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Young Consumers' Guide to Eco-Friendly Living
Paris 01 October 2008  How to balance looking cool and feeling cool with the need to combat climate are among the key tips in the new United Nations YouthXchange Training kit. This updated version of the guide also gets to grips with the mountains of waste emerging across the globe as a result of today’s fast throw-away society from mobile phones to fashion.The 2008 Training Kit on Sustainable Consumption, produced by the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP ) and the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) is now in its second edition.
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Mexico to Host World Environment Day Under the Theme 'Your Planet Needs You'
Mexico City 22 September 2008  Mexico, a country at the crossroads of the Green Economy and one increasingly in the centre of regional and global affairs will host the international 2009 World Environment Day celebrations.The theme chosen by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), which coordinates the day on 5 June on behalf of the UN system and the peoples of the world, will be 'Your Planet Needs You-UNite to Combat Climate Change'.
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Multiple threats to coral biodiversity lend urgency to scientific inventory of life on Australia's famous reefs
Australia 19 September 2008  Hundreds of new kinds of animals have surprised international researchers who have been systematically exploring waters off two islands on the Great Barrier Reef and a reef off northwestern Australia, waters long familiar to divers.
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New study estimates 765 grizzly bears reside in
Northwest Montana 16 September 2008  A new study estimates that 765 grizzly bears make their home in the Northern Continental DivideEcosystem, a 7.8 million acre area in northwest Montana stretching from north of Missoula, Mont., tothe Canadian border.
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Arctic sea ice settles at second-lowest, underscores accelerating decline
Boulder 16 September 2008  The Arctic sea ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent for the year, the second-lowest extent recorded since the dawn of the satellite era. While above the record minimum set on September 16, 2007, this year further reinforces the strong negative trend in summertime ice extent observed over the past thirty years. With the minimum behind us, we will continue to analyze ice conditions as we head into the crucial period of the ice growth season during the months to come.
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