MARMET, West Virginia— On Monday morning, hundreds of people began a weeklong, 50-mile trek to protest mountaintop removal mining and defend labor rights. Nearly 250 marchers and supporters of the Appalachia Rising March on Blair Mountain gathered at the Marmet Baseball Field […]

From an article by David Fleshler in yesterday’s Sun-Sentinel:  Florida wildlife managers insist bear hunting is not on the table, but the issue is likely to dominate the debate this week as they consider a massive overhaul of the state’s endangered species […]

Dear Eco-Defender, Well, the good news for the planet is that the global economy is crashing. While other publications whine about loss of revenue and shut down, we have trudged ahead into the abyss. We’ve watched our safety lines fray, and let the tear gas fill our lungs. We’ve watched […]

On June 2, 2011 the Center for Biological Diversity issued a press release announcing the release of a Draft Forest Service document highlighting the damaging effects of the Rosemont Copper Mine in Arizona.  The preliminary US Forest Service document analyzing the likely effects of […]

CLICK HERE for a new PDF of the Beltane 2011 edition of Earth First! News, available to be downloaded and reprinted freely. This newsletter is shorter than others, as it is excerpted from the quarterly full-size EF! Journal which is on the […]

By Panagioti Tsolkas, editorial collective member of the Earth First! Journal In a twisted irony, US Marshals opened an online auction of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s personal belongings last month, turning the items used for his letter bombing campaign and backwoods survival into […]

The federal government has acknowledged that it deliberately excluded data indicating a 20 per cent increase in annual pollution from Canada’s oilsands industry in 2009 from a recent 567-page report on climate change that it was required to submit to the United […]

By Judy Dempsey and Jack Ewing of NYTimes   BERLIN — The German government on Monday announced plans to shut all of the nation’s nuclear power plants within the next 11 years, a sharp reversal for Chancellor Angela Merkel after the Japanese […]

cross-posted from Intercontinentalcry.org [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BmMQ_0hWEQs]For the past three weeks, more than 10,000 Indigenous People, mostly Aymaras, have been protesting against the oncoming Santa Ana silver mine in southeastern Peru near the border with Bolivia. The Indigenous people are concerned that pollution from the […]