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Jane Goodall Among 58 Scientists Urging Government to Halt Grizzly De-Listing

Jane Goodall Among 58 Scientists Urging Government to Halt Grizzly De-Listing

Dr. Jane Goodall is one of 58 prominent scientists and experts who have signed a letter asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to retain Endangered Species Act protections for Yellowstone-area grizzly bears. Grizzly bears still need to be protected. Join #JaneGoodall & others helping to save them. https://t.co/bUZeu8hlG2 pic.twitter.com/LEsUY05G9V — Dr. Jane Goodall […]

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    Mark Ruffalo: New York State Leading the Way on the Clean Energy Revolution

    Mark Ruffalo: New York State Leading the Way on the Clean Energy Revolution

    By New Yorkers for Clean Power Top environmental and business organizations, actor Mark Ruffalo and clean energy leaders held a press conference Monday in New York City to launch New Yorkers for Clean Power, a statewide campaign to increase the deployment of clean energy across New York state. New Yorkers for Clean Power was launched […]

    Is the Whale Shark Tourism Industry Conservation or Exploitation?

    Is the Whale Shark Tourism Industry Conservation or Exploitation?

    By Neela Eyunni It was 4:45 a.m. when I arrived at Tanawan Beach in Oslob, Cebu. Despite the darkness, the parking lot was already bustling with tour buses and visitors, who had come from all over the world. Local boatmen, easy identified by their long sleeve blue shirts, prepared for the influx of visitors to […]

    Watch Jimmy Kimmel Slam Sarah Palin for Her Part in Climate Hustle

    Watch Jimmy Kimmel Slam Sarah Palin for Her Part in Climate Hustle

    Jimmy Kimmel generally keeps things relatively light, comedy wise, on his late night show. But apparently, Sarah Palin’s appearance in a new climate change denial film called Climate Hustle got the host fired up enough to take up the dumb-dumbness that is both Palin and the entire climate change denial brigade, aka, the GOP. Kimmel […]

    Massive Victory for 7 Kids in Climate Change Lawsuit in Washington State

    Massive Victory for 7 Kids in Climate Change Lawsuit in Washington State

    Today, in a surprise ruling from the bench in the critical climate case brought by youths against the State of Washington’s Department of Ecology, King County Superior Court Judge Hollis Hill ordered the Department of Ecology to promulgate an emissions reduction rule by the end of 2016 and make recommendations to the state legislature on […]

    Kenya to Burn Biggest Ever Stockpile of Illegal Ivory

    Kenya to Burn Biggest Ever Stockpile of Illegal Ivory

    As elephants continue to pay the ultimate price for the demand for their tusks, their advocates are preparing to watch the largest stockpile of ivory yet go up in flames in Kenya’s Nairobi National Park on Saturday, April 30. The bottom line is that all ivory came from an elephant who is worth far more […]

    Neil Young’s New Album EARTH Breaks All the Rules

    Neil Young’s New Album EARTH Breaks All the Rules

    Neil Young has announced his new, full-length album EARTH. The 98-minute record, out June 17, features an unusual set of collaborators: live animals. Young described his latest project on social media: We made a live record and every creature on the planet seemed to show up. Suddenly all the living things of Earth were in the audience going […]

    Watch Susan Sarandon Share on Colbert Why She Broke Up With Hillary Clinton

    Watch Susan Sarandon Share on Colbert Why She Broke Up With Hillary Clinton

    New voters may know Susan Sarandon as a surrogate of the Bernie Sanders campaign, but the actress actually used to be a strong Hillary Clinton supporter. “I had to break up with her,” Sarandon joked. “I told her, don’t go in Iraq. I’m very upset about that.” “So this was before 2003?” asked Late Show […]