South Africa
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You don’t want to live in a world without great white sharks
South Africa’s infamous sharks could become extinct, and that’s bad news.
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Africans are pretty concerned about this climate change mess we made
Forget ISIS and economic stability. Folks from Burkina Faso to Kenya are more worried about global warming.
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Good news: 15,000 crocodiles escaped certain death! Bad news: 15,000 crocodiles are on the loose!
A few thousand of the crocs have been recaptured, leaving only maybe 13,000 running around loose.
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Elephants hold vigil for human friend
In case you needed another reason to care about wildlife, here's one: If you devote your life to elephants, they might come to your funeral.
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Here’s what happens to EPA whistleblowers (hint: it isn’t pretty)
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo's new book, No Fear: The Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA, tells about the ordeal she went through while working at the EPA in the 1990s. She told NPR:
For me, working at the EPA was a very harrowing experience. … I was surprised that the in environment of the EPA, instead of being rewarded for being proficient in what you do, loyalty was a much greater value. When I began questioning U.S. policy, I was considered disloyal. And at that point, at the minds of many people at the EPA, I had become their enemy.
Coleman-Adebayo says she faced racial and gender-based discrimination during her time at the office. But her real problems started when she questioned her supervisors' reaction to a problem she found out about while working with the 1996 Gore-Mbeki commission in South Africa.
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How to save 20,000 oiled penguins
Dyan deNapoli (who apparently goes by the moniker "The Penguin Lady," which is awesome) was very, very put out by a suggestion during the Gulf Coast oil spill that oiled birds should be killed because they're going to die anyway.
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Climate legislation advances in 16 major countries
A new study [PDF] released by GLOBE international — a coalition of legislators from around the world — found that “climate change is featuring prominently on the legislative agenda across the 16 major economies.” The study, conducted by the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at the London School of Economics, documents the kinds of actions […]
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U.S. Gives South Africa Coal for Earth Day
An Open Letter on U.S. Support for New Coal Plants in Africa, from Mary Anne Hitt, Director of the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign, and Bobby Peak, Director of groundWork South Africa. Dear Export Import Bank President Fred Hochberg, As Earth Day approaches we write to express our shock and disappointment at the Export Import […]
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Investment is win-win for global economy and climate, Stiglitz argues
Following John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Stiglitz proposes solutions that would heal the economy and the environment in one fell swoop.