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• World Bank, Chinese Investors Push Mega-dam on Congo River

  

  "There is little indication that the dam development schemes underway would address the issue of access to electricity for the population at-large; industrial... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Kinder Morgan Pipeline Threatens Ecology and Economy of Salish Tribes

  

  “Every kind of pollution ends up in the Salish Sea. We have decided no more and we are stepping forward." Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Glacier’s Edge Earth First! Fights Back Against State Forest Logging

  

  To celebrate Valentine's Day, Glacier's Edge Earth First! showed our love for Indiana's wild forests with a demonstration at an active logging site in... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• These Endangered Animals Want to Help You Set the Mood with Their Sexy Mating...

  Now, you need to set the mood in your love nest. Might we suggest this oh-so-sexy video that the Center for Biological Diversity put together of endangered... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• When the Gas Industry Uses the State Police to Silence a Citizen: Intelligence...

  

  What she's got is a raft-load of knowledge about an industry that ought to be criminalized, a capacity to write down what she knows, a good camera, and some... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• If You Don’t Know Where Minegolia Is Now, You Will Soon

  

  by Andrew Casey / Working LifeAustralian unions will lead a new global push against the big Australia-based multinational Rio Tinto with a focus on the mining... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Greenpeace Launches Eiffel Tower Protest Against GM Maize Legalisation

  

  Nineteen countries, including France, oppose the legalisation of TC1507 Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Another Hour, Another Industrial Disaster: Train Carrying Crude Oil Derails and...

  

  A 120-car Norfolk Southern Corp train carrying heavy Canadian crude oil derailed and spilled in western Pennsylvania on Thursday. Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Another Day, Another Industrial Disaster: Gas Pipeline Explosion in Kentucky

  

  Adair County, Kentucky remains under a state of emergency after a natural gas line explosion early Thursday morning. Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?

  

  The existence of animal play is considered something of an intellectual scandal. Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Walla Walla Chief Yellowbird Takes on Tar Sands Megaloads in Court

  

  Megaload opponents are taking the Oregon Department of Transportation to court. Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Yellowstone Begins 2014 Wild Bison Slaughter

  

  Twenty-five bison were captured Friday in the Stephens Creek bison trap. Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• “I Love Mountains” Rally Draws 800 Protestors

  

  “People are tragically caught if they have to destroy their own country in order to make a living.” - Wendell Berry Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Protests Rise Against Britain’s Gas Grab in Algeria

  

  "UK foreign policy seems to be almost entirely driven by the agenda of securing access to dirty fossil fuels abroad while turning a blind eye to human rights... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Chinese Villagers Attack Factory After Reports of Polluting

  

  The public becoming increasingly critical of the fouling of the country's air, soil and waterways during decades of breakneck development Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• American Petroleum Institute Kept Tabs on Enviros

  

  API’s tracking of environmental organizations comes as the oil and gas industry faces a kind of existential crisis Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Elephants in Indonesia Attack Humans as Deforestation Threatens Habitat

  

  A critically endangered Sumatran elephant destroyed a small shack near a plantation in Indonesia’s Aceh province, killing a local farmer from West Aceh... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Three Oil Spills in Two Weeks Foul Singapore’s Waters

  

  A container ship and a chemical tanker collided in the Singapore Strait Monday afternoon, spilling some 80 metric tonnes of bunker fuel, the Maritime and Port... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• UK: Royal Marine Reserve Vehicles Torched in Bristol

  

  This morning smoke rose above Clifton from the two vans and one large white personnel transporter we’d torched with low-tech firestarters. Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Sochi Environmentalist Jailed for Three Years for Spray-painting a Fence

  

  An environmental activist who investigated abuses in the build-up to the Sochi Olympics was sent to prison for three years by a Russian court on Wednesday... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT