Cross posted from the BBC Mr Morales said the road would no longer go through a rainforest reserve. He made the announcement two days after protesters arrived in La Paz following a two-month march from the Amazon lowlands to voice their opposition. […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bytMNoKNeRA&feature=player_embedded] Infoshop News (October 25, 2011) – The Oakland police tonight are attacking several thousand demonstrators with flash grenades, tear gas, and rubber bullets. The ongoing attacks by the police follow a day which saw the authorities attack the Occupy Oakland camp […]
Open Letter to the Occupy Movement From Deep Green Resistance The Occupy Movement is beautiful. We support it and though we are small, we are participating all over the country. We invite all occupiers to read, give feedback, and if you feel […]
crossposted from Miami Herald By Jon Silman Maybe the best way to air out your environmental grievances is by rallying for a group of environmental journalists. “We’re preaching to the choir here,” said Ana Campos, 41, a community organizer for the Clean […]
A review of Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed our Most Alluring Fruit, by Barry Estebrook, 2011, Andrews McMeel Publishing The following are excerpts from a full book review, by Sasha, featured in the EF! Newswire’s growing ‘Reviews’ section: Author Barry Estabrook […]
Source: Perth Now A PROTESTER has tied himself to a communications tower near a proposed gas hub site in the Kimberley in a bid to stop survey work for the controversial project. The protester scaled the 30-metre tower at around 4am today […]
Earlier this month, October 5, 2011, the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced that two Florida species, the South Florida rainbow snake and the Florida fairy shrimp, have been determined to be extinct. The finding came in response to a petition filed […]
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Flashing signs on the highways in eastern Ohio warned motorists Wednesday: “Caution. Exotic animals.” Schools shuttered and some frightened residents said they were keeping to their homes as sheriff’s deputies hunted lions, tigers, leopards and grizzly bears that escaped from a preserve […]
The green scum shown in this image is the worst algae bloom Lake Erie has experienced in decades. Such blooms were common in the lake’s shallow western basin in the 1950s and 60s. Phosphorus from farms, sewage, and industry fertilized the waters […]