Tag: Featured News
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Interactive Tool Tracks Tars Sands Refinery Production in North America
By Lorne Stockman Oil Change International launched a online tool today that tracks the flow of Canadian tar sands crude oil to North America’s refineries. The new tool enables users to discover how much tar sands crude is being processed at U.S. refineries and which Canadian refineries are regularly refining this dirty source of crude. [caption id=”attachment_315398″…
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Pesticides to Blame for UK’s Declining Turtle Dove Population
Unless regulators take action, one of the gifts in the lyrics to “Twelve Days of Christmas,” the turtle dove, may become extinct. The dove has experienced major population decline in England over the past 20 years, due in significant part to the destruction of turtle dove habitat and food sources from increasing herbicide use in English agriculture. [caption id=”attachment_315053″ align=”alignnone”…
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Teen Embarks on South Pole to Bring Awareness to Climate Change
Regardless what you were doing at age 19, there’s a great chance it differs greatly from Parker Liautaud’s experience. On Dec. 3, the Yale University sophomore began his attempt at breaking a world record for the fastest ski trip from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole. The 397-mile expedition is expected to take at…
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Arctic 30 Told They Are Not Free to Leave Russia
The Russian authorities have told the Arctic 30 that they cannot leave the country, defying the ruling of an international court which ordered that they should be allowed to go home immediately. Russia’s powerful Investigative Committee has written to one of the 30—Anne Mie Jensen from Denmark—indicating that they are not free to leave the…
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Live Forum: Economics is the Achilles Heel of Fracking
On Monday, Dec. 16 at 5 p.m. Pacific/8 p.m. Eastern, EcoWatch will feature a live briefing and conversation with Richard Heinberg and Deborah Rogers as they explore how the anti-fracking community can turn the fracking industry’s biggest weapon into their greatest vulnerability. Hosted by Americans Against Fracking, Energy Policy Forum, Post Carbon Institute and Stop the Frack Attack,…