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Human feeding of wild dolphins brings them into contact with anglers and their gear, and leads to increases in serious dolphin injuries and deaths.

Despite lacking bilateral symmetry, brittle stars, related to starfish, can choose one of their five limbs to be front-facing and use two others to move.

Received from ECOTERRA Intl. Yesterday, 16. 05. 2012, in Frankfurt, Germany the general Public Prosecutor to the Higher Regional Court requested a preliminary extradition arrest warrant against Captain Paul Watson, on the basis of the local arrest warrant and request for extradition from Costa Rica.  In a highly unusual move, the Public Prosecutor stated that the [...]

A photographer slices open a stone and finds an image reflecting our gas thirst.

An agency official says the federal government lacks the financing to cover a cleanup of the tsunami debris washing up in Alaska and other states.

Using a remotely operated vehicle on the ocean floor, federal scientists happen upon the wreckage of a ship evoking a time when nations vied for power in the Americas.

The media company that accepted the conservative Heartland Institute's controversial ad about climate change rejected one rival billboard but accepted another.

Coastal erosion near Matunuck has imperiled seafront structures and threatened the only road that residents can use to get in and out.

Research that illuminated a delicate ecological chain of birds, trees, soil, plankton and manta rays inspires contemplation of the unknown circles of life that may be disrupted by human activity.

New standards for science education for the first time include sections on climate change.

A company opens a biofuel plant to supply ethanol to households in the Mozambican capital that rely on charcoal for cooking fuel.

This article was first published in “The Feminist Wire” online on April 23rd, 2012 by Aishah Shahidah Simmons. The title of this four part article is a metaphorical nod to the legendary jazz singer, songwriter, actor, and activist Abbey Lincoln (also known as Aminata Moseka) whose essay, “Who Will Revere The Black Woman?” is featured [...]

The bill awaiting action by President Dilma Rousseff would effectively give amnesty to landowners who illegally deforested areas before 2008.

By Julio Godoy, cross-posted from IPS BERLIN, May 16, 2012 (IPS) - The decision by the European Parliament (EP) to renounce its participation in the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development next month on the grounds that hotel costs are exorbitant has provoked sharp criticism from civil society organisations. In a statement released May [...]

By Julio Godoy, cross-posted from IPS BERLIN, May 16, 2012 (IPS) - The decision by the European Parliament (EP) to renounce its participation in the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development next month on the grounds that hotel costs are exorbitant has provoked sharp criticism from civil society organisations. In a statement released May [...]

Despite soil samples the state took recently coming back as nonhazardous, some Mecca residents remain deeply skeptical about a recycling plant blamed for the noxious smells that permeated their community.

The Louisiana Bucket Brigade, an environmental watchdog group that focuses on industrial emissions, says the state Department of Environmental Quality has done such a poor job of enforcing federal air quality laws in the state that the federal government should take over the job.

Some Americans shake in fear of earthquakes and polluted ground water potentially caused by hydrolic fracturing, or fracking. Others believe natural gas can provide a less-polluting alternative to other fossil fuels like oil and coal.

Report to be launched in London on Friday at a public meeting before the delegation travels to The Hague for next week’s Annual General Meeting of Royal Dutch Shell. London, UK – This Friday 18th May the Indigenous Environmental Network in partnership with Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation are launching an Indigenous-led campaign against Shell and its harmful projects. [...]

Report to be launched in London on Friday at a public meeting before the delegation travels to The Hague for next week’s Annual General Meeting of Royal Dutch Shell. London, UK – This Friday 18th May the Indigenous Environmental Network in partnership with Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation are launching an Indigenous-led campaign against Shell and its harmful projects. [...]