Tag: Featured News
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10 Success Stories Thanks to the Endangered Species Act
Forty years ago this month, Congress passed the Endangered Species Act—our nation’s safety net for fish, plants and wildlife on the brink of extinction. The Endangered Species Coalition marks the anniversary with a new report highlighting a few of the great wildlife conservation accomplishments since the Act’s passage in 1973. “Any law would be fortunate…
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Polar Bears in Peril From Climate Change and Hunting
New data pointing to a dramatic rise in polar bear hunting surfaced this week as the biennial meeting of the international Polar Bear Agreement kicked off in Moscow, Russia. Clearly, climate change isn’t the only challenge facing Polar Bears. Hunting of Canadian polar bears is rising at alarming rates—in excess of 10 percent over previous years, according to the Center…
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Nelson Mandela: It Always Seems Impossible Until It Is Done
By Lushendrie Naidu The last great leader of the twentieth century—and an inspiration for this new millennium—died here in South Africa yesterday. Nelson Mandela inspired all of us with his courage, his unyielding resistance and his grace. Inspired by Mandela’s vision, climate activists from around the world helped make this video last June during the Global…
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230,000+ Americans Tell Google to Quit Funding ALEC
Today, 230,000 members and supporters of the Sierra Club, Forecast the Facts, SumOfUs, RootsAction and the Center for Media and Democracy urged Google to end its alliance with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). This week represents the first time ALEC’s annual States and Nation Policy Summit in Washington, D.C. has Google as a corporate…
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Nelson Mandela, Champion of Sustainable Development, Dies at 95
Nelson Mandela, widely regarded as the father of the struggle for equality in South Africa and across the continent, died yesterday, Dec. 5, 2013 at the age of 95. [caption id="attachment_314459" align="alignnone" width="500"] Mandella became South Africa’s first black president after spending 27 years in prison for his activism against the country’s former apartheid government.…