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baiji
The baiji (Lipotes vexillifer) is a possibly extinct species of river dolphin native to the Yangtze river system in China. It is thought to possibly be the first dolphin species driven to extinction due to the impact of humans. This dolphin is listed as "critically endangered: possibly extinct" by the IUCN, has not been definitively seen in over 20 years, and several surveys of the Yangtze have failed to find it. The species is also called the Chinese river dolphin, Yangtze river dolphin, Yangtze dolphin, and whitefin dolphin. The genus name Lipotes means "left behind" and the species epithet
Live Earth
organization
The 11th Hour
2007 film by Leila Conners, Nadia Conners
clean development mechanism
climate change abatement and mitigation treaty
The World Without Us
non-fiction work by Alan Weisman
Earth
2007 nature documentary film
Wittenoom
former townsite located within the Wittenoom Asbestos Hazard Zone in Western Australia
IPCC Fourth Assessment Report
intergovernmental report on climate change
2007 United Nations Climate Change Conference
international climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia in December 2007
The Great Global Warming Swindle
2007 television film
The Story of Stuff
2007 film by Louis Fox
Heart of Borneo
conservation agreement initiated by the World Wide Fund for Nature to protect a 2.2×10⁵ km² forested region on Borneo island
Bali Road Map
international agreement on pre-steps to measures against climate change
Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency
2007 United States Supreme Court case
2007 South Korea oil spill
Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks
international convention on maritime assistance and salvage
What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire
2007 film
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
2007 film by Steven Okazaki
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
essay by Mark Lynas
Heroes of the Environment
Topic of Time Magazine special issue
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
non-fiction work by Bjørn Lomborg