The government of Greenland said Friday it has awarded oil and gas exploration licenses for the Baffin Bay area of the country to seven international energy companies amid what it described as fierce competition for access to the frontier province. Exploration licenses […]

That was in 1970, during the first National Day of Mourning, an annual protest by Native Americans of the recounting of the Thanksgiving holiday. Each year since, they have gathered on Cole’s Hill, overlooking Plymouth Rock, to recount their people’s history, and […]

Two Danish activists who took part in the Copenhagen climate demonstrations last December have been found guilty of organising and instigating violence and vandalism, and have both been given four-month suspended sentences. One of the three judges in the case disagreed with […]

Environmental groups on Tuesday sought to cancel the December sale of oil and gas leases beneath more than 234 square miles of public lands in Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. In a formal protest letter sent to the Bureau of Land […]

Skeptics and deniers should be jumping all over activists for making such serious claims concerning climate change while demanding so little. But not anymore! Great Plains Earth First! out of Kansas is working on big plans for the upcoming year to prompt […]

Members of council and town staff are in the process of penning a letter to Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment officials that details concerns that the (Paradox Valley) uranium mill could damage the health of the region’s people, environment and […]

Nuclear resister Helen Woodson is scheduled to be released from prison in September 2011 after 27 years. In November 1984, she went to a Missouri nuclear missile silo with 3 others, where they began to disarm it with a sledgehammer and jackhammer. […]

Coinciding with the release of the Sierra Club’s report, “Toxic Tar Sands: Profiles from the Front Lines,” hundreds of concerned citizens attended town hall meetings and demonstrations calling on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to stop the pipeline. Northern Rockies Rising Tide […]

A Japanese whaling vessel was cleared by courts of any wrong doing when it rammed a Sea Shepherd vessel interfering with its whale hunt. This is the latest in a long saga of unfortunate events surrounding whaling this year. But, here to […]

After 50,000 people took part in the road and railway blockades that took days for police to clear, Germany is still reeling (click here for a full report). The protesters want an end to nuclear power plants, which are already past their […]