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It seems Ministers from 62 nations were won over by Australian Environment Minister Greg Hunt's charm at Precop with applause being delivered to speeches from Ministers from both Australia and Canada. But was the applause deserved?...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, November 9, 2015 — The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management today is wrapping up a series of public meetings on Liberty, the latest Arctic offshore drilling project proposed in the Beaufort Sea. Center for Biological Diversity attorney Kristen Monsell is attending to raise concerns that the project threatens polar bears and ocean health — and to object to a meeting format that doesn’t allow a public vetting of these concerns....

If your not feeling like sex when it's too darn hot, your not alone. Latest research into human fertility and temperature extremes reveals that birthrates suffer a fall nine months after extreme temperatures events, and although there is a partial recovery in subsequent months, this does not make up for the lost fertility....

Ahead of the Paris Climate March on November 29th, The Beholders have released 'Che Che', their remake of the cover 'Hasta Siempre'....

LOS ANGELES, November 6, 2015 — Youth groups and community organizations sued the city of Los Angeles today for allowing oil companies to drill hundreds of contaminating wells near homes without conducting mandatory environmental studies, and for exposing black and Latino residents to disproportionate health and safety risks by imposing less-protective rules in their neighborhoods....

10.28.15, WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today residents from communities across the country with fracking contaminated drinking water joined with advocates at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board public meetings to demand that EPA stop ignoring its own evidence of fracking water pollution, and correct the faulty declaration that the agency did “not find evidence that [fracking has] led to widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources”....

Is it any wonder, that the Palm Oil Industry giants are moving 'certified' operations to greener landscapes of Latin America, as they assuage the consumer's concern with a new certifying scheme, and a manifesto, and corporate pledges. The companies have all stated that the Indonesian fires were started adjacent to their plantations – the area known as the plasma obligation. Palm Oil companies fought the NGO's and Civil Society groups over whether the plasma obligation (as area equal to 20 per...

Dr Teri Knowles lectures the NAS RESTORE group and interested parties on causes of cetacean mortality in the Gulf. BP killed about half the dolphins of the mississippi river delta, and more than a third of the dolphins in Barataria. Birthing success dropped to one in eight from a baseline of roughly 7 in 8. It is estimated that it will take the Northern Gulf Dolphin populations 40 years to recover, and perhaps longer, depending on prey availability and changes to habitat. The good news is...

SACRAMENTO, CA (October 19, 2015)—Today, nearly 20 food, farming, public health and environmental organizations submitted a letter (see PDF) in support of the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment’s (OEHHA’s) determination to list glyphosate as a substance known to the State of California to cause cancer under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (aka Proposition 65)....

Thursday, October 15, 2015, Washington, DC—The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) program charged with resolving wildlife conflicts—but that perversely is responsible for killing millions of animals each year in the United States—received carte blanche from the USDA Office of Inspector General (OIG) to continue its reckless war on America’s wildlife....