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Three articles on Trump’s plan to eviscerate the Endangered Species Act
The NY Times opinion piece discusses The Species Act, Endangered: ‘Like a Plan From a Cartoon Villain’. The president and his Interior Department undermine the landmark Endangered Species Act in the service of “energy dominance.” In early May, a United Nations panel on biodiversity released a deeply troubling 1,500-page
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EarthJustice Newsletter, 8/18/2019
This EarthJustice newsletter addressed the following topics this week:
Why the Endangered Species Act rollback is a bad idea
The man who’s attacking endangered species
Our looming extinction crisis
Six animals saved by the Endangered Species Act
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Mountain Valley Pipeline
This Sierra Club article discusses a new lawsuit filed by multiple environmental groups against the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Conservation groups today launched a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). The petition for review of the project was filed with the Fourth […]
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Mountain Valley Pipeline – 2 articles
This Blue Virginia article discusses the Mountain Valley Pipeline and an “Emergency Authorization” request to prevent a life threatening landslide. In July, this bloated corporate criminal – MVP is under criminal investigation by the U. S. Attorney’s Office in Roanoke – sent out a crew to survey a portion […]
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Study: Insect ‘apocalypse’ in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides
This National Geographic article discusses why insects are being driven to extinction. Insect ‘apocalypse’ in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides. Bees, butterflies, and other insects are under attack by the very plants they feed on as U.S. agriculture continues to use chemicals known to kill.
America’s agricultural […]
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The animals that will survive climate change
This BBC article discusses the animals that will survive climate change. With one in every four species facing extinction, which animals are the best equipped to survive the climate crisis? (Spoiler alert: it’s probably not humans).
Some caveats are in order. While the seriousness of climate change is undeniable, it’s […]
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Study: Climate change outruns evolution
This article discusses a study that shows why climate change outruns evolution. Most vertebrates would need to evolve 10,000 times faster than their normal rates to survive climate change over the next century.
Nature doesn’t like to be rushed. But to keep up with climate change, many animals will need to […]
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Saving the Pacific islands from extinction
This Lancet editorial discusses saving the Pacific islands from extinction.
In 2017, up to 80% of deaths in the region were attributed to NCDs. Pacific islanders have among the highest rates of obesity and diabetes globally. There has been good progress to implement the Pacific NCD roadmap, […]
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Study: Global Warming Is Pushing Pacific Salmon to the Brink, Federal Scientists Warn
This Inside Climate News article discusses a warning from Federal scientists about how global warming is pushing pacific salmon to the brink. The fish, critical to local economies and the food chain, were already under pressure from human infrastructure like dams. Climate change is turning up the heat.
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Study: MANY ANIMALS CAN’T ADAPT FAST ENOUGH TO CLIMATE CHANGE
This Wired article discusses why many animals can’t adapt quick enough to survive.
CLIMATE CHANGE HAS thrown our beautifully balanced planet into chaos. As oceans and forests transform and ecosystems go into shock, perhaps a million species teeter on the edge of extinction. But there may still be […]
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