by Mark Schleifstein / nola.com Because of increasing rates of sea level rise fueled by global warming, the remaining 5,800 square miles of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands in the Mississippi River delta will disappear. The only question is how quickly it will happen, […]
Continue readingBy CYNDY COLE The Hopi Tribe filed suit Wednesday in federal court in the District of Columbia, seeking an injunction to block snowmaking with reclaimed wastewater at Arizona Snowbowl this winter because of a threatened plant. The case has been assigned […]
Continue readingby KARL GROSSMAN / Counterpunch.org Fracking for gas not only uses toxic chemicals that can contaminate drinking and groundwater—it also releases substantial quantities of radioactive poison from the ground that will remain hot and deadly for thousands of years. Issuing a report […]
Continue readingBy Roger Annis / Green Left A popular movement against tar sands oil production and pipeline transport is on the rise and gathering steam in Canada. Its biggest expression so far came on October 22 when 4000- 5000 people rallied in […]
Continue readingfrom NBC News Police in Belgium are investigating the murder of a British oil executive who was shot and killed in front of his wife in Brussels in mid-October. Nicholas Mockford, a 59-year-old executive for ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil company, was […]
Continue readingBy Eli MacKinnon, Life’s Little Mysteries Staff Writer | LiveScience.com Three unusual earthquakes that shook a suburb west of Dallas over the weekend appear to be connected to the past disposal of wastewater from local hydraulic fracturing operations, a geophysicist who has […]
Continue readingby LESLIE MACMILLAN / New York Times FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Klee Benally, a member of the Navajo tribe, has gone to the mountains just north of here to pray, and he has gone to get arrested. He has chained himself to excavators; […]
Continue readingBy Emily Anne Epstein The United States Military conducted top secret experiments on the citizens of St. Louis, Missouri, for years, exposing them to radioactive compounds, a researcher has claimed. While it was known that the government sprayed ‘harmless’ zinc cadmium silfide […]
Continue readingDearest Earth First! Newswire reader, In September, the Earth First! Newswire–which is only 2 years old–reached over a half a million views! And we’re pretty damned happy to get all these wild and inspiring news items–from the blockades against the Keystone XL […]
Continue readingby Brian Merchant / Motherload When we talk about the sixth great extinction event—the humankind-induced mass die-off that we’re in the early stages of at the moment—we talk about climate change. We talk about vanishing habitats, we talk about biodiversity loss, and […]
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