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Projected deforastation in Amazonas

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Projected deforastation in Amazonas

In 2050, the estimate of forest loss of Amazonas in Brazil is 1/3

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Filling In the Blanks on a Map of Life

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JOANNA M. FOSTER
Filling In the Blanks on a Map of Life
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Have you ever longed for a Google map of koala bears? Bald eagles? Red pandas?

A team of researchers from Yale and the University Colorado at Boulder have made it happen. This month they released a demo version of a Web-based “Map of Life” intended to eventually reflect the distribution of all plant and animal life on earth.

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http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/filling-in-the-blanks-on-a-map-of-life/

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The Human Cost of Coal

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Mountaintop's Removal's Effect on Humans and the Economy

There’s a common saying in Appalachia: what we do to the land, we do to the people. Recently, 21 peer-reviewed scientific studies have confirmed the truth of those words. Not only has mountaintop removal permanently destroyed more than 500 Appalachian mountains, but people living near the destruction are 50% more likely to die of cancer and 42% more likely to be born with birth defects compared with other people in Appalachia.

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Climate change: Arctic passes 400 parts per million milestone

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Seth Borenstein
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Arctic monitoring stations show carbon dioxide levels are now above 400 parts per million. Carbon dioxide is the chief climate-change gas and stays in the atmosphere for 100 years. Before the Industrial Age, carbon dioxide levels were 275 ppm.

The world's air has reached what scientists call a troubling new milestone for carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollutant.

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http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0531/Climate-change-Arctic-passes-400-parts-per-million-milestone

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U.N. report warns environment is at tipping point

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U.N. report warns environment is at tipping point
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – The earth's environmental systems "are being pushed towards their biophysical limits," beyond which loom sudden, irreversible and potentially catastrophic changes, the United Nations Environment Program warned Wednesday.

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http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/story/2012-06-06/un-environment-report/55431404/1?csp=34news

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Africa land deals lead to water giveaway

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Mark Tran
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Africa heads for 'hydrological suicide' as land deals hand water resources to foreign firms, threatening environmental disaster

Millions of people will lose access to traditional sources of water because of "land grabs" in Africa, according to a report on Monday that looks behind the scramble for farmland in Africa.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/jun/12/africa-land-deals-water-giveaway

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Rivers will generate a quarter of GDP by 2050, study shows

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Damian Carrington
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The world's 10 most populous river basins will be vital for economic growth – but only if water shortage threat is tackled

Water is the very stuff of life, yet billions of people do not have access to a clean, reliable source. Changing that takes investment - public and private - so winning the economic argument about the value of such investment is very valuable. And a new report commissioned by HSBC makes the argument in a striking way.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2012/jun/11/water-river-hsbc?intcmp=122

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