For weeks, administrators of the LeRoy Central Schools in the United States have been saying that environmental factors did not cause the mystery illness that’s effecting more than a dozen of its high school students. Now, nationally-known environmentalist Erin Brockovich is questioning that, and says she has data to support her alternate theory about what’s causing the teens’ neurological symptoms.
Paul Watson says ‘the Canadian seal hunt is dead’
Sea Shepherd’s leader believes efforts to fight seal hunting are having success.
Thwarted on the US oil pipeline, Canada looks to China
The latest chapter in Canada’s quest to become a full-blown oil superpower unfolded this month in a village gym on the British Columbia coast. Here, several hundred people gathered for hearings on whether a pipeline should be laid from the Alberta oil sands to the Pacific in order to deliver oil to Asia, chiefly energy-hungry China. The stakes are particularly high for the village of Kitamaat and its neighbors, because the pipeline would terminate here and a port would be built to handle 220 tankers a year and 525,000 barrels of oil a day.
The Two Environmental Faces of the California Governor
Jerry Brown gives a good speech but what about his actions?
Beyond ‘Greener Capitalism’: Activists Call for Global Day of Justice
Thousands of critics of capitalism meeting in Brazil called Sunday for a worldwide protest in June to press for concrete steps to tackle the global economic and ecological crises.
Tibetan villagers stop mining on sacred mountain
In Tibetan culture, where people live in intimate relationship with the natural world around them, reality and mythology have a way of blending together. So it was perhaps no surprise to local villagers when, after a Chinese mining company and local authorities repeatedly repelled efforts stop a gold mining project on the slopes of holy Mount Kawagebo, the mountain appeared to strike back.
