Tag: Featured News
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Neil Young Stands With First Nations on Anti-Tar Sands Tour
By Emily Saari Rock legend Neil Young launched a week long concert tour in Canada this week in solidarity with First Nations fighting against oil sands development in their territories. Neil Young’s latest tour, entitled “Honor the Treaties” and also featuring Diana Krall, is a music tour with a political message. Young is using his spotlight to…
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Major Antarctic Glacier Melting Irreversibly, Reaching Tipping Point
A major Antarctic ice mass, the Pine Island Glacier, is melting irreversibly and could add as much as a centimeter to global sea level rise over the next 20 years alone, according to new research published in Nature Climate Change. [caption id="attachment_317873" align="alignnone" width="536"] Ice flow velocities at the surface of Pine Island Glacier in West…
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5 Reasons the Keystone XL Pipeline Flunks President Obama’s Climate Test
In December at Georgetown University, Tom Steyer’s NextGen Climate Action and the Center for American Progress Action Fund brought together experts from around the U.S. and Canada to answer the question: Can Keystone Pass the President’s Climate Test? Could the Keystone XL pass President Obama’s test of not “significantly” increasing carbon pollution? The unanimous answer from climate scientists,…
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Supreme Court Denies Family Farmers the Right to Self-Defense From Monsanto Lawsuits
The U.S. Supreme Court today issued a decision in the landmark federal lawsuit, Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA) et al v. Monsanto. Farmers were denied the right to argue their case in court and gain protection from potential abuse by the agrochemical and genetic engineering giant, Monsanto. Additionally, the high court decision dashes…
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UK Proposes to Frack One-Half of Great Britain
By Frederick Reese As the rapid expansion of fracking in the U.S. has led to a growing chorus of concerned voices about the potential health and environmental repercussions of this activity, news has surfaced that the European Union (EU) has taken significant steps toward removing fracking in Europe. In a conversation with Polish Prime Minister Donald…