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Rainforest Alliance and Hershey Sued for Falsely Claiming Fair Labor and Sustainability

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Rainforest Alliance and Hershey Sued for Falsely Claiming Fair Labor and Sustainability Sierra Club PaulaR Fri, 01/26/2024 - 17:41 Thursday, January 18, 2024 Read more Jessian Choy The class action lawsuit seeks to hold ecolabel certifiers accountable By Jessian Choy January 18, 2024

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Take a Look Under the Canopy

Academy of Natural Sciences

The fascinating world of rainforests and the animals that inhabit them are the focus of the new exhibition opening February 17 at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Staff will explain what makes these animals unique, their special adaptations and how they live in the rainforest. Animal Trainings: 1 p.m. – There will be two shows daily.

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Major meatpackers are unlawfully deforesting Brazil’s Cerrado, report says

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Major meatpackers are unlawfully deforesting Brazil’s Cerrado, report says Mongabay PaulaR Mon, 03/11/2024 - 21:20 Thursday, February 29, 2024 Maxwell Radwin In the state of Mato Grosso, some of the country’s largest meatpackers are clearing parts of the Cerrado at an even faster rate than the Amazon Rainforest, a new report from U.K.-based

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Major meatpackers are unlawfully deforesting Brazil’s Cerrado, report says

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Major meatpackers are unlawfully deforesting Brazil’s Cerrado, report says Mongabay PaulaR Fri, 03/08/2024 - 16:16 Thursday, February 29, 2024 Read more Maxwell Radwin In the state of Mato Grosso, some of the country’s largest meatpackers are clearing parts of the Cerrado at an even faster rate than the Amazon Rainforest, a new report from U.K.-based

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Brazilian Indigenous leader slams Amazon mega-dams in Paris protest

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Brazilian Indigenous leader slams Amazon mega-dams in Paris protest Survival International PaulaR Fri, 02/16/2024 - 18:31 Friday, March 14, 2014 Read more Brazilian Indian Sonia Guajajara and over a hundred supporters protested today in Paris against Brazil’s construction of a series of mega-dams in the Amazon rainforest.

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March endures another month of record heat

A Greener Life

From April 2023 to March 2024, the global average temperature was 1.58 Some of the most severe events this year include a drought in the Amazon rainforest, resulting in a record number of wildfires in Venezuela between January and March, and a drought in southern Africa that has wiped out crops and left millions facing hunger.

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Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill

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Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill BNN Bloomberg PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:45 Monday, January 15, 2024 Read more Marcelo Rochabrun (Bloomberg) -- Repsol SA is being sued for $1 billion by an English law firm representing around 35,000 alleged victims for its involvement in Peru’s largest oil spill in 2022.

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