by Daniel Cusick, E&E reporter ALONG THE GUNFLINT TRAIL, Minn. — If moose disappear from the boreal forest of northern Minnesota, as some biologists predict, they will not exit with a thunderous crash. Climate extinctions come quietly, even when they involve 1,000-pound […]
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Occupy Well Street [OWS Stands in Solidarity Fighting Extraction]
New York, NY- May 12- Occupy Wall Street partnered with Occupy Well Street, a regional, direct action oriented anti-fracking group, and other city and regional environmental groups to voice resistance to the Spectra Energy Natural Gas Pipeline and the issues associated with […]
Continue readingHowls of Reprisal: Wolves Return to the Frontlines
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2dQjnz8734&feature=related] Until their reintroduction in the 1990s wolves were all but wiped out in the Northern Rocky Mountains. No wolves had been spotted in Eastern Oregon since 1946, and further west, the last sighting of a wolf in California was in 1924. […]
Continue readingSuit Filed Against Expansion of Navajo Coal Mine Polluting Four Corners Region
by the Center for Biological Diversity After decades of coal pollution from the 2040-megawatt Four Corners Power Plant and BHP Billiton’s 13,000-acre Navajo Coal Mine that supplies it, Navajo and conservation groups filed suit against the federal government late Tuesday for improperly […]
Continue readingEnvironmental Magazines Today
Environmental Magazines Today by nettle I have been interested in where environmental news can be found in our society of endless choices, outside of the internet. When you check-out at the grocery store, you have the choice between six different celebrity gossip […]
Continue readingPreparing for another Summer of resistance at Rossport Solidarity Camp
A report from the May Day work week and coming June action camp Welcoming in the Spring, a blocakade on May 3rd held up traffic for over 3 hours between Bellanaboy and Shell’s Aughoose compound. A concrete lock-on in the middle […]
Continue readingPolish Beekeepers Defeat Monsanto
Crossposted from Causes.com Monsanto’s Mon810 corn, genetically engineered to produce a mutant version of the insecticide Bt, has been banned in Poland following protests by beekeepers who showed the corn was killing honeybees. Poland is the first country to formally acknowledge the […]
Continue readingKellie and Victor are Free!
On May 10th 2012 animal liberation prisoner Victor VanOrden was released from prison after a successful parole hearing. He and his wife Kellie (who was living in Iowa waiting for him to be released) have found their way back to Maryland where […]
Continue readingRiot Cops, Bulldozers Evict Occupy the Farm
In perhaps the strangest and yet somehow most symbolic moment in the history of the rural part of the Occupy movement, riot police aided the bulldozing of an occupied farm in Albany, CA, by chasing down an activist with a watering can. […]
Continue readingRare-Earth Mining Rises Again in United States
By Danielle Vinton / Wired.com The fight over the minerals that run the electronic world entered a new phase in March when the United States, the European Union and Japan collectively filed a case against China, accusing the rare-earth powerhouse of violating […]
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