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(Canadian mining company wishes to destroy 1800 years old town Rosia Montana to open a cyanide open-pit gold mine. Government is complicit.)...

The Superferry is a 350 ft long military spec transport Catamaran. The two narrow 14 ft deep and 350 ft long hulls slice whales up without even a bump to the Superferry moving through the water at about 60 ft per second....

Over 100,000 people marched on November 11 around Australia against the lack of action on climate change by Australian political leaders, including 30,000 people in Sydney, 8,000 in Canberra, 1,500 in Adelaide, 3,000 in Hobart, and up to 50,000 in Melbourne. At more than fifty locations around Australia people participated in the second annual Walk Against Warming, reports Takver from Sydney Indymedia....

From Sodom and Gomorra, to every empire that ever has bitten the dust before us, the script has already been written. Are we going to follow that self-destructive script and consume ourselves into oblivion, or are we intelligent and self-disciplined enough to step off of this road to self-destruction and follow another path?...

On November 15th don't buy gas for your car. One day is not going to change anything but it's a powerful symbol. Come on, where is our idealism? We're telling them that it is okay to keep making us pay them to destroy the environment. Enough is enough. When are we going to get mad enough to do something about this nonsense?...

Is Blackwater ‘Fire Relief’ Part of Larger PR Campaign to Win Hearts and Minds and Timed to Influence Local Voters? Potrero Residents/Fire Victims Speak-Out in Wake of Up Coming Recall Election - Referendum Could Put End to Blackwater West Project– Deadline to Mail Ballots to Voters in Just Two Weeks Conflict of Interest Questions Raised as Mercenary VP Allowed Through Sheriff’s Blockade With Supplies While Community-Based Relief Efforts for Potrero and Immigrant Residents of Surroundin...

The concept and demand of a national Energy Independence Declaration from our would-be next leaders running for office....

On one side of the world in Chile, over a thousand people went into the streets with costumes, music, and dancing to protest the proposed Pascua Lama gold project – a multi-billion dollar project that Barrick has been boasting since the late 90’s – which threatens the fertile Huasco Valley. Meanwhile, almost the same number of strikers at Barrick’s Bulyanhulu mine in Tanzania refused to work after negotiations with Barrick management brokedown over salaries, working conditions, medical care a...

Internet-based maps transform how communities share food resources. A new website provides open source map technology....

OSAKA - Less than 24 hours after professional surfer and Sea Shepherd supporter Dave Rastovich led an international group of surfers, celebrities, and musicians on a peaceful paddle-out ceremony to honor the spirits of the over 25,000 dolphins killed each year in Japan, the fishermen in the tiny village of Taiji resumed the slaughter that had been delayed by the increased worldwide media attention drawn by the group’s arrival in late October. Photo credits: Peter Carrette / Icon Images /...