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"Deforestation in the Amazon, Earth’s largest rainforest, has been slowing over the past three years." buff.ly/3OipeYW

"So, the 'solution' pushed by federal and state agencies, forestry schools, and the timber industry fails with the very fires that 'fuel reductions' are intended to stop." buff.ly/3CsBfZb

"Balken argued that the creation of Lake Powell was an ecologically unsound decision, as it submerged a region that was once home to a rich diversity of plant and animal life, as well as ancient cultural sites." buff.ly/3YSCIiW

"Each year the world falls behind increases the risks of more extreme weather that will put millions of people at risk and threaten global economic growth." buff.ly/48RkQtu

"The rising popularity of killing contests has stirred up a culture war among hunters over questions of fair chase and what it means to be an ethical hunter. Some game hunters are even at the forefront of the fight to stop these competitions." buff.ly/3CqCCaR

"The Air Pollution Foundation, which was primarily funded by the lobbying organization Western States Petroleum Association, publicly claimed to want to help solve the smog crisis, but was set up in large part to counter efforts at regulation..." buff.ly/3Z7hJdG

"For now, the retreat of Lake Powell is providing a rare glimpse of the resilience of native ecosystems, which are thriving in the absence of the invasive species that have proliferated elsewhere along the Colorado River." buff.ly/4frxwd6

The BLM still has not carried out the president's 2022 mandate to develop policies to safeguard the priceless and rapidly disappearing resource of older forests. Urge the BLM today to develop a robust set of policies to protect these precious forests. buff.ly/3AIWyoO

Contact state officials today and urge them to take decisive action to protect these and other California conservation lands today to get us to 30 percent saved by 2030! buff.ly/4fiztZ9

"'Countries need to continue their focus on 30x30, that shouldn’t waver. They just need to bring more into it, and pay more attention to actually conserving the land which provides those ecosystem services.'" buff.ly/3Z1SeKY

Get in touch with key decisionmakers today to urge them to urge them to stop the biomass industry from receiving public subsidies to build forest-destroying pellet mills in California. buff.ly/40DKVKo

"A coalition of 200 civil society groups held a series of events to highlight research and evidence of environmental harm caused by harvesting trees for wood-pellet manufacture, and the burning of those pellets in former coal-fired power plants." buff.ly/3UFCF95

"'When Glen Canyon Dam was built, the Bureau of Reclamation told the public it wouldn't silt in for 700-1,000 years. Now we know that's not true.'" buff.ly/4fjypV5

"Despite the success in curbing Amazon deforestation, Lula’s government has been criticized by environmentalists for backing projects that could harm the region, such as the pavement of a highway that cuts from an old-growth area..." buff.ly/3AwwywY

"So in their early assessments, many international climate experts said Trump’s election will slow, but not stop, international efforts to halt global warming, because most other countries recognize it’s in their own self-interest to cut emissions."  buff.ly/4hJ6HCS

"Even though the scientific evidence suggests its plans do nothing for decarbonisation but prolong the false 'carbon accounting' on which Drax depends (Eyes passim), civil servants have drawn up contracts to give it the new types of bungs it demands." buff.ly/3YKILY5

“'To keep global warming within the guardrails of the Paris agreement, the timeframe is now so tight that there is no space for companies to use offsetting to continue high-carbon activities. We need to turn the fossil fuel taps off, all of them.'” buff.ly/3YNa3gl

"While countries are deploying renewable energy sources at a quickening pace, it hasn't been enough to halt or reverse emissions growth." buff.ly/48C19WC

“'Trees are the barometer of life,' Aguilar added. They produce the oxygen humans breathe, provide food and shelter for wildlife, give medicine and sustenance to Indigenous peoples, and absorb heat-trapping carbon pollution from the atmosphere." buff.ly/40O2t6X