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New York Times : In 2002, Ireland passed a tax on plastic bags; customers who want them must now pay 33 cents per bag at the register. There was an advertising awareness campaign. And then something happened that was bigger than the sum of these parts. Within weeks, plastic bag use dropped 94 percent. Within [...]

AP Slimy, green and unsightly, seaweed and algae are among the humblest of plants. A group of scientists at a climate conference in Bali say they could also be a potent weapon against global warming, capable of sucking damaging carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere at rates comparable to the mightiest rain forests. : The [...]

reuters Infestations of sea lice at salmon farms on Canada’s west coast are threatening local wild pink salmon populations and could result in their extinction in another four years, Canadian researchers said on Thursday. They collected nearly four decades of data on the numbers of pink salmon in rivers along the central coast of British [...]

environmentaldefense.org From December 3-14, over 180 countries are meeting in Bali, Indonesia, to discuss how to reduce global warming emissions, as soon as possible, and avert  dangerous climate change. Environmental Defense’s delegation has three main goals: help the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change countries create a 2-year road map for negotiating a new climate [...]

 MSNBC www.makeitrightnola.org Actor-activist Brad Pitt greenlighted a bold initiative this summer to start making things better in New Orleans’ flood-devastated Lower 9th Ward. Now, he’s expanding on that with a new foundation called “Make It Right,” pledging that the first of at least 150 environmentally friendly homes will be ready by next summer. : Like [...]

Discovery Channel A Japanese company is launching fake shark fins in China, hoping to tap a market as prices for real ones rise amid concerns the species is being hunted to extinction. :Nikko Yuba Seizo Co. a Japanese food-processing company, said it had developed artificial shark fins made out of pork gelatin. Its top executives [...]

ScienceNow : It’s not easy to guess which species are going to be hit hardest by logging, climate change, and other threats to the world’s forests. Ecological data on many animals are scarce, and teasing apart tropical food webs can be next to impossible. Erik Meijaard, an ecologist at the Balikpapan, Indonesia, branch of The [...]

Following up on the report on the Undersea Garden in Labrador Shore (Singapore), the folks from Team Seagrass saw a different side of the story. Wildfilms : Comprising large plastic tubing and what looks like tough sheeting very roughly put together with cable ties. Each structure covered an area of about 2mx2m. And there were [...]

My effort to join in the Blog Action Day 2007. After reading many magazines, blogs & website on how to help save Earth. I’ve also draft out my list of 10 easy way all of us can do to help make Mother Earth a better place for all. 1) Control your temperature – Adjust the [...]

IUCN 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, the world’s most authoritative assessment of the Earth’s plants and animals, acts as a wake up call on the global extinction crisis Gland, Switzerland, 12 September, 2007, World Conservation Union (IUCN) – Life on Earth is disappearing fast and will continue to do so unless urgent action [...]