusing the ESA to make global warming policies? So what, we declare them endangered and then do absolutely nothing to ensure that their habitat is protected, and therefore that they survive as a species? Who are these "major economies"? I know that China is increasingly oil-hungry, but the USA uses exponentially more fuel than any other countries in the world, we’re the major contributor to global warming.. so most of this falls on our shoulders. I hope that this isn’t another "Clean Air Act". It’s one thing to put polar bears on the endangeres species list; it’s quite another to take the action required to prevent their extinction.

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4:38 pm 5/14/08
rhoehn comments on:
Bill Gates pushes coal

There is no such thing as clean coal. Its a re-branding on the same dirty thing.

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1:14 pm 5/09/08
theangryindian comments on:
Bill Gates pushes coal

Gates understands full well the implications. He knows neo-cons will spend money on coal. And it seems windmills.

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8:52 am 5/08/08

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