by Everglades Earth First! UPDATES: Seven people in total were detained for blocking the roads which stopped all traffic into the coal plant for near four hours. Six were locked down in the road and one was dragged off the top of […]
Cross Posted from Survival International Goldminers in Venezuela have carried out a ‘massacre’ of isolated Yanomami Indians, according to reports received by Survival International. Witnesses of the aftermath described finding ‘burnt bodies and bones’ when they visited the community of Irotatheri in the […]
by Charles Digges / Bellona.org Enormous quantities of decommissioned Russian nuclear reactors and radioactive waste were dumped into the Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia over a course of decades, according to documents given to Norwegian officials by Russian […]
Cross Posted from FireDogLake Why did undercover Austin Police Department Detective Shannon G. Dowell provide material support for an activist protest that resulted in them being charged with a felony in Houston? That’s the question I want answered after speaking with Ronnie […]
by Lisa Wakeland Mariemont officials are still considering a plan to reduce the coyote population in the village by allowing police to shoot and kill the animals in an 80-acre area.
Human remains found about a year ago in Kentucky belonged to a woman of Native American descent who appears to have been scalped, state police said Tuesday. Detective Chad Winn told The Associated Press that the case is being investigated as a […]
by Lynne Peeples As Hurricane Isaac batters the Gulf Coast, some experts are warning that the storm could threaten more than levees, power lines and gas prices. Isaac’s high winds and rains, they speculate, could also stir up remnant crude oil from […]
from Climate Progress On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh suggested that the government manipulated hurricane forecasts in order to force Republicans to cancel a day of their national convention, saying the model “allows them to do it.” “The hurricane center is the […]
from the Seattle Times Washington state wildlife agents are preparing to kill up to four more gray wolves in the northeast corner of the state after investigators said the pack has injured or eaten livestock. But seven environmental groups on Friday urged […]
by Clinton Tyree, reporting live from the streets of Tampa Bay. So Hurricane Issac didn’t blow the political elite and their flock far into the oil-slicked, algae blooms of Florida’s dismal Gulf Coast, like we had hoped. As it turns out, those […]