JAPAN’S whaling fleet has ended its annual Antarctic hunt after landing 30 per cent of its planned catch of more than 900 whales. Fisheries Minister Michihiko Kano yesterday blamed bad weather and “sabotage” by the Sea Shepherd environmental protest flotilla for the […]
MANILA, Philippines – Environmental and militant groups gathered at Mendiola near Malacañang on Saturday to kick off an “intensified” campaign against mining in the country. The Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment is calling for a moratorium on all mining applications of […]
cross posted from Environment News Service. MIRI, Sarawak, Malaysia, February 19, 2012 (ENS) – Malaysian communities are asking the government to stop all 12 planned mega-dam projects in the state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo and to hold a referendum […]
Van Eck Global, a New York-based money management firm with $35 million in assets from dirty energy, today launched an energy Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) focused on companies that look for and produce “unconventional” sources of oil and gas, such as oil […]
By Karlen Aslanian Cross-posted from here Opposition politicians and environmental activists joined on Wednesday about two hundred residents of the central Armenian town of Hrazdan in protesting against the opening of an iron mine which they believe would have grave ecological consequences. […]
Cross-posted from here More than 2,000 Ogoni people in Rivers State yesterday staged a peaceful protest in Port Harcourt against the non-implementation of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report on the oil impacted sites in Ogoniland. The UNEP had conducted an environmental […]
A CALL TO JOIN THE ORGANIZING OF A REGIONAL CAMPAIGN OF NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION TO SHUT DOWN VERMONT YANKEE Sunday, Sept 18, 2011—10 am – 4 pm Bugbee Senior Center, White River Junction 262 North Main Street, White River Jct.,VT (see directions […]
Heated debate over fracking, the mining process which could be used to extract gas in western Southland, is raging in the gas heartland of Taranaki. A protest group, Climate Justice Taranaki, has called for a ban or moratorium on the practice, which […]
A Vancouver-based environmental group intends to use the Burnaby site of a dramatic oil pipeline rupture four years ago to emphasize its opposition to a planned expansion by Kinder Morgan. Wilderness Committee (WC) will hold a demonstration on Saturday, Aug. 27 […]
Agent Orange is one of the most devastating weapons of modern warfare, a chemical which killed or injured an estimated 400,000 people during the Vietnam War — and now it’s being used against the Amazon rainforest. According to officials, ranchers in Brazil […]