Tag: Featured News
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Honor the Earth Video: Triple Crown of Pipeline Rides
“We are not protesters, we’re protectors,” said internationally acclaimed author, orator and activist Winona LaDuke. “We rode horses from the headwaters of the Mississippi along the proposed route of a new oil pipeline that would cross the reservation. It was the third of a series of rides on oil pipeline routes. “Those rides took us on…
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Climate Change Threatens Peru’s Economic Progress As Amazon Becomes Net Emitter of CO2
By Alex Kirby Peru is the country chosen to host the 2014 United Nations (UN) climate conference, a key meeting for trying to advance an ambitious plan to rein in greenhouse emissions which is planned for agreement in 2015. [caption id="attachment_316474" align="alignnone" width="500"] Scientists think Peru’s role reversal from being a carbon sink to a…
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7 Inspiring Interviews of 2013
I find great comfort in learning more about the people who are leading the efforts to protect and preserve our planet. Check out these not to miss interviews of 2013 that will inspire you in the New Year. The charismatic executive director of Greenpeace International, Kumi Naidoo, joined Bill Moyers in September to discuss the politics of…
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Climate Change Roulette and Water Scarcity
By Suzanne York A new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that climate change is likely to put 40 percent more people worldwide at risk of absolute water scarcity, due to changes in rainfall and evaporation. Unsurprisingly, the study noted that “Expected future…
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Good News on Christmas Day for Arctic 30
The final chapter in the legal ordeal of the Arctic 30 began today as the group was asked to attend a meeting at Russia’s powerful Investigative Committee, where the criminal case against them is being dropped en masse. They will then have one more hurdle—securing exit visas in their passports—before the non-Russians are free to leave…