Cross Posted from the Spokesman-Review A storm of criticism in China over share listing plans by a company that sells tonics made with bear bile is highlighting the increasingly affluent country’s changing attitudes toward the environment and wildlife. Reports Friday said dozens of […]

Cross Posted from The Daily Star Tripoli residents organized a sit-in Wednesday to protest against the recent felling of several trees in the city and to demand answers on who was ultimately responsible for the decision. Inhabitants of the northern city’s Al-Mina […]

Cross Posted from The Coffs Coast Advocate TODAY marks the beginning of a global 24 hours of action in support of Miranda Gibson, who has now broken the Tasmanian record for the longest time spent at the top of a tree. Miranda […]

Cross Posted from The Guardian As she stands among villagers in the highlands of western Panama, their chosen leader, Silvia Carrera, is an image of bucolic harmony. Then Carrera, elected chief or general cacique of the Ngäbe-Buglé community, gestures to a woman […]

Cross Posted from The Toronto Star The deep lines and dark, tanned skin of Segundo Huaman’s face tell of a life spent toiling in the fields. A potato, maize and barley farmer in Cajamarca, one of Peru’s northernmost regions, the 37-year-old took […]

Cross Posted from KMOV  Activists trying to save the Blair Mountain battlefield from coal mining protested Friday in West Virginia and Missouri, at the offices of two companies that control access to much of the land where unionizing coal miners fought authorities […]

From HuffingtonPost Here we are almost a year away from the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima that happened as a result of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami on March 11th of last year, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announces that it is approving […]

Cross Posted from Reuters Two studies showing how scientists mutated the H5N1 bird flu virus into a form that could cause a deadly human pandemic will be published only after experts fully assess the risks, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on […]

Cross Posted from The Local City officials said on Wednesday morning they were pleased with how the operation in the Schlossgarten park went. They said 2,500 officers had encountered little violence. But protesters, who were trying to protect 176 trees that authorities […]

Cross Posted from Bite Back Victor VanOrden Woodbury County Jail P.O. Box 3083 Sioux City, IA 51102 USA In February 2012, Victor was sentenced to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to one count of attempted burglary and one count […]