West Texas - 2011. Staff Sgt. Eric Harris
The grasslands of Great Plains have seen one of the sharpest increases in large and dangerous wildfires in the past three decades, with their numbers more than tripling between 1985 and 2014, according to new research. Story here.Monday, June 19, 2017
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The battle is on: A historic ban on bee-killing pesticides is on the table. But we’ve just learned that politicians in the European Parliament will try to stop it -- before member states even get the chance to vote! PLEASE DONATE HERE.
Sunday, June 18, 2017
It’s high time for a global ban on bee-killing pesticides
The European Commission is poised to propose a game-changing law to protect bees and other pollinators. The new ban on bee-killing pesticides would go far beyond current protections, banning three deadly neonics from fields all across Europe. PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION.
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Saturday, June 17, 2017
Help preserve land – our 'home and future' – UN urges on World Day to Combat Desertification
The UN News Centre
With hundreds of millions of people around the globe directly affected by desertification – the degradation of land ecosystems due to unsustainable farming or mining practices, or climate change – United Nations agencies have called for better management of land so that it can provide a place where individuals and communities “can build a future.” Story here.
Female elk can learn to avoid hunters with age
EurekAlert
Strategies include moving less, and favouring safer areas when near roads. Story here.
Elk in Jasper Nat'l. Park, Canada.
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Catastrophe of Aral Sea shows 'men can destroy the planet,' warns UN chief Guterres
UN News Centre
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres paid a recent visit the Aral Sea – once the world's fourth largest inland sea, that has now shrunk to about a quarter of its original size due to human mismanagement Story here.
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