by DGR News Service | Jan 10, 2022 | Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Mining & Drilling
Editor’s note: Already threatened by overfishing, acidification, overheating, the collapse of coral reefs, declining plankton populations, plastic pollution, and deep sea oil drilling, the world’s oceans now face a new threat: mining, disguised as...
by DGR News Service | Dec 30, 2021 | Indirect Action, The Solution: Resistance, Toxification
Florence Nightingale, the English pioneer of modern nursing is quoted as saying, “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.” Editors note: Never give up your agency. If your goal is to save life on the planet, sometimes you have to sink your own...
by DGR News Service | Dec 29, 2021 | Indigenous Autonomy, Mining & Drilling, Movement Building & Support
This story first appeared in Mongabay. By Nick Rodway The Fitzroy River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, one of the country’s most ecologically and culturally significant waterways, is facing proposals of further agriculture and mining development,...
by DGR News Service | Dec 27, 2021 | Mining & Drilling, Movement Building & Support, Toxification
This article originally appeared in Mongabay. Featured image: Barge transporting oil drums in the Niger Delta. Image by Stakeholder Democracy via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Oil has been spilling from a wellhead in Nigeria’s Bayelsa state for a month now, with the local...
by DGR News Service | Dec 23, 2021 | Culture of Resistance, Human Supremacy, Listening to the Land, The Problem: Civilization
This is a press release from the Center for Biological Diversity Ecuador’s Highest Court Enforces Constitutional ‘Rights of Nature’ to Safeguard Los Cedros Protected Forest QUITO, Ecuador— In an unprecedented case, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador has applied...
