What Those Who Killed the Tar Sands Report Don't Want You to Know

By Andrew Nikiforuk, 15 Jul 2010, TheTyee.ca

Why did a parliamentary committee suddenly....

Open pit bitumen mine
courtesy Beautiful Destruction.

Cheney's Push of Deregulators Caused BP Oil Spil Disaster

Groups Seeking Ban on Toxic Pesticide Go to US Federal Court

NEW YORK - July 22 - CommonDreams.org

Outlawed in homes and gardens, pesticide is still sprayed on food crops

Crop-duster photo by l.p.

EDITOR'S NOTE: In case you think chlorpyrfos (Lorsban) is a problem only in the US, think again! It is used extensively on grain crops on the Canadian prairies and made a Swan Valley family very sick a few years ago. Read their story here. "Family Believes it was Poisoned by Crop Spray " l.p. Why no lawsuit here?

Glacial Melt and Ocean Warming Drive Sea Level Upward

John Mulrow and Alexander Ochs, with Shakuntala Makhijani - Worldwatch Institute - Jul 22, '10

The average sea level...

Peter Hollinger photo

British Meat and Dairy Are Destroying Rainforests

By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent - 20 Jul 2010 Telegraph.co.uk

Huge swaths of rainforest…

British dairy herd,

courtesy of Superstock

BP Oil Poisons the Gulf of Mexico's Food Chain

By Dahr Jamail* NEW ORLEANS, United States, Jul 20, 2010 (IPS/IFEJ) - Shellfish in…

(AFP/Getty Images/

File/Sean Gardner)

Cattle Die in Kansas heat

Manitoba Co-Operator - staff - 7/19/2010

Cattle prices on...

Science Matters: Protecting the Planet is a Sacred and Scientific Duty

Jul 7th, 2010 - David Suzuki with Faisal Moola

Cloud formation.
l.p. photo

The Killing Fields of Multinational Corporations

Jul 14th, 2010 -- Vandana Shiva - The Asian Age

The Bhopal gas tragedy was...

Global Warming Slowly Kills Red Sea Coral

ScienceDaily (July 16, 2010) — In a pioneering...

Photo courtesy

of Google Images

Winnipeg's Mosquito Wars Need More Data

Winnipeg Free Press - By: Staff Writer - 17/07/2010

EDITOR'S NOTE: Please note the refreshingly restrained and thoughful comments from readers at the bottom of this story! We need more intelligent exchanges like these, rather than the vitriol such topics usually bring! l.p.