Industrial waste from a mill is leaching into the groundwater and polluting the Clark Fork River. A major flood could cause an even bigger catastrophe. by Sam Dwyer / The Revelator The Place: The Smurfit-Stone pulp mill site along the Clark Fork River […]
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by Usnea Granger / Common Dreams As a farmworker in Applegate, Oregon, I learned the delicate balance of nature. Water, soil, air, and countless other factors all play their role in creating life. From season to season I saw how even small […]
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from Unicorn Riot Nearly 7,000 people gathered in the town of Sainte-Soline on Saturday, Oct. 29 and invaded a mega-basin development site to stop construction on the large water reserve despite a ban on protests and an unprecedented police presence. Composed of […]
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from Center for Biological Diversity On behalf of four conservation groups, the Southern Environmental Law Center today challenged, in federal court, a decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to unlawfully reinstate jurisdictional determinations that removed Clean Water Act protections from […]
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by Dingane Xaba / Unicorn Riot As the global climate change steadily increases, so too have its negative effects on the overall health of the world’s living species and their environments. Global temperatures measured in the first-half of 2022 alone have only confirmed […]
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by Sandra Cuffe / The Intercept CRISTÓBAL POP VIVIDLY remembers when the lake suddenly turned red. Indigenous Maya Q’eqchi’ fishermen depend on Lake Izabal, Guatemala’s largest lake, for their livelihoods, and Pop had just been elected president of the local fishers guild when […]
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by Jennifer Bjorhus / Star Tribune Damage to Minnesota’s public groundwater resources from construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline is more severe than previously known, state environmental regulators disclosed Monday. Enbridge Energy crews ruptured three groundwater aquifers while building the 340-mile […]
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from Liberation News On Jan. 29, government officials lifted a water contact closure for San Diego County’s Imperial Beach shoreline. Some parts of the ocean shoreline were still closed until water sampling confirmed the water to be safe enough for contact. Then, […]
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by Difusión Comunista Anárquica / It’s Going Down English translation of a report from Difusión Comunista Anárquica about the recent uprising in defense of water in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Since Wednesday July 29, self-organized protests by campesinos and community members […]
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