By Graham Land The internet is taking a lot of credit for fermenting social unrest and facilitating effective protest. The Arab Spring, the Occupy movement and the Green Revolution in Iran are three well-known examples of how social media has played a […]
Continue readingPetition Seeks Delisting of Pacific Northwest Orcas
by Laura Petersen, E&E reporter The population of killer whales that resides primarily in Puget Sound doesn’t deserve Endangered Species Act protection, the conservative Pacific Legal Foundation says in a delisting petition filed today with the Obama administration.The petition sent to the […]
Continue readingTermite Retirement Plan Features Suicide Bombing
from the Center for Biological Diversity While in the human world it’s generally the youth that marches off to war, in the insect world it’s more often the old folks. A new discovery published this month in the journal Science explains that […]
Continue readingShell Game in the Arctic
How to Bring the Major Oil Companies Ashore and Halt the Destruction of Our Oceans by Subhankar Banerjee When you go to the mountains, you go to the mountains. When it’s the desert, it’s the desert. When it’s the ocean, though, we […]
Continue readingBurrying Beetle Vs. Keystone XL Pipeline
By ART HOVEY/Lincoln Journal Star The American burying beetle is a clever critter. It’s known for secreting fluid around the carcasses of birds and rodents in the Nebraska Sandhills to disguise their scent and then using the decaying remains as hatching sites […]
Continue readingAlarming Biodiversity Collapse in Protected Forests
{from Mother Jones} In the science journal Nature this week, a piece was co-authored by more than 200 scientists from around the world—a veritable who’s-who of researchers from the world of tropical forest ecology. The gist of the paper is alarming: The […]
Continue readingTurns out this is BS…State of Oregon Owns Rainwater, Criminalizes Permaculture
Update: This article is total bull shit… Here at the EF! Newswire, we received a response from a local EF!er on this story, which we felt was worthy of relaying on to readers: “This is total bullshit by the way. I live […]
Continue readingCritical Mass versus Olympic Games
Friday’s Critical Mass, a monthly mass bike ride through central London, was the focus of a huge police operation on Stratford High Street, with 182 arrests made. The Met [police] attempted to limit the ride under provisions in section 12 of the […]
Continue readingBustin’ through the barricades against nukes in Japan
Tens of thousands of people protested against nuclear power plants outside Japan‘s parliament on Sunday. The protesters, including pensioners, were pressed up against a wall of steel thrown around the parliament building. Some broke through the barriers and spilled onto the streets, […]
Continue readingWestern U.S. Drought of 2000-2004 Worst in 800 Years
by the National Snow and Ice Data Center A new scientific study indicates the turn-of-the-century drought in the North American West was the worst of the last millennium—with major impacts to the carbon cycle and hints of even drier times ahead. The […]
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