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There’s no place like home for turtles
Turtles are awesome. Seriously, they’re living dinosaurs that have survived against all odds to roam the oceans for more than 100 million years. They live about as long as elephants, and rock their wrinkles in the same way. And let’s face it, they have the cutest grumpy face ever. In celebrity terms, they’re the Iggy…
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International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) Legal Demands Don’t Change the Facts
Instead of paying big law firms to stifle criticism from independent environmental organizations, we encourage ISSF to invest in measures that hold its member companies accountable for their destructive practices…
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You Stood Up for Rainforests and Companies That Use Palm Oil Are Listening
Written by Rolf Skar, Forest Campaign Director at Greenpeace USA. Hundreds of thousands of you spoke up for Indonesia’s rainforests and companies like Colgate-Palmolive are listening. There is still a lot to do, but it is making progress to reduce rainforest destroying palm oil from its supply chain. Palm oil is one of the…
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U.S. Environmental Groups Express Concern Over the U.S. Green Building Council’s Approach to Forests
Greenpeace USA, joined by Natural Resources Defense Council, Rainforest Action Network, Stand (formerly ForestEthics), National Wildlife Federation, Dogwood Alliance, Healthy Building Network, and Sierra Club signed a statement regarding the recent surprise move…
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We did it! We won a world-class recycling system for NSW
From July 2017, you’ll get 10c back for every can and bottle you recycle. It may not sound like much, but it worked for South Australia with double the recycling rate of other states. It’s the system we were promised by Premier Mike Baird back in 2015 – and he was dragging his heels until…
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Panama Papers: the plot thickens
Back in April, the Panama Papers rocked the world, exposing just how the global elite use offshore trusts in tax havens such as the British Virgin Islands, Panama and the Bahamas to hide their wealth and dodgy deals. Thanks to an anonymous whistleblower who leaked a huge amount of data from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, we…
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I want to Break Free (from fossil fuels)
This week, waves of community activism and civil disobedience are sweeping across the world’s most polluting fossil fuel projects. Tens of thousands of people determined to rid their future from the floods, heat waves, droughts, cyclones and other extreme weather events, that are fuelled by fossil fuels, will stand face to face with the giant ships, excavators, smokestacks…
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Walmart Defends Its Destructive Canned Tuna As Tesco Takes Action
Walmart defends its destructive canned tuna while Tesco, the largest UK retailer, takes action to clean up its canned tuna aisle.
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Windfall for fossil fuels, slim pickings for the Reef: unpicking the 2016 budget
I know this question has kept you up the last three nights and now, finally, we have the answer: $6.236. That’s $6.236 billion in the 2016 federal budget for the diesel fuel rebate. Read on for what that means… TL;DR – this budget gives billions to the mining industry, cuts environment funding, ignores the…
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REPORT: Reality Check on Coal – Less value, more harm
The Australian coal industry's contribution to the economy is rapidly shrinking – even as its contribution towards global warming is spiralling out of control.