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• MEND Rebel Leader Accused of Attacking Oil Companies, Sentenced to 24 Years

  

  by Christopher Torchia / the Star Tribune A MEND Rebel JOHANNESBURG – A South African court sentenced a Nigerian to 24 years in prison on Tuesday after finding... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Rat May Be Responsible for Outage at Fukushima Nuke Plant

  

  Did a brown rat take down that nuke plant? Photo by Brian Robert MarshallA rat may have been to blame for a power cut that knocked out cooling systems at the... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Tibetan Forest Guard Sets Himself on Fire in Protest

  

  Reported by RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Karma Dorjee. Written in English by Parameswaran Ponnudurai.A Tibetan man who self-immolated in protest... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Schoolchildren Asked To Celebrate Fossil Fuels And Mining Through Art On Earth...

  

  by Ryan Koronowski / Care2Elsewhere: Talisman Energy has publish a 24-page coloring book for kids explaining the merits of shale gas extraction. Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Awá Tribe’s Desperate Call to Evict Loggers

  

  Earth’s most threatened tribe has sent an urgent appeal to Brazil’s government to evict invaders from their forest, as Brazil soccer fans lend their support... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Chevron Diesel Spill in Utah is Larger Than First Thought

  

  WILLARD, Utah — A Chevron fuel spill near a northern Utah bird refuge is much worse than originally thought as up to 27,000 gallons might have leaked,... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Peru Declares Amazon Oil Contamination Emergency

  

  by The Associated PressLIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s government declared an environmental state of emergency on Monday in a remote Amazon jungle region it says has... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Indigenous Panamanians Protest Dams Which Could Displace Thousands

  

  by Jack Fischl / policymic Last week, indigenous groups in western Panamá once again clashed with police while protesting the construction of the Barro... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Murder of Indigenous Protester Puts Ngabe ‘On Alert’ in Panama

  

  By Richard Arghiris / Survival InternationalAn indigenous Ngäbe protester, Onesimo Rodriguez, was killed last Friday 22 March 2013 in the hamlet of Las Nubes,... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Russian Indigenous Victory: RAIPON Reopens

  

  Re-posted from Survival International An Evenk boy with reindeer in Siberia.© Raipon/SurvivalRAIPON, the organization representing Russia’s indigenous peoples,... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• The Earth First! Journal, Liberal Politics and Ted Kaczynski Walk Into a Bar…

  

  [eds. note, the following article is reposted for our readers enjoyment and though we must recognize that it is a rather cheap and factually incorrect hit piece... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Fracking Boom to Hit New Mexico

  

  by Kevin Robinson-Avila / from the Albuquerque Journal FARMINGTON — Preliminary results from Mancos shale wells in northwestern New Mexico are boosting... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Last Member of 65,000-Year-Old Tribe Dies

  

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  Posted on 25 March 2013 CULTURE, ENVIRONMENT, LANGUAGES, SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Tibet Glaciers Melting Due to South Asian Pollution

  

  from the Economic TimesBEIJING: About 90 per cent of glaciers in Tibet called the Third Pole region, are shrinking because of black carbon pollution “transferre... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• 14 Religious Leaders Arrested at Climate Action in DC

  

  by Rabbi Arthur WaskowDear friends,Yesterday, along with 14 other religious folk, clergy and committed “laity,” I was arrested for standing at the White House... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Military Drones and Face Recognition Inevitable in NYC

  

  from the VergeMilitary Drones and Face Recognition Inevitable Part of NYC FutureGovernmental use of unmanned surveillance drones has inspired a lot of concern... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Stop Tar Sands Profiteers Week of Action a Huge Success

  

  Over 50 grassroots organizations across the US and Canada held 50 actions from March 16th to March 23rd to demonstrate that TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Alert: Mining for Fracking Sand in the Black Hills

  

  by the Earth First! JournalTwo sand mining companies are planning to extract silica sand used in hydraulic fracturing from the Black Hills region of Western... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• A Big “Thanks!” From Florida TWAC Organizers

  

  THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!Florida TWAC Organizers Celebrate Meeting Their Fundraising Goal! Thanks to Viewers Like YOU!Us TWAC organizers are real proud of... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• FinSpy Software Used To Surveil Activists Around The World, Report Says

  

  by Gerry Smith / the Huffington Post FinSpy surveillance software, marketed worldwide to law enforcement agencies as a way to monitor criminals, is widely used... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2013 ENVIRONMENT