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Dhenu and Vrishabha as symbols of Dharmic Environmentalism

By Nithin Sridhar

India Facts

August 8, 2019

http://indiafacts.org/dhenu-and-vrishabha-as-symbols-of-dharmic-environmentalism/

What Indigenous Rights Have to Do With Fighting Climate Change

By Andre Pagliarini

The New Republic

August 7, 2019

https://newrepublic.com/article/154693/indigenous-rights-fighting-climate-change

Is Divestment Key To Our Climate Future?

By Lydia Brown & Lucy Nalpathanchil & Carolyn McCusker

August 1, 2019

WNPR - Connecticut Public Radio

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Welsh campaigners call public bodies to divest from fossil fuels

Independent Catholic News

July 31, 2019

https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/37591

Is It Proper…? Should a Frum Jew Care If An Animal Species is Endangered Or Goes Extinct?

Jewish Press

July 31, 2019

https://www.jewishpress.com/judaism/halacha-hashkafa/is-it-proper-should-a-frum-jew-care-if-an-animal-species-is-endangered-or-goes-extinct/2019/07/31/

Pray and protect: Faith saves forests of Cambodia

Thomson Reuters Foundation

The Asahi Shimbun

July 29, 2019

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201907290028.html

Fearing Oil Spills, Tribe Sues to Get a Major Pipeline Removed from Its Land

The federal lawsuit warns that erosion could soon leave Enbridge Line 5 exposed to rushing water in Wisconsin’s Bad River, creating a risk of rupture.

By Phil McKenna

Inside Climate News

July 25, 2019

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