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Update: Central America’s Death, Injury and Missing Persons Tolls Climb Higher

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Agatha, the tropical storm that recently tore through parts of Central America, has now claimed 177 lives: 152 in Guatemala, 16 in Honduras, and 9 in El Salvador.
In addition to the rising death toll, 100 people are missing in Guatemala and an additional 87 are wounded. Almost 125,000 people have been evacuated at this point, [...]


Greenpeace uses social media to fight rainforest destruction

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Environmental activist group Greenpeace has successfully used the Internet and in particular social media to drum up support for its campaign against the use of palm oil by food giant Nestlé.
The palm oil industries in Indonesia and Malaysia have received attention and criticism for their part in the destruction of vital rainforests, which are home [...]


Ecocide: Ecological murder

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Ecocide is relatively new word used to describe a practice that results in large-scale environmental damage or destruction. It is, in short, the murder of the environment.
Environmental lawyer Polly Higgins is campaigning the UN to have ecocide be considered an international crime against peace, similar to genocide and other crimes against humanity.
Higgins is quoted in [...]


Promising developments in Europe’s ‘biofuel blunder’?

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I guess that learning on the job is better than not learning at all.
According to a piece in the New York Times, European countries may rethink their biofuel policies based on a newly completed study by the European Commission. The results of this study factor in the greenhouse gas emissions of land clearing – when [...]


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