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• Researchers: Sonar Mapping for Oil Near Madagascar Killed 100 Whales

  

  A noisy technology that blasts sounds below water to map the ocean for oil is being blamed for 100 melon headed whale deaths off Madagascar, experts said... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• TALON Conspirator #3: Empty Cages LA

  

  TALON editors note: Since this site’s inception, the volunteers at TALON have felt that our purpose is not to catalog the past, but to inform the present. Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Rainforest Alliance Sells Out Banana Workers

  from ILRFRainforest Alliance recently recertified the Tres Hermanas banana plantations in Honduras as “sustainable,” despite years of systematic labor rights... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Bandung, Indonesia: ELF Torch Police and Military Bulletproof Vest...

  

  "As an institution and as individuals, the police goal is to protect civilization and the exploitation it is doing to the earth." Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• ALF Free Mink and Destroy Breeding Cards at Pennsylvania Fur Farm

  

  Last night, the Animal Liberation Front opened hundreds of cages at the Rykola mink farm located at 557 Colver Road in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania. Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Media Diverts Attention from Railway Line Resistance in Italy

  

  The beautiful Val de Susa and environs have been turned into a military zone. The area resembles an army camp. Nonetheless, opposition to the wasteful and... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Three Arrests as Treesitters Are “Extracted” in Willits Bypass Campaign

  

  The tree-sit at the northern terminus of the Caltrans Willits Bypass that has stood in the way of construction for four months has been taken down, but activist... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Vice Magazine: Green Baiting the Climate Justice Movement

  by Ivy / Earth First! NewsWhen I was growing up in the 1980s, the term “red bating” had just started to fade into the tapestry of US history. Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• When Animals Fight Back: Recent Stories of Animal Vengeance

  

  In the midst of such incomprehensible animal slaughter it's always refreshing to recognize the animals who fight back against their oppressors, enacting... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Daniel McGowan: The FBI’s Least Wanted

  

  He did his time for burning down two Oregon lumber mills, but he's not exactly a free man Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Marcellus EF! Raises a Ruckus Against Industry Conference

  from Earth First! NewsToday in Philly outside the Shale Gas Insight, industry conference, Marcellus Shale Earth First! made a ruckus. Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• The People’s Eminent Domain: Tar Sands Blockade Condemns Keystone XL Project...

  

  This evening, Houston residents and activists with Tar Sands Blockade have condemned the property of Keystone XL Project Director Les Cherwenuk with the power o... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Canadian Natural Told to Drain Alberta Lake Due to Oil Sands Leak

  

  Canadian Natural Resources Ltd has been ordered to drain a lake on the site of its northern Alberta oil sands project so that contamination on the lake's bottom... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Earth First! Treesit On Proposed PA Fracking Site Continues Into Second Week

  

  The mysterious Hellbender perched high in the Loyalsock forest, PAfrom Earth First! NewswireWhile fracking industry proponents meet amidst protests today in... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Fortune Minerals Mine Halted by Protests and Direct Action

  

  A Canadian mining company is moving to diffuse a growing dispute with First Nations over a proposed open pit coal mine in northern B.C., by pulling out of the... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• The Great Soy Expansion: Brazilian Land Grabs in Eastern Bolivia

  Miguel Urioste / Upsidedownworld.orgThis article is an excerpt from Food First’s Land Sovereignty Series. Click here to download the full report. Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Vladimir Putin Compares Greenpeace Protest with Kenyan Mall Attackers

  from APThe Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has drawn parallels with Greenpeace activists apprehended for boarding an Arctic oil rig and the attacks by... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Fracking and Flooding in Colorado: The More We Know the Worse It Gets

  

  from EcoWatchThe Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) reported three new spills today from damaged oil and gas wells caused by the torrential... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Russia Opens Piracy Investigation Over Greenpeace Arctic Oil Protest, Plans to...

  Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said a criminal probe for piracy undertaken by an organised group had been opened over Greenpeace’s September... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• The Senate Is Busy Creating a Privileged 1st Amendment Club for ‘Official’...

  

  by Carey Shenkman / AlterNetPhoto from Activist PostOn September 12, 2013, the U.S. Senate Judiciary committee narrowly defined who the law should consider to b... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2013 ENVIRONMENT