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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Jill Richardson, AlterNET Driving through Ngong Hills, not far from Nairobi, Kenya, the corn on one side of the road is stunted and diseased. The farmer will not harvest a crop this year. On the other side of the road, the […]
by Angel Jennings, Los Angeles Times In the end, the mountain lion was probably looking for a place to call his own. Scientists believe the male mountain lion roamed his way down the Santa Monica Mountains early Tuesday, likely following a runoff […]