Gómez Nadal and Pilar Chato, journalists with Panamanian national daily La Prensa and contributor to the Spanish daily El País, were arrested Saturday in Panama City during a demonstration in front of the National Assembly by members of the indigenous group […]
Continue readingJapan: 8.9 Earthquake Spawns Deadly Tsunami, Evacuation Near Nuclear Reactor, and Fire at Oil Refinery
Japan was struck by a magnitude 8.9 earthquake off its northeastern coast Friday, unleashing a 13-foot tsunami that washed away cars and tore away buildings along the coast near the epicenter. Residents near a Tokyo Electric Power Co. nuclear reactor were ordered […]
Continue readingClimate Camp Dissolves
from Sheffield Indymedia After 5 years of Climate Camps, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, a statement has been issued by the The Camp for Climate Action to say that “we will not organise a national Climate Camp in 2011” and that […]
Continue readingTimothy DeChristopher Found Guilty for Climate Civil Disobedence
by Jamie Henn published at the Huffington Post On Thursday, a jury in Salt Lake City declared climate activist Tim DeChristopher guilty for his interference with an oil and gas auction held at the end of the Bush administration. He faces a […]
Continue readingDozens of New Oil Spills in Peru
Independent monitoring of Oil Blocks 1-AB and 8 in the Northern Peruvian Amazon has revealed devastating ongoing impacts of oil drilling, according to a recent report by the Federation of Indigenous Communities of the Corrientes River (FECONACO). A team of monitors from […]
Continue readingUpdate from Redwoods
Caltrans’ plans to widen and “straighten” Highway 101 through Richardson Grove State Park, home of the Avenue of the Giants, has not been taken off the table, despite huge public opposition and a budget crisis facing California. The one piece of good […]
Continue readingUSDA Releases Dangerous GMO Alfalfa
Just two weeks before the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) fully deregulated Monsanto’s Roundup Ready alfalfa, a senior soil scientist alerted the department about a newly discovered, microscopic pathogen found in high concentrations of Roundup Ready corn and soy that researchers believe […]
Continue readingDaniel McGowan Moved Back to CMU
We are writing with some bad news. Daniel was moved back into a CMU this week, this time at Terre Haute. We aren’t really sure why at this time, but we are sure we will fight the move. Daniel’s holding up as […]
Continue readingCoal Committee Shut Down by Green Action
On Tuesday at about 11:10 a.m., only ten minutes into the Coal Policy Committee’s meeting, students from Washington University’s Green Action group and activists from Climate Action St. Louis unfurled a banner declaring “Coal is Never Clean” and sang “Clean coal is […]
Continue readingMysterious Baby Dolphin Deaths in Gulf of Mexico
An alarmingly high number of dead baby dolphins are being looked at as possible casualties of oil that fouled the Gulf of Mexico after a BP drilling platform exploded in April 2010, killing 11 workers and rupturing a wellhead on the sea […]
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