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Learn more about environmental protection and climate action by reading our featured blog posts. Friends of the Earth, as an outspoken leader in the environmental and progressive communities, seeks to change the perception of the public, media, and policymakers. We are committed to growing and strengthening our activist base to fight for change.
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2w ago
Serious financial, social, environmental, and climate risks aside, the development of LNG in Mozambique has also been tangled up in a corruption scandal of international scale, and a devastating militarized conflict impacting over a million people ..read more
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3M ago
Thanksgiving Day, 2023, our planet lost one of her great champions. Terry, Matthew and Laura lost a husband and father. I lost my mentor and advocacy father: Dr. Brent Blackwelder ..read more
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9M ago
As world leaders meet tomorrow in Paris to discuss the role of public finance in addressing “climate change and the global crisis”, delegates should press multilateral development banks (MDBs) to invest in line with the Paris Agreement ..read more
Friends of the Earth Blog
9M ago
New technology like artificial intelligence (AI) is entering increasingly widespread use with essentially no safety checks at all ..read more
Friends of the Earth Blog
11M ago
Plastic pollution poses a major threat to the health of our oceans, waterways and communities. Unsurprisingly, the same fossil fuel companies driving our global climate crisis are also expanding harmful petrochemical production throughout the United States, turning their own toxic waste into products they can profit off of. These facilities ..read more
Friends of the Earth Blog
1y ago
Rather than pursuing a peaceful resolution following these recent business suspensions, Astra Agro Lestari is fomenting further violence and intimidation ..read more
Friends of the Earth Blog
1y ago
Agribusiness companies operating in the Brazilian Cerrado continue to drive violence, intimidation, and dispossession against Indigenous leaders, traditional communities and environmental human rights defenders ..read more
Friends of the Earth Blog
1y ago
Disinformation is a threat to the stability of democracy and undermines our ability to tackle nearly every problem we face — from addressing climate change to securing LGBTQ+ rights to ensuring public health ..read more
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1y ago
If a destructive palm oil company is suspended by consumer goods giants for land grabbing and human right abuses, will we finally get our land back ..read more
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1y ago
This piece is a set of reflections from Jeff Conant, International Forests Program Director, during a recent trip to Indonesia to meet with local village communities. Villager displaying petai bean pods in Air Pahlawan // Photo Courtesy of Jeff Conant The village of Air Pahlawan in Sumatra ..read more