New Tree Sit in Tasmania

Check out the blog theObserverTree to get real time updates and offer support. by CRAIG HOGGETT / The Mercury [On December 14, the Tasmanian forest defense group] Still Wild Still Threatened…set up a 60m-high tree sit-in at the TN044B logging coupe near […]

No War but the Eco-Class War!

Everglades Earth First! joins Occupy Palm Beach in March on Worth Avenue tomorrow Palm Beach Island’s Worth Avenue is home to some of the world’s most repulsive rich and elite. The following text is from a flyer that participants in the general […]

Genetically modified moths called crop aid

cross posted from UPI A British company says genetically modified moths it has developed could be used to reduce the population of the vegetable-eating insects. Oxitec says its modified male diamondback moths, carrying a lethal gene, could be released into the countryside, […]

Here it goes! Retreat of Arctic sea ice releases deadly greenhouse gas

Russian research team astonished after finding ‘fountains’ of methane bubbling to surface by Steve Connor cross posted from the Independent Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling […]

Treesitter Denied Witnesses in PreTrial Hearing

by Squirrel, crossposted from RAMPS I was immensely disheartened to hear the magistrate’s flat-out denial of my lawyer’s request that our witnesses be allowed to testify on my behalf. During the past few weeks, I had been strengthened and moved by the […]

Activists protest against Devada power plant in India

HYDERABAD – The 1,040 MW Hinduja Thermal Power Plant coming up at Devada village in the coastal district of Visakhapatnam has run into trouble again, with locals and activists staging mass protests against the mega project on grounds of environmental pollution and […]

Bulgaria and the Fight Against Genetically Modified Food

Genetically modified animal feed without GMO labeling is being sold on the Bulgarian market, according to reports of the Public Environmental Center for Sustainable Development/ PECSD/ in Varna and environmental NGO ‘Za Zemiata’ (For the Earth). A team of experts conducted the […]