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Is the Bluefin Tuna an Endangered Species?: Scientific American
“The United Nations will consider a ban on international trade of the prized fish due to plummeting numbers in the Atlantic and Mediterranean”
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“India may be softening its stance on the issue of carbon emission cuts, a move that could shake up the global dynamics ahead of the Copenhagen climate change summit in December.”
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“The world’s coral reefs save us $172 billion every year, but they’re on the brink of collapse (PDF) because of political inertia, an ecological economist has told the global Diversitas biodiversity conference in Cape Town, South Africa.”
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Not all EnergyStar goods measure up, report finds | Green Tech – CNET News
An internal audit by the Energy Department concluded that some EnergyStar products are not meeting the requirements to gain the energy-efficiency label
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Software Enabled Earth : Microsoft Launches Software Architecture for Smart Grid Development
“Microsoft announced it has developed a software reference architecture to help the Utility industry take a significant step in smart grid development. Called Microsoft Smart Energy Reference Architecture (SERA), this reference architecture addresses technology integration throughout the full scope of the smart energy ecosystem.”
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US funds terror groups to sow chaos in Iran – Telegraph
“America is secretly funding militant ethnic separatist groups in Iran in an attempt to pile pressure on the Islamic regime to give up its nuclear programme.”
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Video: Maldives president holds underwater cabinet meeting | Environment | guardian.co.uk
“Cabinet sign SOS memo to raise awareness of threat of rising sea levels to their country”
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“These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.
To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent. “
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Survival International – The movement for tribal peoples
“The Dongria Kondh are one of India’s most remote tribes. They live in Orissa state’s Niyamgiri hills and worship a mountain as a God.
As Vedanta Resources, a London-based mining company prepares to destroy their forests and sacred mountain to build a vast open-cast mine, Survival’s new film asks…
What will one tribe do to save everything they know?”
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Message in the Waves | No More Plastic Bags Video – BBC Hawaii |
Message in the Waves | No More Plastic Bags Video
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“The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urges world leaders to attend the UN climate conference i Copenhagen to reach agreement and avoid a “catastrophic” future of killer heatwaves, floods and droughts. He sends his message at the Major Economies Forum in London today, and warns that there is no “plan B” to a deal in Copenhagen.”
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“Today Seattle City Light became the first utility to announce that it is offering customers the ability to link their electricity consumption data with Microsoft Hohm, an online application that tracks energy use and provides personalized energy conservation recommendations. “
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‘GUILTY’: UK government blasts Vedanta in unprecedented attack – Survival International
UK government blasts Vedanta in unprecedented attack, demands a ‘change in the company’s behaviour’ http://j.mp/18UnBZ
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