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Earth to PETA  -  22 Oct 2007
Salon...land degradation, water pollution, species extinction and, most threatening of all, global warming. "We looked at every step of the commodity chain,

Two Indians on Time's global "Heroes of Environment" list  -  22 Oct 2007
Times of India,The threats that face the planet are so varied from widespread species extinction to dwindling natural resources that we'll need front-line activists and

How to Fight Global Warming: Eat More Chicken  -  22 Oct 2007
Male Pattern Fitness...acid rain, dead zones in the ocean, land degradation, water pollution, species extinction and, most threatening of all, global warming. Okay, I get it.

The PETA Principle  -  22 Oct 2007
Waterbury Republican American,...than all the world's automobiles, planes and trains combined, and are among the top causes of water pollution, species extinction and deforestation.

Reds go green  -  22 Oct 2007
Redpepper.org,...rights with an agenda for tackling the catastrophic dangers posed by global warming, environmental pollution, resource depletion and species extinction.

A hot topic  -  Oct 21, 2007
Chicago Sun-Times,11), is both timely and pointed, addressing global warming, species extinction, sustainability and related topics. In more than 140 talks, forums,

New Bill Will Help Species Imperiled by Climate Change  -  Oct 17, 2007
Earth Justice (press release),Global warming is a leading cause of species extinction: hundreds of plants and animals, from grizzly bears to coral reefs, are already declining due to

Raising a flag  -  Oct 14, 2007
Melbourne Herald Sun,...“The problem of species extinction is so enormous, it’s quite overwhelming at times. Worldwide, there are thousands of animal species that are threatened.

Endangered fish causes a stir with farmers  -  Oct 17, 2007
ABC Regional Online,...“We’ve said as a community,� says Jane, “species extinction is not something we want to contemplate and in this case we do have the means to do that.

The Greatest Dying  -  Sep 23, 2007
New Republic (subscription),Species extinction is also imperiling coral reefs--a major problem since these reefs have far more than recreational value: They provide tremendous amounts

Dingo on brink of extinction, say conservationists  -  Oct 15, 2007
Sunday Times.au,THE WA Dingo Association is calling for a ban on aerial baiting for vermin control in a radical bid to save Australia's native dog from extinction.

The Wrong Way to Save Right Whales?  -  Oct 20, 2007
Washington Post,By Juliet Eilperin Sixteen months ago, a federal agency proposed slowing ships in certain East Coast waters to 10 knots or less during parts of the year to

Red List Expands  -  Sep 23, 2007
Baruch College The Ticker,..."The list reminds us of how little attention we pay to the species extinction crisis in our daily lives," said Baruch College environmental science

No protection yet for vanishing Delta fish  -  Oct 12, 2007
Nuevo Mundo,By Mike Taugher State regulators declined to add another Delta fish to the list of endangered species on an emergency basis Thursday but said they would

Campaign launched to protect frogs from deadly fungus  -  Sep 22, 2007
Hindu,Chytridiomycosis disease caused by chytrid fungus has been implicated in the mass deaths and species extinction of frogs in the past 15 years,

Consequences of Bushmeat Trade in Africa  -  Sep 24, 2007
Voice of AmericaBy Cole Mallard In Africa, the slaughter of animals for bushmeat is taking an increasing toll on species long-term chance of survival.

The Plan For Climate Change  -  Oct 17, 2007
Hartford Courant,...increased famines, steadily rising sea levels, continued shrinkage of the polar ice caps and species extinction - the United States' contribution to the

Do we have a right to reproduce? [Guest Opinion]  -  Oct 1, 2007
UI The Daily Iowan (subscription),How will the species extinction rate affect humans? The list of problems and questions is almost endless and the causes and full impact of these threats

Immorality is biggest crisis we are facing  -  Sep 29, 2007
ic Wales,We, as a planet, will suffer species extinction and hundreds of millions of people will be at risk from drought, hunger and flooding.

Will Rachel Carson's ethic prevail?  -  Sep 29, 2007
Pittsburgh Post Gazette,...yesterday that China's water supply is a polluted mess, species extinction rates are accelerating worldwide, and President Bush is an enemy of science.

Prairie Chicken  -  Oct 16, 2007
Grist Magazine,If we put species extinction and other impacts on the scale, [the wall is] just not going to be effective enough to make it worth all the negative impacts.

Global warming and climatic concerns  -  Oct 11, 2007
Searchlight Newspaper (subscription),Further, species extinction and the spread of vector-borne diseases are a few other natural consequences of rapid climate change. Small multi-island nations

Why should we care if a frog becomes extinct?  -  Sep 28, 2007
USA Weekend..."Like losing a rivet on an airplane, the extinction of a species weakens the interconnected web of the ecosystem," says Reid Harris of Virginia's James

The Lazy Gardener: Choose better solutions, not paving, to replace ...  -  Oct 18, 2007
Novato Advance,Reducing chemical fertilizer and pesticide use is critical to reducing global warming and slowing species extinction. As a landscape matures,

Gore's Nobel win stirs hope — and speculation  -  Oct 13, 2007
Los Angeles Times,...for global warming and said that rising temperatures, if left unchecked, would lead to widespread coastal flooding, starvation and species extinction.

Notes on a Sick Planet  -  Oct 12, 2007
New York Times,By HANK GREEN There’s no use avoiding it: our kids need to know about the global environmental crisis — climate change, deforestation, species extinction.

10 outstanding women hailed including PDI CEO  -  Oct 11, 2007
Inquirer.net,She was honored for her efforts in “culturing, producing and reseeding clams all over the country� to prevent the species’ extinction.

100% CO2 cuts needed to avert 'dangerous' warming  -  Oct 11, 2007
New Scientist (subscription),The end result will be dramatic ecological changes, including widespread coastal flooding, reduced food production, and widespread species extinction.

Decade of difference  -  Oct 9, 2007
Sydney Morning Herald,The world has been awake to serious environmental problems for more than a decade and issues such as deforestation, species extinction and global warming

Article:Berkeley Art Museum show links artists seeking cultural:/c ...  -  Sep 28, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle,Glenn Kaino's "Graft" (2006), a taxidermied salmon clad in shark skin, evokes plastic surgery and issues around evolution, species extinction and genetic

Sen. Tracy wants to protect us from ourselves  -  Oct 14, 2007
Daily News Journal (subscription),...gases contributing to global warming, and recent studies have revealed that massive methane explosions could have contributed to species extinction.

Tough decisions to help us all  -  Sep 24, 2007
ic Wales,...then substantial global impacts will occur such as species extinction and hundreds of millions of people at risk from drought, hunger and flooding.

New home for U of M’s Bell Museum planned for 2010  -  Oct 12, 2007
UMN News,Its collections and researchers are helping scientists around the country unravel the cause and effects of environmental issues including species extinction

Zero emissions a must to keep temperatures to safe levels during ...  -  Oct 12, 2007
Malaysia Sun,The end result would be dramatic ecological changes, including widespread coastal flooding, reduced food production, and widespread species extinction,

What-About Radio update: Our society is in dire need  -  Oct 1, 2007
Daily - University of Washington,...climate change and its dire implications for species extinction and local corporate giants and their affects on the political and social environment.

Contribute to a better world: recycle  -  Oct 10, 2007
The CEU Eagle Online,Pollution, species extinction, pesticides, energy crisis and loss of rainforests are just a few of the problems that face our Earth.

Planet in Peril: A CNN Worldwide Investigation  -  Oct 10, 2007
Huffington Post,For critical breaking news turn on Planet in Peril, CNN's worldwide investigation into the issues of climate change, vanishing habitats, species' extinction

Problem-Solving Materialism  -  Sep 27, 2007
The Santa Barbara Independent,As the specter of recession looms amidst a welter of criminal wars and economic colonialism, against the backdrop of global warming and species extinction,

Juno Mother Earth sponsors high profile alternative energy ...  -  Oct 8, 2007
Mass Media Distribution LLC (press release),...livestock and plant disease proliferation, depletion of the ozone layer, and species extinction among others will be covered at the conference.

Social Forum Film Series Final Final Offering  -  Oct 8, 2007
YubaNet,The film looks head-on at our present global predicament as oil depletion, climate collapse, species extinction and population overshoot converge in a

MATH & SCIENCE & ART  -  Oct 7, 2007
Press-Register - al.com,Bishop, 52, is known for paintings and installations that focus on landscape issues such as the politicizing of nature, species extinction and ecopolitical

Leonardo DiCaprio lionizes Thom Hartmann's tome  -  Oct 6, 2007
New York Daily News,..."The 11th Hour" explores what DiCaprio sees as grave crises in ocean depletion, global warming, deforestation and species extinction.

Climate action plan elicits praise  -  Oct 5, 2007
Worcester Telegram,...will come with dire consequences, including droughts, massive species extinction, significant economic pain and a major uptick in devastating storms.

Fighting carbon emissions on your own turf  -  Oct 3, 2007
Novato Advance,Native plants and their pollinators are evolving and migrating to higher elevations at different rates which contributes to species extinction.

Standing on Principle: The Global Push for Environmental Justice  -  Oct 3, 2007
YubaNet,Climate change, acid rain, depletion of the ozone layer, species extinction-all of these issues point to one thing: environmental health is a global issue

Carbon trading from rubber plantations  -  Sep 22, 2007
Sunday Times.lk,...warming will vary by region, but in the tropics, it will likely to threaten production of crops and may even become a major cause of species extinction.

The End of the World As We Know It: Hope vs Mindset  -  18 Aug 2007
American Muslim,...global energy catastrophe, planetary economic meltdown, population overshoot, species extinction and die-off--or nuclear holocaust.

Souveniring pushes species close to extinction - WWF  -  Aug 15, 2007
NEWS.com.au,CORAL, ivory and snakeskin souvenirs taken home by unwitting tourists are helping to push endangered species closer to extinction, environmental group WWF

Group launches plan to save 189 birds  -  Aug 16, 2007
Meadow Free Press,By MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental Writer Wed Aug 15, 8:50 PM ET BANGKOK, Thailand - An international conservation group launched an ambitious plan Thursday

Leonardo DiCaprio Is On A Green Mission  -  Aug 13, 2007
CBS News,From hurricanes to record rainfall, global warming to species extinction, producer and narrator DiCaprio explores the precarious state of the earth's

Campaign launched to save nearly 200 endangered birds worldwide  -  Aug 15, 2007
International Herald Tribune,AP BANGKOK, Thailand: An international conservation group launched an ambitious plan Thursday to raise tens of millions of dollars (euros) to save 189

Dolphin Species Goes Extinct Due to Humans  -  Aug 10, 2007
FOX NewsBy Charles Q. Choi The Yangtze River dolphin is now almost certainly extinct, making it the first dolphin that humans drove to extinction, scientists have

Humans drive Yangtze dolphin to extinction  -  Aug 9, 2007
Practical Fishkeeping,Scientists from North America, Europe and Asia have declared the Yangtze River dolphin or baiji (Lipotes vexillifer) extinct after an extensive survey of

The 11th Hour  -  Aug 17, 2007
Premiere Magazine,...not just the climate crisis, but all of Gaia's failing ecosystems (ocean and air pollution, soil erosion, deforestation, species extinction, etc.

Tropical Insects 'Go The Distance' To Inform Rainforest Conservation  -  Aug 9, 2007
Science Daily (press release)..."Such knowledge is critical to understanding the roles of ecological processes in maintaining tropical diversity, predicting species extinction and

For trilobites, variety really was the spice of life  -  Aug 8, 2007
New Scientist (subscription),IT MAY be possible to predict the winners and losers ahead of a mass extinction - those species with the greatest variability in their appearance should be

How to Grow a Poem  -  Aug 16, 2007
Washington Post,The exhibition of water-soluble monotypes by Marian Osher will spotlight issues such as species extinction, global warming and the razing of forests. Free.

Limbaughesque Science  -  Aug 9, 2007
FAIR...liberals and "greenies" for "grossly overstating the prospects of global warming, the threat of species extinction and the health risk of pesticides.

JOE LEWIS: CLAIRVOYANCE  -  Aug 17, 2007
Artnet,JL: The show at Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts was titled "Future Works" because ecology, global warming, war, habitat and species extinction,

The End of the World as We Know It: Hope Vs. Mindset  -  Aug 17, 2007
Dissident Voice,...making-climate chaos, global energy catastrophe, planetary economic meltdown, population overshoot, species extinction and die-off–or nuclear holocaust.

China's white river dolphin snuffed out  -  Aug 9, 2007
Cosmos,SHANGHAI: China's rapid development has likely pushed the freshwater baiji dolphin to extinction. It is perhaps the first whale or dolphin to have been

Experts seek to stop turtles‘ extinction  -  Jul 26, 2007
Ottawa Recorder,By DORIE TURNER, AP Writer 13 minutes ago ATLANTA - Close to 10 million turtles are traded each year in Asian food markets despite global efforts to stem

Yangtze River dolphin 'extinct'  -  Aug 8, 2007
Adfero,Human activity has driven the Yangtze river dolphin to extinction, an international team of scientists has concluded. It is the first time in 50 years that

Yangtze dolphin probably extinct  -  Aug 7, 2007
Peninsula On-line,...london • The long-threatened Yangtze River dolphin in China is probably extinct, according to an international team of researchers who said this would mark

Eagle population skyrockets in Maine, slow to catch up in NH  -  Aug 5, 2007
Foster's Daily Democrat,Endangered means the species' extinction is imminent. Threatened means it may become extinct in the future. Kanter participates in monitoring and protection

A Jewish Tree Hugger's Plea Moshe Kornfeld  -  Jul 31, 2007
Zeek,Similarly, Nachmonides’ explanation of Shiluach Haken is that it is a measure against species extinction. The extinction of a species would represent a

WHIT GIBBONS: We must lean to preserve environment or we will lose it  -  Aug 5, 2007
Tuscaloosa News (subscription),Tropical forests continue to be a prime example because their destruction is causing a species extinction rate rivaling anything the earth has experienced

Grass Roots Rising  -  Aug 5, 2007
New York Times,Species extinction and poverty abound while profits soar. “The world’s top 200 companies have twice the assets of 80 percent of the world’s people,

Invitation From Leonardo DiCaprio  -  Aug 14, 2007
Student Operated Press,Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, and depletion of the oceans' habitats are all addressed. “The 11th Hour� explores how we’ve arrived

Film festival on evironment in Delhi  -  Aug 8, 2007
Hindu,Emphasising the need for sensitising the people about the environment, Babu said "We are in the era of species extinction. If we want to save biosphere we

To Harvest a Forest  -  Jul 20, 2007
Wall Street Journal..."The removal of the submerged forest will...pose significant risk to the biodiversity, including the risk of species extinction, if the unique habitat

Focus on carbon 'missing the point'  -  Jul 30, 2007
BBC News,For many decades, the symptoms of unsustainable human exploitation of the natural environment have been mounting: species extinction, the loss of

Climate Extremism: the Real Threat to Civilization  -  Jul 20, 2007
Canada Free Press,...flooding, wildfires, famine, species extinction, rising sea levels, mass migration and epidemic disease that will leave no country untouched.

Concerning Catastrophes And Cooperation  -  Aug 7, 2007
CounterCurrents.org,...due to agrochemicals) has led to eutrophication of waters and species extinction rates are now 100-1000 times above their normal speed of occurrence.

USA. Leonardo DiCaprio film explores climate change and the ocean  -  Aug 9, 2007
BYM News (press release),Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, and depletion of ocean habitats are all addressed. "It was an honor to be asked to work with Leo and

Oxygen depletion is a danger  -  Jul 28, 2007
Aspen Daily News,Once the oceanic system is out of balance which will occur relatively soon in planetary terms then the process of species extinction will complete its

PJ O'Rourke: The original Republican Party Reptile is back  -  Jul 25, 2007
Independent,Especially those unfortunates who don't give a hoot about pollution, global warming, and species extinction. I think about them a lot, and I hope they lose

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