#environmentalists — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #environmentalists, aggregated by home.social.
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"#Jews are often thought of as #urban, #bookish folks who don’t venture out into the wild. But there have been plenty of Jews who break that mold — #AbrahamCahan, founder of the Forward, was himself a #birder. In To Life: Jews Exploring #Nature, #author #JoelGreenberg, with #JudithWinston, a #research associate at the #Smithsonian Marine Station in #Florida, tells the life stories of a group of #Jewish #researchers, #naturalists and #environmentalists. I spoke with #Greenberg, a research associate of the #FieldMuseum and the #Chicago Academy of Sciences Peggy Notebaert #Nature #Museum, book author and avid birder who lives in #Westmont, #IL, about the accomplished and often adventurous lives of the #scientists he profiled. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity."
https://forward.com/culture/824284/to-life-joel-greenberg-jews-exploring-nature-nathan-leopold/
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"#Jews are often thought of as #urban, #bookish folks who don’t venture out into the wild. But there have been plenty of Jews who break that mold — #AbrahamCahan, founder of the Forward, was himself a #birder. In To Life: Jews Exploring #Nature, #author #JoelGreenberg, with #JudithWinston, a #research associate at the #Smithsonian Marine Station in #Florida, tells the life stories of a group of #Jewish #researchers, #naturalists and #environmentalists. I spoke with #Greenberg, a research associate of the #FieldMuseum and the #Chicago Academy of Sciences Peggy Notebaert #Nature #Museum, book author and avid birder who lives in #Westmont, #IL, about the accomplished and often adventurous lives of the #scientists he profiled. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity."
https://forward.com/culture/824284/to-life-joel-greenberg-jews-exploring-nature-nathan-leopold/
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"#Jews are often thought of as #urban, #bookish folks who don’t venture out into the wild. But there have been plenty of Jews who break that mold — #AbrahamCahan, founder of the Forward, was himself a #birder. In To Life: Jews Exploring #Nature, #author #JoelGreenberg, with #JudithWinston, a #research associate at the #Smithsonian Marine Station in #Florida, tells the life stories of a group of #Jewish #researchers, #naturalists and #environmentalists. I spoke with #Greenberg, a research associate of the #FieldMuseum and the #Chicago Academy of Sciences Peggy Notebaert #Nature #Museum, book author and avid birder who lives in #Westmont, #IL, about the accomplished and often adventurous lives of the #scientists he profiled. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity."
https://forward.com/culture/824284/to-life-joel-greenberg-jews-exploring-nature-nathan-leopold/
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"#Jews are often thought of as #urban, #bookish folks who don’t venture out into the wild. But there have been plenty of Jews who break that mold — #AbrahamCahan, founder of the Forward, was himself a #birder. In To Life: Jews Exploring #Nature, #author #JoelGreenberg, with #JudithWinston, a #research associate at the #Smithsonian Marine Station in #Florida, tells the life stories of a group of #Jewish #researchers, #naturalists and #environmentalists. I spoke with #Greenberg, a research associate of the #FieldMuseum and the #Chicago Academy of Sciences Peggy Notebaert #Nature #Museum, book author and avid birder who lives in #Westmont, #IL, about the accomplished and often adventurous lives of the #scientists he profiled. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity."
https://forward.com/culture/824284/to-life-joel-greenberg-jews-exploring-nature-nathan-leopold/
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"#Jews are often thought of as #urban, #bookish folks who don’t venture out into the wild. But there have been plenty of Jews who break that mold — #AbrahamCahan, founder of the Forward, was himself a #birder. In To Life: Jews Exploring #Nature, #author #JoelGreenberg, with #JudithWinston, a #research associate at the #Smithsonian Marine Station in #Florida, tells the life stories of a group of #Jewish #researchers, #naturalists and #environmentalists. I spoke with #Greenberg, a research associate of the #FieldMuseum and the #Chicago Academy of Sciences Peggy Notebaert #Nature #Museum, book author and avid birder who lives in #Westmont, #IL, about the accomplished and often adventurous lives of the #scientists he profiled. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity."
https://forward.com/culture/824284/to-life-joel-greenberg-jews-exploring-nature-nathan-leopold/
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2023: #Environmentalists and #NativeAmerican tribe rebuke #SpaceX ahead of historic rocket launch
Opponents of the project say owner #ElonMusk’s space travel aspirations are not worth the risk of a catastrophic explosion.
by Cameron Langford / April 19, 2023
"SpaceX launched a rocket with 33 engines, the most powerful ever built, Thursday morning from its South #Texas port and hailed the test flight as a success, though the rocket and an attached space capsule exploded just four minutes after liftoff.
"The company said in a best-case scenario it would be a 90-minute maiden voyage into space and its first-stage #SuperHeavy rocket would separate from its second-stage #Starship spacecraft about three minutes into the flight, and do a controlled descent into the Gulf of Mexico. And Starship would travel around the globe and land off the coast of Hawaii.
"But with SpaceX livestreaming the event the components failed to separate and the vehicle flipped over before exploding.
"Musk, who also owns Twitter, praised his employees’ work on the project in a Twitter post: 'Congrats @SpaceX team on an exciting test launch of Starship! Learned a lot for next test launch in a few months.'
"Environmental and #CivilRights groups condemned SpaceX’s endeavor in statements Wednesday afternoon, saying they feared an explosion would destroy #EndangeredSpecies’ habitat in a nearby wildlife refuge and that rocket shrapnel could injure area residents.
"But there were no immediate reports of environmental damage or injuries Thursday morning after the explosion.
"Since Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, it has become the world’s premier commercial space business, launching its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets more than 220 times, making history as the first private firm to send astronauts to the International Space Station and delivering cargo to the International Space Station more than 20 times with its Dragon spacecraft.
Aborted launches and explosions are commonplace for the company as it refines its technology, including a 2019 test flight from its '#Spaceport' in #BocaChica — an unincorporated and sparsely populated village in Cameron County outside #BrownsvilleTX — that started a 100-acre brush fire in the Lower #RioGrandeValley #NationalWildlifeRefuge."
#ElonSucks #EnvironmentalRacism #RioGrandeDelta #SacredSites #WildlifeRefuge #ProtectTheSacred #Colonialism #CorporateColonialism
#OccupySpaceX #TwoHeartedPeople #USPol #NativeAmericans #CarrizoComecrudo #AncestralLand #ProtectTheSacred #Pollution #ExplodingRockets -
2023: #Environmentalists and #NativeAmerican tribe rebuke #SpaceX ahead of historic rocket launch
Opponents of the project say owner #ElonMusk’s space travel aspirations are not worth the risk of a catastrophic explosion.
by Cameron Langford / April 19, 2023
"SpaceX launched a rocket with 33 engines, the most powerful ever built, Thursday morning from its South #Texas port and hailed the test flight as a success, though the rocket and an attached space capsule exploded just four minutes after liftoff.
"The company said in a best-case scenario it would be a 90-minute maiden voyage into space and its first-stage #SuperHeavy rocket would separate from its second-stage #Starship spacecraft about three minutes into the flight, and do a controlled descent into the Gulf of Mexico. And Starship would travel around the globe and land off the coast of Hawaii.
"But with SpaceX livestreaming the event the components failed to separate and the vehicle flipped over before exploding.
"Musk, who also owns Twitter, praised his employees’ work on the project in a Twitter post: 'Congrats @SpaceX team on an exciting test launch of Starship! Learned a lot for next test launch in a few months.'
"Environmental and #CivilRights groups condemned SpaceX’s endeavor in statements Wednesday afternoon, saying they feared an explosion would destroy #EndangeredSpecies’ habitat in a nearby wildlife refuge and that rocket shrapnel could injure area residents.
"But there were no immediate reports of environmental damage or injuries Thursday morning after the explosion.
"Since Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, it has become the world’s premier commercial space business, launching its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets more than 220 times, making history as the first private firm to send astronauts to the International Space Station and delivering cargo to the International Space Station more than 20 times with its Dragon spacecraft.
Aborted launches and explosions are commonplace for the company as it refines its technology, including a 2019 test flight from its '#Spaceport' in #BocaChica — an unincorporated and sparsely populated village in Cameron County outside #BrownsvilleTX — that started a 100-acre brush fire in the Lower #RioGrandeValley #NationalWildlifeRefuge."
#ElonSucks #EnvironmentalRacism #RioGrandeDelta #SacredSites #WildlifeRefuge #ProtectTheSacred #Colonialism #CorporateColonialism
#OccupySpaceX #TwoHeartedPeople #USPol #NativeAmericans #CarrizoComecrudo #AncestralLand #ProtectTheSacred #Pollution #ExplodingRockets -
2023: #Environmentalists and #NativeAmerican tribe rebuke #SpaceX ahead of historic rocket launch
Opponents of the project say owner #ElonMusk’s space travel aspirations are not worth the risk of a catastrophic explosion.
by Cameron Langford / April 19, 2023
"SpaceX launched a rocket with 33 engines, the most powerful ever built, Thursday morning from its South #Texas port and hailed the test flight as a success, though the rocket and an attached space capsule exploded just four minutes after liftoff.
"The company said in a best-case scenario it would be a 90-minute maiden voyage into space and its first-stage #SuperHeavy rocket would separate from its second-stage #Starship spacecraft about three minutes into the flight, and do a controlled descent into the Gulf of Mexico. And Starship would travel around the globe and land off the coast of Hawaii.
"But with SpaceX livestreaming the event the components failed to separate and the vehicle flipped over before exploding.
"Musk, who also owns Twitter, praised his employees’ work on the project in a Twitter post: 'Congrats @SpaceX team on an exciting test launch of Starship! Learned a lot for next test launch in a few months.'
"Environmental and #CivilRights groups condemned SpaceX’s endeavor in statements Wednesday afternoon, saying they feared an explosion would destroy #EndangeredSpecies’ habitat in a nearby wildlife refuge and that rocket shrapnel could injure area residents.
"But there were no immediate reports of environmental damage or injuries Thursday morning after the explosion.
"Since Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, it has become the world’s premier commercial space business, launching its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets more than 220 times, making history as the first private firm to send astronauts to the International Space Station and delivering cargo to the International Space Station more than 20 times with its Dragon spacecraft.
Aborted launches and explosions are commonplace for the company as it refines its technology, including a 2019 test flight from its '#Spaceport' in #BocaChica — an unincorporated and sparsely populated village in Cameron County outside #BrownsvilleTX — that started a 100-acre brush fire in the Lower #RioGrandeValley #NationalWildlifeRefuge."
#ElonSucks #EnvironmentalRacism #RioGrandeDelta #SacredSites #WildlifeRefuge #ProtectTheSacred #Colonialism #CorporateColonialism
#OccupySpaceX #TwoHeartedPeople #USPol #NativeAmericans #CarrizoComecrudo #AncestralLand #ProtectTheSacred #Pollution #ExplodingRockets -
2023: #Environmentalists and #NativeAmerican tribe rebuke #SpaceX ahead of historic rocket launch
Opponents of the project say owner #ElonMusk’s space travel aspirations are not worth the risk of a catastrophic explosion.
by Cameron Langford / April 19, 2023
"SpaceX launched a rocket with 33 engines, the most powerful ever built, Thursday morning from its South #Texas port and hailed the test flight as a success, though the rocket and an attached space capsule exploded just four minutes after liftoff.
"The company said in a best-case scenario it would be a 90-minute maiden voyage into space and its first-stage #SuperHeavy rocket would separate from its second-stage #Starship spacecraft about three minutes into the flight, and do a controlled descent into the Gulf of Mexico. And Starship would travel around the globe and land off the coast of Hawaii.
"But with SpaceX livestreaming the event the components failed to separate and the vehicle flipped over before exploding.
"Musk, who also owns Twitter, praised his employees’ work on the project in a Twitter post: 'Congrats @SpaceX team on an exciting test launch of Starship! Learned a lot for next test launch in a few months.'
"Environmental and #CivilRights groups condemned SpaceX’s endeavor in statements Wednesday afternoon, saying they feared an explosion would destroy #EndangeredSpecies’ habitat in a nearby wildlife refuge and that rocket shrapnel could injure area residents.
"But there were no immediate reports of environmental damage or injuries Thursday morning after the explosion.
"Since Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, it has become the world’s premier commercial space business, launching its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets more than 220 times, making history as the first private firm to send astronauts to the International Space Station and delivering cargo to the International Space Station more than 20 times with its Dragon spacecraft.
Aborted launches and explosions are commonplace for the company as it refines its technology, including a 2019 test flight from its '#Spaceport' in #BocaChica — an unincorporated and sparsely populated village in Cameron County outside #BrownsvilleTX — that started a 100-acre brush fire in the Lower #RioGrandeValley #NationalWildlifeRefuge."
#ElonSucks #EnvironmentalRacism #RioGrandeDelta #SacredSites #WildlifeRefuge #ProtectTheSacred #Colonialism #CorporateColonialism
#OccupySpaceX #TwoHeartedPeople #USPol #NativeAmericans #CarrizoComecrudo #AncestralLand #ProtectTheSacred #Pollution #ExplodingRockets -
2023: #Environmentalists and #NativeAmerican tribe rebuke #SpaceX ahead of historic rocket launch
Opponents of the project say owner #ElonMusk’s space travel aspirations are not worth the risk of a catastrophic explosion.
by Cameron Langford / April 19, 2023
"SpaceX launched a rocket with 33 engines, the most powerful ever built, Thursday morning from its South #Texas port and hailed the test flight as a success, though the rocket and an attached space capsule exploded just four minutes after liftoff.
"The company said in a best-case scenario it would be a 90-minute maiden voyage into space and its first-stage #SuperHeavy rocket would separate from its second-stage #Starship spacecraft about three minutes into the flight, and do a controlled descent into the Gulf of Mexico. And Starship would travel around the globe and land off the coast of Hawaii.
"But with SpaceX livestreaming the event the components failed to separate and the vehicle flipped over before exploding.
"Musk, who also owns Twitter, praised his employees’ work on the project in a Twitter post: 'Congrats @SpaceX team on an exciting test launch of Starship! Learned a lot for next test launch in a few months.'
"Environmental and #CivilRights groups condemned SpaceX’s endeavor in statements Wednesday afternoon, saying they feared an explosion would destroy #EndangeredSpecies’ habitat in a nearby wildlife refuge and that rocket shrapnel could injure area residents.
"But there were no immediate reports of environmental damage or injuries Thursday morning after the explosion.
"Since Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, it has become the world’s premier commercial space business, launching its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets more than 220 times, making history as the first private firm to send astronauts to the International Space Station and delivering cargo to the International Space Station more than 20 times with its Dragon spacecraft.
Aborted launches and explosions are commonplace for the company as it refines its technology, including a 2019 test flight from its '#Spaceport' in #BocaChica — an unincorporated and sparsely populated village in Cameron County outside #BrownsvilleTX — that started a 100-acre brush fire in the Lower #RioGrandeValley #NationalWildlifeRefuge."
#ElonSucks #EnvironmentalRacism #RioGrandeDelta #SacredSites #WildlifeRefuge #ProtectTheSacred #Colonialism #CorporateColonialism
#OccupySpaceX #TwoHeartedPeople #USPol #NativeAmericans #CarrizoComecrudo #AncestralLand #ProtectTheSacred #Pollution #ExplodingRockets -
#ThrowbackThursday 2022.
Working on #PenderIsland with #OceanNetworks #Canada to raise more public awareness & support to respect & protect our #marine #ecosystems 💙💚💙🌊
Education about ecosystems & ocean #biodiversity of botanicals/creatures/critters.
Information about importance of #MarineProtectedAreas - #MPAs & why a lot of grassroots organizations patrolling & doing stewardship is essential for ocean protection work, going forward.#Conservation #Oceans #Environmentalists #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #SaveOurOceans #MarineBiology #MarineScience #seal #GulfIslandsPreserve #wildlife #MarineLife
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#ThrowbackThursday 2022.
Working on #PenderIsland with #OceanNetworks #Canada to raise more public awareness & support to respect & protect our #marine #ecosystems 💙💚💙🌊
Education about ecosystems & ocean #biodiversity of botanicals/creatures/critters.
Information about importance of #MarineProtectedAreas - #MPAs & why a lot of grassroots organizations patrolling & doing stewardship is essential for ocean protection work, going forward.#Conservation #Oceans #Environmentalists #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #SaveOurOceans #MarineBiology #MarineScience #seal #GulfIslandsPreserve #wildlife #MarineLife
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Please consider becoming a member!
The #CoastalISC is a #nonprofit organization composed of local citizens, representatives from First Nations, governments, utilities, natural resource industries, academia and conservation groups, and others who share a common concern about the impacts of invasive alien plants in #CoastalBC. The Coastal ISC serves the geographic area of #VancouverIsland, the #GulfIslands, and the #SunshineCoast.
https://www.coastalisc.com/become-a-member
#Naturalists #NatureGuardians #BCInvasivePlants #conservation #stewardship #Environmentalists #EarthFirst #ProtectNativeSpecies #BritishColumbia #Canadian #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #PNW
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Please consider becoming a member!
The #CoastalISC is a #nonprofit organization composed of local citizens, representatives from First Nations, governments, utilities, natural resource industries, academia and conservation groups, and others who share a common concern about the impacts of invasive alien plants in #CoastalBC. The Coastal ISC serves the geographic area of #VancouverIsland, the #GulfIslands, and the #SunshineCoast.
https://www.coastalisc.com/become-a-member
#Naturalists #NatureGuardians #BCInvasivePlants #conservation #stewardship #Environmentalists #EarthFirst #ProtectNativeSpecies #BritishColumbia #Canadian #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #PNW
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Please consider becoming a member!
The #CoastalISC is a #nonprofit organization composed of local citizens, representatives from First Nations, governments, utilities, natural resource industries, academia and conservation groups, and others who share a common concern about the impacts of invasive alien plants in #CoastalBC. The Coastal ISC serves the geographic area of #VancouverIsland, the #GulfIslands, and the #SunshineCoast.
https://www.coastalisc.com/become-a-member
#Naturalists #NatureGuardians #BCInvasivePlants #conservation #stewardship #Environmentalists #EarthFirst #ProtectNativeSpecies #BritishColumbia #Canadian #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #PNW
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Please consider becoming a member!
The #CoastalISC is a #nonprofit organization composed of local citizens, representatives from First Nations, governments, utilities, natural resource industries, academia and conservation groups, and others who share a common concern about the impacts of invasive alien plants in #CoastalBC. The Coastal ISC serves the geographic area of #VancouverIsland, the #GulfIslands, and the #SunshineCoast.
https://www.coastalisc.com/become-a-member
#Naturalists #NatureGuardians #BCInvasivePlants #conservation #stewardship #Environmentalists #EarthFirst #ProtectNativeSpecies #BritishColumbia #Canadian #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #PNW
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Please consider becoming a member!
The #CoastalISC is a #nonprofit organization composed of local citizens, representatives from First Nations, governments, utilities, natural resource industries, academia and conservation groups, and others who share a common concern about the impacts of invasive alien plants in #CoastalBC. The Coastal ISC serves the geographic area of #VancouverIsland, the #GulfIslands, and the #SunshineCoast.
https://www.coastalisc.com/become-a-member
#Naturalists #NatureGuardians #BCInvasivePlants #conservation #stewardship #Environmentalists #EarthFirst #ProtectNativeSpecies #BritishColumbia #Canadian #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #PNW
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Report highlights disproportionate killings of #IndigenousEnvironmentalActivists
PBSNewshour, Nov 16, 2024
"Leaders at the United Nations’ #COP29 #CimateChange summit are being pressed this year to address the rising threats to #environmentalists and defenders of #HumanRights. Ali Rogin looks at the challenges facing these activists around the world and speaks with Laura Furones, a senior adviser at the environmental watchdog and advocacy group Global Witness, to learn more.
Watch / read transcript:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/report-highlights-disproportionate-killings-of-indigenous-environmental-activists#GlobalWitness #Phillipines #SouthAfrica #Malaysia #Colombia #Brazil #IndigenousActivists #MurderedActivists #LandDefenders #WaterProtectors #MegaInfrastructureProjects #Mining #Megaprojects #Deforestation #HumanRightsDefenders #ProtectTheForests #WaterIsLife
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Report highlights disproportionate killings of #IndigenousEnvironmentalActivists
PBSNewshour, Nov 16, 2024
"Leaders at the United Nations’ #COP29 #CimateChange summit are being pressed this year to address the rising threats to #environmentalists and defenders of #HumanRights. Ali Rogin looks at the challenges facing these activists around the world and speaks with Laura Furones, a senior adviser at the environmental watchdog and advocacy group Global Witness, to learn more.
Watch / read transcript:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/report-highlights-disproportionate-killings-of-indigenous-environmental-activists#GlobalWitness #Phillipines #SouthAfrica #Malaysia #Colombia #Brazil #IndigenousActivists #MurderedActivists #LandDefenders #WaterProtectors #MegaInfrastructureProjects #Mining #Megaprojects #Deforestation #HumanRightsDefenders #ProtectTheForests #WaterIsLife
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*We have a similar longtime movement in #BritishColumbia for same government approved aerial herbicide toxic spraying issue #StopTheSprayBC *
#FirstNations and #environmentalists have denounced the practice of aerial #herbicide spraying on #forestlands for decades. This year, #Indigenous groups in Northern #Ontario have announced a ban on blanket herbicide use, while in #NovaScotia, residents have resorted to peaceful #DirectAction to enforce their own ban.
The #ForestIndustry routinely dumps tons of chemicals like #glyphosate, the main ingredient in #Roundup weedkiller, on logged areas to kill off naturally-regenerated trees and shrubs in favour of commercial #TreeFarms. The problem is, these herbicides are #lethal to frogs, lizards, and salamanders. They wipe out #MedicinalPlants and berry bushes that Indigenous people and #wildlife rely on. Glyphosate, a suspected #carcinogen, #contaminates #rivers and #groundwater far and wide through indiscriminate spraying.
https://watershedsentinel.ca/articles/spray-down/
#CDNpoli #StopTheSpray #Ecocide #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #BanCorporateLobbyists #ForestryReformNow
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*We have a similar longtime movement in #BritishColumbia for same government approved aerial herbicide toxic spraying issue #StopTheSprayBC *
#FirstNations and #environmentalists have denounced the practice of aerial #herbicide spraying on #forestlands for decades. This year, #Indigenous groups in Northern #Ontario have announced a ban on blanket herbicide use, while in #NovaScotia, residents have resorted to peaceful #DirectAction to enforce their own ban.
The #ForestIndustry routinely dumps tons of chemicals like #glyphosate, the main ingredient in #Roundup weedkiller, on logged areas to kill off naturally-regenerated trees and shrubs in favour of commercial #TreeFarms. The problem is, these herbicides are #lethal to frogs, lizards, and salamanders. They wipe out #MedicinalPlants and berry bushes that Indigenous people and #wildlife rely on. Glyphosate, a suspected #carcinogen, #contaminates #rivers and #groundwater far and wide through indiscriminate spraying.
https://watershedsentinel.ca/articles/spray-down/
#CDNpoli #StopTheSpray #Ecocide #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #BanCorporateLobbyists #ForestryReformNow
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#Nevada #LithiumMine approved despite possible harm to #endangered #wildflower
Advocates vow to sue, saying plan, crucial to #Biden’s clean energy agenda, will drive #TiehmsBuckwheat to extinction
Thu 24 Oct 2024 16.36 EDT
"Environmentalists said Thursday that the mine’s final approval was a politically motivated violation of multiple US laws. The Center for Biological Diversity said in a statement: 'Litigation is now the only way [to] stop the Rhyolite Ridge Mine.'
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"Opponents of the project say it’s the latest example of Biden’s administration running roughshod over US protections for native #wildlife, rare species and #SacredTribalLands in the name of slowing the #ClimateCrisis by reducing reliance on fossil fuels and bolstering national security by easing reliance on foreign sources of critical minerals.
"'We’ve been fighting to save Tiehm’s buckwheat for six years and we’re not giving up now,' Donnelly said.
"Nevada is home to the only existing lithium mine in the US. Another is currently under construction near the Oregon line 220 miles (354km) north of Reno. That #LithiumAmericas mine at #ThackerPass, which was approved in the final days of Donald #Trump’s administration, survived numerous legal challenges from #environmentalists and #NativeAmerican tribes who said it would destroy lands they considered sacred where their ancestors were massacred by US troops in 1865."
#SaveRhyoliteRidge
#SaveThackerPass #IoneerLtd #NoLithiumMining #RecycleLithium #BiodiversityNecessityDefense #CenterForBiologicalDiversity #ProtectTheSacred #TiehmsBuckwheat #EndangeredSpecies -
#Nevada #LithiumMine approved despite possible harm to #endangered #wildflower
Advocates vow to sue, saying plan, crucial to #Biden’s clean energy agenda, will drive #TiehmsBuckwheat to extinction
Thu 24 Oct 2024 16.36 EDT
"Environmentalists said Thursday that the mine’s final approval was a politically motivated violation of multiple US laws. The Center for Biological Diversity said in a statement: 'Litigation is now the only way [to] stop the Rhyolite Ridge Mine.'
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"Opponents of the project say it’s the latest example of Biden’s administration running roughshod over US protections for native #wildlife, rare species and #SacredTribalLands in the name of slowing the #ClimateCrisis by reducing reliance on fossil fuels and bolstering national security by easing reliance on foreign sources of critical minerals.
"'We’ve been fighting to save Tiehm’s buckwheat for six years and we’re not giving up now,' Donnelly said.
"Nevada is home to the only existing lithium mine in the US. Another is currently under construction near the Oregon line 220 miles (354km) north of Reno. That #LithiumAmericas mine at #ThackerPass, which was approved in the final days of Donald #Trump’s administration, survived numerous legal challenges from #environmentalists and #NativeAmerican tribes who said it would destroy lands they considered sacred where their ancestors were massacred by US troops in 1865."
#SaveRhyoliteRidge
#SaveThackerPass #IoneerLtd #NoLithiumMining #RecycleLithium #BiodiversityNecessityDefense #CenterForBiologicalDiversity #ProtectTheSacred #TiehmsBuckwheat #EndangeredSpecies -
Report By Amy Corbin
Posted October 1, 2004
Updated April 1, 2010"For more than two decades, the #Shoshone and #Paiute peoples, scientists, #environmentalists, the federal government, Nevada citizens and politicians have wrestled over the fate of Yucca Mountain. The federal government had selected the mountain to become the nation’s primary dumping ground for deadly, high-level #NuclearWaste, but the long-contested project is at last on its way to being closed. Meanwhile, the #WesternShoshone fight off federal efforts to sell their land in order to give multinational #corporations access to its #mineral resources. But the Western Shoshone stand firm. Raymond Yowell, Chief of the Western Shoshone National Council, said, 'Western Shoshone title is still intact… We’ve never accepted their money and never will — our land, the earth mother is not for sale and we will protect her and continue our responsibilities as caretakers under the Creator’s law.'
The Land and Its People
"Yucca Mountain is located within the Western Shoshone Nation and has long been a place of powerful spiritual energy for the Shoshone and the Paiute. To the Western Shoshone it is #SnakeMountain, a place with rock rings that transmit prayers to the Great Spirit and messages back to the people. The late Shoshone spiritual leader Corbin Harney told a traditional story that Snake Mountain will one day be awakened and split open, spewing out poison. This prophecy may predict the potential disaster of #volcanic activity and nuclear waste leakage. Shoshone ancestors are buried in the mountain and the water in the area is sacred, as it is with many desert peoples.
"The 60 million acres of Western Shoshone territory in Nevada, Idaho, Utah and California, which includes Yucca Mountain, was never deeded to the U.S. government. According to the 1863 #RubyValleyTreaty that the Shoshone signed with the government, most of the area now used by the U.S. military for #NuclearWeapons testing and the proposed waste storage site was explicitly recognized as Shoshone land. However, the U.S. government now claims 80 to 90 percent of it, meaning that the Shoshone are unable to control what happens on their ancestral land. Legislators continue to try to persuade the Shoshone to accept financial compensation for this land, which most view as a way to extinguish aboriginal title and preclude future land claims, easing the way for renewed nuclear weapons testing and waste storage, as well as resource #extraction.
"In the late 1970s government scientists began to study Yucca Mountain as a possible repository for nuclear waste, and since 1987 it has been the only site considered for 77,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste. While the Yucca Mountain Project has been debated, the amount of nuclear waste needing burial has already surpassed what the repository was designed to hold. In the meantime, nuclear waste continues to sit in steel-lined pools or casks near power plants throughout the country that produce 2,000 tons of high-level waste per year. The waste is lethal for 10,000 years and dangerous for 250,000 years."
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"The Yucca Mountain Project calls for the highly radioactive nuclear waste to be encased in steel containers and buried deep in the mountain. Since the canisters will last for 1,000 years at most, the dryness of the mountain will have to guarantee against leakage and migration — an assumption that environmentalists and many scientists say is flawed and dangerous. Surface water percolating into the mountain will carry radioactive particles into the water table and render it toxic. This water table currently supplies water to local communities and farming regions that produce food products for the entire country.
"In 2005, Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman confirmed that internal department e-mails allude to the #falsification of data on how quickly water flows through Yucca Mountain. This revelation caused a federal investigation, and condemnation from Congress triggered the Department of Energy to completely reorganize the project and lay off 500 employees. Robert Hager, attorney for the Western Shoshone, said that the Yucca site would have been disqualified years ago if the true nature of the subterranean water flow was known.
"With several local #FaultLines and a #volcano nearby, earthquakes make it likely that the mountain will fracture the repository and send even more water to the waste. There are also grave concerns about the safety of transporting nuclear waste over long distances through several U.S. states, particularly in an era of terrorist threats. During the later Bush years, as environmental concerns mounted and citizens from other states grew more leery, the project began to look more and more unlikely."
Read more:
https://sacredland.org/yucca-mountain-united-states/#EnvironmentalRacism #Pauite #PauiteShoshone #CulturalGenocide #NativeAmericans #nuclear #nuclearwaste #WaterIsLife #RespectTheTreaties #NoNukes #NoDumping
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Report By Amy Corbin
Posted October 1, 2004
Updated April 1, 2010"For more than two decades, the #Shoshone and #Paiute peoples, scientists, #environmentalists, the federal government, Nevada citizens and politicians have wrestled over the fate of Yucca Mountain. The federal government had selected the mountain to become the nation’s primary dumping ground for deadly, high-level #NuclearWaste, but the long-contested project is at last on its way to being closed. Meanwhile, the #WesternShoshone fight off federal efforts to sell their land in order to give multinational #corporations access to its #mineral resources. But the Western Shoshone stand firm. Raymond Yowell, Chief of the Western Shoshone National Council, said, 'Western Shoshone title is still intact… We’ve never accepted their money and never will — our land, the earth mother is not for sale and we will protect her and continue our responsibilities as caretakers under the Creator’s law.'
The Land and Its People
"Yucca Mountain is located within the Western Shoshone Nation and has long been a place of powerful spiritual energy for the Shoshone and the Paiute. To the Western Shoshone it is #SnakeMountain, a place with rock rings that transmit prayers to the Great Spirit and messages back to the people. The late Shoshone spiritual leader Corbin Harney told a traditional story that Snake Mountain will one day be awakened and split open, spewing out poison. This prophecy may predict the potential disaster of #volcanic activity and nuclear waste leakage. Shoshone ancestors are buried in the mountain and the water in the area is sacred, as it is with many desert peoples.
"The 60 million acres of Western Shoshone territory in Nevada, Idaho, Utah and California, which includes Yucca Mountain, was never deeded to the U.S. government. According to the 1863 #RubyValleyTreaty that the Shoshone signed with the government, most of the area now used by the U.S. military for #NuclearWeapons testing and the proposed waste storage site was explicitly recognized as Shoshone land. However, the U.S. government now claims 80 to 90 percent of it, meaning that the Shoshone are unable to control what happens on their ancestral land. Legislators continue to try to persuade the Shoshone to accept financial compensation for this land, which most view as a way to extinguish aboriginal title and preclude future land claims, easing the way for renewed nuclear weapons testing and waste storage, as well as resource #extraction.
"In the late 1970s government scientists began to study Yucca Mountain as a possible repository for nuclear waste, and since 1987 it has been the only site considered for 77,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste. While the Yucca Mountain Project has been debated, the amount of nuclear waste needing burial has already surpassed what the repository was designed to hold. In the meantime, nuclear waste continues to sit in steel-lined pools or casks near power plants throughout the country that produce 2,000 tons of high-level waste per year. The waste is lethal for 10,000 years and dangerous for 250,000 years."
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"The Yucca Mountain Project calls for the highly radioactive nuclear waste to be encased in steel containers and buried deep in the mountain. Since the canisters will last for 1,000 years at most, the dryness of the mountain will have to guarantee against leakage and migration — an assumption that environmentalists and many scientists say is flawed and dangerous. Surface water percolating into the mountain will carry radioactive particles into the water table and render it toxic. This water table currently supplies water to local communities and farming regions that produce food products for the entire country.
"In 2005, Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman confirmed that internal department e-mails allude to the #falsification of data on how quickly water flows through Yucca Mountain. This revelation caused a federal investigation, and condemnation from Congress triggered the Department of Energy to completely reorganize the project and lay off 500 employees. Robert Hager, attorney for the Western Shoshone, said that the Yucca site would have been disqualified years ago if the true nature of the subterranean water flow was known.
"With several local #FaultLines and a #volcano nearby, earthquakes make it likely that the mountain will fracture the repository and send even more water to the waste. There are also grave concerns about the safety of transporting nuclear waste over long distances through several U.S. states, particularly in an era of terrorist threats. During the later Bush years, as environmental concerns mounted and citizens from other states grew more leery, the project began to look more and more unlikely."
Read more:
https://sacredland.org/yucca-mountain-united-states/#EnvironmentalRacism #Pauite #PauiteShoshone #CulturalGenocide #NativeAmericans #nuclear #nuclearwaste #WaterIsLife #RespectTheTreaties #NoNukes #NoDumping
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Last #coalburning power plant in #NewEngland set to close in a win for #environmentalists
by Michael Casey, March 28, 2024
BOSTON (AP) — "The last coal-fired power plant in New England, which had been the focus of a lawsuit and #protests, is set to close in a victory for #environmentalists.
"#GraniteShorePower said Wednesday it reached an agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency to close the Merrimack Station in #NewHampshire by June 2028. As part of the deal, the company said the site will be turned into the state’s first #RenewableEnergyPark that host #solar power and battery storage systems. The company also said it would shutter Schiller Station in Portsmouth in December 2025. That facility, which is permitted to use oil, coal and biomass, has not operated for several years.
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"The environmental groups claimed the plant draws about 287 million gallons (1.1 billion liters) of water per day from the Merrimack River, heats that water as a result of its cooling process, and then discharges the water back into the river at temperatures that often exceed 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius).
"#ClimateActivists also protested the plant and demanded its closure over concerns it is a major source of air pollution. In one incident, climate activists last year paddled canoes and kayaks down the Merrimack River to the plant site and were arrested after going onto the property."
Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/last-coal-burning-power-plant-in-new-england-set-to-close-in-a-win-for-environmentalists/ar-BB1kHzd8#DirectAction #BiodiversityNecessityDefense #ClimateNecessityDefense #Activists #MerrimackRiver #MerrimackStation #SchillerStation #PortsmouthNH
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Last #coalburning power plant in #NewEngland set to close in a win for #environmentalists
by Michael Casey, March 28, 2024
BOSTON (AP) — "The last coal-fired power plant in New England, which had been the focus of a lawsuit and #protests, is set to close in a victory for #environmentalists.
"#GraniteShorePower said Wednesday it reached an agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency to close the Merrimack Station in #NewHampshire by June 2028. As part of the deal, the company said the site will be turned into the state’s first #RenewableEnergyPark that host #solar power and battery storage systems. The company also said it would shutter Schiller Station in Portsmouth in December 2025. That facility, which is permitted to use oil, coal and biomass, has not operated for several years.
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"The environmental groups claimed the plant draws about 287 million gallons (1.1 billion liters) of water per day from the Merrimack River, heats that water as a result of its cooling process, and then discharges the water back into the river at temperatures that often exceed 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius).
"#ClimateActivists also protested the plant and demanded its closure over concerns it is a major source of air pollution. In one incident, climate activists last year paddled canoes and kayaks down the Merrimack River to the plant site and were arrested after going onto the property."
Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/last-coal-burning-power-plant-in-new-england-set-to-close-in-a-win-for-environmentalists/ar-BB1kHzd8#DirectAction #BiodiversityNecessityDefense #ClimateNecessityDefense #Activists #MerrimackRiver #MerrimackStation #SchillerStation #PortsmouthNH
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Don't mess with Tiffany...
#ESG #corporatebranding #corporategifts #esginvestment #esginvesting #esgreporting #pebblemine #bristolbay #Alaska #TiffanyAndCo #conservation #wildlife #environmental #foodsecurity #environmentalists #nopebblemine #salmon #wilderness #wildlifeconservation #naturealaska #savebristolbay #defendbristolbay
https://www.triplepundit.com/story/2023/us-businesses-pebble-mine/765691
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#Flashback 2021 #RCMPStandDown #MassMobilization #protest against #RCMPCIRG & #BCNDP using #RCMP to attack #ForestDefenders #Environmentalists on #unceded #Indigenous lands. I organized this, after aggressive, traumatic extraction by RCMP. Sgt. Charney (Google him) sending #BCAmbulance away, after promising I'd get help if I went in their SUV to bottom of mountain. RCMP stole a bunch of my personal stuff too & didn't let me retrieve anything.
Don't believe MSM news. I was there! RCMP LIES.
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@samuraikid
The people who've been talking about #populationGrowth are salient and the most attacked by #corporatists who enjoy exploiting more atomised, desperate, simple, consumerist populations.In many ways the devolving #intelligence and #nihalism, as evidenced by the effectiveness of #experimentalMedication propaganda has proven this.
The#population-aware #environmentalists are sanest.
There's so much evidence we are in #overshoot. Our only chance is #smallerFamilies.