The Harvest Moon Ted Hughes The flame-red moon, the harvest moon, Rolls along the hills, gently bouncing, A vast balloon, Till it takes off, and sinks upward To lie on the bottom of the sky, like a gold doubloon. The harvest moon has come, Booming softly through heaven, like a…
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The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams “To this day, my spiritual life is found inside the heart of the wild. I do not fear it, I court it. When I am away, I anticipate my return, needing to touch stone, rock,…
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Disasters like Louisiana floods will worsen as planet warms, scientists warn “…the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) is set to classify the Louisiana disaster as the eighth flood considered to be a once-in-every-500-years event to have taken place in the US in little over 12 months. Since May…
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World Elephant Day Why the Guardian is spending a year reporting on the plight of elephants Elephants are the end of a 60m-year lineage – the last of the megaherbivores Large ivory seizures in Singapore make it a smuggling hub of ‘primary concern’ Elephants on the path to extinction –…
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Boycott, Gandhi Style, Organic Consumers Association “The deed is done. On Friday, July 29, 2016, President Obama signed a bill that was written by corporations, paid for by corporations and that serves no one in this country—except corporations. S.764, known by its opponents as the DARK (Deny Americans the Right…
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Global climate breaks new records January to June 2016, World Meteorological Organiation, UN “Geneva, 21 July 2016 (WMO) _ Global temperatures for the first six months of this year shattered yet more records, and mean that 2016 is on track to be the world’s hottest year on record. Arctic sea…
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US Navy banned from using sonar that harms dolphins and walruses Environmental groups, led by the Natural Resources Defense Council, filed a lawsuit in San Francisco in 2012, arguing the approval violated the Marine Mammal Protection Act. The appellate court ruled 3-0 that the approval rules failed to meet a…
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