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The Australian Supreme Court has stepped in to put an immediate halt to a logging project in east Victoria while it waits for cases about the health of native species to be heard in court.
If you look at the Nobel Prize website page, Svante August Arrhenius was born in 1859, the son of Svante Gustaf Arrhenius and Carolina Christina Thunberg. Thus, Greta Thunberg is distantly related to Svante Arrhenius.
Japan is planning to build as many as twenty-two new coal plants over the next five years, The New York Times reports.
There has been considerable interest locally in helping the monarch butterfly.
In a campaign to remove fossil fuel money from politics, the environmental advocacy organization Oil Change U-S has been working to persuade political candidates to take its No Fossil Fuel Money pledge.
Opposition is growing against a proposed nuclear waste storage facility in southeastern New Mexico that would be the largest in the nation.
The Trump administration finalized plans last week to open public lands in Utah to the fossil fuel industry.
Before Trump gave his State of the Union address, several environmental groups released a statement regarding Trump’s environmental record. The statement claimed that Trump has the worst environmental record of any U-S president.
The firefly, Indiana’s state insect, is facing extinction. Scientists haven’t completed studies of the firefly population around the country, but the Firefly Conservation and Research Group says the population of the insects in the country is falling rapidly.
Last year President Trump rolled back the Endangered Species Act, or ESA, thereby increasing the chances that thousands of species would become extinct.
