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• Activists Blocking Coal Train in Germany

  

  from Linksunten IndymediaRhineland Coalfield – Germany: Around 200 activists are occupying the coal train tracks which is the main way to transport coal... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Honduras: Three Indigenous Murdered for Defending Territory from Resource...

  

  by Curtis Kline / Intercontinental Cryphoto: larepublica.peWhile carrying out peaceful actions to defend their territory from the illegal exploitation of natura... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Syria Intervention Plan Fueled by Oil Interests, Not Chemical Weapon Concern

  

  by Nafeez Ahmed / The GuardianU.N. chemical weapons experts visit people affected by an apparent gas attack, at a hospital in the southwestern Damascus suburb o... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Animal Rights Groups Infiltrate and Expose the Barbaric China Dog Meat Trade

  

  by Last Chance for Animals Animal Equality / MarketwiredZHANJIANG, CHINA–(Marketwired – Aug 30, 2013) – Last Chance for Animals (LCA) and Animal Equality... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Navy: Training May Kill Hundreds Of Dolphins, Whales

  

  by Audrey McAvoy / Huffington PostHONOLULU — Navy training and testing could inadvertently kill hundreds of whales and dolphins and injure thousands over the... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Updates from the Buffalo Field Campaign

  

  Public comments needed for year-round wild bison habitat in Montana, and BFC Roadshow announced!from Buffalo Field CampaignThe Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC) is... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Activists Start Public Hunger Strike by Stealing ‘Carbon Bomb’

  

  by Sarah Moles / OverOurDeadBodies.net Photo: Andrew Bartlett (foreground) and Ben Pennings. Photo credit is Katie Bennett. Seven environmental activists today... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Last Call for Earth First! Journal Submissions: Samhain 2013

  

  Hey Readers,First off, thanks to everyone who has sent us submissions in the past few months! We have received amazing articles, stories, poetry, and even some... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Destruction of Police Facility Claimed by UK Anarchist Groups as Response to...

  

  by Sunita Patel-Carstairs / The Telegraph Radicals from two groups – the Angry Foxes Cell and the ACAB (All Coppers Are Bastards) – said they started the fire t... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Alpha Natural Resources Sued for Desecrating Family Cemetary with Mountain Top...

  

  by Associated Press / Washington PostOhio Valley Environmental Coalition, Maria Gunnoe/Associated Press – In this June 2010 aerial photo released Thursday, Aug. Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Report: Toxic Fracking Fluids Killed Rare Fish in Kentucky

  

  by the Center for Biological DiversityBlackside dace photo by Richard G. Biggins, USFWS.LEXINGTON, Ky.— A federally protected fish called the blackside dace... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Three Arrests as Maine Earth First!, 350.org Protest Oil Trains

  

  By Mark LaFlamme / Sun JournalThe way Jessie Dowling sees it, getting arrested is the very least she can do.“We need to put our bodies on the line,” the... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Oregon Call to Action: White Castle Treesit Needs Your Help

  

  from Cascadia Forest DefendersSince the beginning of June this year, we have been occupying Unit 8 of the White Castle Timber Sale. Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Third Fur Farm Raid in One Month: 2,000 Mink Released in Illinois

  

  by Peter Young / Animal Liberation FrontlineAerial view of the Morris, IL fur farmLocal media is reporting 2,000 mink were released on August 14th from a fur... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Why You Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Clear-cutting

  by Earth First! NewsOK, forget what you’ve known in your heart, what you’ve learned in ecology class and what Earth First! has been fighting against for decades... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• South Africa Shale Pits Shell Against Sheep Farmers

  

  by Paul Burkhardt / Bloomberg Shell applied for permission in 2011 to drill 24 exploratory wells in the Karoo. GO!/Gallo Images/Getty ImagesRoyal Dutch Shell Pl... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Another No Nuke Victory: Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant to Close in 2014

  

  by Laura Beans / EcoWatchThe Vermont Yankee Power Plant is a boiling water nuclear reactor located in Vernon.In the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Undercover at the Tar Sands: What It’s Really Like Working for Big Oil

  

  An anonymous worker reveals conditions at ground zero for Canada’s controversial pipelinesfrom Rolling Stonefrom Getty ImagesEditor’s Note: In recent months,... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Ecologists Say Fire Suppression Efforts Left Century’s Worth Of Fuel for Rim Fire

  

  Photo by NASASACRAMENTO (AP) – Unnaturally long intervals between wildfires and years of drought primed the Sierra Nevada for the explosive conflagration chewin... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Megaload Ban Could Cost General Electric Millions

  

  Cross Posted from Wild Idaho Rising TideToday’s hearing postponed until next week; Omega Morgan won’t move any loads until September 18A subsidiary of the... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT