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Lowering the quality of a resource, polluting it

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League to Save Lake Tahoe has wrong idea

Published August 21, 2008, 4:38 pm, North Lake Tahoe Bonanza

The League to Save Lake Tahoe has been venerated as one of the premier environmental groups watching out for degradations to Lake Tahoe’s environment, including water quality.

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Delegates told to speed up talks on climate change

Published August 21, 2008, 12:15 pm, CNews

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Africa already is suffering from “climate shocks,” the president of Ghana told a 160-nation climate conference Thursday, joining a chorus of calls to speed up the pace of talks on a new agreement to rein in carbon emissions.

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Delegates told to speed up talks on climate change

Published August 21, 2008, 10:44 am, Las Vegas Sun

Thu, Aug 21, 2008 (10:33 a.m.) Africa already is suffering from "climate shocks," the president of Ghana told a 160-nation climate conference Thursday, joining a chorus of calls to speed up the pace of talks on a new agreement to rein in carbon emissions.

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Delegates told to speed up talks on climate change

Published August 20, 2008, 1:23 pm, The San Luis Obispo Tribune

Africa already is suffering from "climate shocks," the president of Ghana told a 160-nation climate conference Thursday, joining a chorus of calls to speed up the pace of talks on a new agreement to rein in carbon emissions. More than 1,600 delegates and environmental experts began a week of tough U.N.-sponsored negotiations, hoping to start drafting language for a treaty due to be adopted next ...

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Helping save South Creek

Published August 19, 2008, 11:20 am, Hawkesbury Gazette

AS THE debate over the declining condition of the Hawkesbury River intensifies, a new study to save the South Creek catchment has revealed it has reached a damningly polluted level.

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Be wary of the ''green'' label on renewable energy

Published August 19, 2008, 1:04 am, The Morning Call

There's an old journalism adage that goes: ''If your mother says she loves you, check it out.''

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Jeremy Jacquot: Our Oceans' Long Goodbye

Published August 18, 2008, 9:23 pm, HuffingtonPost

Let's face it: Our pristine oceans, as we've come to know them, aren't coming back. Besieged on all sides by overfishing, climate change, pollution and...

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Universities as conscience of society

Published August 18, 2008, 4:59 pm, The New Straits Times

THE cultural mission of a university is as important as its teaching and research enterprise.

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An Advocate for Science Diplomacy

Published August 18, 2008, 4:10 pm, New York Times

Nina V. Fedoroff is science adviser to the secretary of state and contends that genetically modified foods help the environment.

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LNTA APPOINTS MALAYSIA'S DISCOVERYMICE TO CO-ORGANISE WORLD ECOTOURISM CONFERENCE

Published August 18, 2008, 6:22 am, Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 18 (Bernama) -- Lao National Tourism Administration is collaborating with Malaysia's DISCOVERYMICE Sdn Bhd to organise the World Ecotourism and Adventure Conference 2009 in Vientiane, Laos next year.

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  • Marine Turtle Conservation Moves into High Gear (EEN): Bali/Bangkok, 20 August 2008 - An innovative regional agreement is beginning to turn the tide for the 'ancient mariners' of the world's oceans. Marine turtles traverse the seas for thousands of kilometers, returning after decades to nest in the same area where they entered the world as tiny hatchlings. They are threatened by degradation of critical habitats on land, interaction with fishing gear at sea, and excessive harvesting of eggs and for meat.

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  • Dead Zones or using the ocean as a loo: ?dead zones??areas of seafloor with too little oxygen for most marine life?has increased by a third between 1995 and 2007. "rank with over-fishing, habitat loss, and harmful algal blooms as global environmental problems." ;

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