About a dozen protesters, including one of Canada’s leading energy-environment economists, were arrested Saturday after setting up a blockade on train tracks in White Rock, B.C., aimed at stopping U.S. coal trains from reaching local ports. Mark Jaccard, a professor of sustainable […]
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Lakota, Navajo and Supai to UN Rapporteur: Halt genocide and eco-cide
Cross Posted from Censored News Native Americans in Arizona and South Dakota delivered powerful testimony on the destruction of their homelands by uranium mining, coal fired power plants and oil and gas drilling, during sessions with UN Rapporteur on the Rights of […]
Continue readingClimbing Camp – July 14th – 20th in Oregon
EF! Climbers Guild will be hosting a climbing camp this summer in northwest oregon. The week will be climb training from basic rope set up to more advanced structure rigging. What you need to attend: Firstly, you must RSVP so we know […]
Continue readingFirst Step Towards Fracking in Michigan, DNR Auctions Rights to 109,000 Acres
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=timfvNgr_Q4?rel=0&w=560&h=315] Hydraulic Fracturing Comes to Michigan – Auction May 8, 2012 On May 8, 2012, the Michigan DNR will auction mineral and oil rights to 109,000 acres of Michigan public land. This opens public lands to oil and gas drilling and […]
Continue readingZombie Ants Fight Fungus with Fungus
By Devin Coldewey The Cordyceps fungus has become a staple of “stranger than fiction” nature stories: Its complex and lethal parasitism of ants, causing the insects to climb as high as they can before the fungus bursts like a horn from their […]
Continue readingActivists block coal shipment to Duke Energy power plant
CHARLOTTE, NC—This morning, activists from Greenpeace, RAMPS (Radical Action for Mountain People’s Survival), Katuah Earth First!, and Keepers of the Mountains Foundationblocked a coal train en route to the Marshall Steam Station, a Duke Energy coal-fired power plant, and branded the cars […]
Continue readingXayaburi Dam protesters in Phuket maintain threat of closing Thai-Laos Friendship Bridge
Residents of eight Thai provinces along the Mekong River traveled to Phuket to protest construction of the Xayaburi Dam in Laos during a three-day meeting of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) that ends today in Phuket. The protesters gathered on Tuesday morning […]
Continue readingLoss of Biodiversity Rivals Climate Change, Pollution
ScienceDaily (May 2, 2012) — Loss of biodiversity appears to impact ecosystems as much as climate change, pollution and other major forms of environmental stress, according to a new study from an international research team. The study is the first comprehensive effort […]
Continue readingNew Keystone XL Route Is Environmental Disaster
by Center for Biological Diversity A new route for the Keystone XL pipeline that TransCanada will reportedly submit permit applications for as early as Friday avoids portions of the Sandhills in Nebraska but crosses the Ogallala Aquifer, as well as hundreds of […]
Continue readingFBI Supplied the Anarchist “Terrorists” Arrested in May Day Plot
Cross Posted from Greenisthenewred.com As the Occupy movement carries out massive May Day protests around the country, the FBI Joint Terrorism Task force is trumpeting the arrest of “self-proclaimed anarchists” and “terrorists” who allegedly conspired to destroy a bridge in Ohio. Integral […]
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