Category: RT Newswire

USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.

Going Beyond Climate Change: The Cost of Biodiversity Loss

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Published on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 by Inter Press Service
Going Beyond Climate Change: The Cost of Biodiversity Loss
by Ramesh Jaura

BARCELONA – While the financial mayhem continues to draw the headlines, the cost of
persistent biodiversity loss has yet to be established. But it is believed to be
bigger than that of the meltdown, and in many cases also irreparable.

While the financial mayhem continues to draw the headlines, the cost of persistent
biodiversity loss has yet to be established. But it is believed to be bigger than
that of the meltdown, and in many cases also irreparable. (Image: BBC media)The
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) now plans to gather
incontrovertible evidence on the value of preserving biodiversity and the cost of
losing it. The world’s oldest and largest global environmental network will task its
scientific commissions for this.

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Urgent Help Neded for Indigenous Gustav Survivors

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http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=2008gustav-four-winds

Four Directions Action Alert: Urgent Help Neded for Gustav Survivors

Friday, September 05 2008 @ 05:51 PM CDT
Contributed by: Admin
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Breaking News Despite the rosy media reports of light damage from
Hurricane Gustav, several of southern Lousiana’s coastal Indigenous communities are
reeling from a direct hit by Hurricane Gustav’s 115mph winds and large storm surge.
Their communities lie in shambles. The communities of lower Pointe-au-Chien, home of
the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe (PACIT), and the Isle de Jean Charles (“The
Island”) Band of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Confederation of Muskogees (BCCM) are
still trying to assess the severe damage and what it will take to rebuild after
Gustav’s devastating winds and storm-surge flooded homes, knocked
buildings off their foundations, and decimated the primary source of income in the
early season commercial shrimp harvest. The Island is still inaccessible due to
prevailing flood waters.

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John McCain Supports Ongoing Genocide Against Navajo People

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Sen. John McCain supports ongoing genocide against the Navajo Nation
Submitted by dcu on Sat, 07/08/2006 – 3:47am.

My wife and I have just returned from visiting Navajo friends in 
New Mexico and Arizona. Upon returning home I received an email from a
friend in Colorado about what John McCain is doing to the Navajo people. Read
about it below the fold:

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Federal Wildlife Agencies Ordered to Ignore Global Warming

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Federal Wildlife Agencies Ordered to Ignore Global Warming

Any questions?

ASW

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 14, 2008  10:24 AM

CONTACT: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
Bill Boteler (202) 265-7337

Federal Wildlife Agencies Ordered to Ignore Global Warming
No Review of New Greenhouse Gas Pollution for Impact on Species or Habitat

WASHINGTON – October 14 – Top Bush administration officials have forbidden wildlife
agencies from analyzing the effects of greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired
power-plants or any other project on species and habitat, according to documents
released today by Public Employees for
Environmental Responsibility (PEER). These directives are designed to block the
Endangered Species Act (ESA) from being used as a legal tool for addressing global
warming.

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