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U.S. Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke said on Tuesday that the deadly California wildfires were partly due to lawsuits from environmentalists who have sought to stop forest management practices, such as forest thinning. "Radical environmental groups that would rather burn down the entire forest than ...
2017 saw spike in slayings of activists trying to protect land, especially in Brazil: Global Witness
Killings of land and environmental activists rose in 2017 as Mexico and the Philippines registered worrying increases in such murders and Brazil saw the most ever registered in a single country, a watchdog group said Tuesday. At least 207 people who were protecting land and ...
U.S. proposes rollback of endangered species protections, alarming environmentalists
The U.S. administration of President Donald Trump on Thursday proposed sweeping changes to the 45-year-old Endangered Species Act that would roll back protections for threatened animals, sparking alarm by environmentalists. The 1973 federal law is considered the gold standard for global environmental protection, and is ...
Environmentalists question Tokyo's Olympic timber sustainability practices
The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee's code for sustainable procurement of timber used in Games venues allows contractors to use materials from questionable sources, a representative of the environmental group Rainforest Action Network said Thursday. The Sustainable Sourcing Code for Timber provided a "huge compromise in ...
Florida environmentalists inflamed after protected mangroves are illegally cleared for boat show
New revelations that a long strip of protected mangrove trees were illegally razed amid preparations for the 2016 Miami International Boat Show has outraged Florida environmentalists. The lost trees, critical to the marine ecosystem, were hacked away in mid-May by a Miami city contractor in ...
Hillary Clinton to speak in Canada amid debate over pipeline
Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has so far avoided taking a position on the Keystone XL pipeline, is sure to face the issue again on Wednesday in a return to Canada as Congress considers approving construction of the contentious project backed by the United States' ...
As head of his village, Prajob Naowa-opas battled to save his community in central Thailand from the illegal dumping of toxic waste by filing petitions and leading villagers to block trucks carrying the stuff — until a gunman in broad daylight fired four shots ...
