By Graham Land The internet is taking a lot of credit for fermenting social unrest and facilitating effective protest. The Arab Spring, the Occupy movement and the Green Revolution in Iran are three well-known examples of how social media has played a […]
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Petition Seeks Delisting of Pacific Northwest Orcas
by Laura Petersen, E&E reporter The population of killer whales that resides primarily in Puget Sound doesn’t deserve Endangered Species Act protection, the conservative Pacific Legal Foundation says in a delisting petition filed today with the Obama administration.The petition sent to the […]
Continue readingShell Game in the Arctic
How to Bring the Major Oil Companies Ashore and Halt the Destruction of Our Oceans by Subhankar Banerjee When you go to the mountains, you go to the mountains. When it’s the desert, it’s the desert. When it’s the ocean, though, we […]
Continue readingBurrying Beetle Vs. Keystone XL Pipeline
By ART HOVEY/Lincoln Journal Star The American burying beetle is a clever critter. It’s known for secreting fluid around the carcasses of birds and rodents in the Nebraska Sandhills to disguise their scent and then using the decaying remains as hatching sites […]
Continue readingWestern U.S. Drought of 2000-2004 Worst in 800 Years
by the National Snow and Ice Data Center A new scientific study indicates the turn-of-the-century drought in the North American West was the worst of the last millennium—with major impacts to the carbon cycle and hints of even drier times ahead. The […]
Continue readingAngry Environmental Protesters Occupy Govt Office, Smash Computers in China
By John Ruwitch QIDONG, China, July 28 (Reuters) – Angry demonstrators occupied a government office in eastern China on Saturday, destroying computers and overturning cars in a violent protest against an industrial waste pipeline they said would poison their coastal waters. The […]
Continue readingHelp the Defenders of the Oldest Mountains in the World
There were 20 folks arrested at this action each with a bail of $25,000, for a combined bail of $500,000 — please spread this plea for solidarity. Donate to the Legal Fund here. Help any way you can.
Continue readingVideo: Mountain Mobilization shuts down largest mountaintop removal mine in U.S.
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Continue readingDaring Protesters Shut Down Obama Backed Strip Mine In West Virginia; 500,000 in Bail Needed!!!!
by Jeff Biggers Ramping up renewed efforts to end mountaintop removal mining in central Appalachia, scores of protesters staged a daring action at the controversial Hobet strip mine today in Boone County, West Virginia, shutting down operations through a series of coordinated […]
Continue readingWolf Looking for Love Finds None in California
By Jeff Barnard / The Associated Press A wandering Oregon wolf that has been out looking for love has gotten the cold shoulder from people in one Northern California county. Citing fears that if wolves move into the area they will attack […]
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