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Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) is an international event with over 90 countries around the world participating, making it one of the largest volunteer efforts on the planet! Last year, over 14,000 volunteers from Los Angeles County joined together to pick up over 300,000 pounds of trash and recyclables f...
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Is it possible for corals to move or grow in other places that are more conducive to their needs? Stephanie Wear is a marine scientist with The Nature Conservancy’s Global Marine Team. She said that there is little evidence that this is happening: At this point, there is little evidence that cor...
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Tagged in: Climate Change
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Posted by on in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines
A study by the University of Exeter provides the first evidence that coral reefs can recover from the devastating effects of climate change. Published Jan. 11, 2010 in the journal PLoS ONE, the research shows for the first time that coral reefs located in marine reserves can recover from the impacts...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
Weather is always an easy topic of conversation. The first eight months of 2010 tied the same period in 1998 for the warmest combined land and ocean surface temperature on record worldwide. Meanwhile, the June—August summer was the second warmest on record globally after 1998, and last month was the...
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Posted by on in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands
Snow melt in the Colorado River basin is occurring earlier, reducing runoff and the amount of crucial water available downstream. A new study by NASA/UCLA shows this is due to increased dust caused by human activities in the typically arid American southwest region during the past 150 years.  ...
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Posted by on in Animals
  On the 8th of January 2011, I will be taking on the challenge of volunteering to help save the Leatherback Sea Turtles in Costa Rica, the largest sea turtle in the world. I will be joining scientist and other volunteers to help end the devastating effects that plague the Leatherback Sea Turt...
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Posted by on in Green Products/Services
Reclaiming our Capital, Greening our Economy, and Launching the Next New Deal By Thomas Croft from: Green Money Journal The Gulf Oil spill disaster riveted the attention of the world over the Spring and Summer. Unfortunately, this accident was just one in April alone that caused 49 worker deaths ...
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Posted by on in Agriculture
Last week at the Nordic Exceptional Trendshop 2010,  held in Denmark, one presentation took urban agriculture to the next level. A collaboration with NASA, you might even say it launched urban agriculture out of this world, and into the future.The idea is called Agropolis, a comb...
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Posted by on in Animals
1.  WhalesForever (http://www.earthprotect.com/your-details/898-WhalesForever.html) - I have dreams of riding whales. I hope they are around forever   2. Give a sloth a piggy back ride     3. Hold hands with a chimp     4. Hug a koala bear   &nb...
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Posted by on in Animals
Our friends, the Pandas The giant panda is considered to be China's national treasure and has become a symbol of conservation. Unfortunately, it has also become an endangered species and is severely threatened due to habitat loss and poaching.The people of China have been cutting down bamboo fores...
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Posted by on in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines
A toxin produced by a type of cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, has been devastating a colony of sea otters off the coast of California. In a paper published in the journal, PLoS ONE, by the California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) and the University of California (UC), Santa Cruz, ...
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Posted by on in Animals
COLUMBIA, Mo.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed listing the Ozark hellbender as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.  The Ozark hellbender is a rare salamander only found in rivers and streams in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri. This salamander is str...
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Posted by on in General Environment
Scholarships Available: A limited number of discounted registrations (made possible by our sponsors)  have become available to the Third Annual International Conference on Energy, Logistics and the Environment to be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Denver from October 8-9, 2010.  The discoun...
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Posted by on in Mining
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency asked nine natural gas companies Thursday to voluntarily disclose the chemical components used in a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing. The agency said the information is important to its study of the controversial drilling practice, also...
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Posted by on in Solar
A design "charrette" sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Institute brought industry experts together to discuss how to bring down the installed costs of PV. The group focused on reducing BOS costs. by Rebecca Cole, Rocky Mountain Institute Published: September 9, 2010Boulder, Colorado, United States --...
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Posted by on in General Environment
JOB TITLE: Earth Protect Marketing Internship JOB DESCRIPTION: Earth Protect, www.earthprotect.com, using video and social communications to inspire people to take positive action leading to a sustainable future. We seek passionate, Internet savvy, energetic, detail-oriented,  responsible coll...
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Posted by on in Food
Now that the  largest accidental oil spill is history, many women are wondering if the region’s fish is safe to eat. Find out what experts are saying, which potential health risks remain and how to be a smart seafood shopper...   From April to July, BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill unlea...
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Posted by on in Recycling
For regions with adequate space and little recycling infrastructure, disposing of bottles in landfill generates a lower carbon footprint than recycling or incineration...It is claimed the practice of shipping PET bottles to China for recycling is an ecological nonsense. Not true, says our study &nb...
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Posted by on in Forestry
Oil giant's investment in Indonesian REDD conservation project is a crude attempt to increase profit and gloss over its expanding oil drilling operations, say campaigners Indigenous Peoples and environmental groups have accused oil giant Shell of funding a forest protection scheme for profit and to...
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
Strong national legislation will curb climate change, strengthen our economy, create jobs and make our country more secure. Opponents of energy and climate legislation are spreading misinformation using front groups for the coal industry and even the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Companies that support ...
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