Tag: water
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World’s Largest Coal Company Agrees to Stop Depleting Chinese Community’s Water Supply
Last year, Greenpeace decided to do something we had never done before during our 13 years of work in China: Target and confront a state-owned coal company. And not just any company. The biggest and boldest, a Chinese government favorite: Shenhua—the largest coal company by volume on the planet. We discovered that Shenhua’s subsidiary had…
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Sea Shepherd Founder to Bill Maher: ‘If Oceans Die, We Die’
You can always expect to see Captain Paul Watson on the front lines of the battle to conserve and protect marine ecosystems for wildlife. He and his Sea Shepherd Conservation Society have been doing it for nearly 40 years. A late-night, cable television got the chance to learn more about Watson’s mission during the most recent episode…
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Largest International Gathering of Water Protection Advocates Meet in Pittsburgh for River Rally 2014
When two bodies of water come together in a confluence, each stream provides its unique characteristics to form a more powerful entity. Much as the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers combine to form the mighty Ohio River, the same can be said of River Rally 2014, when River Network and Waterkeeper Alliance join forces to convene…
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Extreme Drought Causes Environmental Crisis in Colombia
On World Water Day, March 22, Colombian news reports were released with horrific photos of scores of dead wildlife. A devastating drought has created an environmental crisis, threatening public health and killing more than 20,000 fish and animals in the Paz de Ariporo municipality of Casanare, Colombia. This water shortage rings the alarm that we need…
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Coral Skeletons Reveal Centuries of Rising Sea Levels
A new study published in the international journal Nature Communications has revealed how Western Australia’s coral reefs have been affected by changing ocean currents, rising sea surface temperatures and sea level variability. Scientists from The University of Western Australia (UWA), the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), CSIRO and the University of San Diego analyzed coral cores from…