With 82% of fish being removed faster than they can repopulate and climate change and acidification reducing the oceans' ability to absorb carbon, a crucial planetary life support system is in crisis. In the September issue of The Ethical Corporation magazine, we do a deep dive into oceans, and asse...
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A decade-long global effort to save Earth’s disappearing species and declining ecosystems has mostly stumbled, with fragile habitats such as coral reefs and tropical forests in more trouble than ever, researchers said in a report Tuesday.
In...
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From its extraction and production to its management as a waste product, plastic generates planet-warming emissions at every step of its lifecycle.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
If plastic use were a country, it’d be the fifth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.
Extract...
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KILLINGS OVER BORDER IN WYOMING Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
With Colorado voters set to decide whether to order a re-introduction of wolves, wildlife officials using cameras and “howl surveys” say they’ve regularly detected multiple wolves ...
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ALLEGED INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE, DRUG TRAFFICKERS By Aimee Ortiz
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Shark fin soup, considered a delicacy in some countries, has long fueled demand for illegally harvested fins. But federal authorities in Georgia announced...
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A record amount of California is burning, spurred by a nearly 20-year mega-drought. To the north, parts of Oregon that don’t usually catch fire are in flames.
Meanwhile, the Atlantic’s 16th and 17th nam...
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The world is getting closer to passing a temperature limit set by global leaders five years ago and may exceed it in the next decade or so, according to a new United Nations report.
In the next five years, the world has nearly a 1-in-4 cha...
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CLIMATE AND DISASTERS
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
A record amount of California is burning, spurred by a nearly 20-year mega-drought. To the north, parts of Oregon that don’t usually catch fire are in flames.
Meanwhile, the Atlantic’...
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By Todd Wilkinson
Writers on the Range

Mark DeOpsomer of Bozeman, Montana, is a backpacker with lots of miles on his soles. For almost four decades he’s gone to the remotest corners of the Northern Rockies.
On a recent trek 24 m...
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If you take an airplane trip, can you make up for the planet-warming emissions from that flight by doing things like driving less and turning off the lights in your house...
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By Livia Albeck-Ripka
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CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA»Diving beneath the ocean’s surface, Russell Hosp swam toward the limestone bed of the Great Barrier Reef, where he reattached bits of blue stag-horn coral. With tourists gone, he was...
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Smoke from the Pine Gulch Fire fills the air around oil and gas development in the Roan Plateau on Aug. 24 in Grand Junction. The two major party contenders for president have very different views on the direction the U.S. shou...
Shared from the 9/6/2020 The Denver Post eEdition Aurora and Colorado Springs take the first steps to build $500 million dam, reservoir near Holy Cross Wilderness By Bruce Finley The Denver Post
HOMESTAKE CREEK»A hundred miles from Colorado’s Front Range house-building boom, field scientist D...
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The Associated Press
EDMONTON, ALBERTA »The NHL on Thursday unveiled a series of anti-racism initiatives more than eight months after Akim Aliu brought the topic to the forefront in the predominantly white s...
By Eduardo Duwe, Marcia Reverdosa and Rodrigo Pedroso, CNN Updated 0145 GMT (0945 HKT) August 19, 2020
Sao Paulo, Brazil (CNN)A Brazilian sanctuary, home to 15% of the world's population of blue macaws, has been consumed by fires -- and there are fears for the well-being of the rare birds.
"It is ...
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SCALING BACK ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
BILLINGS, MONT.» The Trump administration is seeking to fast-track environmental reviews of dozens of major energy and infrastructure projects during the COVID-19 pandemic, inclu...
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A passenger rail line in Colorado would accommodate 9,200 people every weekday and nearly 3 million per year, according to new modeling by state officials. The proposed line would stretch from Fort Collins south to ...
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By Julian Lee
Bloomberg Opinion
Since Monday there will be just one oil company in the Dow Jones Industrial Average — Chevron Corp. The removal of Exxon Mobil Corp. from the index after an uninterrupted presence since 1928 shouldn’t come as...
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The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT.» The Trump administration on Monday finalized its weakening of an Obama-era rule aimed at reducing polluted wastewater from coal-burning power plants that has contamina...
CEO Note: Historic agreement to protect Belize’s reef and ocean fisheries and wildlife
BY ANDY SHARPLESS AUGUST 24, 2020
The Government of Belize has taken a big step forward in protecting its ocean – home to 40% of the world’s second largest reef. After campaigning by t...
