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Poll: Farmers Overwhelmingly Oppose Bayer-Monsanto Merger
An overwhelming majority of surveyed farmers are concerned about the proposed Bayer- Monsanto merger and believe it will have a negative impact on independent farmers and farming communities, a recent...
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Food Retailers Fail to Protect Bees From Toxic Pesticides
A new scorecard released Tuesday finds that 20 out of 25 top food retailers fail to protect bees and people from toxic pesticides. The report, Swarming the Aisles II , shows that while supermarkets...
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Shell Faces Historic Legal Action in Netherlands for Failure to Act on...
Friends of the Earth Netherlands announced Wednesday that it will take Shell to court if it does not act on demands to stop its destruction of the climate. "Shell is among the ten biggest climate...
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Why Non-GMO Plant Based Proteins Are One Solution to Factory Farming
By Lisa ArcherFriends of the Earth recently released a brief that raised important questions about laboratory-created animal replacement products (in vitro meat and genetically engineered proteins)...
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Changing the Main Course of Climate Change
By Chloë Waterman As the Trump administration's dangerous deregulatory agenda leads us closer to climate catastrophe, cities, counties and businesses are stepping up to address the crisis. Last month,...
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The City of Angels Funds Some Hellish Fossil Fuel Projects
By Doug NorlenThis month the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a startling report, which finds that severe impacts of climate change are happening much sooner than...
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It's Time to Stop Paying for Pesticides With Our Health: Organic for All Must...
By Kendra KleinA groundbreaking new study in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that you can cut your cancer risk by eating an organic diet. The findings are dramatic....
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Arctic Indigenous Voices Making a Difference on Polar Shipping
By Verner Wilson II2018 was a breakthrough year for Arctic conservation work at the International Maritime Organization (IMO). I wrote partly about it in my previous blog. Aside from obtaining...
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Trump Admin Maps the Ocean for Industry Exploitation
By Hallie TempletonAs part of its Blue Economy initiative, the Trump administration has developed a map to provide ocean industries information on areas ripe for oil rigs and floating factory farms....
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First Major U.S. Insurer Begins Divestment from Fossil Fuels
By Elana SulakshanaIt seems like every day there is a new story of a pipeline spilling crude oil or an oil refinery exploding. How do fossil fuel companies continue to operate such hazardous...
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U.S. Could Lose Measles Elimination Status by October
By Julia RiesThe measles virus was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000.But if more cases of the measles virus are detected next month, it could mean an end of that elimination...
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University of Cambridge Takes Red Meat off the Menu
By Paul BrownA sustainable food policy which ends red meat meals has improved student diets and boosted a university catering service's profits.The University of Cambridge in England, one of the...
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Australia’s Natural Disaster Minister Denies Climate Science One Day,...
While more than 130 wildfires are raging across two states in eastern Australia — Queensland and New South Wales — at an unusually early part of the spring, taxing the water supplies of the...
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Canada Tells Flood Victims It’s Time to Move
The city of Gatineau, just across the river from Canada's capital city of Ottawa was inundated by a 100-year flood in 2017. Then, this past April, the flooding was worse, which has prompted the...
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Trump Admin Repeals Obama-Era Clean Water Protections
The Trump administration repealed the 2015 Clean Water Rule rule Thursday, a rule intended to protect 60 percent of the nation's waterways from pollution, The New York Times reported.NoneAt stake is...
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Record 7 Million People Displaced by Extreme Weather Events in First Half of...
In another sign of the climate crisis, a record seven million people were displaced from their homes by extreme weather events during the first half of 2019, The New York Times reported Thursday.The...
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Japan's New Environmental Minister Calls for Closing Down All Nuclear...
By Jessica CorbettJapan's new environmental minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, called Wednesday for permanently shutting down the nation's nuclear reactors to prevent a repeat of the 2011 Fukushima disaster,...
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Universe Might Be 2 Billion Years Younger: Study
The universe is expanding much quicker than previously thought, according to researchers in Germany, leading scientists to suggest it may be more than 2 billion years younger than past...
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Fracked Gas Well Blowout in Louisiana Likely to Burn for the Next Month
By Julie Dermansky A fracked natural gas well in northwest Louisiana has been burning for two weeks after suffering a blowout. A state official said the fire will likely burn for the next month before...
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Trump Admin Grants First Lion Trophy Import Permit Since Listed as Threatened
A Florida man has been allowed to import a Tanzanian lion's skin, skull, claws and teeth, a first since the animal was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, according to US Fish and...
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