Another storm of protest is set to engulf Sweden’s second cull of endangered wolves tomorrow, which has seen 6,747 hunters register to kill 20 of the total Scandinavian wolf population of about 250. Click here for more.
With the sounds of bulldozers echoing beneath him, veteran tree sitter John Quigley perched in a century-old oak Wednesday, saying he won’t come down until public works officials stop felling scores of trees as part of a dam improvement project. Quigley said […]
Word is just coming down that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has vetoed the largest single mountaintop removal permit in West Virginia history. The move is part of an Obama administration crackdown aimed at reducing the effects of mountaintop removal coal-mining on […]
Fierce battles between riot police and locals resisting the construction of a waste burial site have continued for a third consecutive day in the area of Keratea, Attica (around 10 miles south of Athens International Airport). This morning, a court ordered a […]
Thirty-six hours before Republican and former Fox News contributor John Kasich was sworn in as Ohio’s governor, hundreds of people from across the state rallied voicing strong objections to his anti-labor, anti-environment and anti-student agenda. click here for more.
The controversy over a police surveillance network embedded in the environmental protest movement has deepened dramatically after the Guardian identified a second undercover officer who spent years living a double life as an activist. Click here for more.
Schools in and around Madban village, where the Jaitapur nuclear power plant is coming up, remained shut for the second day on Tuesday as a mark of protest against the project. click here
An investigation by the Guardian revealed Mark Kennedy used a fake passport to travel to 22 different countries, gleaning information about left-wing activists and relaying sensitive details back to his police handlers since around 2003. Kennedy was then asked about other individuals […]
In the Southwest, Native tribes are joining with environmental activists to protest solar projects in the desert. Their sacred sites compromised, Natives insist that environmental damage done by the solar complexes will destroy the biodiversity of the fragile desert ecosystems. click here […]
Since the first case of the disease was confirmed in November the country has embarked on a mass cull. The South Korean government has so far refused to vaccinate pigs against the disease and is now slaughtering them in record numbers despite […]