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Monkey Business: Secret Plan for Florida Breeding Facility Outrages Public
A breeding facility for thousands of monkeys linked with prior outbreaks of infectious diseases -- like Ebola -- could soon be looming over the backyards of some southern Florida residents. Without...
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Climate Change This Week: Lightning Increasing, Solar Cloth, and More!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. Stephen Colbert takes the Polar Plunge here, highlighting the dim lights who don't understand how global warming can create both...
View ArticleEven Thanksgiving Is Connected to Climate Change
It's nearly Thanksgiving, and while we all will -- and should -- count our many blessings, you're forgiven if your thoughts eventually turn to the mouth-watering traditions of the holiday feast. So...
View ArticleWhat Does Greed Look Like? Overfishing for Tuna in the 21st Century
When we speak about the future of the ocean, we use words like sustainability and responsibility. We also lament the actions by many, often oil and gas interests, that declare their indifference to...
View ArticleA Wolf at Grand Canyon: Will She Survive?
For the first time since the 1940s, there's a wolf roaming the Grand Canyon. The wolf has been repeatedly photographed at the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park and the nearby Kaibab Plateau since...
View ArticleThis Land Is Our Land
Our global climate is warming due to the unprecedented amounts of carbon dioxide we are emitting through the combustion of fossil fuels. I have seen the impact of this firsthand in the degradation of...
View ArticleBetter Than Disinvestment: A More Effective Move Against Climate Change
Students and alumni who want action against climate change are pressing universities to rid their endowment funds of the stocks of companies that produce fossil fuels. They look back to the successful...
View ArticleBrazil Adds Its Might to the Movement to End Gestation Crates
Brazil, the largest pork producer in Latin America, struck a body blow to inhumane sow gestation crates this week with two major announcements. First, BRF, Brazil's largest pork producer, announced...
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eBay Chairman Funds Great Movie On Climate Denier Campaign
This is one of those moments: I want to grab everyone I know and say, you MUST see this movie -- Merchants of Doubt. Made by the director of Food Inc., and based on the remarkable book by Naomi...
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The Climate Change Conundrum: Light at the End of the Smog?
Chacaltaya Mountain, which stands 5,400 meters above sea level in the Cordillera Real of the Bolivian Andes, has lost all the ice in the last two decades You probably have heard this line before many...
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Lesniak Challenges Christie: Prove Me Wrong
In the pork industry, millions of mother pigs are confined in gestation crates, which immobilize them for nearly their entire life. As sponsor of legislation banning the cruel practice of gestation...
View ArticleHow the Honey Bee Health Coalition Is Helping the Honey Bee Crisis
After posting the article I wrote in May 2014 called The Latest Buzz: The Decline of Bees is Harming Global Agriculture, I later learned that this worldwide problem is gathering attention from experts...
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Extreme Ice Survey: Success on South Georgia Island
Extreme Ice Survey, the team featured in the Emmy award-winning film Chasing Ice, is aboard our ship, the National Geographic Explorer, in Antarctica. Over the next two weeks, they'll be installing...
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Bike Share Is Growing Up
In just four years, bike share has gone from being the fantasy of a few enthusiasts to a practical and low-cost way for tens of thousands of people in American cities, both large and small, to get...
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World Bank's Consultations a Big Failure
Two years ago, the World Bank decided to undergo a review of its environmental and social policies. At the time when this process was launched, the Bank stated that the multi-stage review was being...
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Enbridge Search for an Indian Whisperer Is a Pipeline Dream
"The Enbridge Corporation has some difficult moccasins to fill." Winona LaDuke of Honor the Earth was explaining the Calgary-based Canadian oil company's recent advert in rural Minnesota newspapers for...
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Flood Disaster in the Amazon: A Fight Against Climate Change Gets Personal
Images of the Yawanawá community, after flooding (Photo credit: TEDGlobal) The rain hit hard and fast, and in the dead of night. "The people woke up around midnight, and the water was everywhere....
View ArticleA Food Fight for Our Times
Think of food politics as an increasingly complex, layered and controversial arena where people make decisions about food or food production based not just on the food itself but its impact on the...
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New Yorkers, Times Have Changed: Charge Your Car or Fill It Up?
Electric vehicles are getting a lot more efficient and popular to drive in New York City. Did you know there are more than 150 commercial electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in Manhattan, as listed...
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'Green News Report' - November 25, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: NY Gov. Cuomo blames meteorologists for his failure to prep for deadly Buffalo snowstorm; Arrests in Canada protesting another...
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