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Bowhead whale songs are complex and copied, new study shows
Inuit legend says Sedna, the beautiful but tragic goddess of the ocean, sings underwater to give detailed instructions to the whales and other sea animals. Now scientists have new information about...
View ArticleAmerica's Wildlife Refuges Belong to All of Us
It's one of our nation's most iconic bastions of pristine wilderness. It supports over 200 arctic species. Its coastal plain is a critical calving ground for the Porcupine caribou herd, which migrates...
View ArticleBilateral Cooperation Is Key to Protecting Cuba's Natural Heritage
I was in Havana last month when presidents Obama and Castro announced their historic decision to restore diplomatic ties between our two countries. A spontaneous parade formed through the streets of...
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Chevron Crowned World's Worst!
Reposted from the Eye On The Amazon Back in 2006 Amazon Watch traveled to Davos, Switzerland to accept the Public Eye Award on behalf of Chevron. At the doors of the World Economic Forum, this shaming...
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Beetle vs. Bird: Expert Panel Weighs in on Biocontrol of Invasive Tamarisk Trees
What do you do when a problem is also a solution? Such is the case with exotic tamarisk (a.k.a., Tamarix spp., saltcedar), criticized for its ability to take over riverbanks, salinize soil, increase...
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The 10 Warmest Years: Not Exactly Forever Ago
Last week NASA and NOAA announced that 2014 topped the list of hottest years ever recorded. Yikes! What's worse, the ten warmest years ever recorded have all occurred since 1998. Yikes again! I fear...
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Do We Take the Beauty of the Open Road for Granted?
I grew up in the West where traveling long distances on highways seems to be a part of life. It is not unusual for westerners to travel an hour to go to a doctor or stock up on groceries. Long, open...
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How China's Top Court is Encouraging More Lawsuits Against Polluters
As China's toxic air pollution once again surges off the charts, affecting every aspect of people's daily life [see this moving video just released by Greenpeace], China's highest court is taking...
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Who Moved Obama's Win-Win Cheese?
Whether or not you like President Obama or his policy preferences, you have to acknowledge his consistency. Even those with "zero regard" for the president confess, "At least Obama is consistent." But...
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Reality vs. Rhetoric: NamObama on Climate Change
Image credit: PTI President Obama said in his address to young Indians in Delhi today: I know the argument made by some that it's unfair for countries like the United States to ask developing nations...
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Why Size Doesn't Matter: Divesting From Fossil Fuels With a Small Endowment
During the last few months, much has been written about the fossil fuel divestment movement rapidly expanding across United States colleges. While most mainstream attention has been focused on...
View ArticleOverpopulation: The Environmental Movement's Third Rail
In 2014, our planet added approximately 80 million new Earthlings. That equates to the population of California, New York and Florida added to a world with depleting natural resources, unprecedented...
View ArticleFinding Balance in the Wolf Wars
Today the Humane Society of the United States and 21 other organizations -- from the Detroit Zoo to the Center for Biological Diversity and the Wisconsin Federated Humane Societies to the Sault Sainte...
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Safer Strawberries Or False Choices?
California officials appear poised to make a decision that would spell safer strawberry fields and spur farmer innovation away from hazardous chemicals and towards safer solutions. That is, if...
View ArticleMandatory Questions for the 2016 Election
None of the candidates in the last presidential election said much about climate change or the clean energy imperative, not even Barack Obama. We cannot allow that to happen again. The media, the...
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Big Oil Seismically Slaughtering Sealife
From The Great Australian Bight to Lake Macquarie, NSW, the race to destroy sealife to extract more climate disrupting oil and gas has reached a diabolical frenzy. Join me for another segment of SOS as...
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'Green News Report' -- January 27, 2015
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Hits, misses and hype in a not-so-historic Blizzard 2015!; The influence of global warming on the storm, with a 100% chance of...
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Why Is the 'Climate President' Approving More Oil Drilling?
Something doesn't compute here. Last week, President Obama rightly declared in his State of the Union address: "No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change." This...
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Plastic: It's What's for Dinner
The day of ecological reckoning looms over us. I am not talking about whether the Keystone XL Pipeline gets rammed through our backyards. I am down the rabbit hole of environmental concern with another...
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Obama Should Give Up Keystone XL to Raise the Minimum Wage
The Keystone XL Pipeline is the 1,664 mile project that has become the political football of the 114th Congress. What most folks don't know about this football is that it is already operating from...
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