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Action Alert-Support Indigenous Peoples! CALL the Secretary of Interior & Office of Surface Mining

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Subject: [Action Alert – Support Indigenous Peoples!] CALL the Secretary
of Interior & Office of Surface Mining
From:    “Indigenous Environmental Network” <ienonlinenews@igc.org>
Date:    Mon, December 8, 2008 9:36 am
To:      stormf5@riseup.net
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Forest Hotspots Pinpointed For Climate, Biodiversity

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Posnan, Poland Climate Talks: Forest Hotspots Pinpointed For Climate,
Biodiversity:

http://planetark.org/wen/50811

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Melting Ice May Slow Global Warming

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Scientists discover that minerals found in collapsing ice sheets could
feed plankton and cut C02 emissions

David Adam, environment correspondent

The Observer, Sunday December 7 2008

Collapsing antarctic ice sheets, which have become potent symbols of
global warming, may actually turn out to help in the battle against
climate change and soaring carbon emissions.

Professor Rob Raiswell, a geologist at the University of Leeds, says
that as the sheets break off the ice covering the continent, floating
icebergs are produced that gouge minerals from the bedrock as they
make their way to the sea. Raiswell believes that the accumulated
frozen mud could breathe life into the icy waters around Antarctica,
triggering a large, natural removal of carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere.

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Global Warming’s First Mammal Extinction Victim?

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“It only takes four or five hours of temperatures above 30 [degrees Celsius
(86 degrees Fahrenheit)] to kill this highly vulnerable species,”
Williams said.
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Scientific American
Dec 4, 2008

Global warming’s first mammal victim?
David Biello

White lemuroid possums-otherwise known as Hemibelideus lemuroides-may
have become the first mammal to disappear because of climate change,
according to an Australian researcher. The cute marsupials restricted
to certain mountaintops in the prehistoric “Lost World” of far
northern tropical Queensland, Australia, may have fallen victim to an
average temperature rise of at least 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit (0.5
degrees Celsius) over the last several decades.

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