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• Puerto Rico Struggles With Contamination 10 Years After Activists Expel U.S. Navy

  Cross Posted from Democracy Now!: On the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, thousands are commemorating the 10th anniversary of when the U.S. Navy stopped using... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Ban Upheld: Avatar Tribe ‘To Decide’ Future of Vedanta Mine

  

  Cross Posted from Survival International:In a landmark ruling, the Indian Supreme Court today rejected an appeal to allow Vedanta Resources to mine the Niyamgir... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• In Arizona and Peru: Why Reform Won’t Work

  

  From Root Force: Indigneous Quechua-speakers in Peru have been at the forefront of the battle against Newmont Mining Corp’s Minas Conga gold mine. Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Exxon’s Pegasus Pipeline Spills Again

  

  by Edward McAllister and Robert Gibbons, Cross Posted from South Bend Tribune:Spilt oil from Exxon pipeline runs between homes in North Woods Subdivision in... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Leaks, Rats and Radioactivity: Fukushima’s Nuclear Cleanup Is Faltering

  

  by Bryan Walsh, cross posted from Time:Honestly, if the consequences weren’t potentially so dire, the ongoing struggles to clean up the Fukushima Daiichi nuclea... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Canada’s Aboveground Environmental Activists Seen as ‘Threat to National...

  

  by Stephen Leahy, Cross posted from The GuardianMonitoring of environmental activists in Canada by the country’s police and security agencies has become the “ne... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Earth First! Round River Rendezvous, July 1-8, 2013, North Carolina

  

  “A gathering of wild hearts”The Round River Rendezvous is the annual gathering of the Earth First! Movement.Each Summer, this week-long camp-out attracts severa... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Celebrate Keith McHenry’s Birthday by Supporting Resistance to Mining in...

  

  Beltane Fire Festival, 2012, Edinburgh, ScotlandEarth First! NewswireAs all good eco-revolutionaries know, tomorrow is May Day, or Beltane for all you... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Fracking Industry Mining in New Form of Mountaintop Removal

  

  By Steve Horn and Trisha Marczak, Cross Posted from DeSmogBlog/Mint Press Within immediate vicinity of a central battleground of the Black Hawk War of 1832, lan... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Oregon House Passes Bills Targeting Tree-sitters, Environmental Activists

  

  Cross posted from The Orgonianby Yuxing ZhengSALEM — With talk about “environmental terrorism,” the Oregon House approved two bills Monday that target tree... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• 35 Arrested in Winona Frac Sand Protests

  

  Cross Posted from Winona Daily News Thirty-five people were arrested for trespassing during a large protest against frac sand Monday morning staged at two... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Bee-Harming Pesticides Banned in Europe

  

  Cross Posted from The GuardianEurope will enforce the world’s first continent-wide ban on widely used insecticides alleged to cause serious harm to bees, after ... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Don’t Let Monsanto Kill the Humble but Wholesome Dandelion

  

  By Phreddy Wishusen / The Michigan Citizen (Photo: Doug Wheller / Flickr)I was watching TV the other day. Commercial break. Cut to a lush green lawn. A single... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Ranchers Against Coal? Montana Does Things Diffrunt

  

  Cross Posted from Los Angeles TimesBy Kim MurphyOut in these windy stretches of cottonwood and prairie grass, not far from where Lt. Col. Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• 28,000 Rivers in China Have Died, Dried Up, Disappeared Completely

  

  Angel Hsu and William Miao / the AtlanticAs recently as 20 years ago, there were an estimated 50,000 rivers in China, each covering a flow area of at least 60... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Radical Media and Earth First! Without You?

  

  Hey all, the Earth First! Journal and Newswire have been pumping out that fresh front-lines news you won’t find together anywhere else. Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Two Activists Lockdown to Protect Cross Timbers from Tar Sands

  

  Cross posted from Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance [[Scroll down to the bottom of this post for a chronology of today's events, and be sure to visit... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Climate Activist on Day 29 of Hunger Strike

  

  Cross Posted from Eco WatchBy Andy RowellEarlier this month, 350.org founder Bill McKibben, wrote about the new movement of fossil fuel resistance that was... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Solidarity with Bangladeshi Garment Workers!

  

  by the Anarco PhilosorapterS. Brian Wilson – “We are not worth more, they are not worth less.”What the hell is going on in Bangladesh? Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Undercover Video, Ag Gag and Where We Get It Wrong

  

  How should the animal rights and environmental movement use undercover footage of illegal practices? This article argues that the current trend of using... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT