Biodiversity Loss Puts Essentials of Life Under Threat

May 10, 2010 by Reuters

World Governments Fail to Halt Biodiversity Loss by Janet Lawrence

"The distinctive drumming of the ruffed grouse (r.) is a sound heard in fewer and fewer locations as suburban sprawl, expanding agriculture and commercial development rob this elusive game bird of habitat. As man builds to accommodate the expansion of his own race, the habitat of the ruffed grouse is seriously threatened." Cdn. Ruffed Grouse Society.

US Oil Spill Swells BC First Nations Opposition to Tar Sands Pipeline and Tankers

Shared by: Cindy Green on May 8, 2010 - TheGreenPages.ca

Dozens More Massey Mines Cited as Unsafe

Washington Independent Apr 8 -2010

Some 41 other Appalachian mines have racked up .....

Feds Let BP Avoid Filing Blowout Plan for Gulf Rig

Associated Press Writers

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Petrochemical giant BP didn't...

(AFP/Mira Oberman)

Farmers Cope With Roundup-Resistant Weeds

The New York Times - May 3, 2010

DYERSBURG, Tenn. For 15….

Superweed rendering

by Paul Hoppe

New Democrat Climate Change Bill Passes House of Commons

Wed 05 May 2010 - NDP

OTTAWA – Today, the New Democrat Climate Change Accountability Act (Bill C-311) passed its final vote in the House of ...

Subhankar Banerjee/Associated Press

Turning African Farmland Over to Big Business

Grain - Apr - 2010

Editor's comment: A US Government corporation greases the wheels to allow this abhorrent practice to proceed. Yay Barak! l.p.

Farmer photo by Grain