BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'No solution' found in more trees

Planting trees in the Amazon to curb global warming is unlikely to work.

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A timely death for the pork laden "energy bill" (in reality corporate welfare for the energy industry) is indeed good (if temporary) news. How to wrest power from the oil oligarchy and establish that energy policy, climate change, childhood asthma, air pollution, and a good chunk of terrorism is really the same problem?

ENN News Story - Senate gives up on energy legislation for this year

The Senate dropped efforts Monday to pass energy legislation this year after repeated attempts failed to find the two additional votes needed to push the bill through Congress.

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Its not just Forests.org railing against the Toxic Texan - here Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. takes him to task for environmental crimes.

TOMPAINE.com - Crimes Against Nature

"George W. Bush will go down in history as America's worst environmental president. In a ferocious three-year attack, the Bush administration has initiated more than 200 major rollbacks of America's environmental laws, weakening the protection of our country's air, water, public lands and wildlife..."

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Think you email action alerts from Forests.org do not make any difference? Read below how our campaign successfully lead to suspension of logging in one region of Para, and how the loggers are mobilizing against Greenpeace.

NDTV.com - Greenpeace activists clash with loggers

Three hundred Brazilian loggers have converged on a ship belonging to the environment group Greenpeace in a mid-river stand-off in the Amazon.

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A massive blow has been dealt to America's prospects for achieving ecological sustainability. What a stroke of genius, mow the forests so they do not burn.

Planet Ark : Congress Passes Forest-Thinning Bill

Congress last week passed a forest-thinning bill to spend $760 million annually to prevent deadly wildfires like those that recently scorched Southern California, despite complaints from environmental groups that the measure is a giveaway to the timber industry.

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Who knows what is being lost? What marvels reside in their
genes? Their importance for the ecosystem? What a tragedy?

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Oblivion threat to 12,000 species

Another 2,000 species have been added to the annual Red List
of the world's most endangered animals and plants.

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Yahoo! News - Environmentalists stage 'tree-sit' to save Australian forest

Environmentalists began a treetop protest to highlight the
threat to the world's tallest hardwood trees, endangered
by logging in Australia's island state of Tasmania.

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The question of our time:

(22) How Much Nature Is Enough?

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The Rocky Mountain Front in Montana is one of the last
major wilderness landscapes in continental America. As
such, it should come as no surprise that President Bush
is aggressively seeking to open these lands to oil and
gas drilling. In August, the Bush administration told
federal land managers to remove bureaucratic and
environmental restrictions to drilling in seven Western
areas, including the Rocky Mountain Front. The Toxic
Texan's new campaign slogan might as well be "leave
no wilderness behind".

The extent to which the energy industry controls the
reigns of American government is shocking and
frightening. In addition to opening federal lands to
oil industry buddies, recent weeks have seen
roll-backs on clean air law enforcement, and an
energy policy based upon billions in subsidies to a
veritable whose-who of corporate welfare, fossil
fuel industry fatcats. America desperately needs
an energy policy that does not extinguish large,
operational ecosystems from home and abroad;
and which is forward looking, emphasizing
conservation and renewable energy. This is not
likely to occur while the oil oligarchy and military/
industrial complex are in charge. Forest
conservationists are encouraged to make oil
drilling in Rocky Mountain wilderness lands a
major campaign focus.

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Is there nothing to sacred to sell?

Yahoo! News - Singapore Hub of Rising Asia Illegal Wildlife Trade
Wildlife smuggling is on the rise, say authorities in Singapore,
whose ports are increasingly used as transit points in the
shuttling of endangered animals between the United States
and tropical Asian countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam.

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Finally, they get it - logging and other environmental crimes are
indeed terrorism. But is it too late for Indonesia's rainforests?

Yahoo! News - Indonesian Loggers Called Terrorists

Indonesia's environment minister on Wednesday likened illegal
loggers to "terrorists" for rampant deforestation blamed for a
devastating flood on Sumatra island.

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ENN News Story - Supreme Court decision to hear wilderness case a blow to environmentalists

The Bush Wilderness Doctrine: Nature is a big dirt track
for off road vehicles.

Environmental groups suing to keep off-road vehicles off pristine
Western lands were dealt a setback Monday as the Supreme Court
agreed to consider the government's argument that the case is
invalid.

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Logging kills - in this tragic incident quickly and mercifully,
but in all instances slowly eroding the ability of the Earth
to support life.

Yahoo! News - About 170 feared dead in Indonesia flood disaster blamed on logging

About 170 people were feared dead as hopes faded of finding
alive dozens still missing after a flash flood linked to illegal
logging smashed through an Indonesian resort town.

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Fighting It by Letting It Burn

Mexican officials, backed by some U.S. academics, believe that
having several medium-sized brush fires in one season is
preferable to having one large brush fire that can destroy
homes and cost lives. Smaller fires burn the fuel that can
feed a large fire, they note.

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Planet Ark : Victory Declared in Calif. Blazes, Firemen Head Home

Some victory - thanks to this human caused event, America's
forests are going to be logged to protect them.

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Yahoo! News - Keeping your land undeveloped forever

Conservation easements are a fantastic method to ensure
that dwindling natural areas remain intact and indeed are
allowed to grow.

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