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Up to 40% of the world’s largest rainforest could be wiped out by 2050 unless conservation measures are improved. The Amazon rainforest is being cut down for cattle ranching and soy farming, destroying important natural habitats and having an impact on global warming.
Environment	The Sentinel – 23rd March 2006



Almost 60% of people in Britain think that a place of worship makes their neighbourhood a better place to live in.
Environment	Evangelicals Now – April 2006



Only 20% of drivers who use their vehicles to travel to work currently car share.
Environment	The Sentinel – 8th March 2006



Less than half of Europeans believe immigration has made their country a better place to live. A poll carried out across eight nations for Reader’s Digest showed only 47% believed immigration had been positive.
Environment	The Sentinel – 4th January 2006



Some 40% of Britain’s electricity needs are provided by gas, a third from coal and nearly a fifth from nuclear power plants.
Environment	Christianity Magazine – January 2006



British churches are doing little to respond to the threat of global warming, according to the results of a survey. A poll of 1,000 churches found that none of the respondents used renewable energy in their buildings, only 47 have made any changes to reduce damaging emissions, and just 37 plan to do so.
Environment	The Baptist Times – 6th October 2005



Already 50000 people are dying every day from the effects of poverty. In Africa, 70% of the population depends on agriculture for a living. If that’s affected by rainfall, then potentially 70% of the population is affected. That’s 490 million people.
Environment	The Baptist Times – 14th July 2005



Britons produce mind-boggling quantities of rubbish – around 434 million tons each year – and nearly 75% of that goes to landfill.
Environment	The Independent – 8th July 2005



Climate change could be reduced if mankind swapped their pork chops for tofu sausages, according to new research. A scientist claims ditching meaty meals in favour of nut roasts could do more to cut greenhouse gas emissions than burning less oil and gas.
Environment	The Sentinel – 6th July 2005



Department of Transport figures show that road traffic accidents were the biggest single killer of children aged 12-16 in 2003. In that year, 74 child pedestrians under 16 were killed and 12,740 were injured on Britain's roads. Deaths of 8-19 year olds on foot rose by 26% to 110 between 2002 and 2003.
Environment	Third Sector – 23rd March 2005



562 tornadoes which hit the United States in May this year was a record, far higher than the previous record monthly peak of 399 set in June 1992.
Environment	Prophetic Witness – February 2005



Scientists are predicting that coral reefs could start to dissolve within 30 years as rising carbon dioxide levels makes the seas more acidic.
Environment	The Independent - 2nd February 2005



British Scientists have discovered a new threat to the world in the form of a massive Antarctic ice sheet previously assumed to be stable may be starting to disintegrate. Its collapse would raise sea levels around the Earth by more than 16 feet.
Environment	The Independent - 2nd February 2005



The global warming danger threshold for the world is clearly marked for the first time in an international report to be published tomorrow - and the bad news is, the world has nearly reached it already. The countdown to climate change catastrophe is spelt out by a task force of senior politicians, business leaders and academics from around the world and it is remarkably brief. In as little as 10 years, or even less, their report indicates, the point of no return with global warming may have been reached.It breaks new ground by putting a figure - for the first time in such a high level document - on the danger point of global warming, that is, the temperature rise beyond which the world would be irretrievably committed to disastrous changes. These could include widespread agricultural failure, water shortages and major droughts, increased disease, sea-level rise and the death of forests - with the added possibility of abrupt catastrophic events such as "runaway" global warming, the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, or the switching off of the Gulf Stream.
Environment	The Independent – 24th January 2005



Britain looks likely to miss a key target in the fight against global warming by a wide margin, the Government was forced to admit yesterday.By 2010, Tony Blair said, the UK would achieve only a 14% cut in emissions of CO2 from 1990 levels. This compares with a planned reduction of 20% set in 1994 by the Labour Party, which has since appeared in its election manifesto.
Environment	The Independent – 9th December 2004

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