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Environment News tagged with protest

Shell Halts Mining as Activists Protest Oil Sands
Environment  (tags: pollution, humans, protest, habitatdestruction, globalwarming, environment, ecosystems )

Cal
- 70 days ago - uk.news.yahoo.com
Royal Dutch Shell Plc has suspended production at its Canadian oil sands mine after environmental activists blockaded a massive dump truck and mining shovel to protest the impact of oil sands development, the company said
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Climate Protesters 'Swoop' on London
Environment  (tags: climate, climate-change, economy, business, society, protest, activists, London, global-warming, ClimateChange, climatechange, environment, green, humans, world, news )

SirRobert
- 91 days ago - cnn.com
An estimated 1,000 climate change activists were converging on their target-center of London's financial district on Wednesday, for a week-long protest intended to highlight the dangers of economic growth on the environment.
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Daryl Hannah and Scientist Arrested at W.Va. Protest
Environment  (tags: Daryl Hannah, protest, mountain top removal, coal )

LaJana
- 150 days ago - google.com
Actress Daryl Hannah and NASA scientist James Hansen were among 31 people arrested Tuesday as they protested mountaintop removal mining in southern West Virginia.The protesters, who also included former U.S. Rep. Ken Hechler, sat on the road before surren
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Ninety-Four Year Old West Virginia Congressman Arrested For Protesting Big Coal
Environment  (tags: obama, government, laws, coal, mining, mountaintop, removal, environment, nature, ecosystems, destruction, habitat, pollution, humans, wildlife, water, trees, politics, forests, massey, energy, conservation, animals, protest, Daryl, Hannah, arrested )

Tom
- 155 days ago - alternet.org
In the face of recent Obama administration actions to regulate, not abolish, mountaintop removal, which has wiped out 500 mountains and destroyed historic communities, the action launched a yearlong national campaign to bring mountaintop removal to end.
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Not Guity! Greenpeace Activists Cleared of Charges
Environment  (tags: direct action, greenpeace, protest, vandalism, globalwarming, protection, court )

Clever
- 441 days ago - guardian.co.uk
argued they were legally justified because they were trying to prevent climate change causing greater damage to property around the world. 1st case in which preventing property damage caused by climate change had been used as "lawful excuse" defense.
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Native Americans Arrested Protesting Proposed Pig Farm
Environment  (tags: protest, pigs, farm, pollution, children, native, americans )

Alf
- 587 days ago - argusleader.com
There have been multiple arrests, including minors, as protesters seek to block front loader bulldozers from breaking ground on a new pig farm that will be occupied by thousands of pigs and their waste near a Head Start Program filled with Native children
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Standing Up for the Whales in Bermuda
Environment  (tags: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, protest, Bermudian anti-whaling activists, demonstrate, Japanese fisheries patrol vessel, 'Mihama, Bermuda, longlines, diminishing fish species, diminishing everything they lay their gr )

Tony
- 682 days ago - seashepherd.org
The fight to save the world's whales is a global affair and is being fought on many fronts. During the last year Sea Shepherd has tackled whalers and dolphin killers in Norway, Iceland, and the remote Southern Oceans.
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Isabel Lucas Leads Bondi Whale Protest
Environment  (tags: Save the whales aAgain! campaign, Bondi Beach, protest, Japan's planned whale slaughter, Antarctic whale sanctuary )

Tony
- 738 days ago - news.com.au
ACTRESS Isabel Lucas yesterday led another mass protest at Bondi Beach against Japan's imminent slaughter of humpbacks, minke and fin whales.
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Surfers Return To Taiji And Expose Pilot Whale Slaughter
Environment  (tags: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, 30 surfers, celebriteis, protest, Taiji pilot whales captured for mass sla, whales scared, fishermen vioent, poke surfers with pole, abuse Isabel Lucas, TV star Hayden Panettiere criies distrau, inhumane )

Tony
- 756 days ago - seashepherd.org
Less than 24 hours after professional surfer and Sea Shepherd supporter Dave Rastovich led an international group of over 30 surfers, celebrities, and musicians on a peaceful paddle-out ceremony to honor the more than 25,000 dolphins killed each year...
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600 Strip Naked on Glacier in Global Warming Protest>Parental Warning: The Story Below Contains Nudity
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, protest )


- 818 days ago - greenpeace.org
An emergency provokes extreme responses: human beings will abandon social etiquette and the norms of acceptable behavior to raise an alarm any way they can when lives are in danger. Six hundred people shed their clothes on a glacier in the Swiss Alps to b
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Activists Try To Protect Whales From Navy's Sonar
Environment  (tags: NRDC, ocean activists, protest, US naval sonar, wildlife endangered, orca )

Tony
- 843 days ago - cbs2.com
CBS) LOS ANGELES - Ocean advocates hope to convince a federal judge Monday to temporarily prevent the United States Navy from conducting 14 tests of high-powered sonar devices believed to cause unbearable pain to whales and other ocean mammals.
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Questioning the Economics of Logging Our Largest National Forest
Environment  (tags: bush, cheney, iraq, war, veterans, protest, military, IMPEACH, government, NATIONAL FORESTS )

Kathleen
- 968 days ago - truthout.org
Conservationists say the future the country's largest national forest could be undercut by flawed assumptions about the economics of turning trees into logwood.
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Climate Report: Droughts, Starvation, Disease
Environment  (tags: ClimateChange, environment, globalwarming, Sustainabililty, weather, oceans, conservation, drought, government, water, glaciers, protest, ecosystems, energy )

Leo
- 991 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water. At the same time, tens of millions of others will be flooded out of their homes each year.
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Climate Change: Scientists Warn It May Be Too Late to Save the Ice Caps
Environment  (tags: antarctic, ClimateChange, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, protest, oceans )

Moondance
- 1010 days ago - environment.guardian.co.uk
New studies of Greenland and Antarctica have forced a UN expert panel to conclude there is a 50% chance that widespread ice sheet loss "may no longer be avoided" because of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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