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Coalition Opposes Texas DOT On 17-mile Toll Road Loop Around Austin: Wants Protections For Environment, Austin's Historic Sights And Lady Bird Johnson's Legacy
2016-06-06 04:31:22| pollutiononline News Articles
Jerry Jeff Walker, the Texas country music legend, is one of 12 plaintiffsin a lawsuitfiled in late February against Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), and TxDOT’s partner, a regional toll road agency called the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority (Case 1:16-cv-00234, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division)
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Protecting those who defend the environment is a matter of human rights
2016-06-05 10:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The enjoyment of a vast range of human rights, including rights to life, health, food, water, and housing, depend on a healthy and sustainable environment. Today, on World Environment Day, let us remember that those who work to protect the environment are not only environmentalists they are human rights defenders. And they are increasingly at risk. As the international demand grows for the exploitation of natural resources in developing countries, so the threats to environmental defenders increase....
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10 reasons to be optimistic for forests on World Environment Day
2016-06-05 04:11:04| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Its easy to be pessimistic about the state of the worlds forests. Rates of forest loss remain persistently high, especially in the tropics and boreal regions. Drought, fragmentation, degradation via logging, and climate change are conspiring to make forests more vulnerable to fire: vast areas of forest went up in smoke across Canada, Russia, the United States, Indonesia, Brazil, and the Congo Basin in the past two years alone. Expanding human population and rising meat consumption are fueling a...
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WWF calls on airlines to commit to protect environment
2016-06-03 01:00:00| Airport Technology
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is urging airlines to commit to quality carbon credits and sustainable biofuels to avoid damaging side effects from emissions.
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A switch to ecological farming will benefit health and environment
2016-06-02 14:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A new approach to farming is needed to safeguard human health and avoid rising air and water pollution, high greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss, a group of 20 leading agronomists, health, nutrition and social scientists has concluded. Rather than the giant feedlots used to rear animals or the uniform crop monocultures that now dominate farming worldwide, the solution is to diversify agriculture and re-orient it around ecological practices, says the report (pdf) by the International...
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