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• Shell’s Arctic Drilling Rig Runs Aground Off Alaskan Coast

  

  Cross-posted from Common Dreams by Lauren McCauleyThe drill ship Kulluk is towed by the tugs Aiviq and Nanuq. Photograph: APFulfilling dire predictions by... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Upcoming Comic About Liberating Animals and Burning Shit Down

  

  Image from the forthcoming comic book series The LiberatorWe, here at the Earth First! Journal, know that funding print media is a constant struggle against... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Monsanto Cucumbers Cause Genital Baldness—Immediately Banned in Nova Scotia

  

  Cross Posted from The LapineA six-month study by AgriSearch, an on-campus research arm of Dalhousie University, has shown that genetically modified (GM)... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Wild & Weird: ‘Unicorn Lair’ Found in North Korea?

  

  by the Center for Biological DiversityStrange news out of North Korea: According to a highly suspect report from the state news agency, archaeologists have... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Wild & Weird: For Rock-like Creature, It Only Takes One to Tango

  

  by the Center for Biological DiversityPyura chilensis, a rock-like creature with guts and clear blood, dwells on the ocean floor just past the wave breaks... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Manchester: An Environmental Battleground

  

  On Thursday, December 27th, in Houston, TX, residents of Manchester gathered with allies to issue new demands on Valero. “We demand to know what you are... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Updates from the Tar Sands Blockades in Texas

  

  On Thursday, December 27th, in Houston, TX, residents of Manchester gathered with allies to issue new demands on Valero. “We demand to know what you are... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Fallen Warrior: Becky Tarbotton

  

  Cross Posted from Democracy Now!Leading environmentalist and human rights champion Rebecca “Becky” Tarbotton, executive director of the organization Rainforest... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Happy Birthday Panagioti, Stay Wild, Stay Weird

  

  This Photoshopped image of Panagioti, which first appeared in this Lake Worth Wingnut article is, despite being doctored, a pretty decent metaphor for the... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• As the World Warms, the Future of Skiing Looks Bleak

  

  from Off the Road / Smithsonian.comThe lodge at Bolivia’s Chacaltaya Glacier was once the world’s highest ski resort—until the glacier melted away almost... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Wild & Weird: Winged Funerals

  

  by the Center for Biological DiversityWhen western scrub jays spot the lifeless body of another on the ground, they cease their foraging and flight to alert... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Tracking the American Jaguar! Viva, Viva Macho B

  This year, the jaguar won a proposed 838,000 acres of protected critical habitat in the U.S. Southwest — including 11 mountain ranges in southern Arizona and... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Idle No More: Women Rising to Lead When It’s Needed Most

  Cross Posted from Rabble.caChief Theresa Spence is now on Day 13 of her hunger strike. Too weak to leave the teepee she is living in on Victoria Island, a mere... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Stanford University Under Investigation for Endangered Species Act Violations

  

  Matt Stoecker – Beyond Searsville Dam, 650-380-2965 Steve Rothert – American Rivers, 530-277-0448.Palo Alto — The National Marine Fisheries Service has... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Stop Yellowstone’s Plans to Slaughter Wild Buffalo in 2013!

  

  Young buffalo bed down on a frosty winter’s day.State, federal, and tribal governments — including Yellowstone National Park –are aiming to kill hundreds of wil... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• December 21, 2012: The Sound of Zapatista Hope

  

  Silent march in Chiapas 12.21.12 The gray, the tempest that awaited them that day do not cease to be symbolic. The world is thus seen, felt these days,... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Protests Against Arizona Snowbowl Continues As Ski Season Begins

  

  Anne Minard / Indian Country TodayBelinda Ayze, Navajo, of Flagstaff, Arizona, holds a protest sign during a rally on December 21 to oppose snowmaking with... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Something is Brewing in Manchester…

  

  Tar Sands Blockaders have been organizing in Houston’s east end in the neighborhood of Manchester and something is brewing. There have been lockdowns, blockades... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Earth First! Organizers Conference & Winter Rendezous

  

  Calling all Eco-Warriors!Appalachia Resist! blockades the Ginsburg Injection Well on Ladd Ridge Rd. in Athens, County Ohio. November 19, 2012Still wondering wha... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Wild & Weird: Adapt to Air Pollution By… Growing Your Nose Hair Out?

  

  by the Center for Biological DiversityWorried about all that air pollution in your city? No wonder; worldwide, such pollution prematurely kills about 1.3 millio... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT