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• 1,000 Toxic Chemical Accidents You Have Not Heard Of

  

  by Mike Ludwig, Cross Posted from Truthoutphoto from ashbygirls.blogspot.comThe April 17 explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, that killed 15 people... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Sea Shepherd Launches Operation Relentless

  Cross Posted from Sea Shepherd Off the back of Sea Shepherd’s most successful campaign to date, Operation Zero Tolerance that saved 932 whales, Sea Shepherd... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Utah Tar Sands Action Camp July 21-28

  

  Cross Posted from Seeds for PeaceThis summer, people from across the country will come together to stop the first tar sands mine in the USA from ever breaking... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• 83-year-old Nun and 2 Others Convicted of Sabotage

  

  Cross Posted from BBC NewsAn elderly Catholic nun and two peace activists have been convicted for damage they caused while breaking into a US nuclear defense... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Syria’s Internet Blackout: Sabotage Or Collateral Damage?

  

  by Kirsten Salyer / BloombergSyria’s peek-a-boo game with the Internet resumed yesterday, as Internet connections to the outside world were disrupted.Just befor... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Corporate Colonialism: The Ethnic Cleansing of the Maasai People of Tanzania

  

  Photo by VsmithUK (Flickr) some rights reservedby Oliver Kelly DeanIn late March 2013 it was announced that ‘the government of Tanzania is establishing a... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• International Outcry Against California’s Forest Offset Scam

  

  from Indigenous Environmental NetworkFrom Africa to the Amazon, from Chiapas to Siberia, global civil society is raising an international outcry to... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• White Power on the Salish Sea: The Wall Street/Tea Party Attack on Indigenous...

  

  by Jay Tarber / Intercontinental CryWhen most people think of white power, they imagine men in white hoods burning crosses. While few would think of men in... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Why the TransPacific Partnership is a Scary Big (Trade) Deal

  

  by Kristen Beifus, Cross Posted from Yes! Magazinehttp://www.vancouversun.comA super-sized NAFTA, the TransPacific Partnership is a free-trade agreement... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Utah Tar Sands Resistance Disrupts Energy Conference

  

  by Brittany Green-Miner and Caroline Connolly, Cross Posted from Fox 13SALT LAKE CITY – Protesters stormed an energy conference at the University of Utah on... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Sonora, Mex. Bans Bullfighting, a First for the Country

  

  By Phyllis M. Daugherty Sonora has become the first Mexican state to ban bullfighting, recently passing the long-awaited Animal Protection Law addressing cruelt... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• 6,000 Coyotes Killed in Utah Bounty Program

  

  by Grant Olsen, Cross Posted from Exposing the Big GameUtah’s bounty program is not only ineffective at reducing populations, it incentivizes fraud, resulting i... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Three Types of Butterflies Native to South Florida Have Gone Extinct

  

  By Barbara Liston / Reuters The Miami Blue butterfly, once common in the coastal areas of South Florida, is seen in Bahia Honda State Park on Bahia Honda Key,... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Western Black Rhino Declared Extinct

  

  by Blake Deppe / People’s WorldAccording to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, Africa’s western black rhino is now officially extinct. Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Clouded Leopards Confirmed Extinct in Taiwan

  

  by John R. Platt / Scientific AmericaThirteen years, 1,500 infrared cameras, hundreds of catnip-baited hair traps and an almost incalculable number of hours in... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Settlers, Palestinians, Unite to Trash Garbage Plan

  

  Cross Posted from Times of IsraelSettlers and Palestinians posed a united front against a government plan to build a large refuse dump near Jericho that, they... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Will Lead Bullets Finally Kill Off the California Condor?

  

  by Ted Williams, Cross Posted from Yale Environment 360It was almost like watching wooly mammoths parting tusk-high savannah. In the gusty air above the Grand... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Cracks Widen in Nigeria’s Debate Over Sabotage

  

  Cross Posted from Financial TimesBy Ajay MakanAccording to Nigerian parlour talk, Bukola Saraki is a man with presidential ambitions. Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• New Treesit Goes Up in Willits, CA

  

  Cross Posted from Save Little Lake ValleyEarly on Friday morning, a new tree sit began in the path of Caltrans’ proposed Willits Bypass route. Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• New California Water Grab for Fracking and Agribusiness

  

  Cross Posted from Indybayby Dan Bacher Missed in the mainstream media coverage of the release of the revised Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) documents on... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT