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Riot Platforms: The Company Behind the Most Energy Intensive Bitcoin Mine in the U.S.
Summary Riot Platforms is leading the polluting Bitcoin boom in Texas. The company operates the largest, and one of most energy and carbon-intensive, Bitcoin mines in the U.S. at their…
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The Polar Bear: More Than a Poster Child
It’s no mystery that polar bears are in trouble. Scientists and experts at a recent international meeting claim that two-thirds of the world’s polar bears will be gone by…
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Not Just Tuna: The Truth Behind Chicken of the Sea’s Label
Most cans of tuna on supermarket shelves hold dark secrets: exploited fishermen, dead sharks, and dying oceans. Workers have reported being beaten, abused and forced to work on ships for…
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An ecology reading list for self-isolating environmentalists
The social isolation response to the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented in our lifetimes. Perhaps not since the economic depression of the 1930s and World War II has the human family…
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10 Little-Known Shark Facts
Did you know that July 14 is Shark Awareness Day? Every day, sharks suffer from different threats. Up to 100 million sharks disappear every year, due to destructive fishing by…
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3 Ways We’re Fighting for Climate Justice this Black History Month (and Every Month)
When I think about a healthy environment, it’s not necessarily the polar bears that first come to mind. For me, it’s my son. He developed asthma from the polluted air…
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Impossible Journey
In hindsight, it was kind of a crazy idea. In the middle of a pandemic, individuals from across the Greenpeace network set out to bring people from twenty-one countries and…
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The Voting Rights Act and Me: An Immigrant’s Love for American Democracy
Dr. Folabi Olagbaju, Democracy Campaign Director, Greenpeace USA On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, a moment that goes down in American history as finally…
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Greenpeacers Helped Stop the Dirty Deal — Thank You!
We just had a major victory in our fight to stop Senator Joe Manchin’s dirty deal to gut environmental protections like the Clean Water Act. The removal of Manchin’s #DirtyDeal…
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When we come together, we win.
Through months of political tomfoolery, obstruction, and many moving goalposts, an iteration of the Green New Deal was watered down to the Build Back Better Act, then whittled away even…
