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Not for shale! Anti-fracking group hits the streets of Lancashire

Posted by kcumming — 27 August 2013 at 12:49pm - Comments
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Are you in the market for a nice two bedroom house in the North West? In a previously quiet residential area, close to minor earth tremors, with the potential for high volume traffic and drilling right under your property? Then you’ve come to the right place!

Article tagged as: cuadrilla, fracking, Lancashire

Shark finning sucks. Sort it out New Zealand!

Posted by Willie — 27 August 2013 at 11:07am - Comments
Shark fin soup drives the global shark finning trade.
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Shark finning: not big, not clever, not defensible

There’s nothing defensible about shark finning. It’s the marine equivalent of the poachers who kill rhinos to hack off their horns or kill elephants to hack off their tusks. It’s not dissimilar to killing bears or tigers for spurious ‘traditional’ cures either. But it happens out at sea, to animals which don’t have big brown eyes, and which aren’t usually touted as cuddly toys or ‘adoptable’. They rarely win public polls on favourite animals, yet they fill column inches every silly scaremongering summer season in the tabloids.

Article tagged as: hammerheads, hobbits, new zealand, oceans, shark finning, sharks, tuna

Labour comes out swinging on fracking in Balcombe

Posted by kcumming — 22 August 2013 at 2:33pm - Comments

Freshly delivered into letterboxes in Balcombe - a strongly worded (bordering on downright anti-) fracking leaflet from the local Labour Party.

Article tagged as: Balcombe, cuadrilla, energy, fracking, labour

Green groups join forces to 'put the breaks on fracking'

Posted by kcumming — 19 August 2013 at 11:52am - Comments
Green groups logos
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Over the weekend, a cross-section of environment and conservation groups issued a joint call to Government to put the brakes on fracking. This is the first time such a large number of influential NGOs have joined together to express their concern. The joint letter was published in the Sunday Times.

In pictures: the chimps' threatened home in Cameroon

Posted by Angela Glienicke — 14 August 2013 at 4:53pm - Comments
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An adult chimpanzee at the Pandrillus Drill Sanctuary, Nigeria.

I am fascinated by chimpanzees, these most human-like mammals that nurse their babies until they are three years old, use simple tools like twigs to poke into ant nests and noisily communicate with the rest of their troop.

Article tagged as: cameroon, deforestation, palm oil, photo essays, photos, slideshows

Fracking company ignores request for open debate on Twitter

Posted by jamie — 14 August 2013 at 11:17am - Comments

Yesterday, we asked fracking company Cuadrilla - currently being surrounded by protesters in the Sussex village of Balcombe - for an open, transparent debate on Twitter about, well, fracking. Sadly, we were rebuffed.

Article tagged as: Balcombe, climate change, cuadrilla, energy, fracking, gas, social media

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