Tag: Featured News
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Coalition Builds Buzz on Pollinator Decline With National Ad Campaign
In the name of pollinator protection, more than 60 organizations launched a national media campaign yesterday to bring attention to the severity of bee colony declines due to the use of toxic pesticides. Full-page advertisements ran in the New York Times and six other major papers, according to Beyond Pesticides. Coinciding with the onset of the European Union’s two-year…
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Aerial Video of Alabama Oil Spill Exposes Inadequate Cleanup
By Melissa Troutman Efforts to clean up an Alabama oil spill are under scrutiny after a train carrying 2.7 million gallons of North Dakota Bakken crude oil exploded last month, spilling into wetlands just outside the town of Aliceville. Photojournalist John Wathen captured video of cleanup efforts one week after the Nov. 7 derailment, and…
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Prince William and Prince Charles Speak Out on Illicit Wildlife Trafficking
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales Prince Charles and the Duke of Cambridge Prince William yesterday met with representatives from the United for Wildlife partnership, which comprises seven of the world’s most influential conservation organizations and the Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry. Prince William and Prince Charles…
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Free Mike Roselle From Jail … Free Appalachia From Mountaintop Removal
Nearly four years ago, long-time environmental activist and Kentucky-native Mike Roselle sat in the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia, with one simple message: Mountaintop removal mining, the most egregious human rights and environmental violation tolerated in our nation, must be abolished, not regulated. A couple of days ago—four years after governmental inaction and continual mountaintop…
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People Around the Country Give #ClimateThanks
This Thanksgiving, people around the country who have felt some of the most severe impacts of climate change have come together to thank people taking action—in large and small ways—to try to stop the unfolding catastrophe. This remarkable video shows people from Louisiana to Alaska standing together against the big money fossil fuel companies who are destroying…