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12/4/2013
One icy morning in February, a train pulled into Washington DC. It was loaded with environmentalists planning to handcuff themselves to the gates of the White House, in protest at the building of a 3,500km oil
pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of ...
28/1/2013
In November, the first shipment of raw “rare earth” minerals arrived at an $800 million processing plant on Malaysia’s east coast near the home of Tan Bun Teet. The plant, run by Australia’s Lynas Corporation, has since begun refining the rare ...
19/1/2013
NASA says climate change is devastating
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19/1/2013
American biologist Kelly Swing thwacks a bush with his butterfly net and a dozen or so bugs and insects drop in. One is a harvester, or daddy-long-legs, another a jumping spider which leaps on to a leaf where two beetles are mating.
This ...
25/4/2012
The hard fought battle against the Keystone XL
pipeline, which was slated to carry tar sands crude across Canada and the United States to port in Texas, kicked struggles against Canadian-owned oil and gas companies up to a new level. Resistance ...
19/4/2012
Peru will allow the Camisea natural gas consortium to work in areas of the
Amazon rain forest that were previously off-limits, a decision that an indigenous rights group criticized on Thursday.
A ruling from the ministry of
energy and ...
18/4/2012
Although it is hard to pinpoint how much
energy cloud computing uses each year, the IT sector estimated in 2008 it represented 2 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. In 2007 data centers and mobile communications used 623 billion ...
16/12/2011
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18/10/2011
A natural gas field discovered more than 30 years ago deep in Brazil's
Amazon rain forest could finally be linked to the outside world, according to plans detailed by federal oil company Petroleo Brasileiro (PBR, PETR4.BR).
Petrobras, as ...
13/9/2011
When Russ Girling describes the past three years of waiting for American regulators to approve his company's massive oil
pipeline bid as "a strain on everybody," he means more than just fiscal or logistical stress.
"It's a strain on our ...
1/9/2011
Dozens of environmental activists showed up in front of the White House Thursday to get arrested in a peaceful protest against a proposed oil
pipeline that would cut across the American Midwest.
Organizers said that over the past 10 ...
14/7/2011
"Ecuador will not wait ad infinitum" for a decision by the international community, and "at the end of the year" President Rafael Correa will decide whether to extract oil that was to have been left underground at the Yasuní nature reserve, ...
13/7/2011
Oil company hires indigenous people to clean up its
Amazon spill with rags and buckets
On Sunday morning children swimming in the Mashiria River in the Peruvian
Amazon noticed oil floating on the water. A
pipeline owned by Maple
Energy ...
3/6/2011
'The Obama administration is making its biggest decisions yet on our
energy future.'
In our globalised world, old-fashioned geography is not supposed to count for much: mountain ranges, deep-water ports, railroad grades – those seem so ...
2/6/2011
In our globalized world, old-fashioned geography is not supposed to count for much: mountain ranges, deep-water ports, railroad grades -- those seem so nineteenth century. The earth is flat, or so I remember somebody saying.
But those ...
26/5/2011
2011 has already become the deadliest year for tornado outbreaks in the United States since 1953, with more than 500 people killed. Extreme weather has made headlines across the world, as well, with megafloods occurring in Colombia, Vietnam, ...
10/8/2010
The dog licking itself lazily on the hot red earth is lying on a road that within months will make a huge leap across the
Amazon, forming a ramp up to a bridge that will symbolise the surging development at the heart of the world's greatest ...
5/8/2010
A gas
pipeline cutting through 660km of
Amazon rainforest will deliver cheaper, cleaner
energy to a sprawling industrial city buried in the heart of the jungle. But environmentalists fear the pipe is simply a bridgehead towards greater ...
10/4/2010
Representatives of Ecuador's ombudsman's office and environmental groups are visiting the Yasuni National Park on Saturday, home to some of the world's last indigenous people still living in voluntary isolation, in order to verify reports of ...
8/12/2009
The following article is from the soon-to-be published, updated What Resistance Stands For manifesto. Resistance branches around the country will be launching this exciting new document, and selling it at Walk Against Warming rallies on December ...
2/7/2009
Brazil wants historic emissions to be the basis for greenhouse gas pollution targets, slated for discussion during December climate talks in Copenhagen, Brazil's top climate negotiator said in an interview.
Jose Miguez, who heads ...
6/6/2009
Clashes between indigenous protesters and security forces on a remote jungle highway in northern Peru left more than a dozen dead on Friday, including 11 police officers, heightening tension over intensifying protests by indigenous groups over ...
21/5/2009
Peruvian President Alan Garcia's push to lure foreign investors to the
Amazon basin has run into homegrown opposition, with indigenous leaders saying he has disregarded a U.N. declaration that protects their rights to control land and natural ...
15/5/2009
Protesters angry over oil and natural gas developments in Peru's resource-rich
Amazon vowed on Friday to defy the government and step up demonstrations that have disrupted operations at
energy companies.
A private-sector source told ...
12/5/2009
Protesters upset over oil and natural gas developments in the resource-rich
Amazon are threatening to choke
energy supplies in northern Peru, the country's environmental minister said on Tuesday.
Peru's government is encouraging ...