Farley Mowat Attacked by Mob of Angry Fishermen
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's ship, the Farley Mowat, was attacked by a mob of 30-40 angry fishermen. The attack took place while berthed in the French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon.
Since assuming her post in 2003, Marina Silva had opposed genetically modified crops, tightened environmental licensing for public works projects and urged limiting biofuel plantations in the rain forest.
In Brief: Parents and children don't often see eye to eye, especially when they grow up in different cultures. Marketing Manager Ray Wan recalls his mother's reaction when he decided to major in environmental science...
Some 300 Brazilian women dedicated to fighting peasants' rights on Friday took over a plantation of U.S.-headquartered Monsanto Company, and destroyed part of the company's materials for experiments on transgenic biotechnology.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A hardline anti-whaling activist, Sea Shepherd captain Paul Watson, said he was shot during a clash with Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean on Friday, but survived because he was wearing a Kevlar vest.
On the eleventh day of successfully preventing the Japanese whaling fleet from killing whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, activists from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza peacefully blocked the fleet's factory ship Nisshin Maru from being...
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A click for the forest won the annual swedish "Women Of The Earth" Award! Our vision is that all of Sweden's animal and plant species that are dependent on old growth forest for their survival shall live in a safe living environment
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Tropical rain forests exist in a belt around the Earth's middle. The center of this belt is the Equator. The top edge is the Tropic of Cancer, and the bottom is the Tropic of Capricorn. Within this belt, the temperatures average 80 degrees all year, and
