Tony Davis / Arizona Daily Star The Arizona Corporation Commission gave Rosemont Copper a boost Wednesday by unanimously granting final approval of a power line for its proposed mine. But as part of a compromise, the approval carried restrictions that ...
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On May 24, 2012 the Vancouver Branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum hosted a luncheon meeting at the Four Season’s Hotel in Vancouver focusing on Compliance Energy Corp’s proposed Raven Coal Mine. The site fo...
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By Elizabeth Miller Wyoming’s open hunting season on wolves could kill Colorado’s chances of getting a pack of its own Almost 40 years passed before anyone thought to miss the gray wolf. Wolves, along with grizzlies, had been deliberately e...
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An editor from the Earth First! Journal will be presenting a slide show of ecological resistance movements in the U.S. and around the world, this weekend at gatherings in Athens, Greece (Friday) and Baltimore, Maryland (Sunday). The theme of the pres...
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A new study combining the latest archaeological evidence with state-of-the-art geoscience technologies provides evidence that climate change was a key ingredient in the collapse of the great Indus or Harappan Civilization almost 4000 years ago. The stu...
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by Madhusree Mukerjee / Scientific American Although there is an urban legend that the world will end this year based on a misinterpretation of the Mayan calendar, some researchers think a 40-year-old computer program that predicts a collapse of socioe...
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By Jill Richardson, AlterNET Driving through Ngong Hills, not far from Nairobi, Kenya, the corn on one side of the road is stunted and diseased. The farmer will not harvest a crop this year. On the other side of the road, the farmer gave up growing cor...
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by Angel Jennings, Los Angeles Times In the end, the mountain lion was probably looking for a place to call his own. Scientists believe the male mountain lion roamed his way down the Santa Monica Mountains early Tuesday, likely following a runoff chann...
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Cross Posted from Buffalo Field Campaign 27 wild American buffalo (bison), members of America’s only continuously wild population, were captured this morning near West Yellowstone. The operation was led by the Montana Department of Livestock (MDO...
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By Thomas H. Maugh II / Los Angeles Times May 23, 2012 Top 10 lists are standard fodder for media: the 10 best dressed, the 10 best-looking, the 10 most wanted, etc. But the International Institute for Species Exploration, headquartered at Arizona Stat...
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Reblogged from Southwest Earth First!: Wild Roots Feral Futures is an informal, completely free and non-commercial, and loosely organized event operating on (less than a) shoe-string budget, formed entirely off of donated, scavenged, or liberated suppl...
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Mountain Justice and RAMPS activists blocked coal transport in two locations Thursday morning protesting mountaintop removal. Five boarded a barge on the Kanawha River near Chelyan, West Virginia, with a large banner that read “Coal leaves, ca...
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