World Ecology Newswire Archive

(While the US government pretends no one knows what is causing
bee deaths and hides behind obfuscating terms such as 'colony collapse disorder', Italy, Germany, France and Slovenia have taken action.against Bayer. Monsanto's Roundup,
Dow, DuPont, Union Carbide and all insecticides have negative impact on the
world's bees.

letter from animal researcher in California requesting monkeys for vivisection

A report about my experiences at my first participation in a protest against a CASTOR shipment

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This week we continue looking at the toxic nature of the human separation from nature; we bring you 3 different pieces about the human engineering of toxic chemicals. First, an adaptation of Adam Curtis' BBC documentary Goodbye Mrs. Ant, on the rise and fall of the pesticide industry as purveyors of miracle cures, and how discovery of the pernicious effects of DDT lead to the growth of ecology and the environmentalist movement. Secondly, a 2009 interview with about the world's most fatal industrial chemical leak, the 1984 disaster in which a pesticide factory exploded in Bhopal. Finally, an interview with Emanuelle Schick-Garcia about her film, The Idiot Cycle, on how multinational chemical companies are both the world's biggest produce carcinogens and are intimately connected with the cancer treatment industry.

RIOTING residents threw rocks at police and destroyed garbage trucks during violent skirmishes near Naples on Thursday that injured 20 officers as the region's waste disposal crisis escalated.

A small action to denounce the policy of the worlds biggest soy firm. Cargill mainly produces soy for fodder, that fattens our dairy, poultry, porc and...fish.

Just Do It, a pioneering new film following the life of the UK climate activist movement, is seeking funds to help complete the film, and release it free to the entire world in 2011. They're undertaking a massive push with guarantees of all their funding for the next 20 days being matched!

First released by the International Red Aid

After years of controversy a planning application for the huge UKCMRI bioresearch laboratory proposed for central London has now been registered with Camden Council. Anyone living anywhere can email or write to the council with objections/comments - there is a limited amount of time for people to put in objections, officially until 14th October 2010. More details below......

Prof David Smythe (Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, University of Glasgow), an earth scientist who was employed by Nirex to find a nuclear waste repository in West Cumbria, is not opposed to geological disposal in principle but he says the scientific research carried out in the 1990s which cost the public purse £400M shows that -
No site in West Cumbria is suitable for geological disposal of nuclear waste!

A conspiracy to create doubt about climate change, documented by Dr. Naomi Oreskes in "Merchants of Doubt".

Nice video of the meeting and workshop 'how to destroy a gmo field', with field liberators from six different European countries present.

As a continuation of Rossport's Beat the Boreholes campaign, this Monday 20 September two protesters from the Rossport Solidarity Camp tied themselves to a drill on one of Shell's platforms, and remained up there stopping work for a total of 12 hours, from 7am to 7pm.

The folks in suits finally got a taste of the conflict they've been orchestrating in County Mayo, Ireland for the past decade. Representatives from Shell and their team of expert witnesses who are presenting Shell's planning application for the Corrib gas onshore pipeline to the Irish planning board were prevented from leaving the planning board's oral hearing Thursday night by protesters.

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Early evening on Sunday 12th September a group of autonomous individuals successfully occupied a new site in Happendon Wood, South Lanarkshire. Coal Action Scotland are inviting people to join The Happendon Wood Action Camp (THWAC) to help defend the wood from destruction by Scottish Coal, and to take action in solidarity with communities in the area resisting the expansion of the coal industry in the Douglas Valley.

The Russian movement to defend the Khimki forest is a movement defending all forests. If corporations and politicians working in the interest of a global neoliberal and environmentally destructive model is able to exploit the Khimki forest and continue repressing the activists in spite of a historically broad and strong movement in Russia defending the forest, than it can be done anywhere.

animal cruelty in 28 countries

(every country has animal cruelty)

A week of actions surrounding BEAT THE BOREHOLES campaign in Co. Mayo Ireland.

More citizen-led democracy (the original rule-by-the-people) could become an important tool-kit for positive social and environmental change.