About 60 Greenpeace activists have blockaded part of the European Parliament headquarters in Brussels to protest the widespread use of nuclear technology. They came with four samples of radioactive waste collected at public places near reprocessing facilities in Britain and France and […]
Greenpeace and Avaaz announced today that their online petition to “freeze” Genetically Modified (GM) crop cultivation in the European Union (EU) has reached one million signatures. Under the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, the EU is obliged to consider a petition garnering over one […]
A chemical residue reservoir broke in Hungary, killing four people, including two children under the age of 5. Dozens have been hospitalized for chemical burns. The sludge could reach the River Danube within four days, seriously imperiling natural life in much of […]
Toronto Organizers Confront Pipeline Giant Over Tar Sands Projects by Maryam Adrangi and Cameron Fenton TORONTO – At 8:00 this morning organizers with Environmental Justice Toronto unfurled a banner at Enbridge Day – a forum for investors at First Canadian Place – […]
The day after the Appalachia Rising protests drew thousands to the nation’s capitol, sparking civil disobedience from the White House to the Department of the Interior and PNC Bank, the Environmental Protection Agency commissioned Science Advisory Board released a draft review of […]
There are currently only 115 wild horses in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and the herd already shows signs of inbreeding. Still, unlike other wild horses, this herd has no federal protection, and the Bureau of Land Management has decided to […]
from rabble.ca On Friday, October 1, 2010, at the delegates at the Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM) Annual General Meeting in Whistler, voted resoundingly in opposition to the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline and oil tanker traffic on the province’s North […]
from infoshop.org Protesters Attacked Yesterday with Water Canons Today marked the time when some of the first trees came down behind police baracades in Stuttgartt’s historic palace garden to make way for a rail tunnel. Thousands have been protesting and they kept […]
from the Center for Biological Diversity Legislation Would Strip Federal Protection From Wolves Before Recovery is Complete WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity today condemned newly introduced federal legislation that would strip Endangered Species Act protections from wolves around the country before […]
from Bite Back “Rolf Anderssons mink farm in Ardara, Killybegs, was raided by the ALF. Huge hole cut through the fencing, making it an easy escape route for the 4000 mink liberated from their cages. The message to fur scum: close down […]