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• Breaking: Police Disrupt Earth First! Journal Office with U-Locks

  

  Activists with the Palm Beach County Sheriffs office converged at the Earth First! Journal office this morning. Two cops  U-locked their necks together to the... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• The Whales Have Won! — ICJ Rules Japan’s Southern Ocean Whaling ‘Not For...

  

  UN's highest court ordered that Japan revoke the scientific permits and refrain from granting any further permits to hunt whales. Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Natural Gas Storage Facility Explodes in Washington

  

  Highway 14 has been closed, and there are reports of at least one injury. Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Mi’kmaq Women Shut Down Energy Minister Briefing

  

  This morning (March 31) Mi’kmaq women shut down a Maritimes Energy Association briefing held at the Westin Nova Scotian by Nova Scotia Energy Minister Andrew... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Eco-Warrior Gangs, Terrorists and Cops, Oh My!

  

  by Panagioti / Earth First! Newswire“A month later it happened again… “The sheriff’s office ran our ID’s and told me, ‘so you’re a gang member? Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• “Dozens of Protesters” Arrested Taking Direct Action at Maules Creek

  

  Mass immobilization of machinery in "unprecedented" demonstration in defense of the Leard Forest Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• China: Thousands Protest To Stop the Construction of Blue Ocean Chemical Plant

  

  Paracycline or PX plants have been a continued point of contention in China in recent years Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Emergency Action At BP’s Chicago Headquarters

  

  The Global Climate Convergence (GCC) and local environmental groups demand that BP be held accountable for Lake Michigan spill Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Food Shortages Caused by Climate Change to Leave Millions Hungry, Report Warns

  

  Models of pandas form part of an environmental protest near St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City. Its lights were turned off for 60 minutes on Saturday to... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Chile Derails “Monsanto Law” That Would Privatize Seeds

  

  “We reject this law because it is a threat to family farms and to biodiversity” Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• World’s Biggest Coal Company, World’s Biggest PR Firm Pair up to Promote Coal fo...

  

  Advanced Energy for Life, argues that lack of access to energy is “the world’s number one human and environmental crisis.” Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Fish-Eating Birds To Be Killed At 5 Dams

  

  Army Corps of Engineers ready to kill 650 ring-billed gulls, 1,200 California gulls and 150 double-crested cormorants each year in Pacific Northwest Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Angel of Peace Arrives at Bentley Blockade

  

  All eyes are on next Monday 31 March when it is expected police will enforce Metgasco’s entry to the Rosella 1 site so the CSG juggernaut can begin Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Latest Assault on Public Lands an Affront to the Public

  

  Mandates to increase drilling and mining on public lands, sell off millions of acres or roll back environmental protections Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• “Mountain Man” Wilderness Fugitive May Take Plea Deal

  

  He eluded police for years while stealing guns, whiskey and supplies. Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Sheep Storm Paris’ Louvre in Farmers Protest

  

  "we came here to say we don't belong to a museum and that our place is in the countryside" Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Cambodia: Four-Day Protest to Stop Don Sahong Dam

  

  About 600 people are scheduled on Saturday to start a four-day protest that will include marches and boat trips to call for construction of the controversial Do... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• The Dark Side of Brazil: Oil Giant Petrobras Moves into ‘Deepest Amazon’

  

  Petrobras has installed 15 barges with high-capacity generators, pipelines and mining machinery on the Tapauá River in Amazonas state Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Rocky Branch Blockaders Stand Up for Shawnee Hills, Two Arrested

  

  This action is the second road blockade at Rocky Branch in the last two weeks and demonstrates the organized opposition fighting extraction Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• The Most Powerful Family In New Brunswick Wants To Make The Keystone Pipeline...

  

  The Irvings, who bottom-lined SWN's confrontation with the Mi'kmaq last year, are at it again in New Brunswick Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT