From the monthly archives: February 2009
A syndicated news story made its way into multiple English papers earlier this week claiming that arsonists with the Animal Liberation Front inadvertently killed dozens of birds in an attack on a zoo in Italy. Now the New York Times has reported that this may not be [...]
Why kill sea lions instead of lowering allowed fishing quotas? This question and others were left unanswered at a press conference today.
Activists with In Defense of Animals and the Sea Lion Defense Brigade were awarded hard hats and badges before attending a press conference by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife [...]
About 100 activists from the group Climate Rush gathered at a five-star hotel and unfurled a banner reading “No New Coal Awards” before being hauled away by police.
Fifty officers prevented the activists from entering the ballroom itself, but the action disrupted the envent nonetheless. The activists came dressed to impress, [...]
The Center for Biological Diversity has won a lawsuit against the US Department of the Interior to force the government to consider listing the American pika as threatened or endangered.
The tiny rabbit-like rodent has been in steep decline in recent years, which many blame on climate change. The animal has [...]
On March 2, Bill McKibben and Wendell Berry are asking for large civil disobedience at the Capitol Power Plant in Washington D.C. Why, cuz Clean Coal sucks!
Over 2,000 people are expected to risk arrest. And the protest comes on the heels of the upcoming grassroots action —
Apparently sea lions like salmon a little too much. People in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho are threatened — they want all the tasty salmon for themselves.
Okay, perhaps that’s a bit of an oversimplification. But I have to wonder — if salmon didn’t taste good, would people be going to such great lengths [...]
The WWF has called for a halt to Indonesian deforestation in light of the recent tiger maulings that have left 6 people dead in less than a month. The last three victims all appeared to be working at illegal logging camps in protected forests.
The Sumatran tiger (the worlds most endangered tiger [...]
Did the Capitol Climate Action succeed before it even began?
Well, sort of.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent a letter to the Capitol Architect asking the Capitol Power Planet to switch from coal to natural gas by the end of 2009. The proposal [...]
Global warming deniers and conservative politicians have fallen into a frenzy after Dr. James Hansen recorded a video in support of the upcoming Capitol Climate Action, a well-coordinated act civil disobedience coming up this Monday.
“If he wants to have a demonstration concerning global warming, coming to the Capitol is not a right [...]
Oscar-winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen have debuted a brand new TV spot for The Reality Coalition — just in time for Power Shift and Climate Action.
Scientists in Florida have come up with a strange way to stop crocodiles from crawling into cities and towns.
Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is testing a program to strap magnets onto the heads of crocodiles that wander into developed areas, saying the magnet could “break the homing cycle” and prevent them [...]
Venus flytraps, the rare carnivores of the plant world, are native only to areas within 100 miles of Wilmington, North Carolina. While the plant is now grown elsewhere, North Carolina is still a prime target for poachers looking to sell the plants to nurseries.
On February 5th, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission [...]
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has issued an interim policy regarding dogs victimized by dog fighting. The policy recommends that dogs be evaluated on an individual basis rather than being condemned to euthanization as a group.
The HSUS was [...]
Sabah, a large Malaysian state, is considering banning the practice of shark finning after scuba divers threatened to boycott the country.
The Semporna Tourism Action Council proposed the ban because they believe sharks are largely responsible for the area’s booming touring industry. The council includes members of the Sabah Fisheries Department, Sabah Tourism [...]
The criminal trial of W.R. Grace & Co., an international chemical company under federal indictment since 2005, began yesterday in Libby, Montana.
W.R. Grace & Co. is charged with violating the Clean Air Act and obstruction of justice while operating vermiculite mines in the Northwestern Montana town. Charges focus [...]
Two British supermarket chains will ensure that none of the seafood products they carry will be supplied by companies that support or engage in whaling or the hunting of other sea mammals.
Waitrose, one of the two stores, has already written to the Icelandic government asking them to reverse their decision to allow [...]
