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New Study Says Going Green Means Going Vegan
…The UN's Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change is urging people around the world to cut back on the amount of meat they eat to help combat climate change. …
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Why is the UK's population growing so fast, and is this a good thing?
Today, the UK's population stands at around 61 million; after steady decade-on-decade increases, we will be a country of approximately 77 million by 2060…
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Ways YOU Can Promote Renewable Energy
Did you know that building a renewable energy infrastructure worldwide can create millions of new industrial and scientific jobs, boosting our global economy?
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On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction
Global warming on this scale would be a catastrophe that would mean, in the immortal words that Chief Seattle probably never spoke, “the end of living and the beginning of survival” for humankind
Check out this story on uk.oneworld.net.
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Capitalism as a threat to the environment
“Today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that threatens the planet,” …
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Extreme rainstorms
Predictions that our warming world will become a wetter place have been confirmed by a study…
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Climate change catastrophe by degrees
Unfortunately, Professor Bob Watson is not speaking out of turn in telling the world to prepare for four degrees of global warming…
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Weather Eye: has this summer finished?
Late July had such a promising run of hot weather, just in time for the start of the school holidays …
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Vegan events announced across UK
There are a number of vegan events now confirmed for 2008/2009, including…
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US: Senate committee approves bill exempting animal testing
A Senate committee Monday narrowly approved a controversial bill that would exempt scientific experiments in research laboratories from Arizona's animal cruelty statutes.
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Climate change causes wolverine decline across Canada
The wolverine, a predator renowned for its strength and tenacious character, may be slowly melting away along with the snowpack upon which it lives.
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Burrowing US prairie dogs use complex language
A tiny rodent may have the most sophisticated language of any animal.
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Ultimate Fighting Championship event features Vegan Mac Danzig
Mac Danzig faces Justin Buchholz in the Feb. 6 pay-per-view Ultimate Fighting Championship event, UFC 109: âRelentless.â A noteworthy side story to the event: Mac Danzig is a vegan.
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Help wanted for restaurant documentary
Juniper Studio needs your help on producing a documentary on the best and worst of restaurants in the UK.
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Japan's whalers are at sea again, harvesting meat that few will eat
By April, another 900 whales will have died for little profit. So what drives the Japanese to go on defying world opinion?
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Chinese legal experts call for ban on eating cats and dogs
Widespread and ancient practice of eating dog meat increasingly distasteful for China's growing affluent, pet-loving middle class.
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BUAV welcomes DEFRA statement on animal testing under REACH
The Minister clearly states in an answer today that animal testing under REACH should be a last resort and that companies must not conduct pre-emptive testing before testing proposals are agreed by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA):
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US: Judge rules that the Animal Liberation Front is not a gang
January 26, 2009 Judge David S. Wesley ruled that the Animal Liberation Front is not a "gang." The government had tried to find two animal rights protestors guilty of being "gang members."
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Hollywood celebrities turning to vegetarianism
Many Hollywood and other celebrities are flocking to vegetarianism for health and ethical reasons, besides reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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