Sunday, May 17, 2026

Our Vanishing World: Birds

Birds are being killed with ruthless efficiency by human beings and their activities all over the world.

Kids Suing Government Over Climate Change May Get a Trial

A group of young people pressing a novel legal strategy get another day in federal court.
Cowboys and Indians

It’s cowboy cops cavalry against peaceful Indians and their Anglo supporters at Standing Rock

The corporate media meanwhile, have been for the most part shameless and useless in this enormous conflict between native people and the state.

Nestlé to Continue to Pipe Water Out of California Despite Drought and Expired Permit

Nestlé has been using a pipeline to take public water, in drought-stricken California, and use it for selling purposes on an expired permit from 1988.

Let’s get arrested with Jane Fonda

“It is unsustainable to continue to believe [in] our system of runaway, unaccountable, lawbreaking pursuit of profit.”

21 Peaceful Protestors Arrested During Prayer Ceremony at Standing Rock

The officers responsible were from the Morton County Sheriff’s Department, the same department that sent officers armed with mace and attack dogs against the protestors earlier this month.

Could tolerant and peaceful bonobos be the model for human peacemaking?

“Both chimpanzees and bonobos are our closest living relatives and therefore studying their social systems and behavior can allow us to trace the evolutionary trajectories of certain phenomenons.”

Struggling to make a profit, fracking investors are searching for the exit

“Banks are losing money and investors are stuck in investments they can’t get rid of.”

Fast fashion pollutes the Atacama Desert in Chile

With nearly 60,000 tons of unsold clothes arriving globally from Europe, Asia and North America to the port town of Iquique, about 39,000 tons of fast fashion ends up in the landfill in the desert.

Bayer announces plan to end glyphosate-based herbicide sales to US consumers by 2023

The company will replace glyphosate in the consumer lawn and garden segment with other "known and well-established active ingredients."