As if you needed another reason to hate Shell Travel Centers America (TA) and Shell are teaming up to offer Natural Gas at the fuel pumps coming in 2013. Shell came up with the brilliant idea because of how cheap and easy […]
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How Can You Measure Income Inequality? Count The Trees
by Hatty Lee/ Color Lines Turns out there’s a direct correlation between the number of trees a neighborhood has and its monetary wealth — and we can see how this dynamic plays out in space. Environmental journalist Tim De Chant mapped it all […]
Continue readingCougars Taking Back the Midwest
ST. LOUIS — Cougars are again spreading across the Midwest a century after the generally reclusive predators were hunted to near extinction in much of the region, according to a new study billed as the first rigorous statistical look at the issue. […]
Continue readingStudy Predicts Imminent Irreversible Planetary Collapse
by Anne Mooers /SFU News Online Using scientific theories, toy ecosystem modeling and paleontological evidence as a crystal ball, 18 scientists, including an SFU professor, predict the Earth’s ecosystems are careering towards an imminent, irreversible collapse. In Approaching a state-shift in Earth’s […]
Continue readingBorder Policy and the Environment
Amendment will Expand Border Patrol Access and Disable Environmental Protections by Phil Taylor, E&E reporter A Utah Republican today announced changes to a bill designed to bolster national security that would expand the power of the Border Patrol on public lands. Rep. […]
Continue readingBuffalo Field Campaign hosts World Peace & Prayer Day
“All Nations, All Faiths, One Prayer” June 21, 2012 in Grand Teton National Park Buffalo Field Campaign announces an extraordinary event occurring in the Grand Tetons. The 17th annual World Peace & Prayer Day (WPPD) will gather people of diverse faiths and […]
Continue readingNew Embezzlement Scandal Strikes WWF
WWF is currently embroiled in a two-part scandal over its work in Tanzania. In October 2011, thousands of villagers were evicted from a WWF project area in the Rufiji Delta. This year WWF Tanzania staff were caught embezzling funds. On 28 October […]
Continue readingEndangered Species News:
Only 4 Florida Butterflies Found; Texas Oil Tycoons Applaud Lizards Denial for Protection BISCAYNE NATIONAL PARK, Fla. — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has issued an emergency authorization for the collection and captive rearing of Schaus swallowtail butterflies in an […]
Continue readingReligious Freedom & Expression on Trial in Klee Benally Sacred Mountain Defense Case
No Verdict After 3 Hour Trial Klee Benally, Dine’ (Navajo), was on trial today for a prayerful action taken in August, 2011 to protect the Holy San Francisco Peaks from desecration due to ski area expansion. During the 3 hour hearing, the […]
Continue readingNo System but the Ecosystem!
Report back from an Earth First! Journal Spring tour into the “Eurozone Crisis” by Panagioti, EF! Journal editorial collective The current rate of species extinction is more than 3 per hour, and that rate of loss could reach 10,000 times the background […]
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