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New Study Shows Toll of Illegal Fishing on Sharks and Ray Species at Cocos Island National 
A new study published this week in Conservation Biology (available here) investigates Costa Rica’s ability to adequately enforce and protect it’s crown jewel of marine protected areas (MPAs) – Cocos Island National Park – from illegal longline fishing. The study, “Shifting elasmobranch community assemblage at Cocos Island—an isolated marine protected area,” was authored by R. White Easton, Mark C. Myers, Joanna Mills Flemming, and Julia K. Baum....
Posted: Thu, Mar 26, 2015 9:36am PDT
Proposed Bill Major Step Forward for Preventing Fiery Oil Train Derailments WASHINGTON— In response to the recent spate of fiery derailments that have highlighted the dangers posed by oil trains, Senators Maria Cantwell, (D-Wash.), Dianne Feinstein, (D-Calif.), Tammy Baldwin, (D-Wis.), and Patricia Murray, (D-Wash.), have proposed a bill that would remove the most dangerous tank cars from service, increase track inspections, and help to ensure that first responders have the equipment needed to respond to derailments....
Posted: Wed, Mar 25, 2015 12:51pm PDT
Indigenous Land conflict in Brazil – Support needed NOW 
The once ~5 to 6 million Indigenous People in Brazil are down to less than 1 million. And those brave survivors of a genocide machine of half a millennium are still being brutalized and deceived by state and parallel authorities. And while the media reports nothing on it, Indigenous people are fighting for survival, their legal lands and against spree killings right now. This is a brand new eyewitness report. And a plea for YOUR support!...
Posted: Tue, Mar 24, 2015 10:06am PDT
New Report Links World's Most Commonly Used Herbicide to Cancer SAN FRANCISCO— A new report by the World Health Organization has linked the world’s most commonly used herbicides to cancer. Glyphosate — widely known as Roundup and marketed by Monsanto — has also been linked to the decline of many wildlife species, including the monarch butterfly. The WHO determined that glyphosate and two other insecticides, malathion and diazinon, are “probably carcinogenic to humans.”...
Posted: Mon, Mar 23, 2015 2:49pm PDT
Study: Big Plastic Has Spent More Than $7 Million Trying To Stop California’s Bag Ban 
Record shattering in campaigning, lobbying, and contributions. Referendum may cost $40 million +...
Posted: Mon, Mar 23, 2015 1:30pm PDT
Hawaii Green Sea Turtles Remain ‘Threatened’ Despite Petitioners Efforts to Delist Climate Change, Development & Hawaii Longline Fishery Listed as Threats to Population...
Posted: Fri, Mar 20, 2015 2:53pm PDT
Juvenile Green Sea Turtle ‘Gina’ Migrates Over 310 Miles from Cocos Island to Golfo Dulce 
First evidence of habitat connectivity accomplished by collaborative tagging efforts (Photos and Map Available)....
Posted: Fri, Mar 20, 2015 10:46am PDT
Obama Administration's Weak New Fracking Rule Endangers Public Lands, Climate WASHINGTON— Interior Secretary Sally Jewell today released a weak new rule for hydraulic fracturing on public lands that does little to reduce fracking pollution’s dangerous contribution to global warming and damage to America’s air, water and wildlife....
Posted: Fri, Mar 20, 2015 10:44am PDT
Misguided Border Security Bill Threatens Public Lands TUCSON, Ariz.— Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.) today jointly introduced the “Arizona Borderlands Protection and Preservation Act” in the U.S. Congress. A press release from Sen. McCain’s office claims that the bill is necessary to grant border security personnel full access to federal lands along the Arizona-Mexico border, including national parks, wildlife refuges, forests and monuments....
Posted: Wed, Mar 18, 2015 5:33pm PDT
Rock Palmero III from TELS 2015 on the decades of litigation from LA oil and gas fields (audio/mpeg 42.6MB) An introduction to Legacy Lawsuits in the energy sacrifice zone of the United States, the Louisiana coast....
Posted: Mon, Mar 16, 2015 5:08pm PDT
March 2015 is “Say No To Palm Oil Month” 
The recent NPR story on All Things Considered about the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program and Doctor Ian Singleton, which was quite well done, made the claim that it is “illegal logging and land clearing for palm plantations” that threatens Orangutan habitat on Sumatra (Indonesia). There are many forms of legal pathways to deforestation used by Indonesia to expand plantations: the Plasma expansion for existing palm plantations, (the Small Holders option), legal interpretations of the wo...
Posted: Fri, Mar 13, 2015 10:26pm PDT
Fukushima Four Years Later 
Audio from antinuclear activst in Fukushima....
Posted: Thu, Mar 12, 2015 11:36pm PDT
Democracy for Sale: Stop Fast Track and TTIP! The investment protection clause of the TTIP grants investors special protection regarding their so-called "legitimate expectations." Businesses can sue when they feel restricted in their business activity by new laws in the public interest. Financial services are an important sector for US investors. "Regulatory chill" is also an important theme. Life-saving generics will be denied and fracking companies can sue when foreign investors are set above everything. An "Alternative Trade Mandate"...
Posted: Mon, Mar 9, 2015 4:33am PDT
Another Oil Train Derails and Catches Fire in Ontario GOGAMA, Ont.— An oil train derailed and caught fire early this morning in Ontario near the town of Gogama, the second such incident in Ontario in three weeks, and the fourth oil train wreck in North America in the same time period. Since Feb. 14, there have also been fiery oil train derailments in West Virginia and Illinois. The Illinois wreck occurred just two days ago, and the fire from that incident is still burning....
Posted: Sat, Mar 7, 2015 10:32pm PST
Hermosa Beach Voters Win Limits to Harmful Oil Development 
In La Habra Heights, residents remain committed to stopping extreme oil extraction and vote against Measure O, which would have overturned a longtime ban on oil drilling....
Posted: Fri, Mar 6, 2015 4:50pm PST
Hermosa Beach Voters Defeat Measure to Overturn Oil Drilling Ban 
“Despite the oil industry’s aggressive efforts, the people of Hermosa Beach voted to protect their communities, their air, their water and their health from further exposure to the risks of dangerous oil drilling,” said Adam Scow of Californians Against Fracking and California Director of Food & Water Watch. “The victory is yet another example of how Californians are standing up in growing numbers to protect their homes, schools and our state’s vulnerable water supplies."...
Posted: Fri, Mar 6, 2015 2:20pm PST
Save Mother Earth. 43 Ways To Reforest The Planet 
Meat is the food which most harms the earth.
Fruit is the food which most helps it.
Vegetables are linear.
Fruit and nut trees are spherical....
Posted: Fri, Mar 6, 2015 8:36am PST
New Orleans: City Park for Everyone coalition speaks out against golf course construction (audio/mpeg 15.4MB) Members of the City Park for Everyone coalition speak out about the golf course construction that just began in the park. (11:11 audio)...
Posted: Fri, Mar 6, 2015 7:39am PST
Report Shows Hawaii Tuna Longline Fishery is a Slaughterhouse for Marine Wildlife National Marine Fisheries Service data shows that the Hawaii longline fishery for swordfish is harmful to marine wildlife....
Posted: Thu, Mar 5, 2015 4:42pm PST
Palm Oil Industry Sustainable Policies Fail Global Zero-deforestation Commitments 
Uganda is one of the countries of the new frontier of palm oil destruction in Africa: as in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Liberia, South-East Asian palm oil companies are leasing or buying land to produce palm oil, thereby causing the same destructive effects on communities and the environment as have been seen in Indonesia and Malaysia. PepsiCo and Proctor and Gamble both have sustainable policies that take full effect in 2020. Wilmar has announced that as of January 2016 it would no longer buy oil...
Posted: Mon, Mar 2, 2015 12:10pm PST
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