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San Francisco / CALIFORNIA Seis héroes medioambientales fueron galardonados hoy con el Premio Goldman del Medio Ambiente. Considerado el Premio Nóbel de la ecología, el Goldman se otorga anualmente a activistas de base que hayan contribuido significativamente a proteger el medio ambiente y a sus comunidades, con frecuencia pese...
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Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss / EARTH TALK As sustainability becomes more mainstream, more and more products today advertise their green credentials—with many displaying third-party certifications on their labels. But how can consumers know which certifications are legit? Americans’ confidence in green labels reached a low in 2011 when the...
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Suzanne Potter / California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California has almost 50,000 oil wells and more than 4,100 gas wells – and a new report says federal law allows companies to use chemicals for drilling and fracking with virtually no health testing and then use confidentiality claims to hide...
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Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss / EarthTalk The idea of beautifying highway medians with plantings goes back five decades when Lady Bird Johnson pushed the Highway Beautification Act through Congress in 1965. Today, Americans are starting to think about undeveloped land alongside and between roadways as a low cost and...
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Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss /EarthTalk Car bomb injuries, prison terms, and death were among the perils protestors with the Earth First! (EF!) movement faced throughout the 1990s. EF! formed in 1979, in response to what they called an increasingly corporate, compromising and ineffective environmental community. Throughout the 1980s and...
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NewsUSA Growing up on the Mississippi River, Chad Pregracke, Living Lands & Waters Founder, experienced first-hand what pollution was doing to our nation’s rivers. Despite being 17 years old with no business experience, Pregracke secured his first sponsorship — $8,400. More than 20 years later, Pregracke’s dream has become...
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Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss /EarthTalk Peanut allergies among children in the United States has more than tripled, from 0.4 percent in 1997 to 1.4 percent in 2010, according to a study by food allergists at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Of the eight foods that cause 90...
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NAPSI Do you enjoy surprise visits from out-of-town birds to your backyard? Today more than ever these winged travelers could use a little help from their earthbound friends. One way to help to feed your backyard birds from winter through spring is the most helpful time to start. Here’s...
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Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss/ EarthTalk When Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer killed Cecil, a much-loved wild 13-year-old black-maned lion, with his bow and arrow in July 2015 outside a protected section of Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, animal advocates were outraged. The University of Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit team had...
San Francisco / CALIFORNIA Seis héroes medioambientales fueron galardonados hoy con el Premio Goldman del Medio Ambiente. Considerado el Premio Nóbel de la ecología, el Goldman se otorga anualmente a activistas de base que hayan contribuido significativamente a proteger el medio ambiente y a sus comunidades, con frecuencia pese...
Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss / EARTH TALK As sustainability becomes more mainstream, more and more products today advertise their green credentials—with many displaying third-party certifications on their labels. But how can consumers know which certifications are legit? Americans’ confidence in green labels reached a low in 2011 when the...
Suzanne Potter / California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California has almost 50,000 oil wells and more than 4,100 gas wells – and a new report says federal law allows companies to use chemicals for drilling and fracking with virtually no health testing and then use confidentiality claims to hide...
Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss / EarthTalk The idea of beautifying highway medians with plantings goes back five decades when Lady Bird Johnson pushed the Highway Beautification Act through Congress in 1965. Today, Americans are starting to think about undeveloped land alongside and between roadways as a low cost and...
Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss /EarthTalk Car bomb injuries, prison terms, and death were among the perils protestors with the Earth First! (EF!) movement faced throughout the 1990s. EF! formed in 1979, in response to what they called an increasingly corporate, compromising and ineffective environmental community. Throughout the 1980s and...
NewsUSA Growing up on the Mississippi River, Chad Pregracke, Living Lands & Waters Founder, experienced first-hand what pollution was doing to our nation’s rivers. Despite being 17 years old with no business experience, Pregracke secured his first sponsorship — $8,400. More than 20 years later, Pregracke’s dream has become...
Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss /EarthTalk Peanut allergies among children in the United States has more than tripled, from 0.4 percent in 1997 to 1.4 percent in 2010, according to a study by food allergists at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Of the eight foods that cause 90...
NAPSI Do you enjoy surprise visits from out-of-town birds to your backyard? Today more than ever these winged travelers could use a little help from their earthbound friends. One way to help to feed your backyard birds from winter through spring is the most helpful time to start. Here’s...
Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss/ EarthTalk When Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer killed Cecil, a much-loved wild 13-year-old black-maned lion, with his bow and arrow in July 2015 outside a protected section of Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, animal advocates were outraged. The University of Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit team had...