Russia/China: Pipeline Threatens Sacred Highlands Construction threatens World Heritage Site, national parks, and sacred lands of the Telengit people. Posted August 2011, by Staff, Cultural Survival, culturalsurvival.org For at least 8,000 years, people have journeyed to the high Ukok Plateau to bury their dead with sacred ceremonies and give offerings to the spirits of [...]
Archive for August 9th, 2011
9 Aug
The End Of A Physics Worldview: Heraclitus And The Watershed Of Life
The End Of A Physics Worldview: Heraclitus And The Watershed Of Life Posted 08 August 2011, by Stuart Kauffman, National Public Radio (NPR), npr.org At the dawn of Western philosophy and science, some 2,700 years ago, Heraclitus, declared that, “the world bubbles forth.” There is, in this fragment of thought, a natural magic, a creativity [...]
9 Aug
Mumbai’s Coastal Ecology Faces Oil Spill Disaster Like Gujarat’s Alang Beach
Mumbai’s Coastal Ecology Faces Oil Spill Disaster Like Gujarat’s Alang Beach Posted 08 August 2011, by Staff (Toxics Watch Alliance ), CounterCurrents, countercurents.org New Delhi: The leakage of oil from Panama flagged ship MV Rak once again reveals that repeated reminders of Indian Coast Guard (ICG) to the Inter-ministerial Committees did not [...]
9 Aug
Cohen Commission’s Inquiry Extended Another Year Due to Importance of Findings
Cohen Commission’s Inquiry Extended Another Year Due to Importance of Findings Posted 08 August 2011, by Lisa Wilcox, Indian Country Today Media Network, indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com Editor’s note: The Cohen Commission in its second year of investigating the dramatic decline of sockeye in the Fraser River has drawn profound interest from First Nations and others, [...]
9 Aug
Winners: SEJ 10th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment
Winners: SEJ 10th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment Posted 08 August 2011, by Staff, The Society of Environmental Journalists, sej.org The Society of Environmental Journalists is proud to present the winners of the 2010-2011 Awards for Reporting on the Environment. SEJ’s journalism contest is the world’s largest and most comprehensive awards [...]
9 Aug
Coal Power Plants and Mercury on the Navajo Nation
Coal Power Plants and Mercury on the Navajo Nation Posted 08 August 2011, by Carol Berry, Indian Country Today Media Network, indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com Navajo and other Native people who live beneath the massive grid that carries power from the Colorado Plateau to distant cities have long criticized its creation of bad water and polluted [...]
