Did you ever stop to consider that the wild and hairy anarchists of the Earth First! Movement are really just a bunch of death cult Illuminati in cahoots with big government, Time magazine, the Shriners and um, aliens and lizard people and shit? […]
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There Are Less Than 100 Members of Each of These Species Left in Existence
by 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 […]
Continue readingThe Tiny Springsnails in the Path of the Las Vegas Watergrab
SANDRA CHEREB, Associated Press CARSON CITY, Nev. — Could tiny snails found in isolated, high desert springs along the Nevada-Utah line scuttle plans to pump billions of gallons of water to Las Vegas? That’s the thrust of a lawsuit filed by an […]
Continue readingGlobal Frackdown! in Boise, Idaho
A message from Wild Idaho Rising Tide: During the 2012 Idaho legislative session, a majority of our state senators and representatives succumbed to the mercenary ambitions of the oil and natural gas industry and passed state laws and regulations allowing hydraulic fracturing […]
Continue readingFor Farms in the West, Oil Wells Are Thirsty Rivals
By JACK HEALY / New York Times GREELEY, Colo. — A new race for water is rippling through the drought-scorched heartland, pitting farmers against oil and gas interests, driven by new drilling techniques that use powerful streams of water, sand and chemicals […]
Continue readingWe Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say
By Brian Merchant / Motherboard What’s the number one reason we riot? The plausible, justifiable motivations of trampled-upon humanfolk to fight back are many—poverty, oppression, disenfranchisement, etc—but the big one is more primal than any of the above. It’s hunger, plain and […]
Continue readingBanks Profiting from Global Food Crisis
by Tom Bawden / The Independent Barclays has made as much as half a billion pounds in two years from speculating on food staples such as wheat and soya, prompting allegations that banks are profiting handsomely from the global food crisis. Barclays […]
Continue readingEarth First! Blockades TECO Coal Plant at RNC in Tampa
by Everglades Earth First! UPDATES: Seven people in total were detained for blocking the roads which stopped all traffic into the coal plant for near four hours. Six were locked down in the road and one was dragged off the top of […]
Continue readingRussia Dumped 17 Nuclear Reactors and Tons of Waste in the Arctic
by Charles Digges / Bellona.org Enormous quantities of decommissioned Russian nuclear reactors and radioactive waste were dumped into the Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia over a course of decades, according to documents given to Norwegian officials by Russian […]
Continue readingHurricane Isaac May Stir Up Oil From BP Spill
by Lynne Peeples As Hurricane Isaac batters the Gulf Coast, some experts are warning that the storm could threaten more than levees, power lines and gas prices. Isaac’s high winds and rains, they speculate, could also stir up remnant crude oil from […]
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