PLANET IN PERIL

Published on Monday, May 18, 2009 by The Guardian/UK Ecology and culture at stake say environmentalists, as government plans to exploit rainforest for oil, gas and timber. Read more here.... Eds. note - Another shameful chapter in the shameful war by criminal corporations, aided by their criminal accomplices in government, against ordinary people, guilty of nothing more than wanting a place to live! l.p.

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. Posted May 15, 2009. "The real food is not being advertised. And that's really all you need to know." Click on title for complete story.

Staff - the Manitoba Co-Operator-5/7/2009 Researchers at Guelph's Ontario Agricultural College suspect they may have found Canada's first population of a glyphosate-resistant weed. Read more here.... Please scroll down and also read "Superweed Explosion Rocks Monsanto Heartland." (Drawing by Paul Hoppe)

By Tara Lohan, AlterNet. Posted May 8, 2009. Like much of the West, the state has serious water issues, but Mother Nature is only partly to blame. Read more here... (Photo l. courtesy of the New Republic Please also read, "Water Crisis Rocks L.A., Mexico City. Who's Next? (AP Photo r. Eduardo Verdugo)

By Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. Posted May 1, 2009. The first garden has spurred a race to plant flags on other high-profile plots and lay claim to various other gardening firsts. Read more here.

Science News ScienceDaily (May 9, 2009) Read more here...

The Government of Manitoba has given the green light to Tim Hortons to develop a children's camp in a hitherto undisturbed part of Nopiming provincial park. The project, which has begun even before the public could be consulted, has raised the ire of environmental groups like the Manitoba branch of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee. To read more and sign a petition against the development, click here.