1 day ago by Carolyn

Are you searching for a way to help save the planet and incorporate it into your daily routine? Look no further! Today I am going to be writing about two of my favourite activism websites, The Rainforest Site and Care2. Deforestation is a serious problem in the modern world. Ancient species are disa ...

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1 day ago by michaelgreenwell

THT ONLINE KATHMANDU: Police have nabbed a man on the charge of illegally smuggling an endangered species of herbs called Panchaule (Dactylorhiza hatagirea) from Nagdhunga, gateway of the Capital Kathmandu on Sunday evening. According to police, the police check post at Naghhunga took control of Tse ...

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2 days ago by Jeremy Hance

Australia should join the widening effort to stamp out illegal logging, according to testimony given this week by tropical ecologist William Laurance with James Cook University. Presenting before the Australian Senate's rural affairs committee, Laurance argued that the massive environmental and econ ...

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2 days ago by Jeremy Hance

Three thousand years ago (around 2,000 BCE) several large sections of the Congo rainforest in central Africa suddenly vanished and became savannah. Scientists have long believed the loss of the forest was due to changes in the climate, however a new study in Science implicates an additional culprit: ...

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5 days ago by michaelgreenwell

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7 days ago by Alvar Cidane

As 2012 moves along, we tend to get caught up in domestic and international politics, trade and unemployment figures. Meanwhile, the most pressing issue civilization has ever faced continues to increase in gravity. Human-made climate change has provoked the unpredictability of climactic patterns, au ...

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9 days ago by arcFreeze Team

Two 16 year-old Girl Scouts from Michigan have taken it upon themselves to try to convince their organization to stop using palm oil, a product that has been blamed for widespread rainforest destruction, in their famous cookies. The pair, Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen, have created a petition ...

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10 days ago by EcoChics Earthwear

Useless and Fun Ground Hog Day Facts you wish you knew! Hey, we're all about sharing fun! Our friends at the Huffington Post did all the work for us, so why not share the HogLove? To put more of an eco-spin on it, Ground Hogs are just another reason to keep our waterways clean and our forests standi ...

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11 days ago by Rhett Butler

Belgium will source only palm oil certified under the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) by 2015 under a pledge by an alliance of major processors, manufacturers, and industry associations, reports the RSPO.

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11 days ago by Valerie Courreges

Peru struggles to keep outsiders away from uncontacted Amazon tribe | World news | The Guardian:"Mashco-Piro Indians have been spotted on the banks of a river popular with tourists after increasing logging in the area"

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