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For years, Earth Day celebrants have hugged trees, dressed up as their favorite endangered species, and extolled the virtues of compost and organic gardening. Today, the annual day to tout personal and community greenness, has a new emphasis for many people: global warming and its predicted effects on Mother Earth.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042207Z.shtml

WMD are a constant topic on the agenda of the United Nations, but now the Security Council members will have to ask, "Which W is it: weather or weapons?"

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681364ms42



Renewable instead of nuclear energy

During the Cold War, the ques­tion of the century was: Com­munism or capitalism? Now, in times of climate change, the millennial question is: Cli­mate protection or climate disaster? Is nuclear energy a way out of the climate catastrophe? Wouldn't it be much simpler, safer and cheaper to use renewable energy sources?

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681362ms42



Rainforest destruction in Africa

The Congo rainforest is the life support system for millions of people in the 'green heart' of Africa.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681365ms42



Secure Energy? Civil Nuclear Power, Security and Global Warming All over the world the fortunes of civil nuclear power are rising – why? Edited by Frank Barnaby and James

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681366ms42

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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3515163/

Das Bundesamt für Naturschutz: Veränderungen in der Natur betreffen uns alle.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681360ms42

Eine bisher einmalige Kooperation zum Klimaschutz starteten die Umweltverbände BUND, Greenpeace und WWF gemeinsam mit BILD, Europas größter Tageszeitung.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681358ms42



Wie reagiert der Golfstrom auf den Klimawandel?
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3642293/

Klimawandel: (Warn)Signale aus der Natur müssen ernst genommen werden!
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3642321/

Bundespräsident Köhler: Erneuerbare Energien statt Atomenergie
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3642297/

Klimaschutz und Wachstum in Entwicklungsländern möglich
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3642324/

Klüngelwirtschaft verhindert Klimaschutz
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3642305/

Patent auf genmanipulierte Turbo-Milchkühe erteilt
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3642308/

Die Weltlandwirtschaftsorganisation FAO warnt, das der Treibhauseffekt die Wälder schwer in Mitleidenschaft zieht.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681343ms42

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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3515163/

Neue Erkenntnisse aus Langzeitstudie im subpolaren Nordatlantik. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681340ms42

"The lesson is that collective action on the climate, from the developing and the industrialized countries together, is the great imperative for the world," writes Michael McCarthy.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042007EA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+McCarthy

Australia has warned that it will have to switch off the water supply to the continent's food bowl unless heavy rains break an epic drought - heralding what could be the first climate change-driven disaster to strike a developed nation.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/australasia/article2465960.ece


From Information Clearing House

http://comment.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/article2465904.ece


Informant: NHNE