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Consumer products start and end with nature
Christmas season means advertising season. Local mailboxes and newspapers laden with flyers. Children pleading for the latest toys they've seen on television. Awash in consumer products and commercials, it's easy to forget where all this stuff comes from and where it goes.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-19/s_11496.asp

Battle rages with Ecuador Indians over jungle oil
In a steamy jungle of winding laurel trees and sprawling palms, a battle is raging between Ecuadorean Indians trying to protect land rights and oil companies who want to drill in the Amazon.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-19/s_11468.asp

Cruise ship engineers indicted on charges of hiding dumping
Three cruise ship engineers were indicted Thursday on charges of falsifying log books to conceal the dumping of waste oil at sea.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-19/s_11495.asp

Nevada prepares case against nuclear waste dump
Nevada's legal team will tell a federal appeals court that the government is trying to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain even though it does not meet the original legal requirements for a dump, lawyers said.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-19/s_11491.asp

Amnesty says Miami police may have broken UN laws
Police in Miami may have violated various international laws and covenants on civil rights and use of force when they crushed protests against a free trade meeting last month, rights group Amnesty International said.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-19/s_11493.asp

Federal scientists say Missouri River flow hurts birds
Government-controlled flows along the lower Missouri River, relied upon by farmers and barge operators to get grain to markets, threaten the endangered pallid sturgeon, federal biologists report.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-19/s_11490.asp

European fishery officials inching toward agreement
Following all-night negotiations, European Union talks on protecting both dwindling fish stocks and fishing fleets entered a third day Friday, with fisheries ministers slowly moving toward consensus, officials said.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-19/s_11492.asp

Judge calls for investigation into U.S. 'ghost ships'
A High Court judge has called for an "urgent investigation" into how to deal with the four so-called "ghost ships" currently docked in northeast England and facing an uncertain future.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-19/s_11489.asp

Biologists hopeful most fish survived burned aquarium
After waiting two days to find out the fate of nearly 5,000 fish caught in a fire that swept through a building housing Europe's second biggest aquarium, biologists said that more than they had expected survived.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-19/s_11467.asp

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Direct from non-profit environmental and educational organizations.

Competitive Enterprise Institute:
Lomborg's Vindication Improves Chances for Sound Science to be Heard in Policy Debate

The Trust for Public Land:
TPL Works With Potential Gardens Buyer (FL)

The Trust for Public Land:
Agreement to Protect Brainerd Lakes Forests (MN)

Trout Unlimited - Western Conservation Office:
Trout Unlimited Releases Fish Hatchery Reform Report

The Trust for Public Land:
Donation Helps Protect MN Bluffland

GreenBiz.com:
Green Business Network Translates Its Small-Business Guide into Spanish

GreenFacts Foundation:
Science into Policy: GreenFacts releases 2003 Conference Proceedings

National Wildlife Federation:
NWF Takes Legal Action to Ensure Wolf Recovery in the Northeast

Project NatureConnect, Institute of Global Education:
How to Reduce the Psychological Source of our Disturbed and Disturbing Relationships