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Man throws giant rock at endangered seal, gets repeatedly punched in the head and arrested

An entitled tourist thought he could harass and endanger an animal and face no consequences. He was very wrong. A man on a Maui beach hurled a large rock right at the head of Lani, an endangered Hawaiian monk seal beloved by locals, barely missing her and causing her obvious distress. — Read the rest

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Minneapolis Activists Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Polluting Trash Incinerator

Minneapolis activists are escalating a decades-long fight by going on a hunger strike to demand that local officials shut down a polluting trash incinerator. Residents have long opposed the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center, which burns waste to generate energy, for adding to toxic air pollution in a predominantly Black community with high rates of asthma. […]

The Latest Tactic for Silencing Ecuador’s Environmental Defenders: Shuttering Their Bank Accounts

It was a sweltering January afternoon in the Amazonian town of Puyo when Andrés Tapia realized his daughter’s public school fees were due. Like many Ecuadorians, he reached for his phone to make a mobile transfer. Carrying cash is too risky these days. Ecuador is in the grip of an ongoing security crisis, with transnational […]

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