by the Center for Biological Diversity GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK— The U.S. Forest Service announced late Monday that it will allow Denison Mines Corp. to begin excavating the “Canyon Mine” this fall without first updating the 26-year-old environmental impact statement for the […]
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Photographs of Biodiversity and Extinction
by the EF! Journal Collective Joel Sartore is a photographer, educator and chronicler of the extinction crisis. Three of his recent collections describe, through vivid images, what we are losing, at a rate of 100 species every day. These are visual reminders […]
Continue readingFox Thought Extinct in Oregon Possibly Photographed on Mt. Hood
By Ian C. Campbell, The Oregonian With an invisible flash of infrared light across the snow, motion-detecting cameras in the mountains of Oregon may have snapped evidence of a nocturnal fox not seen in the state in decades. These new photos provide […]
Continue readingMore Than 24,000 Acres of Critical Habitat Protected for Western Snowy Plover
by the Center for Biological Diversity PORTLAND, Ore.— In response to a Center for Biological Diversity lawsuit, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today designated 24,527 acres (38 square miles) of critical habitat to protect the Pacific Coast population of threatened western […]
Continue readingThree Hundred People Breach Earthen Dam, free Xingu River from Belo Monte project
by Amazon Watch While the Brazilian Government prepares to host the Rio+20 United Nations Earth Summit, 3,000 kilometers north in the country’s Amazon region indigenous peoples, farmers, fisherfolk, activists and local residents affected by the construction of the massive Belo Monte Dam […]
Continue readingComplexities of Collapse: Trade Routes and Resource Exhaustion in Mayan Civilization
by Jacqueline Howard Maya history–and the civilization’s “collapse”–continue to occupy the minds of archeologists. Some research points to a series of droughts as playing an important role in the Maya demise. Other researchers propose the ancient Maya were less resilient to fight […]
Continue readingOccupy the Biotech Food Empire; Monsanto and Friends Get Interrupted
by Steve Annear / BostInno.com Dressed in contamination suits and waving around boxes of children’s cereal they say are pumped with Genetically Modified Organisms, protesters planted themselves outside of the International BIO Convention Monday to fight against a week-long meeting of mega-companies […]
Continue readingThousands Blockade Ski Resort Development in Bulgaria
Dimitar Kyosemarliev/REUTERS Police detained nine activists after over 1,500 people blocked a major Sofia intersection late on Thursday for a second day in a row in a protest against the controversial changes. Chanting “We want nature, not concrete” and “We want veto […]
Continue readingHow Can You Measure Income Inequality? Count The Trees
by Hatty Lee/ Color Lines Turns out there’s a direct correlation between the number of trees a neighborhood has and its monetary wealth — and we can see how this dynamic plays out in space. Environmental journalist Tim De Chant mapped it all […]
Continue readingNearly 6,500 Acres Protected as Critical Habitat for Endangered Mississippi Gopher Frogs
by the Center for Biological Diversity JACKSON, Miss.— In response to a lawsuit and advocacy by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today designated 6,477 acres of protected critical habitat for endangered Mississippi gopher frogs. The critical […]
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