By Ian C. Campbell, The Oregonian With an invisible flash of infrared light across the snow, motion-detecting cameras in the mountains of Oregon may have snapped evidence of a nocturnal fox not seen in the state in decades. These new photos provide […]
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Another Week of Stopping Shell at the Rossport Solidarity Camp
The first weeks of June saw another display of open defiance to Shell’s pipeline construction in County Mayo. The following is a report from the Rossport Solidarity Camp: The week of action started with fortifying the camp against eviction, and as the […]
Continue readingMcKay Tract Tree-sitters Declare Victory
Cutten, Ca. – Monday, June 18th 2012 – After 4 years of continuous tree-sitting in the McKay Tract, Earth First! Humboldt is declaring success. Green Diamond Resource Company (GDRC) has sent paperwork to the Calfire’s forestry department, ending the clear-cut logging plan […]
Continue readingThe Evan Mecham Eco Terrorist International Conspiracy
by Leslie James Pickering My earliest understandings of Earth First! were almost mythological – people escaping into the wilderness, dismantling bulldozers and blasting dams. When I finally encountered Earth First! in person, what I saw was something quite different – a much […]
Continue readingMore Than 24,000 Acres of Critical Habitat Protected for Western Snowy Plover
by the Center for Biological Diversity PORTLAND, Ore.— In response to a Center for Biological Diversity lawsuit, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today designated 24,527 acres (38 square miles) of critical habitat to protect the Pacific Coast population of threatened western […]
Continue readingThree Hundred People Breach Earthen Dam, free Xingu River from Belo Monte project
by Amazon Watch While the Brazilian Government prepares to host the Rio+20 United Nations Earth Summit, 3,000 kilometers north in the country’s Amazon region indigenous peoples, farmers, fisherfolk, activists and local residents affected by the construction of the massive Belo Monte Dam […]
Continue readingComplexities of Collapse: Trade Routes and Resource Exhaustion in Mayan Civilization
by Jacqueline Howard Maya history–and the civilization’s “collapse”–continue to occupy the minds of archeologists. Some research points to a series of droughts as playing an important role in the Maya demise. Other researchers propose the ancient Maya were less resilient to fight […]
Continue readingOccupy the Biotech Food Empire; Monsanto and Friends Get Interrupted
by Steve Annear / BostInno.com Dressed in contamination suits and waving around boxes of children’s cereal they say are pumped with Genetically Modified Organisms, protesters planted themselves outside of the International BIO Convention Monday to fight against a week-long meeting of mega-companies […]
Continue readingThousands Blockade Ski Resort Development in Bulgaria
Dimitar Kyosemarliev/REUTERS Police detained nine activists after over 1,500 people blocked a major Sofia intersection late on Thursday for a second day in a row in a protest against the controversial changes. Chanting “We want nature, not concrete” and “We want veto […]
Continue readingXena, Eco-Warrior Princess, Pleads Guilty to Environmental Trespass
By Christie D’Zurilla / La Times Lucy Lawless did it, and she isn’t sorry she did it. Of course, the “Spartacus” actress hopes her conviction on trespassing charges won’t hurt her career in the future by preventing her from entering countries that […]
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