Mother Earth Can Live Without Us, But We Cannot Live Without Her
Posted by Judy Rebick on April 26th 2010 We, the Indigenous Peoples, nations and...
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Growing Danger of Oil Slick Reaching the Gulf Stream
by Emily Gertz May 10, 2010 OnEarth Right now, the northern Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida panhandle is bracing...
"Paths Less Travelled" Blogger Wins Award
I am honoured to announce that one of my in-depth articles on declining populations of plant pollinators has won an award. The Manitoba Community Newspapers Associaton cited "Plight of the Humble Bee," published in the Roblin Review this winter, as first runner-up in the category of environmental journalism. The first-place award in the category went to Shane Gibson for a story published in the Stonewall Argus and Teulon Times. The awards were announced at the 91st Annual MCNA Convention and Better Newspapers Competition Awards in Winnipeg in April. I'm also pleased to announce that I have had my first story (also about plant pollinators) posted recently on AlterNet, an award-winning news magazine and online community. Much to my delight, it has prompted a huge amount of comment and debate. AlterNet creates "original journalism and amplifies the best of hundreds of other independent media sources. Its aim is to inspire action and advocacy on th
BP Greenwashing Preceded Monumental Gulf disaster
By Billie Greenwood - Morgan City : MS : USA | May 11, 2010 - AllVoices The oil that is currently spewing directly from a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico is vastly more...
Sex, Lies and Oil Spills
by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A common spin in the right wing coverage of BP's oil spill is a gleeful suggestion that the gulf blowout is Obama's Katrina.
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
GM Food: Angel or Devil?
ISIS Press Release 04/05/10 --------------------------- ISBN:978-7-300-10958-9 Author: Yimin Publisher: Renmin University Press (May 2010) Language: Chinese 165 pages Foreword By Dr. Mae-Wan Ho It has been 16 years since the first genetically modified (GM) crop - Flavr Savr tomato for delayed ripening - was approved for commercial growing in the USA. It was also the year that I became a ‘science activist', on realising how science itself was falling prey to corporate manipulation. Flavr Savr was soon withdrawn as a failure; but it was only a decoy, as agbiotech corporations like Monsanto were after much bigger game. Genetic modification actually focussed on three major crops and two main traits: herbicide-tolerance (HT) due to glyphosate-insensitive form of the enzyme targeted by the herbicide - 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS) - derived from the soil bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens , and insect-resistance due to one or more toxins derived from
Atrazine: Poisoning the Well
Natural Resources Defense Council Atrazine Continues to Contaminate Surface Water and Drinking Water in the US....
Gulf Oil Spill Sparks Calls for Heavy Fine and Drilling Ban
guardian.co - May 4 - 2010 Arnold Schwarzenegger ends... US Coast Guard photo
New Figures From US Show Scale of Bee Catastrophe
The Observer, 2 May 2010 The world may be on the brink... Please also read this. Honey bee photo by l.p.
Louisiana Oil Spill May be Five Times Bigger Than Previously Thought
By Philip Sherwell, US Editor - Telegraph.co.uk - 01 May 2010 Oil from the wrecked…
Tests Prove Hunter Shot Offspring of Hybrid Polar-Grizzly Bear
By: The Canadian Press - 2/05/2010 ULUKHAKTOK, N.W.T. - Researchers in...
Want to Prevent Oil Spill Disasters? Stop Driving!
AlterNet / By Jason Henderson - Apr 30-2010 A submerged oil well is spewing...
BC’s Minister Announces Sacred Headwaters Moratorium to 2012
April 29 2010 » Media Releases » Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition Special Hazelton, BC: A permanent ban...
Debate Rages Over Effect of GM-Seed Bill
By: Laura Rance-1/05/2010 - Winnipeg Free Press May protect a few farmers or hurt many