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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
  New Delhi, India - At a meeting of the Global Tiger forum (GTF) this week, government representatives of GTF member tiger range countries and other member countries showed a greater desire to make stronger commitments to tiger conservation. There are 13 countries worldwide that still have...
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Posted by on in Human Health
  U.S. scientists who took tissue samples from nearly 1,000 sperm whales discovered high levels of toxic and heavy metals that they say could affect the health of millions of people who eat seafood. A report last week noted high levels of cadmium, aluminum, chromium, lead, silver, mercury and...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
At last the British Petroleum corporation did finally make a fine, pretty mess of the large marine ecosystem of the American Gulf stream, a nice present from the union Jack to her beloved uncle Sam. That it could happen or that it did eventually happen were no longer in the per-mutative realms of pr...
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Posted by on in Fossil Fuels
It gets worse, several wild life groups filed a lawsuit to stop BP from burning spilled oil as it is killing endangered sea turtles. One group was the Animal Welfare Institute. The US District judge ordered BP to restrict its burns. The cure is killing. These turtles are millions of years old and ve...
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
  Animal welfare groups sued BP for burning endangered sea turtles and asked a federal court to stop the oil giant's "controlled burns" on the Gulf of Mexico spill. "It is horrifying that these innocent creatures whose habitat has already been devastated by the oil spill are now being burne...
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Posted by on in Sustainable Development
Heal the Bay is sponsoring new legislation this year to reduce plastic bag litter on our beaches and oceans. AB 1998 has passed out of the Assembly and is heading to the Senate! With your help (send a letter), California could be the first state in the country to adopt a landmark policy to plastic b...
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Posted by on in Fossil Fuels
    It’s been almost three months since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven people were killed in the explosion and millions of gallons of oil have been dumped into the Gulf of Mexico in what has become the largest oil spill in U.S. history. The Gulf Coa...
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Posted by on in Environmental Heroes
  Catastrophes like the spill in the Gulf expose the destructive side of industries and their environmental impacts. They also create unexpected heroes, ordinary people like Lois Gibbs, propelled into the political arena when industrial waste exposed her community in Love Canal, New York, to c...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
As I look below at the summary of events in the Gulf at the end of June I think when will this stop? When will I introduce my son to the spinning dolphins? When will the marsh lands and shrimp come back. They broke it can't they fix it? Some good motion but will it be enough? Wednesday, June 30, D...
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Posted by on in Sustainable Development
By Teryn Norris & Clifton Yin Published by The Huffington Post When President Obama and key Senate leaders meet today to reach a compromise on energy and climate legislation, they should strongly consider increasing federal investment in clean energy technology to at least $15 billion annually....
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
Image Provided by NOAA.gov No, it has nothing directly to do with the BP oil spill, but it won't help things... Scientists supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have just announced that the northern Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone--that's the Gulf Dead Zone to you and me, whe...
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Posted by on in Arts and Entertainment
The Fourth of July is right around the corner! Summer’s hottest holiday will no doubt call for backyard barbecuing, fireworks and maybe even a dip in the pool. Here’s how to throw a little green into your mix of red, white and blue. 1. Abandon disposable party wareDisposable plates, cups and utens...
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Posted by on in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines
By Marcus Eriksen, Marcus Eriksen is an environmentalist and co-founder of the 5 Gyres Project. Here he gives his view on how to clear the oceans of plastic waste. I stood on the shore in Waveland, Mississippi, pointing to the streams where I caught catfish and blue crabs when I was a kid. My ste...
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Posted by on in Newsletter Archive
I'm very pleased to present the new Earth Protect: www.earthprotect.com After an extended period of deliberation, design, and development, the NEW Earth Protect website is finally ready, completing the shift from our old web site and design to a state of the art web site. The new site will be a tre...
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Posted by on in Sustainable Development
  Mark Izeman is the director of the New York Urban Program, which seeks to advance environmental initiatives in and around New York City. NRDC's goal is not only to protect the health of the greater New York residents and conserve its natural resources, but also to use its advocacy succes...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
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Posted by on in Sustainable Development
Why should a plastic bag languish in a landfill when it could be powering your computer?   THE GIST Plastic recycling is limited by the fact that different types of plastic cannot be mixed. The quality of the recycled plastic may also be poor. Heating plastic bags inside a reactor can...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
Interesting to hear the rhetoric from across the Atlantic on the oil spill. a) the fact that BP is not providing dividends is hurting old age pensioners b) it wasn't BPs fault -- it was the contractor. My thought: BP is the one who had the lease on the site. Whatever happens at that site is their r...
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Posted by on in Peace
Brenda Leahy lives two blocks from the beach in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, where her kids, 3 and 5, love playing in the sand and splashing in the water.   But Leahy, 46, a Navy veteran in pharmaceutical sales, wonders how much longer they'll have the pleasure. ``I have been so incredibly upset...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
The following statement is by Frances Beinecke about her appointment to the commission. I am writing to share some bignews:  I have been appointed by President Obama to serve on the commission he has created to examine the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.  The panel, formal...
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