PLANET IN PERIL

The Western Producer A Manitoba honeybee hive.  PinP  photo. For years, environmentalists have said insecticides must be banned to protect bees. Now, some of those same environmental groups are saying that glyphosate must be banned to protect consumers from tainted honey. Story here. Please also read:  "Are Pesticide Regulators on the Take? Canadian Regulators Refuse to Protect Precious Pollinators From Known Toxins. Is Something Crooked Going on Here?" "Field of Nightmares. Ottawa continues to embrace the widespread use of Roundup on Canadian farms, by letting corporate seduction trump scientific evidence."

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Trump's draft EPA budget: a love letter to Big Energy Become a monthly donor to help us fight back every day for wildlife, for your health, and for the health of our families. GIVE MONTHLY >> Dear Larry - Trump's draft EPA budget is in -- and it's one giant, water-poisoning, coal ash-spilling, asthma-inducing love letter to his Big Energy cronies. The truly draconian document puts wildlife and human health in serious jeopardy by (among other things): Halting the Clean Power Plan  and its first-ever carbon emissions limits on dirty, coal-fired power plants. Decimating the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative , which protects the planet's largest freshwater source, by slashing its funding from $300 million to $10 million. Threatening the Chesapeake Bay , the country's largest estuary, by cutting funding for monitoring and compliance with environmental laws from $73 million to $5 million. Stripping funding for toxic cleanup  in communiti

NATIONAL OBSERVER The sheer scale of fossil fuel influence revealed in the new research is shocking to us, even by Wild West standards: Story here.

NATIONAL OBSERVER The most dramatic warming of the planet is happening in its coldest regions. Story here.

ALTERNET In deep-red white America, the white Christian God is king.  Story here.

Preventable diseases threaten the world's children. Melting ice caps and rising sea levels loom on Earth's horizon. Please watch!

NATIONAL OBSERVER News this week that there are no more than 15 caribou left in a threatened herd near Val d’Or, Que. is giving new urgency to the fight to protect caribou in the neighbouring Broadback River valley.  Story here.                                               An Alaskan caribou. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

  inside  climate  news Study shows 52,000 square miles (135,000 square kilometers) in rapid decline, with sediment and carbon threatening the surrounding environment and potentially accelerating global warming. Details here. Please also read; "Only Heroic Efforts Will Spare Earth's Mighty Boreal Forest From the Worst Ravages of Climate Change."

EcoWatch Ambitious plans have been drawn up for a network of "tidal lagoons" around the UK coast that could provide up to a quarter of the country's electricity—and there is potential to roll out the technology in many parts of the world. Story here.