After nine-year star trek, NASA spacecraft passes Pluto
Applause erupted at NASA's New Horizons control center in the wake of the eponymous spacecraft's flyby of Pluto.
Will damaged vessel put the freeze on Shell's Arctic drilling?
This incident offers further vindication for what environmentalists have been saying all along: that accidents are unavoidable in this ecologically sensitive region.
Apache Stronghold caravan seeks to save sacred site from mining giant
They say that Oak Flat will be "damaged" by the mine. "Damaged" is an understatement. A two mile wide, 1,000 foot deep crater will result from the mining.
Capitalism the culprit in the Sixth Extinction
If life on earth is to survive then we must reorient the means by which we survive currently toward keeping a balance with nature.
Vigil held for explosion victims as criticism of oil trains broadens
Held by 350.org and the Sierra Club, the event marked the two-year anniversary of the disaster, the Lac-Megantic, Quebec, oil train explosion that killed 47 people.
Rail workers, environmentalists to launch week of protests vs. oil trains
They plan to note that oil-laden trains are so dangerous that transporting oil across the continent by train should be severely curtailed, if not ended.
