Tag: Biodiversity
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VIDEO: Facing Climate Change—How Ocean Acidification is Impacting Oyster Farmers
FACING CLIMATE CHANGE — Kathleen Nisbet and her father, Dave, farm oysters in Washington’s Willapa Bay. They recently shifted some of their business to Hawai’i, after ocean acidification started killing baby oysters in local hatcheries …
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Gulf Residents Ask DOJ to Hold BP Fully Accountable
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — One of the main issues at hand is whether or not BP is guilty of “gross negligence.” With everything the public knows about the failed tests, the intentional misrepresentations about the size of the spill …
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Environmental Scorecard: How Your Elected Officials Voted in 2012
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS — From an environmental perspective, the best that can be said about the second session of the 112th Congress is that it is over. Indeed, the Republican leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives continued its war on the environment …
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Prevention as Cure: Breast Cancer and the Environment
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND — Breast cancer is largely a preventable disease. To reduce the risks of chemical exposures, we need tests that accurately detect breast carcinogens, and we need policies that demand …
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Landmark Study Exposes the Impact of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals on You, Your Family and the Environment
UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME / WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION — The joint study calls for more research to understand fully the associations between endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs)—found in many household and industrial products—and specific diseases and disorders …