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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Nearly 600 environmental protesters turned out for a people’s blockade of Newcastle Harbour yesterday, to protest the expansion of coal exports. Many of the protesters took to the water in kayaks, while a large police presence patrolled both the waterway and […]
On March 10, New Jersey put a ban on the practice of hydraulic fracking for natural gas reserves. The state is following suit with New York, which instated a seven-month ban on hydraulic fracking on various natural gas drilling sites for fears […]
Demonstrators in Stuttgart formed a human chain reaching 27 mile for a protest against extending the life of nuclear power plants in Germany. The protest was planned before the current nuclear crisis in Japan but took on new form in light of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]