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Top Stories:

• Obama announces plan to lease federal waters for clean energy
• Love Trees celebrates kids on Earth Day 2009
• Arctic sea ice getting thinner, more worrisome
• Ice bridge ruptures in Antarctic
• UN issues dire water warning
• Five places to go before global warming messes them up
• Ice shelf collapse could shift axis of Earth, study says
• BC First Nations to release details of class action law suit adressing impacts of wild salmon farms
• Personal-care chemicals go on toxic list
• Shaklee ( the leading natural nutrition company inthe United States) Partners With U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding in Preparation for the 2010 Games in Vancouver

More news:

• Some climate damage already irreversible
• Death rate for area's trees doubles in 17 year
• Surveyed scientists agree global warming is real
• Stanley Park's hollow tree thrown a lifeline
• Harper wants joint Canada-U.S. policies on energy, ecology
• Obama calls Americans to 'new era of responsibility'
• Toyota working on solar-powered car, paper says
• Could the economic crisis save the environment?
• Gloomy economy fails to curb Green enthusiasm
• Emissions by individuals on the rise: StatsCan
• Go Green this Christmas and give affordable gifts to friends and family - and the planet!
• Climate change still a concern despite economy: poll
• Canada back in court over Kyoto lawsuit
• Carbon dioxide levels already a danger
• Green Christmas gift ideas
• Reckless consumption threatens planet: WWF
• One-size-fits-all approach to climate change blasted
• Nature may ease ADHD symptoms
• Top scientists urge Canadians to vote for the environment
• Global warming -- seeing may cause believing
• Type Of Plankton -- Food Source For Many Fish -- Has Ability To Survive Climate Change
• Scientists say carbon dioxide emissions up 3%
• Tree-generated electricity may be key to preventing forest fires: scientists
• Value found in old-growth forests
• Huge ice sheet could melt faster than thought: report
• Amazon deforestation increases by 69% in last 12 months
• Arctic ice melting and not coming back: scientist
• Green party announces its first member of Parliament
• New cracks in northern Greenland glacier worry scientists
• Who revived the electric car?
• A new Arctic circle
• Poll: Canadians want firm environment action
• G8 takes small step on climate
• Toyota plans solar AC for Prius: report
• Economic woes dim chance of G8 climate change action
• B.C. carbon tax kicks in on Canada Day
• 50-50 chance of first iceless summer for North Pole: scientist
• Plants head for the hills
• Clear Skies Solar to Develop $44 Million Solar Farm
• New green labelling rules too lax, critics say
• Friends of the Earth take Ottawa to court over Kyoto
• The Gulf's Growing 'Dead Zone'
• Arctic sea ice loss puts permafrost at risk of melting: report
• World Environment Day calls for end to CO2 addiction
• G8 ministers endorse greenhouse gas cuts by 2050
• Nurture the Natural - Nature Activities for Kids
• Pair go green as world watches
• A sea of synthetic trash
• Polar Bears' new status could slow Arctic drilling
• Seeing the trees for a forest
• Study ranks Canadians second-last on environment
• Myanmar death toll could top 100,000: U.S. ambassador
• Earth Day around the world
• Climate fight needs private investment: Sarkozy
• Dedicate an Earth Day tree to the person who has helped you or your business grow.
• New cracks suggest largest remaining Arctic ice shelf destined to disappear
• Earth in crisis, warns NASA's top climate scientist
• Ont. doctors warn of climate change consequences
• Climate change threatens millions: WHO
• Salmon vanish off California, Oregon
• River delta's rise puts Arctic's future in flux
• Millions to turn out their lights for Earth Hour
• After feast on B.C. forest, pine beetles face famine
• Huge Antarctic ice chunk collapses
• U.N.: Glaciers shrinking at record rate
• New green plan targets oil sands
• Doomsday' vault opens; protects Earth's seeds
• Climate change plan could trigger tax cuts: Suzuki
• Airline flies jumbo jet powered by biofuel
• South Africa to allow elephant culling
• Green jobs take root and proliferate
• Love Trees is working with CARE Canada on a powerful new Green Valentine’s Day initiative.
• Human warmth: Sweden uses train passengers' body heat to warm up offices
  
• The World Poetry Enviro-Poetry Project February 1-29 at the Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch.
• Chemicals in some baby creams, shampoos can be harmful, study suggests
• Putting the focus on global warming
• Stelmach to skip climate change session
• Greenland thaw biggest in 50 years
• Cloned animals safe to eat, concludes FDA
• Huge fracture in Beaufort Sea ice pack worries scientists
• Antarctic ice sheet shrinking at faster rate
• China bans plastic shopping bags
• Panel to propose carbon tax
• Nature, man jointly cook Arctic: report
• Melting Arctic ice cap top weather story of 2007
• A tree: a gift for the planet this season
• Isolated Canada grudgingly accepts Bali deal
• Bali conference adopts plan to negotiate global warming agreement
• Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?
• Global warming putting heat to penguin population
• Gore to U.S., China: Fix climate or else
• Canada 4th-worst in climate protection: report
• Make big emitters sign on to targets: Baird
• Even the environment gets hurt when a marriage breaks up
• UN climate change conference hails Australia Kyoto signing
• With cracks and holes in the Greenland ice sheet, we may well have to 'geo-engineer' the climate
• Environmental group sues government over Kyoto
• Runaway greenhouse effect turned Venus into oven, scientists say
• Fever outbreak linked to climate change
• Global warming will have 'most severe' effect on world's poor: UN report
• Canada gets its way on climate change
• Canada faces Commonwealth pressure on climate change
• Evidence of climate change 'unequivocal': UN report
• Map shows top CO2 producers in the world
• China power plant emissions to rise 60 percent by 2017
• Scientists say get ready for a hotter planet

More news:

• "Modest majority" of Canadians favour raising taxes to address climate change
• 'Worst natural disaster' hits Mexico
• Electric car maker charges Ottawa blocking its sale in Canada
• Almost 1 million ordered out of homes
• Greenland thaw threatens coastal cities
• Mass extinctions coincide with hotter temperatures: study
• CO2 levels rising faster as oceans trap less of greenhouse gas
• 'A perfect firestorm' brewing in California
• Tests reveal high chemical levels in kids' bodies
• State of emergency in California as wildfires rage
• No formal withdrawal from Kyoto: Baird
• Arctic warming threatening caribou, northern wildlife
• Canada missing environmental targets, StatsCan says
• Gore says prize must spur action
• Greenpeace blocks ship carrying Canadian newsprint
• Gore: Nobel Prize win shows climate change a 'planetary emergency'
• Al Gore, UN body win Nobel Peace Prize
• Canada tops for Third World support, bottom for environment
• Sources: $4.6 billion settlement in power plant air pollution case
• Spotted frog back from the brink
• CEOs call for 'aggressive' action on climate change
• Gore likes B.C.'s green moves
• Harper at odds with UN chief over Kyoto
• Beyond Kyoto: The UN road map for post-2012
• UN talks to address gridlock on reaching post-Kyoto treaty
• Environment trumps health care, Afghanistan as key issue: poll
• The Great Lakes disappearing act
• Melting of Arctic sea ice shatters record
• Love Trees sends hundreds of Wish Trees to Louisiana School
• Beetle projected to kill 78 per cent of B.C.'s pine forest by 2015, says report
• Record sea ice loss opens Northwest Passage
• Arctic sea ice cover at record low
• APEC outlines action on climate
• Group unveils environmentally friendly polar science station
• Canada under fire at UN climate talks
• Greenhouse gases fuelled near-record temperatures, U.S. researchers say
• Arctic sea ice shrinks to lowest area on record
• Canadians link environment, health problems: CMA poll
• Hundreds pose nude on Swiss glacier to protest global warming
• Around the globe, 2007 is on track to be a year of extreme weather
• Gore: Polluters financing research to cast doubt
• Solar power makes tiny village beam
• Using dogs to adapt to global warming
• Canadians prove humans are causing climate change
• Climate change could ruin fisheries: scientist
• Ice blocks cool buildings as alternative to AC
• Philanthropist's murder could cripple green groups
• Not quite green enough yet
• Huge solar farm planned for California
• Gore, Live Earth musicians urge environmental action
• Live Earth wraps up, touted as massive success
• Welcome to the Press Information Center for Live Earth: Live Blog is where you will find up-to-the-minute information covering all of Live Earth’s 24 hours of music on 7 continents.
• Love Trees plants a tree in honor of Live Earth.
• Gore gears up for globe-trotting Live Earth concert series
• West bakes, highs hit 107, 115, 125
• China Denies Hiding Pollution Death Data
• Can Live Earth really change the world?
• Vanishing ponds leaving the Arctic high and dry
• Shopping for carbon credits
• The beetle and the damage done: Mountain pine beetles are expected to wipe out 80 per cent of B.C.'s pine forest by 2013 — now the race is to stop their eastward expansion
• UN issues desertification warning
• Pine beetle developing a taste for spruce
• Kravitz to play Rio's Live Earth
• Price emissions or risk economic fallout: report
• Prince Charles shrinks his carbon footprint
• Kyoto bill among those to pass in Senate Friday
• The new green dress code: office cool
• Suzuki hits Hollywood with green message
• GE's green gamble
• Sales of Toyota hybrids exceed 1M
• Recruiting Plankton to Fight Global Warming
• Canada fails WWF's scorecard on climate change
• Canada can be leader in climate change battle, says Harper
• B.C. 2050: What climate change will do to our province
  How trees can fuel cars
• NASA scientist calls for 'full court press' to save ice caps
• Group plans lawsuit against Tories over Kyoto
• Report: Climate change best fought on local level
• U.S. aims to stop G8's tough push on global warming
• Study: Southern Ocean saturated with CO2
• Scientists plead for protection of forests
• Ontario launching program to cut plastic bag use
• Forecasters say Subtropical Storm Andrea has formed off the southeastern U.S. coast, more than three weeks before the official start of hurricane season.
• Fighting global warming won't ruin economy, climate panel says
• Global climate plan says warming can be stopped
• New Arctic research network will study climate change
• Al Gore slams Tories' new environmental plan
• Suzuki confronts environment minister over green plan
• Tories unveil emission plan, say Kyoto goal will be reached 8 years late
• Carbon credits fight spreads to B.C.
• Lights to go out on inefficient bulbs by 2012
• New York plans to plant 1 million trees
• Leaked speech reveals Tories' plan to cut greenhouse gases
• Manitoba boreal forest activist honoured
• Earth Day demonstrators rap Harper on Kyoto
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
  
• Ice climbers give eyewitness accounts of global warming
• Climate change report warns of increased hunger, species extinction
• B.C.'s premier, Schwarzenegger discuss climate change
• Dion promises hard caps on greenhouse gasses by 2008
• Winter has been world's warmest on record
• Draft international climate report warns of droughts, starvation, disease
• Green groups strut their stuff on Wall St.
• How global warming goes against the grain
• Climate draft allows spike in oil-sands emissions
• World warms to a climate-crisis battler
• Australia says lights out to incandescent bulbs
• Sir Nicholas Stern and Dr David Suzuki release joint statement
• UN report says climate change man-made
• Love Trees branches out to offer kids a greener future
• The fallout of global warming: 1,000 years
• Giant ice shelf snaps free from Canada's Arctic
• Global warming already killing species: report
• 'World needs a billion trees'
• Greenhouse gas record set in 2005: UN report
  
• Address climate change or risk global depression: economist
• Ozone hole matches record size, UN agency says
• New trees to reclaim Amazon lands
• Earth at warmest point in 12,000 years, say scientists

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