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.

International Paper Threatens to Violate Own Policy by Expanding Into Indonesian Rainforest

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May 12, 2008  5:40 PM

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International Paper Threatens to Violate Own Policy by Expanding Into Indonesian Rainforest

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – May 12 – Rainforest Action Network and ForestEthics today condemned a proposal by U.S.-based International Paper to build a pulp mill and establish 1.2 million acres of plantation forest in the heart of the Indonesian rainforest. The groups urged International Paper, which is holding its Annual General Meeting today, to not violate its own paper policy and to abandon its plans to expand into Indonesia, a global warming and biodiversity hot spot.

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Global Atmospheric CO2 at Record High

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“The figures, published by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) on its website, also confirm that carbon dioxide,
the chief greenhouse gas, is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than
expected.”
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/12/climatechange.carbonemissions
Monday May 12 2008

World CO2 levels at record high, scientists warn
David Adam

The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached a
record high, according to new figures that renew fears that climate
change could begin to slide out of control.

Scientists at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii say that CO2 levels in
the atmosphere now stand at 387 parts per million (ppm), up almost 40%
since the industrial revolution and the highest for at least the last
650,000 years.

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Rough Season for Wildfires Anticipated in U.S. West

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Fire managers predict bad year for blazes
Sat May 10, 2008 2:37pm EDT

By Laura Zuckerman

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – U.S. fire managers are forecasting a grim year for blazes in drought-plagued Western states, just weeks after a premature start to the Southwest’s wildfire season.

This comes even as the U.S. Forest Service, the lead agency for fighting fires on vast swaths of public and private lands, is reassessing a years-old model that sought to contain all blazes at all times.

Environmental and financial strains paired with demographic changes have made that strategy ineffective in an era of record-size fires sweeping across the West, experts say.

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