Sacred Water Under Threat
By Susan Hyatt, Michael Carter, and Max Wilbert Storms chased us. Great, towering thunderstorms that came sweeping out of the west, lurking behind mountain ranges and flowing out across the valleys to...
View ArticleWashington Post: Number of trees has fallen by 46 Percent since advent of...
By Chris Mooney / The Washington Post In a blockbuster study released Wednesday in Nature, a team of 38 scientists finds that the planet is home to 3.04 trillion trees, blowing away the previously...
View ArticleFrom 50 Countries Worldwide, Women Rise Up For Global Women’s Climate Justice...
SAN FRANCISCO– On Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 women from fifty countries around the world took action for climate justice, gender equality, bold climate policies and transformative solutions as part...
View ArticleWater: DGR Southwest Coalition Statement of Commitment and Call for Allies
By Deep Green Resistance Southwest Coalition Whiskey’s for drinking, water’s for fighting over. —Mark Twain More than any other area of North America, the Southwest faces water shortages just as...
View ArticleInternational Indigenous anti-dam activists join two year anniversary...
By SAVE Rivers, JOAS, The Borneo Project, BMF and BRIMAS / Intercontinental Cry Indigenous resistance against the proposed Baram Dam receives international support for the celebration of the second...
View ArticleGuatemala: Two Indigenous Prisoners Released after Years in Prison on False...
By Cultural Survival Two Q’anjobal Maya community leaders who were imprisoned in Guatemala for the past two years, have finally been declared innocent and released. A regional criminal court Guatemala...
View ArticleGold mining explodes in Suriname, puts forests and people at risk
By Apoorva Joshi / Mongabay This is the first in a two-part series on gold mining in Suriname. Read the second part here. High gold prices are leading to an increase in mining activity. Mining...
View ArticleGold mining boom threatens communities in Suriname
By Apoorva Joshi / Mongabay This is the second in a two-part series on gold mining in Suriname. Read the first part here. Gold mining in the small South American country grew by 893 percent between...
View ArticleInside the indigenous movement to protect India’s commons
By Pushpa Achanta / Waging Nonviolence In early October, news emerged that India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change was blocking the implementation of a high-level government panel’s...
View ArticleDerrick Jensen: Forget Shorter Showers
Why personal change does not equal political change by Derrick Jensen / Deep Green Resistance Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended...
View ArticleBrazil authorizes operation of Belo Monte Dam
By Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense via Intercontinental Cry Image: Mural in São Paulo, Brazil (Photo: Monica Kaneko/flickr). Some Rights Reserved Altamira, Brazil. The Brazilian...
View ArticlePinyon-Juniper Forests: An Ancient Vision Disturbed
By Will Falk / Deep Green Resistance Standing in a pinyon-juniper forest on a high slope above Cave Valley not far from Ely, Nevada, I am lost in an ancient vision. It is a vision born under sublime...
View ArticleKrenak indigenous peoples impacted by Mariana mine spill tragedy call for...
by Marcela Belchior / Adital via Intercontinental Cry What would initially appear to be the end of the line for the culture and survival of the Krenak indigenous people, impacted by the pollution of...
View ArticleBuffalo Field Campaign: Update from the Field
By Stephany Seay / Buffalo Field Campaign Buffalo are still absent here in the Hebgen Basin. Patrols are conducting daily recons, searching through the buffalo’s migration corridors, but the gentle...
View ArticleSuccess for Sarawak tribes as dam shelved
By Survival International The Baram dam, which would would have flooded 20,000 tribal people from their homes in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, has been shelved following years of protest. Sarawak’s...
View ArticleWill Falk: Pinyon-Juniper Forests: The Oldest Refugee Crisis
By Will Falk / Deep Green Resistance Featured image by Max Wilbert My thoughts race with yesterday. My friend Max Wilbert and I left Park City, Utah in the pre-dawn bitter cold crossing the Wasatch...
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