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Northwest Tribal Leaders Testify in Opposition to Canadian Pipeline Expansion

November 28, 2018
Earthjustice

WASHINGTON - Opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline from Coast Salish Tribes on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border continued today with indigenous people of the Salish Sea region testifying before the Canadian National Energy Board. Four U.S. Coast Salish Tribes — the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, Tulalip Tribes, Lummi Nation, and Suquamish...

How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet

November 26, 2018
By Bill McKibben
The New Yorker

With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts.

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Earth Charter Panel at the Parliament of the World's Religions, Toronto, Canada

November 20, 2018
Earth Charter Initiative

China shows wisdom of biodiversity conservation on UN conference

November 19, 2018
Xinhua

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt – When the delegates look at the schedule of the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 14), they will find Chinese wisdom to the global biodiversity conservation.

Indigenous peoples defend Earth's biodiversity—but they're in danger

November 16, 2018
By Gleb Raygorodetsky
National Geographic Society

Comprising less than 5% of the world’s population, indigenous people protect 80% of global biodiversity. Their role is under discussion by world leaders this week. 

In global climate, see the forest and trees

November 13, 2018
By Joan Brown
Global Sisters Report

As thousands of people met, planned, discussed and took part in happy hours in San Francisco on Sept. 12 at the beginning of the Global Climate Action Summit, I sat in the vaulted sanctuary of Grace Episcopal Cathedral with hundreds of people for two...

Without traditional knowledge, there is no climate change solution

November 12, 2018
By Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Conservation International Blog

The world is waking up to the reality of climate change.

But for me — and for the millions of indigenous peoples around the world — climate change isn’t a revelation...

Judge Blocks Keystone XL Pipeline, Says Climate Impact Can't Be Ignored

November 9, 2018
By Phil McKenna
Inside Climate News

A federal judge in Montana on Thursday blocked all further work on the Keystone XL pipeline, saying the Trump administration had failed to justify its decision to reverse a prior decision by the Obama administration and to approve the tar sands oil delivery project.

It was a striking victory for environmental...

On Election Day, let us renew our care for creation, common good

November 6, 2018
By Alex Mikulich
National Catholic Reporter

As the nation votes today, our entire way of life is killing us and the planet. The profound disconnection between the imperative for infinite growth of current economic logic and the finite resources of the earth threaten all of life as we know it. We need a whole new way of thinking about faithful citizenship that...

Iran to nominate Islamic capital of environment and sustainable development

November 4, 2018
Tehran Times

TEHRAN – Iran is making plans for nominating a city as the Islamic capital of environment and sustainable development at the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), the deputy education minister for international affairs has said.

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