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The toxic chemical release in East Palestine, Ohio could be the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
Animals are dying, people are complaining of nausea, headaches, and burning eyes, and residents are fearing for their safety after a train derailment released chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio.
We may not know the full extent of damage from this extreme environmental disaster for years.
Norfolk Southern and the government must be held responsible.
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The toxic chemical release in East Palestine, Ohio could be the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
Animals are dying, people are complaining of nausea, headaches, and burning eyes, and residents are fearing for their safety after a train derailment released chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio.
We may not know the full extent of damage from this extreme environmental disaster for years.
Norfolk Southern and the government must be held responsible.
This content was made by @Environment. Follow @Environment for more climate news and resources.
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The toxic chemical release in East Palestine, Ohio could be the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
Animals are dying, people are complaining of nausea, headaches, and burning eyes, and residents are fearing for their safety after a train derailment released chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio.
We may not know the full extent of damage from this extreme environmental disaster for years.
Norfolk Southern and the government must be held responsible.
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The toxic chemical release in East Palestine, Ohio could be the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
Animals are dying, people are complaining of nausea, headaches, and burning eyes, and residents are fearing for their safety after a train derailment released chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio.
We may not know the full extent of damage from this extreme environmental disaster for years.
Norfolk Southern and the government must be held responsible.
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The toxic chemical release in East Palestine, Ohio could be the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
Animals are dying, people are complaining of nausea, headaches, and burning eyes, and residents are fearing for their safety after a train derailment released chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio.
We may not know the full extent of damage from this extreme environmental disaster for years.
Norfolk Southern and the government must be held responsible.
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The toxic chemical release in East Palestine, Ohio could be the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
Animals are dying, people are complaining of nausea, headaches, and burning eyes, and residents are fearing for their safety after a train derailment released chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio.
We may not know the full extent of damage from this extreme environmental disaster for years.
Norfolk Southern and the government must be held responsible.
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The toxic chemical release in East Palestine, Ohio could be the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
Animals are dying, people are complaining of nausea, headaches, and burning eyes, and residents are fearing for their safety after a train derailment released chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio.
We may not know the full extent of damage from this extreme environmental disaster for years.
Norfolk Southern and the government must be held responsible.
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The toxic chemical release in East Palestine, Ohio could be the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
Animals are dying, people are complaining of nausea, headaches, and burning eyes, and residents are fearing for their safety after a train derailment released chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio.
We may not know the full extent of damage from this extreme environmental disaster for years.
Norfolk Southern and the government must be held responsible.
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The toxic chemical release in East Palestine, Ohio could be the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
Animals are dying, people are complaining of nausea, headaches, and burning eyes, and residents are fearing for their safety after a train derailment released chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio.
We may not know the full extent of damage from this extreme environmental disaster for years.
Norfolk Southern and the government must be held responsible.
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The toxic chemical release in East Palestine, Ohio could be the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
Animals are dying, people are complaining of nausea, headaches, and burning eyes, and residents are fearing for their safety after a train derailment released chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio.
We may not know the full extent of damage from this extreme environmental disaster for years.
Norfolk Southern and the government must be held responsible.
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At the Green Carpet Fashion Awards, I was honored to present the Healer Award to Brazil’s first-ever Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sônia Guajajara, a heroic guardian of the planet. Minister Guajajara has been a fierce environmental activist in the face of grave threats to Indigenous Peoples, defending Brazil’s population of over 900,000 Indigenous Peoples and their more than 300 different cultures. To help address emerging threats to their forest home, my organization Re:wild launched our Amazon Forest Fund in 2019 to deepen our partnership with Sônia and other Indigenous defenders on the frontlines with whom we stand shoulder to shoulder. Re:wild and partners are now working closely with Minister Guajajara and President Lula’s new administration to help them implement rapid environmental priorities. Congratulations, Minister Guajajara, on this well-deserved honor. —–
No Green Carpet Fashion Awards, tive a honra de apresentar o Healer Award à primeira Ministra dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil, Sônia Guajajara, uma heróica guardiã do planeta. A Ministra Guajajara tem sido uma ativista ambiental ferrenha diante das graves ameaças aos povos indígenas, defendendo uma população brasileira de mais de 900.000 indígenas e suas mais de 300 culturas diferentes. Para ajudar a enfrentar as ameaças crescentes à sua casa-floresta, minha organização Re:wild lançou nosso Fundo Florestal da Amazônia em 2019 para aprofundar nossa parceria com Sônia e outros defensores indígenas na linha de frente com os quais estamos lado a lado. A Re:wild e seus parceiros estão agora trabalhando em estreita colaboração com a ministra Guajajara e a nova administração do presidente Lula para ajudá-los a implementar rapidamente as prioridades ambientais. Parabéns, Ministra Guajajara, por esta merecida honra
In 2021, the government of the Indian state of Assam set out to end the poaching of the Endangered Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros in Kaziranga National Park following the killing of around 190 animals for their horns between 2000 and 2021. In 2022, they met their goal and no rhinos were poached in the area for the first time since 1977.
Kaziranga National Park is home to 2,200 Greater One-horned Rhinos, which is about two-thirds of the world’s population.
This triumph in India also comes with more good news, as @wwf also reports that the world population of the rare rhino soared to around 3,700 from about 200 at the turn of the 20th century.
@reuters has more on this story at the link in bio
📷: Reuters/Anuwar Hazarika
Thanks to the incredible leadership of Ecuador’s provincial government of Morono Santiago and four Indigenous nationalities, the country has established one of the largest nature reserves in the Amazon region this month. The Tarímiat Pujutaí Nuṉka Reserve (which translates to ‘Territory for Well-being’ in the Shuar Indigenous language) covers more than 3 million acres of the Andean and Amazonian forests in Ecuador.
The new reserve is in the Morona Santiago province, which includes the territories of the Shuar and Achuar Indigenous communities, who have guarded these forests for thousands of years. Its creation recognizes the territorial rights of the Shaur and Achuar peoples and allows them to protect and manage the area according to their collective traditions, while supporting sustainable livelihoods.
The reserve overlaps with the Cordillera de Kutukú, Cordillera del Condor, Concha and Territorio Achuar Key Biodiversity Areas, places that are critical to the planet’s persistence of biodiversity. The region is home to more than 1,000 bird species, the Near Threatened Jaguar, and the Vulnerable Spectacled Bear and Lowland Tapir. It is also one of the country’s wildlands with the most plant species found nowhere else in the world.
In addition to the Shuar and Achuar communities and @prefecturamoronasantiago, this victory was made possible by the technical assistance of @naturecultureinternational, and the financial support of @andesamazonfund, Wyss Foundation, Art into Acres, @bezosearthfund, NICFI, NORAD, and @rewild.
📷: Naturaleza and Cultura Internacional NCI
Thanks to the incredible leadership of Ecuador’s provincial government of Morono Santiago and four Indigenous nationalities, the country has established one of the largest nature reserves in the Amazon region this month. The Tarímiat Pujutaí Nuṉka Reserve (which translates to ‘Territory for Well-being’ in the Shuar Indigenous language) covers more than 3 million acres of the Andean and Amazonian forests in Ecuador.
The new reserve is in the Morona Santiago province, which includes the territories of the Shuar and Achuar Indigenous communities, who have guarded these forests for thousands of years. Its creation recognizes the territorial rights of the Shaur and Achuar peoples and allows them to protect and manage the area according to their collective traditions, while supporting sustainable livelihoods.
The reserve overlaps with the Cordillera de Kutukú, Cordillera del Condor, Concha and Territorio Achuar Key Biodiversity Areas, places that are critical to the planet’s persistence of biodiversity. The region is home to more than 1,000 bird species, the Near Threatened Jaguar, and the Vulnerable Spectacled Bear and Lowland Tapir. It is also one of the country’s wildlands with the most plant species found nowhere else in the world.
In addition to the Shuar and Achuar communities and @prefecturamoronasantiago, this victory was made possible by the technical assistance of @naturecultureinternational, and the financial support of @andesamazonfund, Wyss Foundation, Art into Acres, @bezosearthfund, NICFI, NORAD, and @rewild.
📷: Naturaleza and Cultura Internacional NCI
Thanks to the incredible leadership of Ecuador’s provincial government of Morono Santiago and four Indigenous nationalities, the country has established one of the largest nature reserves in the Amazon region this month. The Tarímiat Pujutaí Nuṉka Reserve (which translates to ‘Territory for Well-being’ in the Shuar Indigenous language) covers more than 3 million acres of the Andean and Amazonian forests in Ecuador.
The new reserve is in the Morona Santiago province, which includes the territories of the Shuar and Achuar Indigenous communities, who have guarded these forests for thousands of years. Its creation recognizes the territorial rights of the Shaur and Achuar peoples and allows them to protect and manage the area according to their collective traditions, while supporting sustainable livelihoods.
The reserve overlaps with the Cordillera de Kutukú, Cordillera del Condor, Concha and Territorio Achuar Key Biodiversity Areas, places that are critical to the planet’s persistence of biodiversity. The region is home to more than 1,000 bird species, the Near Threatened Jaguar, and the Vulnerable Spectacled Bear and Lowland Tapir. It is also one of the country’s wildlands with the most plant species found nowhere else in the world.
In addition to the Shuar and Achuar communities and @prefecturamoronasantiago, this victory was made possible by the technical assistance of @naturecultureinternational, and the financial support of @andesamazonfund, Wyss Foundation, Art into Acres, @bezosearthfund, NICFI, NORAD, and @rewild.
📷: Naturaleza and Cultura Internacional NCI
Congratulations to the government and the people of Ecuador. The country announced the creation of a blue corridor that will span its entire coastline–a global first. The eight-mile-wide corridor protects the livelihoods of local artisanal fishers.
The 15,000 square-kilometer corridor also protects habitats like mangroves and important wildlife like sea turtles.
This blue corridor is a significant step for the Eastern Tropical Pacific and global marine biodiversity. In order to protect 30% of the planet’s land and oceans by 2030, we will need more bold commitments like this.
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In the Red Sea, coral reefs are still in relatively good shape compared to other reefs around the world. Scientists want to study exactly what about this area allows coral reefs to thrive and what the Red Sea can tell them about other coral reefs.
To date, ocean warming hasn’t really affected the coral reefs in the Red Sea. Warmer ocean waters bleach coral reefs elsewhere, a disturbance to the symbiotic relationships of the coral reefs’ microorganisms. A recent proposal calls for a new marine protected area to protect the Red Sea’s heat-tolerant reefs from other threats to ensure that scientists can continue to study them and even possibly create a nursery to restore degraded reefs elsewhere.
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📷: Bob Berwyn
The impact of climate change has hit Antarctica hard; melting ice contributes to rising sea levels, the krill population has decreased, and ice shelves are retreating, amongst other things. A new study published in the journal PLOS Biology finds that populations of wildlife and plant life are likely to decline by 65% by the year 2100.
This particular study is the first time has carried out such a comprehensive assessment of the continent, exposing how vulnerable species of the continent are. The most vulnerable of all species are Emperor penguins, which could be the only species extinct if things carry on business as usual. Emperor penguins are a keystone species and are vital in the food chain of wildlife in Antarctica.
📷: Paul Souders
@treehuggerdotcom has more at the link in bio
In 2011, scientists tagged a Southern Elephant Seal, fitting him with a camera to simply capture his journey from Kerguelen in the far southern Indian Ocean to Antarctica. Instead, scientists stumbled on a potential climate threat as the seal deviated from his normal route, appearing just offshore of the Denman glacier.
The Denman glacier is notoriously difficult to study because of its tricky location and the fact that the glacier is often locked in by extensive sea ice. The seal, however, provided early evidence that the glacier could be a major threat to global coastlines, seals do not normally swim near the glacier, but this seal did so, swimming through waters that were just above freezing, which is considered too warm for the area, threatening to melt the glacier’s ice and raise sea levels.
@postclimate has more on this story at the link in bio.
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The Biden administration is banning mining for 20 years in a giant watershed near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the president’s latest effort to deliver on conservation pledges that would shape the future of America’s wild lands.
The move, announced Jan. 26, extends a temporary decision from a year ago to block copper, nickel and other hard-rock mining that the Trump administration had tried to greenlight near the Canadian border. Officials said they determined the potential toxic leaching from mining would be too threatening to nature, local Native American communities and a growing recreation economy.
The Biden administration has promised to set aside sacred tribal sites and to conserve 30 percent of America’s lands and waters by 2030, but has come under fire for how to balance that push with demand for oil, renewable energy and minerals.
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Whitebark Pine is an iconic symbol of the American West, backdrop of many classic movies and a much-loved part of the outdoors experience. Entire ecosystems rely on this high-mountain hero to moderate snow melt and protect drinking water supplies. Whitebark Pine seeds are also a vital source of protein for Grizzly Bears, Red Squirrels, and a plucky bird called Clark’s Nutcracker.
But Whitebark Pine, which can live over 1,000 years, is in trouble as the result of a trio of threats, including a deadly non-native fungus called White Pine blister rust, Mountain Pine Beetles and climate change. There are now more dead whitebarks than live ones.
The good news is that Whitebark Pine was just classified as threatened by the Endangered Species Act, which brings much needed attention and support to its restoration. Experts are working hard to find trees that are genetically resistant to blister rust and use their seeds to replant whitebark trees across their range. And groups including @AmericanForests, @ricketts.conservation, @whitebarkfound and @cornellbirds are raising awareness through a campaign to Save the Whitebark Pine.
Learn more about the campaign to #SaveTheWhitebarkPine at the link in bio.
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Members of the U.S. Coast Guard caught this up-close video and audio footage of an orca pod in waters off the coast of Antarctica last month.
‘Finally got a good recording of the orchestra,’ USCG Fireman Niall Shannon wrote on Instagram.
#orcas #orcasinthewild #animals #antarctica
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The UK government is planning to make all households in England be within a 15-minute walk from green space or water, by expanding areas of woodlands, wetlands, parks, and rivers.
It’s all part of the UK’s 2023 Environmental Improvement Plan, which aims to restore nature and improve environmental quality. Two of its goals include creating and restoring at least 1.2M acres of wildlife habitat and 400 miles of river, and providing funding to protect several threatened animal species.
‘This plan provides the blueprint for how we deliver our commitment to leave our environment in a better state than we found it, making sure we drive forward progress with renewed ambition and achieve our target of not just halting, but reversing the decline of nature,’ said UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
#climatechange #greenspace #nature #uknews
Local communities in Namibia’s Kavango regions need your help. On May 16, Namibia’s High Court will decide if local communities who have been outspoken against Canadian oil company ReconAfrica have to pay up to USD$35,000 in government legal fees. The court was originally scheduled to render a decision on Feb. 21, but after mounting pressure, it has decided to delay that decision.
Tell the Namibian High Court not to punish, bankrupt and silence communities for exercising their legal rights to protect their homes from oil drilling. Share this video to show that you #StandwithKavango.
The local communities filed a request to Namibia’s High Court to have their urgent appeal heard to prevent ReconAfrica from continuing to drill for oil on community-managed land. Their request was rejected. Some local activists say the steep fees are an intimidation tactic to silence opposition to the destructive project.
Civil society organizations and activists have expressed concern that the wastewater from ReconAfrica’s exploratory drilling sites risks leaking into groundwater and ephemeral rivers upstream of the Okavango River and Delta in Botswana, which directly provides drinking water for more than 250,000 people and a diverse community of wildlife in a region especially prone to droughts exacerbated by the climate and biodiversity loss crisis.
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