
RARE How about this for a New Year's Resolution: Family cuts their waste to just one binful a year: http://bit.ly/5XRdDn
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Like most families, the Strausses have a bin full of rubbish awaiting collection after the festive season. The difference in their case is that it contains all the refuse they have generated in an entire year.

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Global warming has caused a seven-fold increase in cases of malaria on the slopes of Mount Kenya, a British-funded research team has found.
A 2C increase in average temperatures around the mountain in the past 20 years has allowed the disease to creep into higher altitude areas, where the local population of four million has little or no immunity.
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Global warming has caused a seven-fold increase in cases of malaria on the slopes of Mount Kenya, a British-funded research team has found.

RARE Almost one third -- one third! -- of the Northern Rockies wolf population was killed in 2009: http://bit.ly/6jHj8a
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2009 was a dismal, tragic year for Northern Rockies wolves. They lost all protections under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), were hunted for the first time in Montana and Idaho (and continue to ...

RARE “It is without question the epicenter of marine biodiversity for the planet.” http://bit.ly/4oubej
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It is without question the epicenter of marine biodiversity for the planet. Mark Erdmann, Senior Advisor to Conservation International Indonesia's marine

RARE Thank you to everyone who helped out Rare in Club Penguin's Coins for Change. More than 4 billion (virtual) coins were donated, with Rare receiving $177,500 to support local conservation campaigns around the world (http://bit.ly/8Z6dR7 )

RARE Humans may be reluctant to floss their teeth, but this Japanese macaque doesn't seem to mind: http://bit.ly/7hcRRs
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Humans may be reluctant to floss their teeth, but this Japanese macaque doesn't seem to mind.

RARE Kenya REDD project becomes first in Africa to win gold-level validation: http://bit.ly/76KANu
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A Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) project in Kenya has become the first in Africa to win GOLD level validation under the Climate Community and Biodiversity (CCB) Alliance's ...

RARE The battery-powered robot taxis use energy resources equivalent to 200 mpg and can be programmed for custom routes.
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Eco-Friendly Robot Taxis Come to Heathrow, Other Airports

RARE Today's photo of the day is of a monkey in Tibet. I swear it looks like it is eating pizza: http://bit.ly/77xMCj

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A funky, psychedelic fish that bounces on the ocean floor like a rubber ball has been classified as a new species, a scientific journal reported. The frogfish — which has a swirl of tan and peach zebra stripes that extend from its

RARE The last wild Indochinese tiger in China has been killed and eaten by a villager: (http://bit.ly/8YAvT6) The Indochinese tiger is on the brink of extinction, with less than 1,000 left in Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar.

RARE Social marketing FTW! Today's photo of the day shows one effective way to engage the community in change: http://bit.ly/6KRqZZ

RARE Google, Cisco Offer Answers to REDD's Verification Question: http://bit.ly/8jPgGs
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The international climate talks have repeatedly bogged down in disputes over transparency and verification, but on one issue, technology is offering a solution.

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Mr. Splashy Pants (http://bit.ly/8aaKQ)k
plays Club Penguin & he only donates his coins to Rare
(environment). Follow his lead. Play today. Help the environment.
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Mister Splashy Pants, or Mr. Splashypants, is the name of a humpback whale in the South Pacific Ocean. It is currently being tracked with a satellite tag by Greenpeace as a part of its Great Whale Trail ...


















