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TULSA - Blake Champlin, a Tulsa lawyer and environmental activist, died Monday at his home when a tree supporting a hammock fell and crushed him. Champlin, 45, died instantly, said Gerald Hilsher, an attorney with Shipley & Kellogg, Champlin's former law firm. Champlin was a member of Sierra Club and Save the Illinois River, and the director of Keep Tulsa Beautiful. He also pushed for an agreement between Oklahoma and Arkansas on phosphorus limits in northeast Oklahoma waters, Hilsher said. Champlin was a past director of the Oklahoma Society of Environmental Professionals and a past chairman of the Environmental Law...

LifeSite, April 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - National Geographic's Kids magazine has just sent its young readers a special issue titled 'Save the Earth'. An 11 page section of the edition, headlined 'Save the Planet', discusses '5 Big Problems Facing the Earth'. The 'Alert missions' given to the young readers in 5 brief articles are global warming, pollution, declining biodiversity, overpopulation, and habitat destruction. The Global Warming article warns many scientists predict that "temperatures may continue to rise by as much as ten degrees Fahrenheit over the next hundred years" and that "heat is melting glaciers and polar ice sheets, which...