By 2050, a third of the people on Earth may lack a clean, secure source of water. Join National Geographic in exploring the local stories and global trends that define the world’s water crisis. Learn about freshwater resources and how they are used to feed, power, and sustain all life. See how the forces of [...]
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Greens want World Heritage status for Antarctica Posted Mon Aug 9, 2010 6:00am AEST The Greens are renewing their push for Antarctica to be given World Heritage protection. (Australian Antarctic Division) The Greens will today renew the push for Antarctica to be given World Heritage protection. Greens leader Bob Brown says Labor went to the [...]
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Pete Bethune reported today on Facebook that he had finished writing his book so everyone can look forward to it being published shortly.
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A whale hunted Sunday morning was landed and slaughtered during a whale festival in the Ayukawa district of the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, one of Japan’s major coastal whaling bases. The slaughter was performed before an audience of tourists as the roughly 10-meter-long, 10-ton Baird’s beaked whale was caught off Fukushima Prefecture and [...]
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SEA SHEPHERD NEWS Galapagos Islands No Longer on UNESCO List of World Heritage in Danger – At the annual meeting of the UNESCO committee for World Heritage Sites, which was held this year in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, it was decided that Ecuador has improved the situation in the Galapagos Islands to such an [...]
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Photographer name unknown. If anyone has that information please leave the information in the comment section so that I may give that person credit. Thanks. Paul Watson continues charting his course—being a controversial pain in the ass for whalers By: Arrissia Owen Turner Inland Empire Weekly Paul Watson demands attention. The founder of the Sea [...]
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Global Warming “Undeniable,” U.S. Government Report Says Past decade hottest on record, NOAA study says. Main Content The retreating Iceberg Glacier in Chile’s Bernardo O’Higgins National Park (file). Photograph by Maria Stenzel, National Geographic Christine Dell’Amore National Geographic News Published July 28, 2010 “Global warming is undeniable,” and it’s happening fast, a new U.S. government [...]
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http://www.takepart.com/news/2010/06/26/the-whales-of-the-world-deserve-more The Whales of the World Deserve More As the International Whaling Commission (IWC) wraps up its 62nd annual meeting this week in Agadir, Morocco, I am relieved that the 24-year-old ban on commercial whaling will remain intact and that Australia’s Environmental Protection Minister, Peter Garrett, finally appears to be………read more
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Friday, July 30, 2010 Sea Shepherd Undercover Operative Addresses the People of the Faeroe Islands The following op-ed piece was published today in the biggest newspaper in the Faeroe Islands, Dimmalaetting. It is a letter from Sea Shepherd Undercover Operative Peter Hammarstedt to the Faroese people. Read more… http://seashepherd.org Monday, July 26, 2010 Sea Shepherd [...]
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GO TO SEA SHEPHERD OR UTUBE AND VIEW THE STRANDING OF THE PILOT WHALES AND THE SLAUGHTER WHILE THE WHALES PANIC AND ARE CHASED IN BOATS AND PEOPLE LAUGH IF THAT DOESN’T DISGUST YOU, SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOU !
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