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 […]
Continue readingFirst Nations Delegation Denied Access to New England Governors’ Conference
by Global Justice Ecology Project BURLINGTON, Vt. July 30, 2012—Members of the Innu First Nation from Quebec and the Nulhegan Abenaki of Vermont were denied access to the 36th Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers this morning. Around 9:30 […]
Continue readingThe Frack War Comes Home
by Peter Rugh Cross-Posted from Waging NonViolence The war came home this weekend, as thousands of people whose land has been under siege by the U.S. government and corporate interests gathered in Washington, D.C. No, they weren’t victims of drone attacks or […]
Continue readingDustin Steele, Arrested and Beaten for Opposing Mountaintop Removal in Appalachia
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