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Land of plenty: 50 percent rise in the amount of food wasted in America worsens global warming, consumes freshwater

High gold prices, army collaboration, play role in mining invasion in southern Venezuela

REDD may not be enough to save Sumatra’s endangered lowland rainforests

Google – the new eye in the sky for protecting forests?

U.S. pledges $275M to rainforest conservation

Deforestation emissions should be shared between producer and consumer, argues study

Oceans’ ability to sequester carbon diminishing

Record year for CO2 emissions, even with economic slowdown

Ecological benefits of REDD boosted by inclusion of private landowners, potentially harmed by plantations

Coastal habitats may sequester 50 times more carbon than tropical forests by area

New rating systems seeks to promote sustainable landscapes from shopping malls to city parks

New report: boreal forests contain more carbon than tropical forest per hectare

Declaration calls for more wilderness protected areas to combat global warming

Nations vulnerable to global warming present demands: carbon levels below 350ppm and billions in aid

Global warming threatens desert life

Fossil fuel subsidies “bringing us closer to irreversible climate change”

REDD in Colombia: using forests to finance conservation and communities in Colombia’s Choco, a former war zone

China’s Pearl River suffers from “almost impossible to remove” pollution

Brazil to support REDD in Copenhagen

New bill would protect children from untested chemicals

Will Ecuador’s plan to raise money for not drilling oil in the Amazon succeed?

The Yangtze River may have lost another inhabitant: the Chinese paddlefish

Logged forests support biodiversity after 15 years of rehabilitation, but not if turned into plantations

Protests over tuna industry development plans in Papua New Guinea

Emotional call for palm oil industry to address environmental problems

Major Chinese Lead Smelter Admits Fault in Poisoning, Environmental Contamination

Freshwater species worse off than land or marine

Business and conservation groups team up to conserve and better manage US’s southern forests

US subsidies of oil and coal more than double the subsidies of renewable energy

Dangers for journalists who expose environmental issues

Climate Crisis Sparks Radical Response

Heavy oil pollution remains in Amazon, despite company claiming clean-up is finished

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