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Church of England launches seven-year climate change plan

The Church of England has used a meeting of global faith leaders and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to launch an environmental strategy for the next seven years. The gathering took place on 2 Novemeber 2009 in Windsor, and...

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Hunting for Tuna: The Environmental Peril Grows

Nearly every day at dawn, John Heitz falls a little bit in love. That's why he lives and works in General Santos City in the southern Philippines, one of the planet's great tuna-fishing ports. In September, the European...

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NonProfit PR Awards: Event PR: Pro Bono

Campaign: WWF’s Earth Hour 2009 Winner: World Wildlife Fund and Creaxion On March 28, 2009, at 8:30 p.m., hundreds of millions of people from around the world came together in a global call for action on climate change. The...

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Convio Recommends Charity Websites to Find This Year’s Perfect Holiday Gift

Submitted by admin on 11/3/2009 @ 2:35 AM Companies mentioned in this article: Convio -- “Nonprofit organizations offer online gifts that you can purchase for your loved ones while making a positive impact on the community or...

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Kathryn Fuller Science for Nature Symposium To Focus on Climate Impacts on Freshwater Ecosystems...

World Wildlife Fund will host “Securing Water for People and Nature in a Changing Climate” – the 2009 Kathryn Fuller Science for Nature Symposium – on November 3-4, 2009, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in...

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Certified Sustainable Palm Oil Trade Exceeds 250,000 MT

More than 250,000 tons (metric tons) of certified sustainable palm oil have been purchased (PDF) since its availability late last year, marking the first stages of a viable market for sustainable palm oil, according to the...

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Hopes that oil rig fire could be plugged today

A huge fire burning on the West Atlas oil rig in the Timor Sea could be stopped today. The company responsible, PTTEP Australasia, is hoping to pump a heavy mud mixture into the leaking well where the fire started. Before the...

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Last round of climate talks open before Copenhagen

By ARTHUR MAX Associated Press Writer BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Negotiators from nearly 180 countries hope to nail down the outline of a plan to provide tens of billions of dollars a year to fight climate change, in their final...

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Russia, China launch joint project to protect tigers, leopards

MOSCOW, October 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and China have started a joint program on the conservation of Amur tigers and Amur leopards in the Far East, the World Wildlife Fund announced on Friday. The program, set up with the...

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European Firms Failing to Source Sustainable Palm Oil

In a new scorecard released by the World Wildlife Fund, only one-sixth of companies surveyed show progress toward goals of ending the environmental and ecosystem impacts of conventional palm oil harvesting.

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