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Fossil Free U.S. Launches with Events on Jan. 31

January 10, 2018 Guest Author or Contributor

350.org Launches Fossil Free US Campaign in Large-Scale Event the Day After the State of the Union The day after the State of the Union, 350.org will launch Fossil Free U.S. in an immediate rebuke of the […]

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Victory for Clean Water and Communities in Coal Ash Lawsuit Against TVA

August 4, 2017 Guest Author or Contributor

Judge Orders TVA to Excavate and Move Its Coal Ash from Leaking, Unlined Pit By Beth Alexander and Claudine McElwain, Southern Environmental Law Center On August 4, 2017, a Federal Court in Nashville Tennessee ruled against […]

Source: 350.org
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Thousands Call For Collapsing Iceberg to be Renamed “#ExxonKnew”

July 11, 2017 Guest Author or Contributor

Anticipated Antarctic Larsen C Iceberg Collapse Should Bear the Name of Exxon’s Climate Deception By Lindsay Meiman, 350.org Over ten thousand people around the world are calling for the Larsen C Iceberg to be renamed the “#ExxonKnew Iceberg.” […]

Credit: © Richard Bluecloud Castaneda / Greenpeace.
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Greenpeace Responds to Forced Removal of Water Protectors

February 23, 2017 Kay Whatley

By Cassady Craighill, Greenpeace In solidarity with the water protectors at Standing Rock who are scheduled to be forcibly removed by the Trump administration at 2pm local time on February 22, 2017, Greenpeace USA Climate […]

Source: Center for Biological Diversity, Tucson, Arizona.
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From Standing Rock to Morocco: Panels to Explore International Movement to Halt Fossil Fuel Extraction

November 8, 2016 Kay Whatley

‘Keep It in the Ground’ Events Feature Activists From Around World Released by Jean Su (biologicaldiversity.org, Morocco) and Patrick Sullivan (biologicaldiversity.org, US) Two panel discussions at the United Nations climate conference in Marrakesh will explore […]

Protesters tell President Obama to “Keep it in the Ground” at a federal fossil fuel lease auction in Lakewood, Colo. Photo by Taylor McKinnon, Center for Biological Diversity.
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Hundreds Protest Federal Fracking Auction in Colorado

May 13, 2016 Kay Whatley

In ‘Break Free From Fossil Fuels’ Protest, Colorado Tells President Obama to ‘Keep It in the Ground’ Released by Valerie Love (Center for Biological Diversity), Jason Schwartz (Greenpeace), and Virali Modi-Parekh (Rainforest Action Network) Hundreds […]

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    February 15, 2022

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UFO Sightings by US State: March 2020

April 10, 2020

By Kay Whatley, Editor Across the United States each year, thousands of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings are reported. UFO reports cover close encounters of various types, range from blinking lights in the sky to […]

Source: Dr. John Stamey
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Bigfoot Column: To Woo or Not To Woo? It’s not even a question.

May 15, 2019

By Dr. John Stamey After years of research into the Bigfoot world, I have come up with four different schools of thought regarding the species’ interactions with humans. Naturalistic This group is categorized by individuals who […]

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The Strange-ness: Living without Food

January 1, 2013

Prahlad Jani lives in India and is in his mid-80s. He claims to have lived without eating food or drinking water since 1940. Breatharianism is a concept where believers think that the energy of the sun is […]

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