January 16, 2012 in Central Florida a 3,500 year old Bald Cypress tree known as the “Senator”, passed away. This tree burned to the ground, due to a fire assumed to have started from a lightening strike it sustained in mid-January, causing […]
By Sam Wheeler / Ashland Daily Tidings Four environmental groups are protesting the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s plan to harvest about 2.5 million board feet of timber from the slopes of Grizzly Peak and throughout the Little Butte Creek watershed. Their […]
by Jeff Brady / NPR For about two decades, ending in 1971, a former Monsanto chemical plant in West Virginia produced the herbicide 2,4,5-T which was used in “Agent Orange” — the defoliant the military sprayed over Southeast Asia during the Vietnam […]
Last night at the Night Heron Grassroots Activist Center, which is also home to the Earth First! Journal, editorial collective members and volunteers prepped the newest issue to be mailing to to subscribers and distributors around the world. This issue features articles […]
A recent article from the journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) reports that observations of some mammal species have declined by more than 99% in parts of the Everglades, due primarily to giant non-native invasive pythons. Yeah, it’s scary, but […]
Never has there been a more dire time for defense of the planet. Increase your abilities to defend the Earth through learning the skills of climbing. We will offer a variety of trainings for forest defense and urban actions suitable for all […]
I know it’s tough, but every one of you reading this is going to have to peel for your face away from this screen and head out into the street, or into the woods, to build this eco-resistance. And we’ve just updated […]
Next stop—the slaughter of South African Fur Seals January 29, 2012, message from Captain Paul Watson: “I have been fighting the Canadian seal hunt since 1974. It’s been a long, hard road after nearly four decades. During that time I have taken […]
And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County Down by the Green River where Paradise lay Well, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away -John Prine HARRISBURG, Ill. – […]
By Yana Marull PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil — Thousands of critics of capitalism meeting in Brazil called Sunday for a worldwide protest in June to press for concrete steps to tackle the global economic and ecological crises. The World Social Forum wrapped up […]