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Robert Redford and Will Ferrell Team Up to Save the Colorado River Delta

Robert Redford and Will Ferrell Team Up to Save the Colorado River Delta

Actors Robert Redford and Will Ferrell, along with professional surfer Kelly Slater, are part of a new project to support Raise the River, an initiative to breathe life back into the Colorado River Delta. Through humorous banter, Redford and Ferrell in a number of short video spots highlight the urgency to recreate lost habitat for fish, […]

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    Interactive Tool Makes Global CO2 Emissions Data Smartphone Accessible

    Interactive Tool Makes Global CO2 Emissions Data Smartphone Accessible

    By Johannes Friedrich “Big data” has never been bigger. New tools—such as satellites, cloud computing and other technological upgrades—are fueling a “data revolution,” allowing researchers to analyze the world in ways they’ve never been able to before. Graphic courtesy of Mom’s Clean Air Force But while compiling and analyzing this data is incredibly important, the […]

    U.S. Judge Sides With Chevron in Case Against Ecuadorians, Allows Oil Giant to Evade Justice

    U.S. Judge Sides With Chevron in Case Against Ecuadorians, Allows Oil Giant to Evade Justice

    Amazon Watch stands with Ecuadorian communities in rejecting a misguided judgment delaying justice for some 30,000 indigenous people and farmers who continue to suffer from the company’s toxic legacy in the Amazon rainforest. The decision—handed down yesterday by New York District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan—also underscores the threat that well-financed corporations pose ​to​ justice and the rule […]

    Enbridge to Double Carrying Capacity of Line 3 Tar Sands Pipeline

    Enbridge to Double Carrying Capacity of Line 3 Tar Sands Pipeline

    By Heather Libby In its largest capital project in history, Enbridge plans to do what Transcanada so far can’t—ship more than half a million barrels of heavy oil across the U.S. border without President Barack Obama’s direct approval. Graphic courtesy of Enbridge Late Monday evening, Enbridge announced plans for its largest capital project in history— a $7 billion […]

    Flood Risk in Europe Expected to Double by 2050

    Flood Risk in Europe Expected to Double by 2050

    By Tim Radford The catastrophic floods that soaked Europe last summer and the United Kingdom this winter are part of the pattern of things to come. According to a new study of flood risk in Nature Climate Change annual average losses from extreme floods in Europe could increase fivefold by 2050. And the frequency of destructive […]

    It’s Time to Move Beyond Dirty Coal

    It’s Time to Move Beyond Dirty Coal

    Post Carbon Institute, Sierra Club, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition and AlterNet have partnered to show what’s at stake in the fight against coal with a powerful slideshow of recent coal disasters including the Freedom Industries chemical spill, Duke Energy ash spill, West Virginia slurry spill, mountaintop removal mining and more. [slideshow_deploy id=’351627′] After viewing this slideshow, read essays from The […]

    Organic Farmer Taken to Court for Refusing to Spray Pesticides

    Organic Farmer Taken to Court for Refusing to Spray Pesticides

    The French agriculture ministry is prosecuting Emmanuel Giboulot, an organic winemaker, for failing to apply insecticide to his vines. The ministry wants insecticide to be sprayed to control the leafhopper Scaphoideus titanus—believed to be responsible for the spread of the grapevine disease—but Giboulot believes the pesticide is ineffective and damaging to pollinating insects such as bees, […]

    Research Finds Vapors From Coniferous Trees Could Help Slow Global Warming

    Research Finds Vapors From Coniferous Trees Could Help Slow Global Warming

    By Hannah Hickey Pine forests are especially magical places for atmospheric chemists. Coniferous trees give off pine-scented vapors that form particles, very quickly and seemingly out of nowhere. Forests are thought to emit many more of these scented compounds as temperatures rise, potentially slowing effects of global warming. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock New research by […]