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.

The Film Nestlé Doesn’t Want You to See: FLOW Highlights Impending Global Water Crisis

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The Film Nestlé Doesn’t Want You to See: FLOW Highlights Impending Global
Water Crisis

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/09/19-12

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Decline in Common Bird Species May Signal Biodiversity Crisis

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Decline in common birds may signal biodiversity crisis

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE48M14820080923

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Coastal Wetlands Blunt Storm Impacts

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Published on Monday, September 22, 2008 by The Day (Connecticut)

Wetlands-Nature’s ‘Horizontal Levees’-Blunt Storm Damage
Recent study puts a dollar value on their ability to protect coast

by Judy Benson

In 1960, Hurricane Donna taught Bob Fish a lesson he’s never forgotten.

Go to theday.com to read the complete report,

The Value of Coastal Wetlands for Hurricane Protection. Great Hammock
marsh in Old Saybrook is an example of coastal wetlands that have tangible
value in absorbing a hurricane or other major storm’s floodwaters. Go to
theday.com to read the complete report, The Value of Coastal Wetlands for
Hurricane Protection. Fish lived then on the west side of Old Saybrook
close to the Long Island Sound shoreline. As Donna’s 100-mph winds swept
through southeastern Connecticut, he recalled, the Great Hammock tidal
marsh between his neighborhood and the Sound filled quickly with waters
from the storm surge. Some roads in the neighborhood flooded, but homes
and other property were for the most part spared.
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