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• Pentagon Bracing for Public Dissent Over Climate and Energy Shocks

  

  NSA PRISM is motivated in part by fears that environmentally-linked disasters could spur anti-government activismby Nafeez Ahmed / The Guardian US domestic... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Reform and Revolution at Left Forum 2013

  

  By Javier Sethness Castro / Counterpunch.org This year’s Left Forum, held from 7 to 9 June at Pace University in lower Manhattan, was a rather impressive... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Human Impact on Water Cycle Ushering In a New Age

  from EcoWatch“Water in the Anthropocene” is a three minute film charting the global impact of humans on the water cycle. Evidence is growing that our global... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Nate Ebert Takes Plea Deal, Vows to Continue Fight Against Fracking

  Video: Appalachia Resist! and Earth First! occupy GreenHunter facilityfrom Appalachia Resist!Nate Ebert, who, on February 19th climbed a 30 foot pole anchored t... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Protests Over Proposed Open Pit Mine in Wisconsin Called ‘al-Qaida Eco-Terrorism’

  

  by Lee Bergsquist / the Journal SentinelTwo separate protests this week over a proposed iron mine in northern Wisconsin are changing the complexion of the... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Keystone XL Activists Labeled Possible Eco-Terrorists

  

  By Steve Horn / CounterpunchDocuments recently obtained by Bold Nebraska [1] show that TransCanada – owner of the hotly-contested Keystone XL (KXL) [2] tar sand... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• No More Cuts In White Castle

  

  Cross Posted from Cascadia Forest DefendersTree sitters, blockaders, and the support crew have found their new home near the head waters of Myrtle Creek on O C... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Riot Police Raid Gezi Gardens and Evict Treesits

  

  Police removing tree-sitter.from Bay WatersAs police in Turkey continue to try and remove people from Gezi Park in Istanbul, last night over 100 riot police... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Test Drilling Disrupted at Penokee Hills Proposed Mining Site

  

  The following is an anonymous communique from the June 11 action. Read below the communique to find out how you can get involved. Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Elsipogtog First Nation Arrested Blocking Shale Trucks During Sacred Fire

  

  from APTN National NewsA man is arrested by the RCMP this morning near Elisipogtog First Nation. Photo courtesy @1tnbTwelve people were arrested Friday morning... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• NASA Asks, Is a Sleeping Greenhouse Gas Giant Stirring in the Arctic?

  

  by Joe Romm / ThinkProgressA NASA science team has observed “amazing and potentially troubling” levels of methane and CO2 from the rapidly warming Arctic. Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Infographic: 1950s Futurists Take On 21st Century Problems

  

  by Eric Rhey / Qualcomm SparkAir pollution, food shortages, disease, dependence on fossil fuel—these are all big issues. And thanks to the rapid technological... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Extreme Extraction Technique Ignites Coal That’s Still Underground

  

  It’s called Underground Coal Gasification, or UCG, and energy companies plan to turn the UK into a massive testing ground[EF! Editor's note: For a look at the... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• 4th Annual Tar Sands Healing Walk

  

  A Different Way to Protect our Land, Air, Water and Climate from Tar Sands ExpansionThe tar sands are growing out of control, destroying the climate for all... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Computer Eating Ants Could Cripple NSA Surveillance

  

  An invading population of these little luddite ants at the no-longer-very-secret NSA data warehouse in Utah would strike a crippling blow to the... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2013 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• Seminole Tribe Wins Legal Challenge Against Power Plant in Panther Habitat

  

  from Earth First! NewswireA night time view from the recently-built FPL gas plant in Loxahatchee, which the Hendry “Clean Energy Center” proposal has been... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• US Chamber of Commerce Cries Uncle on “Identity Correction” Case

  

  from Earth First! NewswireWhen the US Chamber of Commerce was offered a chance to allow there shameful identity as climate change deniers to be improved in... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Operation Troll the NSA

  

  Photo: Trollthensa.com “Operation Troll The NSA” is aimed at jamming the recently-revealed Prism surveillance system, phone records collection and other secret... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• 2.5 Million Gallons of Toxic Waste Spill in Northern Alberta

  

  by Nathan Vanderklippe / The Globe And MailAn Apache Canada drilling rig in the Ladyfern region of B.C.(Apache Canada)The substance is the inky black colour of... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Armed Permaculturists Explain Strategy of Seed Bomb Explosives

  from Earth First NewswireThis beautiful short documentary sheds some light on a little-known international perma-eco-terra-ist group calling itself SLF-NAG (See... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT