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The Argentine Minister of the Environment (and activist) Romina Piccolotti talks about "environmental discrimination" -- the connections between global warming and social and economic justice.

Coral gardens have also been popular spots for water sports tourism especially diving. I joined this custom safari with a group of friends on this fine May morning that combined a variety of both marine and terrestrial research together with community development projects within the tropical environment of East Africa.

If you like green films, you should check out the Environmental Film Festival that will take place in Washington D.C. ON March 11-22. One of the highlights of the festival will be the new film, 'Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai', which is about Wangari Maathai and the grassroots movement she founded, the Green Belt Movement of Kenya.

A short, scrawny bush found deep in Uganda’s rain forest and nicknamed the “sex tree” is rapidly approaching extinction as poachers are rushing to harvest it for its purported aphrodisiac properties. Experts say loss of the “sex tree” and other medicinal plants would not only do irreversible damage to the rain forest, but would also take a toll on local Ugandans who have been using the trees as herbal cures for generations.

At least there will be a place for all those $200 OLPC laptops and shredded spam documents

A population of White Bearded De Brazza’s monkeys were sighted recently in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, far from their original homes, raising concerns over climate change. The monkeys were spotted in a forest area that had dried out as the climate in Kenya became more arid.