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• Navajo Nation Plans to Deny Uranium Mining Company Permission to Transport Ore

  

  Cross Posted From AP FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A uranium mining company seeking a mineral lease on state land in northwestern Arizona could have a hard time... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Jeremy Hammond Pleads Guilty to Being Involved in the Stratfor Leak

  

  freehammond.comCross Posted From The Dissenter The activist accused by the United States government of hacking into the private intelligence firm, Stratfor,... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Hundreds of Thousands of Dead Fish Float to the Surface of Two Chinese Rivers

  

  by Jake Maxwell Watts / QuartzLast week was not a good time to be a fish in Yunnan. Just a few days apart, the southern Chinese province suffered two mass... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Iceland to Kill Rare Fin Whales for Dog Snacks

  

  by Rabb!t / Earth First! NewswireHunting whales for commercial purposes has been banned by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) since the mid-1980s. Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Biomass Industry Plays With Fire, Gets Burned

  

  By Josh Schlossberg, The Biomass MonitorToxic smokestack emissions aren’t the only public health threat from industrial scale biomass energy facilities. Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Indigenous Activists Living In “Chemical Valley” Disrupt Pro-Tar Sands Conference

  

  Stop The Tar Sands – No Line 9 (The Media Co-Op)By Amanda Lickers (Onondowaga Haudenosaunee), with the Coalition Against Line 9The impacts of industrial... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Watch Out for Big Infrastructure Push Following Bridge Collapse

  

  from Root ForceFollowing the collapse of an I-5 highway bridge in Washington state (in which fortunately no one was killed), watch out for infrastructure... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• BREAKING: Protestors Arrested at Genetically Engineered Tree Conference

  

  Cross Posted from Climate ConnectionsPhoto: Petermann/GJEP Asheville, NC – As the Tree Biotechnology 2013 conference kicked off early Monday, two Asheville... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• The Dying Glaciers of California Threaten Biodiversity and Water Supply

  

  by Jeremy Miller / Earth IslandIn August 1872, a 34-year-old John Muir climbed the snow and ice of Mount Lyell and Mount Maclure into the highest reaches of wha... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Triangular Cooperation and the New Great Game

  

  By SashaMillions Against MonsantoThe global March Against Monsanto took place in more than 50 countries last Saturday, with more than 430 simultaneous protests... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Report: Canada Could See an Indigenous Insurgency

  

  by Chris Arsenault / Al JazeeraFormer military official says poverty and anger in indigenous communities mean conditions for an “insurgency” are ripe. Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• For a Future That Won’t Destroy Life on Earth, Look to the Global Indigenous...

  

  by Kristine Moe / Yes! MagazineMelina Laboucan-Massimo stands next to logs from clearcuts at a proposed tar sands site north of Fort McMurray, northern... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Oh Damn, German Beer Threatened by Fracking

  

  by Russ McSpadden / Earth First! NewsDude, does this beer taste like it has several hundred undisclosed chemicals belonging to Halliburton in it? Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Arizona Endangered Wolves Still on the Brink

  

  The Arizona wolf-relocation project struggles as endangered lobos fall prey to guns and carsA male Mexican gray wolf wanders inside a holding pen before eventua... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Local Tribes Protest Humboldt State University Over Cuts of Native American...

  

  by Catherine Wong / the Times-StandardMembers of the Yurok and other local tribes rallied on Humboldt State University campus Friday afternoon to address... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Indonesia is Seeing a New Corporate Colonialism

  

  Multinational companies have been encouraged to seize and deforest land owned by indigenous people, say human rights groups Burnt tree stumps in a cleared... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Second LNG Export Terminal Approved

  

  From El Paso IncIn this April 15, 2008 file photo, the Excelsior arrives at the Freeport LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) terminal in Houston. Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Litigation Threat Causes Boulder, Fort Collins to End Fracking Bans

  

  From the Boulder JournalEnvironmentalists suffered two setbacks Tuesday when leaders in Fort Collins overturned an indefinite ban on hydraulic fracturing while... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Greenpeace FOIA Exposes Exxon Lies About Mayflower, AR Spill

  

  The cove of Lake Conway which Exxon claimed was “oil-free”Cross Posted From GreenPeace BlogOn March 29 ExxonMobil, the most profitable company in the world,... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Registration Open for 4th Annual Unis’to’ten Action Camp

  

  The date for the Action Camp is set!!! Get a pen and paper (or smart phone) JULY 10, 2013 until JULY 14th, 2013. You will not want to miss out on this year’s... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT