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Tag Archives: Sustainability

Why whales are climate change heroes

Why whales are climate change heroes

[ad_1] What makes whales so important? It’s actually a number of reasons. Undoubtedly these are amazing animals in their own right, with complex social structures, and even their own types of culture. And many of the ways that whales amaze us are the very reasons they help keep oceans healthy. …

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Here’s What Happens To Nature When Humans Get Out Of The Way

Here's What Happens To Nature When Humans Get Out Of The Way

[ad_1] An irradiated nuclear zone is hardly the most obvious animal sanctuary. But in January, almost a decade after Japan’s Fukushima disaster, scientists using remote cameras in the area around the abandoned power station discovered an abundance of wildlife. Macaques, raccoon dogs (a relative of the fox), wild boar, pheasants …

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Feds agree to reboot fish-passage project at Howard Hanson Dam, open upper Green River to salmon

Feds agree to reboot fish-passage project at Howard Hanson Dam, open upper Green River to salmon

[ad_1] Salmon and steelhead could once again inhabit more than 100 miles of the upper Green River watershed now that the entire Washington congressional delegation has backed restarting a federal project to allow fish to pass the Howard Hanson Dam. The fish-passage project could open even more habitat for chinook …

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Salvation or Pipe Dream? A Movement Grows to Protect Up to Half the Planet

Salvation or Pipe Dream? A Movement Grows to Protect Up to Half the Planet

[ad_1] As humans continue to rapidly expand the scope of their domination of nature — bulldozing and burning down forests and other natural areas, wiping out species, and breaking down ecosystem functions — a growing number of influential scientists and conservationists think protecting half of the planet in some form …

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Schools offering vegetarian-only lunches forced to make changes after backlash from parents

Schools offering vegetarian-only lunches forced to make changes after backlash from parents

[ad_1] A backlash from parents has forced schools to make changes to their plans to give pupils vegetarian-only lunches. Families complained about a lack of food choice for students after they said their children were hungry.   One school has even introduced a meat option after some parents claimed their …

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Which side are you on? ⁣EGO: The most important is that big oil bosses continue…

Which side are you on? 
⁣EGO: The most important is that big oil bosses continue...

[ad_1] Which side are you on? ???? ⁣EGO: The most important is that big oil bosses continue earning billions of dollars drilling for and burning more oil. Their business can harm people’s health and kill wildlife but this is not as relevant as money. ⁣ECO: People are at the same …

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Gove snubs COP26 president role

Gove snubs COP26 president role

[ad_1] Michael Gove has acknowledged that the Government needs to do more to show leadership on global warming, as the UK prepares to host crucial UN climate talks. The senior Cabinet minister refused to be drawn on whether he would be given the role of president of the COP26 summit, …

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Climate and the Personal Essay – A Reading List

Climate and the Personal Essay – A Reading List

[ad_1] Climate and the Personal Essay – A Reading List The Earth Institute recently announced Mary Annaïse Heglar as its first writer-in-residence, a newly launched joint initiative of the Earth Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Heglar, a noted climate justice essayist, will spend the next six months …

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