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1/5/2013
Mining is one of the most viscerally destructive and horrific ways in which the dominant culture--industrial civilization--enacts its
violence on the living world. As entirely and unequivocally destructive as this society is, few other industrial ...
3/12/2011
FOR a bloke who reckons a global crisis is just around the corner Paul Gilding is remarkably chipper. Tucking into his muesli and poached eggs in a hotel looking onto the south parklands, the former Adelaide boy talks of a world that is about to ...
17/7/2011
Overlooking a deep black gash in the Gobi Desert, Od Jambaljamts watched Caterpillar trucks rumble across the rim of the world’s biggest undeveloped
coal deposit — and mused on Mongolia’s good fortune to have the world’s most voracious consumer ...
17/6/2011
A white gas mask hanging from her neck, Paula Bañados strode side by side with 30,000 other marchers through this capital one recent Friday, a determined look on her face.“Patagonia without dams!” Ms. Bañados, 19, shouted with the others, ...
19/12/2009
It was the slap heard 'round the
coalfields: Cordelia Ruth Tucker, wearing the fluorescent-striped shirt of a miner, strode past West Virginia state troopers and into a stream of marchers
protesting mountaintop removal
mining to deliver an ...
22/8/2009
It’s been a summer of
protests in the
coalfields of West Virginia.
In June, hundreds of men and women in
mining stripes faced off against mountaintop removal
protesters at Marsh Fork Elementary.
In July,
mining supporters showed ...
13/6/2009
It has been called the world's second "oil war", but the only similarity between Iraq and events in the jungles of northern Peru over the last few weeks has been the mismatch of force. On one side have been the police armed with automatic ...
5/3/2009
Five people were arrested today while they were
protesting blasting near Schumate dam on the Edwight mountaintop removal site operated by Massey Energy. These are the latest arrests in a wave of demonstrations against
coal mining that is ...
16/12/2008
A minister apologised to parliament yesterday for telling MPs that 70 police officers were hurt during a climate change
protest, after the Guardian revealed that most of the injuries were inflicted by insects or the heat. Vernon Coaker, the Home ...
11/8/2008
Activists glued themselves to the revolving doors of a
mining company in central London.
Nine people, seven from Oxford, took part in the 90-minute
protest at BHP Billiton's headquarters in Victoria from 1510 BST.
They
protested ...
4/11/2002
New Delhi -- The effects of climate change are felt hardest in a country like
India -- especially India. Indias large rural population is dependent on the
cycles of the seasons. Fishworkers who earn their living the rivers and seas,
farmers ...
4/6/2001
1) S-KYOTO ALTERNATIVE TO RELY ON VOLUNTARY CUTS (Washington Post) 2) JAPAN-GOVT WILL STICK TO KYOTO PROTOCOL VOW (Yomiuri Shimbun) 3) EC OUTLINES POST-KYOTO STRATEGY (Financial Times) 4) ITALY-MINISTER DENIES CHANGE OF STANCE (BBC, Financial ...
3/12/2000
1) LEADERS ANXIOUS TO REVIVE CLIMATE TALKS (AFR, Independent, NY Times) 2) CLINTON SEEKS GLOBAL CLIMATE DEAL BY YEAR END (NY Times, Reuters) 3) CONFERENCE FAILS TO REACH ACCORD ON GLOBAL WARMING (NY Times, BBC, Washington Post, ...
22/10/2000
1) KAWAGUCHI JUSTIFIES CO2 EFFORT (Japan Times) 2) CANADA-ENVIRONMENT MEETING YIELDS CLIMATE STRATEGY (CBC) 3) GERMANY SEES PIONEER ROLE ON GLOBAL WARMING (Reuters) 4) EU SUMMIT RULES OUT SHORT-TERM OIL STOCK ...