from Phys.org In his new book What a Plant Knows (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and his articles in Scientific American, Prof. Daniel Chamovitz, Director of TAU’s Manna Center for Plant Biosciences, says that the discovery of similarities between plants and humans is […]
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Outlaw Matriarch of the Fox Mountain Pack Ordered Dead by Feds
by Russ McSpadden The U.S. Fish and Wildlife service has ordered the killing of an alpha female Mexican gray wolf for crimes against the cattle industry. She is accused of being the ringleader of a six member pack that has killed four […]
Continue readingAs American As Genetically Engineered Apple Pie
By ANDREW POLLACK A small company is trying to bring to market a genetically engineered apple that does not turn brown when sliced or bruised. But it has much of the rest of the apple industry seeing red. The company, Okanagan Specialty […]
Continue readingFracking Boom Looms in California’s Monterey Shale
from CBS 5 AROMAS – A new gold rush is on in California, but this time it’s liquid gold. Instead of strawberries and artichokes, the Central Coast is getting a growing reputation for being the next motherlode for oil. That news is […]
Continue readingEarth First! in Humboldt Blocks Sierra Pacific Sawmill Entrance
Manila, CA – 30 Earth First! activists protesting Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) logging practices rallied peacefully outside the gates of SPI’s Arcata mill on Monday, demanding a stop to the company’s logging of old-growth. “We’re here to expose SPI’s destructive logging” said […]
Continue readingVillagers in Senegal Vow to Stop Land-grabbing Biofuels Project
By Agence France-Presse Villagers from northern Senegal vowed Thursday to fight a project by Senegalese and Italian investors to produce biofuels on their land, a venture already forced to relocate once by deadly protests. “We will fight those who want to take […]
Continue readingElectric Cars and Wind Farms Spurring Ecological and Social Devastation in China
By Le Monde From the air it looks like a huge lake, fed by many tributaries, but on the ground it turns out to be a murky expanse of water, in which no fish or algae can survive. The shore is coated […]
Continue readingSpice up your local infoshop with copies of the Earth First! Primer
You can now download copies of the newest Earth First! Primer for outreach and tabling in your community, or on your adventures gallivanting across the countryside. We currently have editions of the EF! Primer in English, Spanish and Greek. We are looking […]
Continue readingThe WE’RE F**KED Weather Report
the following weather summary for July is from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Summary Information July 2012: hottest month on record for contiguous United States Drought expands to cover nearly 63% of the Lower 48; wildfires consume 2 million acres […]
Continue readingKeystone XL’s Beetlemania
by Sarah Laskow / The American Prospect The carcass of a passenger pigeon weighed in at exactly the size they preferred. Dead prairie chickens did, too. They aren’t so picky about the carcasses they bury: mammals will do as well as birds, […]
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