Brazilian Dams in Peru's Jungle, to Supply Brazil

by Milagros Salazar
Inter Press Service
June 17, 2010

An energy deal that Peru and Brazil signed this week in the Amazon city of Manaus in Brazil is opposed by environmentalists and local indigenous communities in Peru where the planned hydroelectric dams will be built. What is at stake?

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We Can Live Without Oil, But Not Without Flora and Fauna

by Stephen Leahy
Inter Press Service
May 10, 2010

The policies and deals that contributed to the massive oil spill under way in the Gulf of Mexico are also jeopardising the Earth's vital biological infrastructure, according to the Global Biodiversity Outlook 3, published Monday., published Monday...

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Bolivian Indigenous Activist: We Must Respect Mother Earth, Our Pachamama

DemocracyNow!
April 20, 2010

Monday the top U.S. climate negotiator, Todd Stern, admitted that a binding agreement on curbing greenhouse gas emissions may not even be possible at the next UN climate summit scheduled for December in Cancun. Stern’s comments came after the U.S. took part in the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate in Washington. While the United States and other nations might behind closed doors on Monday, a very different climate summit began here in Bolivia, the World Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth. We begin today’s show with Peregrina Kusse Viza, a member of the Bolivian Indigenous group CONAMAQ...

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Tribal people appeal to James Cameron

Survival International
February 8, 2010

The Dongria Kondh are one of India’s most remote tribes. They live in Orissa state’s Niyamgiri hills and worship a mountain as a God.

As Vedanta Resources, a London-based mining company prepares to destroy their forests and sacred mountain to build a vast open-cast mine, Survival’s new film asks…

What will one tribe do to save everything they know?

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Fish nets snaring false killer whales in Hawaii

Los Angeles Times
Greenspace
January 19, 2009

...The National Marine Fisheries Service announced that it is establishing a "take reduction team" that will consider ways to reduce harm to false killer whales, whose numbers around the Hawaiian shores may now number only a little more than 120. About 480 others live in Hawaiian waters farther offshore. (Others can be found elsewhere on both U.S. coasts and in temperate waters around the world.)...

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A Jane Goodall Thanksgiving

By Michael Winship
Consortium News
November 25, 2009

Editor’s Note: In a U.S. political environment where leaders make hay by rejecting the scientific evidence of evolution and denying the threat of global warming, there is something encouraging about scientists who devote their lives to observation and analysis.

In this Thanksgiving guest essay, Michael Winship gives thanks for anthropologist Jane Goodall and her landmark study of chimpanzees:

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Deep in the Forest, Bambi Remains The Cold War's Last Prisoner

By CECILIE ROHWEDDER
The Wall Street Journal
November 4, 2009

Deer Still Shun Iron Curtain Border, 20 Years After the Guards and Barbed Wire Vanished

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