By SAUL ELBEIN / New York Times PARIS, Tex. — The Canadian energy company TransCanada can take over land owned by a Texas farmer to build its Keystone XL pipeline, a county judge ruled on Wednesday night. In a 15-word ruling sent […]
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One Extinction Leads to Another
from Science Daily When a carnivore becomes extinct, other predatory species could soon follow, according to new research. Scientists have previously put forward this theory, but a University of Exeter team has now carried out the first experiment to prove it. Published […]
Continue reading838,000 Acres Protected for Jaguar Could Mean an End to the Rosemont Mine Proposal in Arizona
by Tony Davis / Arizona Daily Star The U.S. proposed Friday to designate about 1,309 square miles across Southern Arizona and a sliver of New Mexico as prime habitat that is essential for conservation of the endangered jaguar. Among those areas is […]
Continue readingTeribe Tribe of Costa Rica Fights for Indigenous Autonomy, End to Hydroelectric Projects
by Jaime Lopez Pablo Sibar, a grassroots leader from the Teribe native tribe of Costa Rica celebrated the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on August 9th with a protest before the National Assembly. He has been doing so over the […]
Continue readingEnbridge CEO Says Revolutionary Environmental Groups Have Taken Control of Pipeline Debate
by Karen Kleiss, Edmonton Journal EDMONTON – Environmental groups opposed to the Northern Gateway pipeline have seized control of the public debate, Enbridge Inc. CEO Patrick Daniel told a radio audience Monday. “Everything that we say sounds defensive and self-interested, and on […]
Continue readingBlockade Showdown Against Fracking Pipeline in Manhattan
by Shannon Ayala [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jon5ZlCxPxo] Activists gathered yesterday at a sanitation pier near the West Side Highway in Lower Manhattan where Spectra Energy has begun construction on a natural gas pipeline (which partially picks up gas in the Marcellus Shale area where […]
Continue readingThink Globally, Act Selfishly:
How Utilitarian Environmentalism Can Backfire by Brandon Keim / Wired.com In short, telling people how much money carpooling will save them won’t convince them to recycle, but telling them how transcendent carpooling is because it will save the planet will. Earnest, well-meaning […]
Continue readingTel Aviv University Researcher Says Plants Can See, Smell, Feel, and Taste
from Phys.org In his new book What a Plant Knows (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and his articles in Scientific American, Prof. Daniel Chamovitz, Director of TAU’s Manna Center for Plant Biosciences, says that the discovery of similarities between plants and humans is […]
Continue readingOutlaw Matriarch of the Fox Mountain Pack Ordered Dead by Feds
by Russ McSpadden The U.S. Fish and Wildlife service has ordered the killing of an alpha female Mexican gray wolf for crimes against the cattle industry. She is accused of being the ringleader of a six member pack that has killed four […]
Continue readingFracking Boom Looms in California’s Monterey Shale
from CBS 5 AROMAS – A new gold rush is on in California, but this time it’s liquid gold. Instead of strawberries and artichokes, the Central Coast is getting a growing reputation for being the next motherlode for oil. That news is […]
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