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April 3rd is Dr. Jane's 80th birthday! Send her your birthday wishes by signing her online birthday card. Since Dr. Jane founded Roots & Shoots in 1991, young people and their adult mentors have been making positive change happen in their communities. Many Roots & Shoots students draw inspi...
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The Pacific islands of Tuvalu are threatened, as David Attenborough explains in his DVD 'The Truth About Climate Change' Environmental concern and climate awareness is becoming big business. Alongside rising sales of wind turbines and solar panels, one of the most lucrative revenue channels is ...
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Last week, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his plan to spend $53 million on restoring the number of fish in the sea. It’s one of the largest single contributions ever made for such work. More than three quarters of the world's fisheries are in a "state of collapse," ...
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By LOHASIA Team Posted on November 04, 2013 How Far Does The Rabbit Hole Go? Hands up who has fallen down a YouTube hole only to discover that you've lost 2 hours of your day watching everything from breakbeat dancing cats to cute babies and the latest viral ad sensation?   Watching vid...
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To kick-off this year’s Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York, the Skoll World Forum asked some of the world’s leading experts on deforestation, public health, religion, development and the post-2015 MDGs to help set the stage for this week’s discussions on mobilizing for im...
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A growing stash of more than 6 tons of ivory from slaughtered elephants, heaped in a warehouse north of Denver, is about to be destroyed as part of a new U.S. push to combat illegal wildlife trafficking worldwide. Publicly crushing the smuggled tusks and carvings will be the first act to end what ha...
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Wouldn’t it be nice to have your own superhero to reduce the global carbon footprint? Enter the Green Ninja, a climate action superhero who fights global warming through education and social change. We all know the importance of reducing emissions of heat-trapping gases to help stabilize our climat...
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  Al Gore received his first standing ovation Saturday when he greeted the crowd at Trinity United Methodist Church in Telfair Square. The second came when he finished his presentation, given as part of the 2013 Savannah Book Festival. In between, the former vice president and Tennessee sena...
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She was born in Nairobi, Kenya and brought up in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. She went to Texas A&M University in the USA and is a veritable byword for the global citizen. But Kusum Vyas is also a staunch follower of the Hindu way of life, and its culture and traditions. She takes great inter...
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Photographer James Balog set out to film climate change by placing two dozen time-lapse cameras throughout the Arctic. The result, aside from frostbit fingers and a near helicopter crash, are stunning images of melting glaciers. His footage is captured in "Chasing Ice," a 75-minute documentary with...
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New Zealand's Southland schoolchildren have shown their film-making talents in a competition to raise awareness of environmental matters. The red carpet was rolled out for the second annual Green Screen Environmental Short Film Awards at Centrestage, Invercargill, on Thursday night. The film proje...
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  It's only relatively recently that conservationists have come to appreciate that efforts to protect mountain gorillas in the wild need to engage and involve the communities surrounding the habitat where this critically-endangered species lives. One notable example of t...
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In this new biography by Stefan Bechtel, Hornaday's passion about conservation, and his role in the passage of wildlife protection laws is explored in detail. Here is a promotional video for the book: "Mr. Hornaday's War" is a long-overdue biography of William Temple Hornaday. He was complex, qu...
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French explorer and filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau's devotion to ocean preservation has inspired generations of scientists, conservationists and nature enthusiasts.  "To live on the land we must learn from the sea," wrote John Denver in a 1975 musical tribute to Cousteau and his iconic researc...
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Save Our Shores, the leader in ocean awareness, advocacy, and citizen action on the Central Coast, is pleased to announce the recipients of their annual Ocean Hero awards. The Save Our Shores 2012 Ocean Hero Award goes to Mark Stone, whose leadership authoring and passing Santa Cruz County’s single...
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Love wildlife? Got Twitter? Then drop Craigslist founder Craig Newmark a message using the hashtag #Squirrels4Good. For every tweet, Newmark will donate $1 to the National Wildlife Federation, up to $5,000.   Newmark will also donate a dollar if you use the #Squirrels4Good hashtag on either h...
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  In today’s Washington Post, it was revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been investigating peaceful climate and anti-fracking activists as a threat. In response to anonymous complaints Rising Tide North Texas, a part of the Rising Tide North America ...
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Four remarkably brave activists eluded the barricades and put their bodies between enormous Alberta tar sands upgrader parts and the ecological and climate devastation they will visit on us all.  As three of the last five of 78 ExxonMobil/Imperial Oil megaloads moved through downtown Moscow, Id...
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Shannon Skelton, Environmental Hero with a Fish Story Worth Hearing The early years were a scary endeavor and squeaky tight financially. Yet, Shannon Skelton knew he could build a better river. With water resources valued for sustaining human life, Skelton had his work cut out for him to champion a...
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In 2011, the fifth year of the Earth Hour campaign, WWF-Australia introduced the WWF Earth Hour Awards to celebrate the grassroots efforts of everyday Australians going ‘beyond the hour’ for the planet. As we enter the second year of the Awards, we're pleased to re-launch last year's favourite ...
Earth Hour 2011: Hanan Hassan and Julia Lin, champions of EnviroKids – Young Panda Award Winners.  / ©: WWF-Australia
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