by Russ McSpadden / Earth First! News The film Goodbye Gauley Mountain weaves together the topics of sex, class, hillbillyism, queerness, capitalism and nature into a epic tale that will make you proud to be called a dirty environmentalist. This is, without compare, the sexiest nature documentary and one of the most profound films...
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by Intercontinental Cry (Nemaska, May 15, 2013) Earlier today the Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee) issued a formal challenge to the FSC Certification for Forest Management Unit 025-51 in the Saguenay Lac Saint Jean region in Québec held by Resolute Forest Products Inc. This is the largest Forest Management Unit in Québec....
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first accidentally and now on purpose. by John Upton / Grist What has 92 protons, deforms growing children, sickens adults, and is being squeezed out of its underground lair by frackers operating in Pennsylvania? U, uranium! The toxic and radioacti...
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by Claude Arpi / Niti Central On March 29, China’s State media reported that 83 miners had presumably died following a major landslide at the site of a gold mine in Gyama Valley, near the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. A few days later, 66 miners were confirmed dead and 17 were declared missing despite massive...
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by Joshua Frank / Counterpunch It was a tumultuous tenure, productive by some accounts, lackluster by most, but one thing is for certain, Lisa Jackson’s short time as administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency was anything but dull. On December 27, 2012 the often-fiery Jackson announced she was not going to return for a...
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by Zach Kaldveer and Ronnie Cummins / Counterpunch The biotech industry, led by Monsanto, will soon descend on the state of Washington to try their best to defeat I-522, a citizens’ ballot initiative to require mandatory labeling of foods that contain genetically engineered (GE) ingredients. Voters should prepare themselves for an onslaught of discredited...
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from CTV News (play the game here) An online video game funded by Ontario taxpayers is causing a firestorm of controversy in three provinces for depicting pipeline bombings. The game, called “Pipe Trouble,” was released by TV Ontario, the province’s public broadcaster. TVO recently removed the game from its website after critics charged that...
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by Kevin Robinson-Avila / from the Albuquerque Journal FARMINGTON — Preliminary results from Mancos shale wells in northwestern New Mexico are boosting industry excitement about a new oil and gas boom in the region. Companies must learn a lot more about the shale formation before any gushers explode, but some of the 22...
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by Juliet Eilperin / the Washington Post The Senate voted 62 to 37 Friday in favor of constructing the Keystone XL pipeline, the controversial project that would transport heavy crude oil from Hardisty, Alberta, to Gulf Coast’s refineries. The bipartisan amendment to the Senate budget resolution, authored by Sens. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Max...
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from Survival International Penan from the Long Seridan region have mounted a blockade to protest against the building of a gas pipeline which is cutting through their ancestral land and destroying their source of drinking water. The 500km pipeline is ...
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By Jon Letman /Truthout Indian physicist and philosopher, activist and ecofeminist pioneer Vandana Shiva talks with Truthout in Hawaii about GMO, the militarization of agriculture, the politics of occupation and the primacy of biodiversity. Foot soldiers in the battle against corporate globalization and the privatization of commons like land and water have long...
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from DW Developers and loggers are threatening to permanently destroy Cambodia’s Prey Lang forest, one of Southeast Asia’s last remaining lowland evergreen woodlands. One rural woman is leading the fight to save the region. When people first meet Mao Chanthoeun, they might not associate this small, slight woman with the dangerous fight to save...
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