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• World’s Tallest Dam Approved By Chinese Environmental Officials

  

  The upper Dadu River, a tributary of the Yangtze River. Photo by: rduta/Creative Commons 2.0Cross Posted From The GuardianChinese environmental authorities... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• U.S. Herakles Farms Halts Cameroon Palm Oil Development

  

  Oil palm nursery in a Herakles Farm’s concession area. Last year Herakles Farms said it had permission to set up three nurseries covering 100 hectares even... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Resistance in Ohio, Fracking’s Dumping Ground

  

  Mike Ludwig, TruthoutThis is the third installment of Truthout’s Fracking Road Trip series.The Ohio River valley is lush in the spring. Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Shots Fired as Protestors Blockade Gas Company for Fourth Day

  

  Marissa Calligeros, Brisbane TimesThree shots have reportedly been fired at the site of a coal seam gas protest in Queensland. Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Narwhals and Unicorns

  

  by the Center for Biological DiversityThe so-called unicorn horns once prized by Renaissance collectors and thought to have magical powers likely belonged not t... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Bono’s Dance of Destruction with Monsanto, G8

  

  Rady Ananda, Activist PostAt the G8 Summit held two weeks ago at Camp David, President Obama met with private industry and African heads of state to launch the... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Terracide and the Terrarists: Destroying the Planet for Record Profits

  

  By Tom Engelhardt, TruthoutWe have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group: genocide. And one for the conscious destruction of aspects... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Wisconsin Activists Deliver Warning to DNR

  

  Over the weekend of May 17th-19th, activists gathered in the Chequamegon National Forest to discuss strategy to stop the Penokee Mine. Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Montreal: Subverting Earth Day – A Reportback from the Anticapitalist...

  

  By Sabotage Media This year in context of Earth Day Inc., a call out for an anticapitalist contingent for the 21 April march somewhat spoiled this yearly... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• NEWS FLASH: This Toilet Paper Isn’t Helping Us Publish the Earth First! Journal

  

  by EF!J CollectiveOh yeah, and donating to earthfirst.org is about equally useless… We suggest either supporting the EF! Journal or a local EF! group... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Bluestockings Cancels DGR Speaking Event in Light of Transphobia

  

  We’re not into letting you know every time DGR gets thrown out of a radical event, but the following statement released by Bluestockings Bookstore, Café, ... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Deep Green Resistance: A Book Review

  

  By RUHE, SproutDistroSince this review of the book Deep Green Resistance was written, some things have changed: Deep Green Resistance has affirmed their... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Lois Gibbs Returns to Stop School Construction on Hazardous Waste Sites

  

  Cross Posted from Providence JournalIn 1978, Lois Gibbs took on the powers-that-be when she learned that her Love Canal neighborhood and son’s school were... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Solidarity Protest Brings Unions, Enviros, and Consumers Out Against Utility...

  

  Cross Posted WVPubcastActivists gathered to protest a First Energy shareholder meeting yesterday morning in Morgantown. Members of multiple organizations and a... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Activists Take to the Streets to Protest Genetically Modified Foods

  

  By Michele Henry, Toronto StarThey’re angry. They’re scared. And they want to know exactly what they’re putting in their mouths. Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• A Truly Revolutionary Chronicle of Women’s Resistance Behind Bars

  

  By SashaIn her latest edition of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggle of Incarcerated Women (PM Press 2012), Victoria Law offers us a whole-hearted chronicle... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Divest McGill! An Open Letter to McGill’s Board of Governors

  

  McGill University is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canadaby Divest McGill, Cross Posted from GoFossilFree. Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Jerry Koch’s Grand Jury Resistance Statement

  

  Cross Posted from JerryResists.netMy name is Gerald Koch and I have been subpoenaed to a federal grand jury based in the Southern District of New York... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Environmental Defense Fund Gets Shamed by Fracktivists

  

  By Susan Phillips, NPR Discord over how to best protect the environment from impacts of natural gas drilling has led to a coalition of grassroots environmental... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Portland’s Controversial, Popular Campaign Against Big Money

  

  By SockeyeAs media outlets around the country lambasted the City of Portland, Oregon, for tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theory mongering, a grassroots... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT