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Stop Cruel & Wasteful Fishing Practices - PLEASE SIGN!

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Hi Larry, I just wanted to check whether you saw my email from the other day, containing shocking footage from industrial tuna boats? Already an incredible 103,000 emails have gone to Princes and John West, demanding they clean up their tuna. The campaign is taking off - will you add your name too? https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/dirty-tuna3   For the oceans, Victoria

Spring Heat Wave In Australia Breaks Records Across The Country

CLIMATE PROGRESS Australia’s summer doesn’t start until December, but the country is still baking in a record-breaking spring heat wave. Story here.

Bye Bye Bees? Not If We Can Help It!

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Pesticide giant  Bayer wants to introduce ANOTHER bee-killing pesticide  into Canada. We have just one week to convince Health Canada to stand up for the bees. Tell them not to approve this new pesticide! Add your voice Larry -- Pesticide giant Bayer wants our government to approve ANOTHER new bee-killing pesticide  -- and we have just one week to convince Health Canada to stand up for the bees.  If approved, this new pesticide will likely wreak further havoc on our bees, which are already dying in record numbers .  Last winter,  almost 30 percent of Canada's bee colonies were devastated , and strikingly, we lost over half of our bee colonies in Ontario alone. Judging by Bayer's deadly track record, this new pesticide could speed up the complete decimation of the local bee population, which would have catastrophic effects on Canada's food supplies.  The final decision lies in Health Canada's hands, and we have until November 1 to make our voice hear

Confirmed: California Aquifers Contaminated With Billions Of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater

DESMOGBLOG.COM The California State Water Resources Board has confirmed that at least nine sites were dumping wastewater contaminated with fracking fluids and other pollutants into aquifers protected by state law and the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. Story here.

Fertilizer Warning: Don’t Pay $12-An-Acre For ‘Foo-Foo Dust’

Manitoba Co-Operator Buyer beware, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency no longer tests fertilizers for efficacy and quality. Story here.

UN Agencies Launch New Joint Initiative Targeting Elimination of Global Food Waste

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UN News Centre  Larry Powell P in P photo. The world wastes enough food to feed an estimated two billion people, the United Nations said today.  Story here.

U.S. Tribes To Canada: Please Don’t Allow Tar Sands Pipeline To Pollute Our Waters

CLIMATE PROGRESS The leaders of several Pacific Northwest Native American tribes are asking Canadian regulators not to approve a huge expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline, saying approval would result in a huge increase of oil tankers coming through tribal waters every day, increasing the risk of a devastating spill. Story here.