By LEWIS GRISWOLD McClatchy Newspapers FRESNO, Calif. — Environmental activists fighting a hazardous waste dump near Kettleman City, Calif. – which has been hit by a rash of birth defects – announced Thursday they will appeal an adverse ruling in a lawsuit […]
Continue readingWorried about the Japanese Nuclear Meltdown? Get to know your radiation units and measurements
The Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) has put together this handy little “Questions and Answers on Radiation” document. With all the news coming out of Japan and what the nuke industry cheerleaders have called the “Nuclear Renaissance” of new nuclear expansion […]
Continue readingGroups successful in raising concerns with proposed FPL new nuclear reactors in Florida: Federal licensing board admits arguments
Miami, Fla. – The future of new nuclear reactors in Florida hit another stumbling block as concerned citizens and public interest organizations in Florida had a significant, initial victory in their legal effort to prevent two more costly new nuclear reactors from […]
Continue readingPew Environmental Study Finds Boreal Forest is ‘Earth’s Water Keeper.’
A U.S.-based conservation group has concluded that the great ribbon of green that stretches across northern Canada is one of the world’s great storehouses of fresh water and influences the environment of the entire planet. Pew Environment Group researchers, whose study […]
Continue readingVideo of One Month Anniversary of Florida Tree Sit
A group of protesters gathered outside of FAU in Jupiter Monday to help save one of the last forests in eastern Palm Beach County. The protesters have positioned multiple tree sit-sites with hopes it will stop Scripps Research Institute from clearing the […]
Continue readingTurkish Villagers Fight to Keep Gold Mining, Cyanide Out of Sahinli
Residents of a northwestern Turkish district on Monday protested a mining company for its alleged practices of leaching gold out of rock with cyanide. Environmentalists and locals gathered in the Şahinli village of Lapseki district in front of the village teahouse, where […]
Continue readingNeurotoxins Cause Fish Die-off in California
Scientific researchers say a deadly neurotoxin is the reason for a massive fish kill in Southern California. Millions of sardines died in King Harbor in Redondo Beach, CA, and researchers say the fish tested positive for domoic acid and ultimately died from […]
Continue readingTasmania: Enviros Scramble to Defend Ancient Forests
FOREST protest groups have slammed the axing of a moratorium due to start today that would have halted all logging in Tasmania’s high-conservation-value forests. The Still Wild Still Threatened organisation and the Huon Valley Environment Centre held demonstrations outside the Executive Building […]
Continue readingJapan’s Earthquake Altered Earth’s Axis; Moved the Island Closer to U.S.
Last week’s devastating 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in Japan moved the island closer to the United States and shifted the planet’s axis. The quake caused a rift 15 miles below the sea floor that stretched 186 miles long and 93 miles […]
Continue readingOne Month of Canopy Occupation in Florida against Bitoech, Deforestation, Vivisection
The canopy occupation in the Briger Forest to hault the destruction of the endangered habitat at the hands of a Biotech development is celebrating its one month anniversary. The occupation includes two separate sites in the forest, one along side of Interstate […]
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