On the eve of a massive gas explosion in northern Philadelphia, about 200 individuals affiliated with Gas Truth of Pennsylvania and the Luzerne County-based Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition, including a sizeable contingent from Northeast Pennsylvania, chanted slogans and blew whistles throughout the […]
Greenpeace went to great heights yesterday to express opposition to plans for a new coal-burning power plant in Israel. Five Greenpeace activists scaled the cables of the Chords Bridge at the entrance to Jerusalem and hung a huge banner (44 square meters) […]
At least 1,914 baboons had been ‘removed’ by a controversial ‘trap and shoot’ method by FSC Certified plantation companies during the past two years. Timber companies want them dead, because they scratch the bark of pine trees, damaging profits. Most of the […]
Since Tuesday, January 4, Yellowstone National Park has captured sixty-nine wild buffalo. Various family groups – some that never even left the park – have been forced into the Stephens Creek bison trap inside Yellowstone National Park. The government began testing them […]
A federal appeals court says that Joe Berlinger, the filmmaker who was ordered to give footage from his 2009 documentary “Crude” to the Chevron Corporation, could not invoke a journalist’s privilege in refusing to turn over that footage because his work on […]
The FBI is probing Plymouth boat graffiti that has fishermen — already feuding with the federal government over catch limits— fearful they now could be targets of an anarchist environmental group… “Commercial fishing first class rape,” and “sea life kidnapped, murdered, maliciously” […]
According to the Londonist, “climate change activists targeted four-wheel drive vehicles in west London in a spate of sticker-posting over the Christmas period. Stickers reading ‘CO2 KILL5’ were plastered over the vehicles’ number plates by members of pressure group Climate Rush in […]
Some 15,000 gallons of animal fat poured into the Houston ship channel through a storm drain on Tuesday after an onshore storage tank owned by agricultural company Jacob Sterns and Sons leaked 250,000 gallons of the greasy substance, Brahms said. Workers with […]
by Russ McSpadden / Earth First! News [The text of this work is free to share and distribute under the following Creative Commons License CC-BY-ND 3.0] Bold Native, written and directed by Denis Henry Hennely, is the first feature length fictional film […]
This morning a group of protesters have invaded the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and are demanding a meeting with Stephen Green, the new Minister for Trade. Calling themselves the “Big Society Trade Negotiators”, they are concerned that trade negotiations between […]