A French Animal Liberation group has claimed responsibility for an arson that burned out two floors of a vivisection corporation’s administrative building. The communique they released reads: “One night, our team of 6, 2 lookouts, 4 actors, placed 2 incendiary devices (gas […]

The Center for Biological Diversity and Pesticide Action Network North America today filed the most comprehensive legal action ever brought under the Endangered Species Act to protect imperiled species from pesticides, suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its failure to consult […]

Acting WV Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, who once shot his rifle into the air saying he would “take aim” at Obama, had initially advocated a “call to arms” in favor of “Friends of Coal” and against EPA regulation of mountaintop removal. As […]

Author of numerous acclaimed books about the history of political resistance, John Ross, died in Mexico. His recent work, Zapatistas! follows the ecological and economic struggles of indigenous peoples of Southern Mexico with humor and a verve for revolution. His work will […]

On the eve of a massive gas explosion in northern Philadelphia, about 200 individuals affiliated with Gas Truth of Pennsylvania and the Luzerne County-based Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition, including a sizeable contingent from Northeast Pennsylvania, chanted slogans and blew whistles throughout the […]

Greenpeace went to great heights yesterday to express opposition to plans for a new coal-burning power plant in Israel. Five Greenpeace activists scaled the cables of the Chords Bridge at the entrance to Jerusalem and hung a huge banner (44 square meters) […]

At least 1,914 baboons had been ‘removed’ by a controversial ‘trap and shoot’ method by FSC Certified plantation companies during the past two years. Timber companies want them dead, because they scratch the bark of pine trees, damaging profits. Most of the […]

Since Tuesday, January 4, Yellowstone National Park has captured sixty-nine wild buffalo. Various family groups – some that never even left the park – have been forced into the Stephens Creek bison trap inside Yellowstone National Park. The government began testing them […]

A federal appeals court says that Joe Berlinger, the filmmaker who was ordered to give footage from his 2009 documentary “Crude” to the Chevron Corporation, could not invoke a journalist’s privilege in refusing to turn over that footage because his work on […]

The FBI is probing Plymouth boat graffiti that has fishermen — already feuding with the federal government over catch limits— fearful they now could be targets of an anarchist environmental group… “Commercial fishing first class rape,” and “sea life kidnapped, murdered, maliciously” […]