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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Far from just an environmental pipedream, the coal industry in the U.S. and around the world is in the midst of a major downswing. In 2011, coal dropped below 40 percent of total U.S. energy generation for the first time since the late...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss / EarthTalk For us land-dwellers, underwater noise rarely reaches our ears. However, marine organisms can be very sensitive to undersea sounds, particularly unnatural noise. Human activity—from explosives to underwater construction to ship traffic to oceanographic research—creates intense noise that threatens the health of ocean wildlife....
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss /EarthTalk Global warming is definitely already taking its toll on wildlife around the world. Rising temperatures are changing weather and vegetation patterns from pole to pole, forcing animals of just about every stripe to migrate to new areas in order to survive. But not...
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La Mayor y Más Influyente Organización Medioambiental de Base del País Cita los Detallados Planes de Clinton y su Capacidad de Construir sobre el Legado de Obama San Francisco / CALIFORNIA El Sierra Club refrendó Junio 9 a la Secretaria Hillary Clinton para la presidencia de Estados Unidos. Como respuesta,...
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Suzanne Potter / California News Service LOS ANGELES — The futures of the Sequoia, Sierra and Inyo national forests are at stake, and the public has a once-in-a-generation chance to shape them. The U.S. Forest Service is taking public comment on its draft of the new forest plans, which come...
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Suzanne Potter / California News Service LOS ANGELES — Los encuentros publicos surgen a toda velocidad en todo el estado para incluir aportaciones a los borradores de los nuevos planes de administracion de bosques para la Sierra Sequoia y los Bosques Nacionales Inyo. Lo que se discute es a cuanta...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss / EarthTalk After enduring years of criticism from animal rights activists, Feld Entertainment, the parent company of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, announced in March 2015 that it would phase out the use of endangered Asian elephants in its circus performances within three years....
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Suzanne Potter / California News Service MONTEREY, Calif. – On Monday, a coalition of conservation groups sent more than 105,000 signatures to the National Marine Fisheries Service asking the agency to speed up a plan to expand habitat protections for killer whales. The Southern Resident orca spend their summers in...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss / EarthTalk In a May 2016 interview with Reuters, presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump dropped a bombshell on environmentalists: If elected, he would try to renegotiate the landmark Paris COP21 climate accord agreed to by 177 nations (including the U.S.) in December 2015. Calling the...