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LIVE UPDATES! Indigenous leaders and supporters to take bold action against Kinder Morgan pipeline
Today, Indigenous leaders are leading community members in ceremony and action at Kinder Morgan’s construction site on Burnaby Mountain in Vancouver, on Canada's Pacific Coast. We'll be live blogging what happens here!
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Greenpeace calls out Minister Blanchette’s failure on caribou outside Quebec legislature
Early this morning, a group of Greenpeace activists visited Quebec’s legislature to denounce the failure of the Minister of Forests, Fauna and Parks, Luc Blanchette, to protect caribou. We brought a life-size “caribou coffin” and banner reading: No real action, No caribou. We also brought with us the voices of over 23,000 of you who…
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10,000 People stand strong to protect land and water from Kinder Morgan
What do ten thousand people gathering to stand with Indigenous Peoples to protect land, rivers, streams and the Pacific Ocean from a dirty oil pipeline look like?
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Growing GHGs from oil industry put Canadian climate goal further out of reach: Environment Canada
The Canadian government has filed a report with the United Nations that shows that the gap between the greenhouse gas reductions we promised to make under the Paris climate agreement and where current and planned policies will get us has grown by 50 percent, relative to what the government was saying in 2016.
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Greenpeace heads to Supreme Court to defend polluter pay principle
Oil company polluters, not taxpayers and farmers, should bear responsibility for cleaning up the leftover toxic sites oil companies leave behind.
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BC finds Kinder Morgan’s Achilles Heel
The provincial government in British Columbia threw another wrench in Kinder Morgan’s plans to build a new tar sands pipeline this week. On Tuesday, it announced proposed new regulations to…
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Diving to the Antarctic sea floor is a scientist’s dream come true
Most people would be surprised about how many species of cold-water corals and amazing sponges you’d find on the bottom of the Antarctic Ocean. Even as the scientist who has identified three quarters of the registered seafloor communities designated for special protection in the Antarctic, I’ve never seen them myself either!
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Keeping warm in the Boreal Forest
If there’s one thing you don’t want, it’s to freeze your fingers off in the Boreal Forest. At minus 37, that’s not always easy.
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Do ocean sanctuaries really work?
Our oceans are massive and unlike most places on land, they don’t really have borders. Animals, water (and sadly now plastic) all move freely across the globe.
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The Last Man Standing
Imagine the 8 hours you spend at work, in school, or scrolling through Facebook. Now imagine spending those 8 hours on a skidoo at -37 degrees (and more like -50 with wind chill factor), riding through the dark forest on a bumpy road. That’s how long it took us to reach the Broadback.