April 27th, 2009

Wild Life Protection: An ongoing Issue

Nigel Barker, renowned  photographer joined The Humane Society of the United States, HSUS, Protect Seals team and more than 100 advocates from the D.C. area at the Canadian Embassy for a rally against Canada’s annual slaughter of seal pups for the fur trade. He used his photographic skills to capture the beauty of Canada’s harp [...]

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April 25th, 2009

Nuclear conference fails waste and weapons tests

The program for World Nuclear Fuel Cycle 2009 shows the nuclear industry promotional conference, held in Sydney 22-23 April 2009, fails to address longstanding unresolved concerns about nuclear waste management and the ‘dual use’ of uranium – for electricity and deadly nuclear weapons.
The Australian Conservation Foundation said other countries were backing away from the toxic [...]

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April 23rd, 2009

CLIMATE CHANGE: Native Peoples Sound Dire Warning

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Apr 22 (IPS) – Humanity’s hot carbon breath is not just melting the planet’s polar regions, it is disrupting natural systems and livelihoods around the world, indigenous people reported this week at a global meeting on climate change in Anchorage, Alaska.
“We indigenous people are the prow of the ship of humanity in the [...]

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