Environment
Will damaged vessel put the freeze on Shell’s Arctic drilling?
July 14, 2015This incident offers further vindication for what environmentalists have been saying all along: that accidents are unavoidable in this ecologically sensitive region.
Read more
Apache Stronghold caravan seeks to save sacred site from mining giant
July 10, 2015They say that Oak Flat will be "damaged" by the mine. "Damaged" is an understatement. A two mile wide, 1,000 foot deep crater will result from the mining.
Read more
Indigenous news: Apache Stronghold caravan, First Lady meets with tribal youth
July 9, 2015An Apache Indian caravan is making a stop in Denver to draw attention to a land grab by a mining giant.
Read more
Today in history: Russell-Einstein manifesto for peace
July 9, 2015The manifesto urged nations to find peaceful ways to settle differences and to renounce the use of nuclear weapons, which only promised "universal death."
Read more
Capitalism the culprit in the Sixth Extinction
July 8, 2015If life on earth is to survive then we must reorient the means by which we survive currently toward keeping a balance with nature.
Read more