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Charities Warm to Climate Change Issues

April 6, 2010

NatureNews.com

Laura Thompson Osuri

Global steps to battle climate change might have faltered, but philanthropic institutions in the United States have swung into action, more than tripling their support for climate-related causes in 2008...For example, the Rockefeller Foundation in New York gave a grant to Stanford University in California for studies on how agriculture could adapt to a changing climate.

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