Tonya Yost
MessagePOLL: Like Angelina Jolie, would you take the BRCA genetic test to learn your breast cancer risk?
Angelina Jolie wrote an op-ed in the NY Times about getting a preventive double mastectomy. She did this because she tested positive as a carrier of the BRCA gene. If one tests positive for this genetic mutation, one has up to a 65% lifetime risk of getting breast cancer. If one tests positive
Petition for a worldwide ban and destruction of all genetically modified organisms
Genetically Modified Organisms are too big a risk for a small world to take.
Tell Oracle CEO Larry Ellison to Pay America's Cup Debt
by A Responsible America's Cup Race
Why Larry Ellison? Mr. Ellison is owner of the reigning America's Cup champion boat and worked relentlessly to bring the sailboat race to San Francisco. He lobbied, fundraised, interviewed, and helped roll out a campaign to sell the idea of this race being held in San Francisco. This
Save whales, sea lions, and polar bears: Protect the Bering Sea!
by Greenpeace
Polar bears, fur seals, sea lions, walruses, whales and millions of sea birds make their home in the Bering Sea, and beneath the surface abundant life thrives in the Bering Sea Canyons– larger than the Grand Canyon itself. The importance of this place reaches far beyond its borders as the majority
How many elephants have been killed in Gabon’s Minkébé National Park since 2004?
by WWF (World Wildlife Fund / World Wide Fund for Nature)
Since 2004, wildlife criminals have killed between 44 and 77% of the elephant population in a single protected area in Minkébé National Park, Gabon, according to a recent study by WWF, the Gabonese National Parks Agency, and the Wildlife Conservation Society. Help us stop wildlife crime by