From Save Uplands Speak for the trees! A cherished coastal preserve is under attack right now by the campus administration appointed last year by Governor DeSantis in the rightwing takeover underway at New College of Florida.* Take action: Tell the Chancellor of the State […]
by Hunter Walker / Yahoo! News Advocacy organizations have filed complaints against Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities in Florida and California, claiming that migrants being held there are suffering severe side effects from disinfectant sprays being used to combat the coronavirus. […]
At 5am EST on April 17th 2020, a person locked themself to two concrete barrels in front of the mansion of Florida Governor Ron Desantis. The demands are the same as they have been for the past month: all incarcerated people must be immediately released during the covid19 pandemic, and in the mean time they must be given protective and sanitation supplies, and free and full access to communication.
An autopsy has concluded that a Florida man choked to death after downing dozens of live cockroaches during a pet store contest earlier this year. The report released Monday says 32-year-old Edward Archbold of West Palm Beach died as a result of […]
Earth First! Journal Offering Reward of Lifetime Subscription to Whomever Tars and Feathers Brandon Darby at the 2012 RNC the following story is from Big Government, a right wing Tea Party blog. Brandon Darby is the self proclaimed former Black Panther who, […]
British biotechnology company Oxitec has plans to release genetically engineered mosquitoes in Key West, Florida. These mutant insects are bred in the lab to transmit a gene during the reproductive process that kills their offspring. Controversial experimental releases of 3 million […]
Only 4 Florida Butterflies Found; Texas Oil Tycoons Applaud Lizards Denial for Protection BISCAYNE NATIONAL PARK, Fla. — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has issued an emergency authorization for the collection and captive rearing of Schaus swallowtail butterflies in an […]
cross posted from global animal. The Marine Stewardship Council allowed two eco-certifications for the use of longlines for swordfish fishing that will effect sea turtles and sharks drastically. For every swordfish caught, two sharks are killed. Every year 1,200 endangered sea turtles […]
January 16, 2012 in Central Florida a 3,500 year old Bald Cypress tree known as the “Senator”, passed away. This tree burned to the ground, due to a fire assumed to have started from a lightening strike it sustained in mid-January, causing […]
By Panagioti Tsolkas, Earth First! Journal editorial collective In a Palm Beach Post article from earlier this year: A St. Louis company, Wind Capital Group, says they hopes to build Florida’s first wind farm, on thousands of acres of sugar land east […]