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This Summer’s Infernos Are a Warning. The Banks Fueling Forest Destruction Can No Longer Look Away. (opens the original)
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by Ginger Cassady, Executive DirectorThe images coming out of France and Spain, and now the Pacific Northwest of the U.S., are becoming painfully familiar.Entire hillsides engulfed in flames. Firefighters pushed beyond their limits. Families forced to flee as another summer of record heat turns forests into tinderboxes.While these stories are horrific for the hundreds of thousands of people displaced from dozens of communities, they are also part of a much larger, interconnected global story tha
The U.S. Gulf Coast is a biodiversity hot spot – methane gas is threatening all of it (opens the original)
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The Gulf Coast is a biodiversity hot spot – and methane gas (LNG) is threatening all of it.Over 15,000 documented species live in or travel through the area, 130 of which are federally protected, including whales, sea turtles, corals, dolphins, ocelots, migratory birds, snakes, and bats. Among those threatened include species only
How a Decade of Advocacy Became a Documentary (opens the original)
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By Laurel SutherlinPicture a rhinoceros in a rainforest. Add in orangutans swinging above, and elephants and tigers prowling below. There is only one place on our planet you could be — the Leuser Ecosystem in Sumatra, Indonesia. The Leuser Ecosystem is the last place on Earth where critically endangered orangutans, rhinos, elephants, and tigers still share the same rainforest. Its ancient forests and deep peatlands store vast amounts of carbon. Its rivers provide water for millions of people. An
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