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• Declaration calls for more wilderness protected areas to combat global warming

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  Meeting this week in Merida, Mexico, the 9th World Wilderness Congress (WILD9) has released a declaration that calls for increasing wilderness protections in an effort to mitigate climate change. The declaration, which is signed by a number of influential organizations, argues that wilderness areas—both terrestrial ...
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• Coral reef troubles indicate broader ecological problems

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  Today, many of our planets natural areas are seriously threatened by human incursion, overexploitation and global warming: Less than a fifth of the worlds original forest cover remains in unfragmented tracts, while just one-third of coastal mangroves survive to protect coastlines from storms and erosion. But none of ...
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• Fossil Fuels May Have Caused Mass Extinction

  
  Life within me — Authority: 137
  Fossil fuels don’t exactly have a good reputation as it is – they’re incredibly environmentally destructive, and bear the brunt of the blame for our current situation with global warming. Now, experts are saying that “a frenzy of hydrocarbon burning” millions of years ago might have caused the most dramatic, ...
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• 8 Sustainable Sources of Farmed Fish & Seafood

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 726
  Photo credit: ellievanhoutte via Flickr Farmed fish and seafood has sort of a bad reputation in some green circles. Sometimes -- as with, say, Atlantic salmon -- its for good reason. But there are a number of cases where farming can actually be a good thing -- for water quality, the health of the fish or seafood ...
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• Stop Killing the World’s Oceans

  
  Mendo Coast Current — Authority: 117
  SAM WATERSON, Special to CNN, November 2, 2009CNN Editor’s Note: Sam Waterston is an award-winning stage, film and television actor who is best known for his long-running role as prosecutor Jack McCoy on “Law & Order.” He is a member of the board of directors of Oceana, a nonprofit organization that seeks to ...
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• SuperFreakonomics Redux: Even Congress is Riled Up

  
  Red, Green, and Blue — Authority: 459
  Last week I wrote in this space that when faced with a problem (global warming, carbon dioxide emissions) that so clearly requires huge top-down action from governments the world over, what two contrarians write in a book doesn’t exactly bother me that much. It bothers Joe Romm at Climate Progress, clearly, and ...
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• Superfreakonomics Authors Dig the Hole Deeper

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 545
  While gloating that a House Committee will hold a hearing on geoengineering next week, Dubner let this one slip: While there is a lot of room for a lot of legitimate debate about many aspects of global warming, let us say one thing here: we believe that anyone who reads our chapter without an agenda wouldn’t ...
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• The Freakonomics solution to finding yourself in a hole

  
  The Way Things Break — Authority: 541
  Or: Levitt and Dubner Keep Digging, Part One You’d think that the authors of a pop-econ best seller would be familiar with the sunk cost effect. You’d be wrong . Criticism of Levitt and Dubner’s (L&D from here on) atrocious chapter on climate has been swift and remarkably in-depth . L&D have been ...
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• Coral Cryobank being developed to preserve the diversity of threatened coral species

  
  Reef Builders -The Reef Aquarium Blog — Authority: 142
  The Coral Cryobank is the first global effort to help preserve coral species from the world’s struggling reefs that is being spearheaded by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). The Coral Cryobank aims to protect the future of coral species diversity by placing corals in a deep freeze in liquid nitrogen. The ...
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• What Does SuperFreakonomics Have in Common with Old Tobacco Ads?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  What Does SuperFreakonomics Have in Common with Old Tobacco Ads? By Dr. Melanie Fitzpatrick and Aaron Huertas   In their follow-up to the best-selling Freakonomics , economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner exploit the public’s desire for an easy fix to global warming and along the way, ...
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• The cost of losing coral: no drop in the ocean

  
  Hot Topic — Authority: 547
  Perhaps it will register if it’s expressed in money terms. The latest issue of the New Scientist carries an article reporting an estimate of  the loss of the world’s coral reefs at $172 billion per year. The estimate comes from the work of Pavan Sukhdev and colleagues. He’s an economist with the United Nations ...
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• Sigourney Weaver – Swimming In A Sea Of Acid

  
  Pacebutler Blog — Authority: 112
  Sigourney Weaver’s article at Huffington Post about her latest movie, a documentary called Acid Test, is quite frankly a sobering read. Produced by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and originally aired on Discovery Planet Green, Acid Test is a groundbreaking documentary focusing on the rapid ...
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• Videobreak: Acid Test – The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification

  
  The Way Things Break — Authority: 541
  [IMG: http://img.youtube.com/vi/5cqCvcX7buo/2.jpg][IMG: http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thingsbreak.wordpress.com&blog=3689225&post=3611&subd=thingsbreak&ref=&feed=1]
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• Marine Ecosystems Capture Carbon Emissions Equal to Near 50% of Emissions of Global Transport; UN Agencies Propose Blue Carbon Fund for Their Support

  
  Green Car Congress — Authority: 583
  Carbon cycle. Credit: Riccardo Pravettoni, UNEP/GRID-Arendal . Click to enlarge. A “Blue Carbon” fund able to invest in the maintenance and rehabilitation of key marine ecosystems should be considered by governments to combat climate change, according to a new Rapid Response Report released by the United ...
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• Climate Change - whats worse than the heat?

  
  Observations of a Nerd — Authority: 519
  **A post about Climate Change as a part of Blog Action Day 2009 ** When people talk about climate change, they, more often than not, talk about global warming. Yes, the effects of increased temperature will be diverse and generally bad for most creatures on Earth, including us. But the most dramatic effect ...
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• Procrastinators Guide To Ocean Acidification: You Are The Alien

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 726
  Alien vs World. Image credit: Snarkerati Procrastinators are remarkably consistent in their addiction to the "strategy" of last-minute response. They cram all night before final exams. Wait to propose marriage until they think they may have seen him/her flirting with another. Dont buy groceries until forced to ...
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• Procrastinator’s Guide To Ocean Acidification: You Are The Alien

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 138
  Alien vs World. Image credit: Snarkerati Procrastinators are remarkably consistent in their addiction to the “strategy” of last-minute response. They cram all night before final exams. Wait to propose marriage until they think they may have seen him/her flirting with another. Don’t buy groceries until forced to ...
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• Canada’s First Grain CSA Transports Via Sailboat and Triples Demand in Second Year

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 138
  Image via: Jon Steinman, Deconstructing Dinner Jeff reported on the launch of this unique(ly) Candadian CSA, Urban Grains, that brings grain to shareholders, roughly this time last year. While a grain CSA is unique, this one is extra special because all of the grain is transported via sailboat - talk about cutting ...
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• For the Founders of Guayaki the Future isn’t Just in the Tea Leaves

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 138
  Image credit: tracyshaun /Flickr We’ve talked about Guayaki, a company focused on bringing premium Yerba Mate to the North American market, several times before. Their business, which encourages local communities to reforest threatened rainforest areas to produce shade-grown Mate tea, is as unique as its beverages ...
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• Video - Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification

  
  Sustainable Living — Authority: 128
  This groundbreaking NRDC documentary explores the startling phenomenon of ocean acidification, which may soon challenge marine life on a scale not seen for tens of millions of years. The film, featuring Sigourney Weaver, originally aired on Discovery Planet Green.
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