by David Quilty The GMO soy industry, headed by agriculture giant Monsanto, is expanding into aquaculture and its soy will used to feed farm-raised fish meant for human consumption. A new report from Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Europe […]
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EXXON CEO: Fossil Fuels Are Warming The Planet — But Don’t Worry, We’ll Adapt
NEW YORK (AP) — ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson says fears about climate change, drilling, and energy dependence are overblown. In a speech Wednesday, Tillerson acknowledged that burning of fossil fuels is warming the planet, but said society will be able to adapt. […]
Continue readingTwo New Wolf Packs Established in NM
Federal wildlife managers have designated two more Mexican gray wolf packs in New Mexico, bringing the number of packs in the American Southwest to 14. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been trying to return the predators to their historic range […]
Continue readingThe Ecology of Disease
By Jim Robbins THERE’S a term biologists and economists use these days — ecosystem services — which refers to the many ways nature supports the human endeavor. Forests filter the water we drink, for example, and birds and bees pollinate crops, both […]
Continue readingSustainable Colonialism® in the Boreal Forest
by RUSS McSPADDEN / Earth First!News [The text of this work is free to share and distribute under the following Creative Commons License CC-BY-ND 3.0] What do you get when the world’s largest environmental organization and the world’s largest “sustainable” logging company […]
Continue readingRadical Mycology: A Primer from the Spore Liberation Front
A zine from the Spore Liberation Front exploring the numerous uses for mushrooms and their implications for ecoactivists and other Earth friendly folk. From food to medicine to paper and dyes to the amazing new field of mycorememdiation (the use of mushrooms […]
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Coca-Cola, Dow Chemical, Disney, Weyerhaeuser Join Forces to Protect the World’s Forests From Themselves? The Coca-Cola Company, Dow Chemical and Duke Energy are among 24 major companies that have agreed to develop a methodology to assign value to the world’s forests, freshwater […]
Continue readingFarmers Stand up to Monsanto Seed Police
By R.T. Jones This just in from Wood Prairie Farm. . . Seventy-five family farmers, seed businesses, and agricultural organizations representing over 300,000 individuals and 4,500 farms filed a a brief today with the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal […]
Continue readingThis Summer Is ‘What Global Warming Looks Like’
By AP / SETH BORENSTEIN (WASHINGTON) — If you want a glimpse of some of the worst of global warming, scientists suggest taking a look at U.S. weather in recent weeks. Horrendous wildfires. Oppressive heat waves. Devastating droughts. Flooding from giant deluges. […]
Continue readingUS Coast Guard Creates ‘Protest-free Zone’ in Alaska Oil Drilling Zone
from PressTV.com The United States Coast Guard will establish and enforce “a 500-meter safety zone” around the Shell Oil Company’s drilling vessel Noble Discoverer as it drills exploratory offshore wells in the sensitive Arctic waters off the coast of Alaska beginning this […]
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