Burrying Beetle Vs. Keystone XL Pipeline

By ART HOVEY/Lincoln Journal Star The American burying beetle is a clever critter. It’s known for secreting fluid around the carcasses of birds and rodents in the Nebraska Sandhills to disguise their scent and then using the decaying remains as hatching sites […]

Alarming Biodiversity Collapse in Protected Forests

{from Mother Jones} In the science journal Nature this week, a piece was co-authored by more than 200 scientists from around the world—a veritable who’s-who of researchers from the world of tropical forest ecology. The gist of the paper is alarming: The […]

Critical Mass versus Olympic Games

Friday’s Critical Mass, a monthly mass bike ride through central London, was the focus of a huge police operation on Stratford High Street, with 182 arrests made. The Met [police] attempted to limit the ride under provisions in section 12 of the […]

Bustin’ through the barricades against nukes in Japan

Tens of thousands of people protested against nuclear power plants outside Japan‘s parliament on Sunday. The protesters, including pensioners, were pressed up against a wall of steel thrown around the parliament building. Some broke through the barriers and spilled onto the streets, […]

Western U.S. Drought of 2000-2004 Worst in 800 Years

by the National Snow and Ice Data Center A new scientific study indicates the turn-of-the-century drought in the North American West was the worst of the last millennium—with major impacts to the carbon cycle and hints of even drier times ahead. The […]

The Frack War Comes Home

by Peter Rugh Cross-Posted from Waging NonViolence The war came home this weekend, as thousands of people whose land has been under siege by the U.S. government and corporate interests gathered in Washington, D.C. No, they weren’t victims of drone attacks or […]

Irish protests over GM potatoes grow

It was reported last week that Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency had approved the trial of a genetically modified potato crop. The decision has, unsurprisingly, attracted criticism from environmental protesters. Other campaigners against the crop have stated their fears that it will ruin […]