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Look for Cleanups of Local Rivers, Lakes and Shores [1]

Covering for the slovenly among us, hundreds of thousands of volunteers are expected to participate in an annual trash collection effort on Sept. 15, 2007, along the shores of the world's oceans, lakes, and rivers.
SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Water & Oceans [3]
Region: 
International [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

Mercury: The Dark Side of Energy-Efficient Lighting [7]

Around the world, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) are widely touted — and sometimes required — as energy-efficient replacements for standard incandescent bulbs.

SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Chemicals [8]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Region: 
International [4]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

Are Carbon Offsets for Real? [10]

Even Al Gore, tweaked by conservatives for his multi-home, jet-setting lifestyle, has defended his bona fides by touting his family's purchase of carbon offsets.
SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [11]
Region: 
International [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

Next Climate Change Report Due May 4 [12]

The third of four reports that comprise the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's "Fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change" is scheduled to be released May 4, 2007, in Bangkok.
SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Region: 
International [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

Nations Seek "Roadmap" to Post-Kyoto Climate Treaty at Bali [14]

Post-Kyoto climate change negotiations began in earnest in Bali, Indonesia, to prepare for the next iteration of world consensus on the topic.
SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [15]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Government [16]
Policy [17]
Environmental Politics [13]
Region: 
International [4]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

Environmental Refugees: Demographic and Other Resources [18]

Key resources of studies and statistics for human angles on environmental stories.
SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [11]
Planning & Growth [19]
Disasters [20]
People & Population [21]
Environmental Politics [13]
Region: 
International [4]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

Environmental Refugees: U.S. and World Examples [22]

Disasters create hundreds of thousands of environmental refugees in U.S and the World.
SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [11]
Planning & Growth [19]
Disasters [20]
People & Population [21]
Region: 
International [4]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

Environmental Refugees May Be Everyone's Problem: Security Issues [23]

Displaced people from disasters, climate change pose international social, economic and security threats

SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Planning & Growth [19]
People & Population [21]
Environmental Politics [13]
Climate Change [11]
Region: 
International [4]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

Special Year 2008 Look-Ahead: Environmental Refugees Grow in Numbers [24]

E-refugees grow in numbers, reflect threats to safety, security.
SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [11]
Planning & Growth [19]
Disasters [20]
Natural Resources [25]
People & Population [21]
Environmental Politics [13]
Region: 
International [4]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

Human Development and Climate Change Suspected in Waterbird Declines [26]

Although the evidence is not yet ironclad, two recent reports support fears that populations of hundreds of bird species strongly dependent on water bodies are declining in much of the world.
SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [11]
Region: 
International [4]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

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