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.

Op-Ed: Climate Change-The View From Turkey

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Interesting to note how much foreign journalists address ecosystem health/biodiversity as well as water/food security-sovereignty issues-vs. how little U.S. journalists say about them.

ASW

… 85 percent of the land area in Turkey is
“highly vulnerable to desertification.”

“We should assume our responsibility to reduce
our carbon footprint and kick the habit. It is
the only way out.”
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This person-like many foreign journalists-says alot about food security & ecosystem
protectection…unlike U.S. journalists-who generally say very little about those subjects
Today’s Zaman
June 5, 2008

Op-Ed

Kick the CO2 habit: toward a low- carbon economy
by MAHMOOD AYUB*
<http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=143867&bolum=109>

It has already begun. The chain reaction of
events related to climate change affects us all.
More than ever, extreme weather conditions are
causing severe natural disasters.

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Baca NWR (CO) Makes PEER List: U.S. Top 10 Most Imperiled Refuges

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No joke folx…want to survive & mitigate climate change? Then PROTECT
WILDERNESS AND WILDLIFE!! No exceptions…

ASW

—————————- Original Message —————————-
Subject: BACA NWR MAKES PEER LIST OF AMERICA’S TEN MOST IMPERILED WILDLIFE
REFUGES
From:    “winter ross” <winterross@yahoo.com>
Date:    Wed, June 4, 2008 7:36 pm
To:      “Storm Waters” <stormf5@riseup.net>
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Christine Canaly <slvwater@fairpoint.net> wrote: Date: Sun, 25 May 2008
18:03:20 -0600
To: (Recipient list suppressed)
From: Christine Canaly <slvwater@fairpoint.net>
Subject:
Fwd: BACA NWR MAKES PEER LIST OF AMERICA’S
TEN MOST IMPERILED WILDLIFE REFUGES

Hi folks,

The Baca was recognized by PEER as one of the Nation’s top 10 imperiled
wildlife refuges (see story below).  While this reaffirms the important
work we still have ahead of us, the listing will help us get important
national attention.

Watch for an update on the results of our latest FOIA request in the June
Crestone Eagle.

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Climate Change, Secrecy, Repression, and the Bush Regime

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“What was most noteworthy about the latter
report was that it made it to the light of day.”
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The New York Times
June 4, 2008

Editorial

The Science of Denial

The Bush administration has worked overtime to manipulate or
conceal scientific evidence-and muzzled at least one prominent
scientist-to justify its failure to address climate change.

Its motives were transparent: the less people understood about
the causes and consequences of global warming, the less they
were likely to demand action from their leaders. And its strategy
has been far too successful. Seven years later, Congress is only
beginning to confront the challenge of global warming.

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Peru to Protect Isolated Tribes

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Peru to protect isolated tribes
Uncontacted tribe near Brazil-Peru border
Brazil says dozens of tribes live in the region

Authorities in Peru are to take measures to protect some of the last indigenous tribes to have avoided contact with the outside world.

They have promised to stop loggers encroaching on their land near the Brazilian border.

The announcement comes after photographs of an isolated tribe taken near the border with Peru were circulated around the world.

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