WASHINGTON -- Change.org, the online social movement company founded on progressive values, has decided to change its advertising policy to allow for corporate advertising, Republican Party solicitations, astroturf campaigns, anti-abortion
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]]> Beni Suef Imam files law suit against two Christian boys for allegedly tearing up Quranic verses; Children in juvenile detention centre pending investigation Sunday
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]]> Park Rangers working at Cocos Island National Park in Costa Rican waters discovered an endangered green sea turtle hooked by a longline vessel fishing illegally inside the 12-nautical mile no-fishing marine protected area.
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]]> Come and see for yourself! Economic and environmental sustainability comes down to people adopting these technologies and making it happen.
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]]> We have already seen how tar sands oil spills can have a devastating impact on local water supplies. Send a message to Secretary Clinton, urging her to include climate impacts in the review of TransCanada's new proposal.
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]]> Drought has created a standoff over water supplies in the U.S. Midwest between energy producers and farmers, reports Bloomberg. Natural gas and oil producers have been forced to seek new water sourcesas they mull calls from farmers and activists to recycl
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]]> How to bring the major oil companies ashore and halt the destruction of our oceans.
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]]> Onondaga Lake in Syracuse, N.Y., has often been called the most polluted lake in America .But now the final stage in a $1 billion cleanup is about to begin.
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]]> Burning coal fuels climate change, causes acid rain, and spreads toxic pollutants into the environment, but now a new Greenpeace report warns that coal may also imperil the world's biggest feline: the tiger
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]]> Many environmental groups are concerned over a possible extension of drilling expeditions in the Arctic, as oil companies, including Royal Dutch Shell, are set to begin drilling in the region as early as this week.
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]]> Demand the Québec government and political parties to declare a moratorium of oil and gas exploration on Anticosti Island.Shale Gas & oil exploration activities are underway without any independent environmental impact assessment and threatens the surviv
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]]> The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of Ecuador’s Kichwa Indians in a case against a controversial oil project that has destroyed parts of their land.
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]]> Shedding light on a forgotten oil spill disaster in Russia, Greenpeace has today released a multimedia website documenting the impact of the pollution, warning for the potential of a similar disaster in the Arctic Ocean.
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]]> When I testified before the Senate in the hot summer of 1988 , I warned of the kind of future that climate change would bring to us and our planet. I painted a grim picture of the consequences of steadily increasing temperatures, driven by mankind’s-->
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]]> So now its not just our water supplies being permanently contaminated forever that we need to worry about, it is our homes being destroyed by earthquakes. Toxic lubricants from new wells free up and lubricate fault lines so they will slip.
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]]> There's no place on Earth that's changing faster – and no place where that change matters more – than Greenland. Late last month, NASA reported that ice all across the vast glacial interior of the world's largest island was melting – a "freak event" -->
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]]> The area has nearly four million residents and consumes 652 million gallons of water per day. American Rivers estimates that through water efficiency measures, Metro Atlanta would save 300 million to 700 million dollars, and there would be no need to->
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]]> We know Earth’s temperature is nearly one degree Centigrade higher than it was at the beginning of the industrial revolution. And 1 C is catastrophic, as indicated by a decades-old cover-up.


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]]> The EPA is considering historic new standards for air pollution, but billionaires like the Koch brothers are spending big money on D.C. lobbyists to block these reforms.
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]]> The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency is allowing power stations "to dump millions of gallons of hot water into Illinois waterways each day," a Chicago Tribune report released Monday shows.
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]]> The Namibian seal hunt is responsible for the largest slaughter of marine mammals on earth and is considered to be the most brutal of all seal culls.
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]]> These wolves are beautiful, intelligent creatures that should not be exterminated. They are sacred to many people, tribes and customs. Not only is the revocation
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]]> We are asking people all over the world to write to the Georgia Aquarium by the 15th September 2012 urging them to please not import 18- wild caught Belgua
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]]> "Hounding" is an inhumane and unsporting practice where trophy hunters use packs of radio-collared dogs to chase down bears and bobcats
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]]> On a deserted logging road sometime before midnight about 30 years ago, I pointed my nose at the night sky and howled. Beside me,.....
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]]> The bear's habitat is potentially under threat from the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines, whose planned route passes near the Great Bear Rainforest. Stop plans for the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline
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]]> I was alarmed to learn that the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the Sportsmen's Heritage Act, which includes language that could allow much of the National Park System to be open to hunting and recreational shooting.
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]]> Are you a dog person or a cat person? It’s likely that you align yourself with one of these labels, and research shows that your preference for one animal or the other reveals a bit about your personality.

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]]> Details are leaking of a top-secret, global corporate power grab of breathtaking scope -- attacking everything from a free Internet to health and environmental regulations, and we have just 4 days to stop it.---SIGN THE PETITION!
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