by the Center for Biological Diversity JACKSON, Miss.— In response to a lawsuit and advocacy by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today designated 6,477 acres of protected critical habitat for endangered Mississippi gopher frogs. The critical […]
Continue readingOceans in Peril: How Carbon Dioxide is Changing Our Oceans
by Jaclyn Lopez / Latina Lysta You may have heard the news that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have pushed past 400 parts per million at monitoring stations in the Arctic. Carbon dioxide is a heat-trapping gas, in fact the most pervasive […]
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UPDATE from RTNA: “Due to unforeseen logistical issues, Rising Tide North America is pulling back from and canceling the West By Northwest No Coal Exports Action Camp… We’re instead focusing our time and resources on supporting the Coal Exports Action in Helena, […]
Continue readingObama Leaves Monsanto in Charge of Ending Hunger in Africa
Cross Posted from Organic Consumers By Alexis Baden-Mayer At the Group of 8 (G8) meetings this past weekend, President Obama and the leaders of the rest of the world’s richest nations abandoned their governments’ previous commitments to donate $7.3 billion a year to end hunger […]
Continue readingGreek Protests against Vancouver’s Eldorado Gold
Government push to bring in new mines as solution to economic woes rejected by residents by Dawn Paley As people in Greece fight austerity in the streets, top officials are pushing open pit mining as a way out of the country’s economic […]
Continue reading2012 EF! Round River Rendezvous
Location finally announced! After a grueling search for the ultimate EF! Round River Rendezvous (RRR) site that took us to the ends of the universe, we believe we have found it! Less than 70 miles north of Edward Abbey’s childhood home on […]
Continue readingHey Daniel McGowan… Get A Job!
Earlier this year, Daniel McGowan and his support crew put out a call for post-prison support. (That’s right, Daniel will be in a halfway house by the end of the year.) One of the conditions for his release is employment. And the […]
Continue readingImploding Coal Plant Video of the Week: the Mohave Generating Station 6/8/2012
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Continue reading‘My place is destroyed’: Albertan in wake of Red Deer River oil spill
Nathan VanderKlippe and Dawn Walton / The Globe and Mail Gord Johnston grew up on the banks of the Red Deer River, at a place his family first settled in 1939. On Thursday evening, just before 7, he returned home to the […]
Continue readingNorth Dakota’s Oil Boom Brings Damage Along With Prosperity
byNicholas Kusnetz, Special to ProPublica June 7, 2012, 11:47 a.m. Oil drilling has sparked a frenzied prosperity in Jeff Keller’s formerly quiet corner of western North Dakota in recent years, bringing an infusion of jobs and reviving moribund local businesses. But Keller, […]
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