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RAN Pushes Companies and Governments to End Indonesia Deforestation Crisis

2013-06-26 22:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Rainforest Action Network: On my way to Jakarta yesterday for a series of meetings with the Tropical Forest Alliance--a consortium of government and corporate leaders from around the world working to confront the world`s deforestation crisis--I stopped for a layover in Singapore. I was immediately hit over the head by the urgency of our task. There, just outside the airport windows, the once rich rainforests of Sumatra hung suspended as a thick, sickly smoke polluting the tropical air. While the historic haze engulfing...

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Tim Berners-Lee warns against governments controlling the Web

2013-06-26 14:44:40| CNET News.com

Responding to allegations made by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Berners-Lee says the Web should be protected against control by governments and corporations. [Read more]

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Canadian governments must stop letting birds down

2013-06-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Toronto Star: he bad news keeps coming for bobolinks, barn swallows and olive-sided flycatchers, among other Canadian bird species all but annihilated in recent decades. According to a new report, some domestic wildfowl populations have declined by as much as 80 to 90 per cent over the past 20 years. And while the main culprits are climate change and dirty agriculture, the federal and Ontario governments seem set on complicity. The Birdlife International study revealed that one in eight bird species worldwide...

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