Redwood Coast Rendezvous A Regional Earth First! Rendezvous August 2nd-9th Location: to be announced We’re inviting all radical forest lovers to the Redwood region to gather, learn techniques in direct action, share skills and music,take action to defend our forests and have […]
Continue readingAnti-Mining Protests in Peru Surge, Mayor Arrested
Compiled & Composed by Britni Peruvian riot police clad with helmets and plastic shields charged in to the municipal building in Espinar, Peru on Wednesday to arrest mayor Oscar Mollohuanca in his office for leading a protest against Swiss-based global mining company […]
Continue readingLawsuit Filed to Protect Crayfish Threatened by Mountaintop-removal Mining in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia
by the Center for Biological Diversity CHARLESTON, W.V.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for the agency’s failure to make a listing decision on a petition to protect the Big Sandy crayfish […]
Continue readingRosemont Mine Power Line Approved by State but Corporation Commission Adds Hurdles to Be Met
Tony Davis / Arizona Daily Star The Arizona Corporation Commission gave Rosemont Copper a boost Wednesday by unanimously granting final approval of a power line for its proposed mine. But as part of a compromise, the approval carried restrictions that will delay […]
Continue readingProtestors shut down Canadian mining conference with rotting fish
On May 24, 2012 the Vancouver Branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum hosted a luncheon meeting at the Four Season’s Hotel in Vancouver focusing on Compliance Energy Corp’s proposed Raven Coal Mine. The site for this proposed mine […]
Continue readingWho’s afraid?
By Elizabeth Miller Wyoming’s open hunting season on wolves could kill Colorado’s chances of getting a pack of its own Almost 40 years passed before anyone thought to miss the gray wolf. Wolves, along with grizzlies, had been deliberately eradicated in western […]
Continue readingEarth First! Journal collective representin’ from Exarchia to Baltimore
An editor from the Earth First! Journal will be presenting a slide show of ecological resistance movements in the U.S. and around the world, this weekend at gatherings in Athens, Greece (Friday) and Baltimore, Maryland (Sunday). The theme of the presentation “No […]
Continue readingClimate Change Led to Collapse of Ancient Indus Civilization, study finds
A new study combining the latest archaeological evidence with state-of-the-art geoscience technologies provides evidence that climate change was a key ingredient in the collapse of the great Indus or Harappan Civilization almost 4000 years ago. The study also resolves a long-standing debate […]
Continue readingApocalypse Soon: Has Civilization Passed the Environmental Point of No Return?
by Madhusree Mukerjee / Scientific American Although there is an urban legend that the world will end this year based on a misinterpretation of the Mayan calendar, some researchers think a 40-year-old computer program that predicts a collapse of socioeconomic order and […]
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