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Video Featuring Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot Details Magical Solution to Climate Crisis: Nature

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New Report Details 10 'Critical Transitions' to Tackle the Climate Crisis and Feed the World

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"We can either seize the opportunity to transform our food and land use systems or frankly, sleepwalk our way into an ecological and human disaster."

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Not Just the Bees, First-of-Its-Kind Study Shows Neonics May Be Killing Birds Too

Julia Conley, staff writer

"It's clear evidence these chemicals can affect populations."

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US Beekeepers File Suit Against Trump EPA Charging 'Illegal' Approval of Insecticide Linked to Mass Die-Off

Jon Queally, staff writer

"It is inappropriate for EPA to solely rely on industry studies to justify bringing sulfoxaflor back into our farm fields," said Michele Colopy of the Pollinator Stewardship Council, a party to the suit. "Die-offs of tens of thousands of bee colonies continue to occur and sulfoxaflor plays a huge role in this problem. EPA is harming not just the beekeepers, their livelihood, and bees, but the nation’s food system." (Photo: Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

"Honeybees and other pollinators are dying in droves because of insecticides...

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Protesters hold balloons on January 20, 2018 in Berlin during a demonstration under the slogan "We are fed up" against agricultural politics and the use of glyphosate, dumping exports and for sustainable agriculture.

Because 'A World Without Insects Is Not Worth Living In,' Germany Announces Plan to Ban Glyphosate

Tipping Point: UN Biodiversity Chief Warns Burning of Amazon Could Lead to 'Cascading Collapse of Natural Systems'

Aerial view showing smoke billowing from a patch of forest being cleared with fire in the surroundings of Boca do Acre, a city in Amazonas State, in the Amazon basin in northwestern Brazil, on August 24, 2019.

As New Fires Rage in Amazon, Global Calls for Urgent Action to Avert 'Astronomical' Impacts to 'Life on Earth'

A coyote returns for the last scraps of a road killed pronghorn.

After Public Outcry, Trump EPA Reverses Approval for Using 'Cyanide Bombs' to Kill US Wildlife

Hawaii's Kanapou Bay

Humanity's Destruction of Oceans Nearly Doubled Over a Decade, Scientists Warn, and Could Double Again Without Urgent Action

'Disgusting': Trump Guts Endangered Species Act in Gift to Big Business

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Example of 'Unknown Unknowns,' Study Detailing 'Almost Instant Mortality of Corals' Suggests Crisis Worse Than Previously Understood

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UN Report Calls for Transforming Land Practices to Battle Hunger and 'Suffocating Blanket of Climate Emergency'

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With Petition to Congress, 100,000+ People Demand Green New Deal 'That Fixes Our Food System'

'Unprecedented' Decline of Plants and Animals as Global 'Red List' Reveals Nearly One-Third of Assessed Species Under Threat

The Chilean crocus

'Bad News for All Species': New Study Shows Nearly 600 Plants Wiped Out Over the Past 250 Years

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In Just One Decade, Corporations Destroyed 50 Million Hectares of Forest—An Area the Size of Spain

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Center for Biological Diversity

Trump Administration Denies Protection to Six More Imperiled Species

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Trump Administration Exacerbates Extinction Crisis

350.org

Fossil Fuels Have to Go Now or Food Production Will Be Impacted, IPCC Land Report Confirms

Friends of the Earth

New Study: U.S. Agriculture 48 Times More Toxic to Insects Than 25 Years Ago

Earthjustice

1.8 Million Americans Speak Out Against Stripping Federal Protections from Wolves

Sea Shepherd

Statement on Japan’s Resumption of Commercial Whaling Within Japanese Territorial Waters

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David Suzuki, Rachel Plotkin

Connecting the Dots Between the Climate and Biodiversity Crises

Dana Drugmand

Could Rights of Nature Laws Help Save Endangered Orcas?

Christopher Brauchli

Endangered Species

Diana Donlon

Got Climate Anxiety? Watch "The Biggest Little Farm"—a Template for Regeneration

Kristin Ohlson

Regenerative Agriculture Is Key for a Sustainable Climate and Food System

Andrew Bacevich

The Great Reckoning: A Look Back from Mid-Century

Jessica A. Knoblauch

Fireflies’ Glow Could Soon Be Extinguished by Human Actions

Robin Chazdon

Experts Mapped Global Hotspots Where Restoring Tropical Rainforests Would Be Most Beneficial and Least Costly and Risky

John R. Platt

The Extinction Deniers Are Here

Pierre Tristam

Green New Deal Me In