The federal government has acknowledged that it deliberately excluded data indicating a 20 per cent increase in annual pollution from Canada’s oilsands industry in 2009 from a recent 567-page report on climate change that it was required to submit to the United […]
By Judy Dempsey and Jack Ewing of NYTimes BERLIN — The German government on Monday announced plans to shut all of the nation’s nuclear power plants within the next 11 years, a sharp reversal for Chancellor Angela Merkel after the Japanese […]
According to an Associated Press article today, A respected international panel of scientists says cellphones are possible cancer-causing agents, putting them in the same category as the pesticide DDT and gasoline engine exhaust. The classification was issued Tuesday in Lyon, France, by […]
cross-posted from Intercontinentalcry.org [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BmMQ_0hWEQs]For the past three weeks, more than 10,000 Indigenous People, mostly Aymaras, have been protesting against the oncoming Santa Ana silver mine in southeastern Peru near the border with Bolivia. The Indigenous people are concerned that pollution from the […]
A Brazilian environmentalist was killed Friday in the Amazon Rainforest region, three days after the murders of two other environmental activists in the area, authorities said. Adelino Ramos, known as Dinho and a leader among local impoverished farmers, was killed Friday morning […]
by BBC World News Thousands of angry indigenous protesters have taken over the city centre of Puno in south-eastern Peru. Looters have taken advantage of the unrest and ransacked offices and shops as the police retreated. Cars and buildings were torched on […]
By Carlos Martinez, Cross-posted from Alternet On the morning of Friday, May 6th President Mauricio Funes of El Salvador’s left-wing FMLN party, arrived at the La Maroma agricultural cooperative in the department of Usulután for a potentially historic meeting with hundreds of small family […]
An Amazon environmental activist and his wife were killed late on Monday and the crime is being investigated as a possible assassination to silence the outspoken forest defender, according to police. José Claudio Ribeiro da Silva, also known by his nickname of […]
Heads up for upcoming documentary If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, about the controversial environmental group. The film is directed by Academy Award Nominated filmmaker Marshall Curry (RACING DREAMS and STREET FIGHT) and focuses on the evolution of the […]
An interview with Will Potter, author of “Green is the New Red.” By Michael May Published on: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 in Texas Observer For Will Potter, the subject matter behind Green is the New Red is personal. While working at the […]