Mexico's tourist resort of Cancún has just lost one of its greatest natural riches, writes Miguel Rivas: 57 hectares of species rich mangrove forest, bulldozed in a massive overnight attack by property developers in league with local officials. But people power can still win the battle and see the Tajamar mangroves restored.
… But hope grows again! Miguel Rivas Greenpeace Mexico | 17th February 2016 Comment Mexico Oceans Forests Development Tourism Law … Mexico's tourist resort of Cancún has just …
The Government of Honduras is intent on framing the only witness to the murder of Berta Cáceres as the one guilty of the crime, writes Beverly Bell. Gustavo Castro Soto, an eco-defender from Mexico, is now in effective detention in his country's embassy in Tegucigalpa in fear of his life, having himself been injured in the attack and seen the real assassin. The US Government must break its resounding silence.
… USA Corporations Eco-defenders Finance Mexico Indigenous Peoples Law … Gustavo Castro Soto, an eco-defender from Mexico, is now in effective detention in his … leaving the country to return to his native Mexico until April 6, at least. Since being …
With Monarch butterfly numbers down by 90% in 20 years - largely as a result of GMO crops in key feeding areas - the US Fish and Wildlife Service is reviewing the insect's status with a view to granting it legal protection under the Endangered Species Act.
… miles or more each year, between the US, Mexico and Canada. The migration cycle is … that the monarch's entire winter range in Mexico and large parts of its summer range in … Rockies converge in the mountains of central Mexico, where they form tight clusters on just …
Plane Stupid's Heathrow 13 escaped immediate incarceration yesterday for occupying Heathrow's northern runway last summer. But the threat of imprisonment remains firmly in place, writes Ali Tamlit, from a state determined to defend the corporations that are inflicting the systemic violence of climate change on us all. The peaceful fight for a better world must go on.
… site at Balcombe. Compared to protestors in Mexico, we are definitely the lucky ones The … Witness , mostly in the Global South. In Mexico, an ongoing resistance against a new …
The oil and gas industry has admitted that its canals and drilling rigs have destroyed 1,900 square miles of coastal wetlands on the US Gulf Coast, but a Federal Judge with deep industry ties has ruled that 97 companies off have no liability for the $50 billion damage.
… focused on BP's destruction of the Gulf of Mexico and the coastline, it is important to … well as marine transportation, in the Gulf of Mexico and adjoining inland waterways." And it …
We, the signatories of this declaration, are calling on the European Union (EU) to exclude bioenergy from its next Renewable Energy Directive (RED), and thereby stop direct and indirect subsidies for renewable energy from biofuels and wood-burning.
… Systems, India Centro de Estudios Ecuménicos, Mexico Centro Salvadoreño de Tecnologia … del Pueblo del Sureste, Oaxaca-Chiapas, Mexico MADGE Australia, Australia Mangrove … Chile Otros Mundos A/C (Friends of the Earth Mexico), Mexico Plataforma de Solidaridad con …
First corporations gained legal personhood, writes Don Fitz. Next they seized the right to force 'free trade' on unwilling populations. Now they are making sure that 'corporate rights' trump citizen rights - like the right to wholesome food and a healthy environment. That's where the 'Right to Farm' constitutional amendments come in ...
… as an agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico, it would basically tell a poor … the US at the same time that he made trips to Mexico promising he would get it passed. Sharp …
Last week the environmental and human rights activist Berta Cáceres was murdered by gunmen in an early morning attack on her home which may have been carried out by or in collusion with state agents. Now her friend and colleague Gustavo Castro, himself wounded in the attack and the only witness to Berta's murder, has been detained for questioning.
… Castro - coordinator of Friends of the Earth Mexico / Otros Mundos Chiapas , the Mexican … Gustavo Castro, of Friends of the Earth, Mexico." Erich Pica, president of FoE US, …
The 'war on drugs' is presented as a necessary battle against social evils, writes Benjamin Ramm. But from the Andes to the Caribbean, prohibition has criminalised both religious and cultural expression. And it's a war that is strictly for the global poor: people in Colorado can grow pot - so why not Colombians?
… unprecedented levels of violence - during Mexico's counter-narcotics surge between 2007 … Even politicians friendly to the US, such as Mexico's plutocratic president Enrique Peña …
In a landmark judgment today, four Niger Delta farmers have won the right to sue Dutch oil multinational Shell in the Netherlands courts after oil spills destroyed their farms and fish ponds. The case sets a precedent for other victims of corporate environmental and human rights harms around the world.
… from its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. According to Milieudefensie, "For … sinking of the Deep Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 has leaked into the …
A leaked text from the 'Trade In Services Agreement' negotiations shows that TISA is set to unleash a massive wave of deregulation affecting social, environmental and financial standards, and force the privatisation of state-run enterprises, writes Pete Dolack. So it's not just TTIP, CETA and TPP we have to fight - TISA could be the biggest corporate power grab of them all.
… are Australia, Canada, Japan, Norway, Mexico, New Zealand, Switzerland, Turkey and …
Moves to control powerful HFC greenhouse gases used in refrigeration could culminate in a landmark deal this November, writes David Doniger - the perfect prelude to the main Paris climate talks.
… proposals under discussion: from the US, Mexico, and Canada, from Micronesia, and from …
The impact of fracking on communities and ecosystems demands a complete rethink of the human relationship with nature, writes Shannon Biggs. Nature has rights - and this must be reflected in our laws.
… (Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Colorado, New Mexico and Maryland) have successfully banned … spills could be forced to make the Gulf of Mexico 'whole' once again? Or if communities …
Thanks to New Zealand, the full text of the Trans Pacific Partnership has been made public. And as Pete Dolack writes, it's a disaster for health, environment, workers and democracy - one that will unfold over years and decades to come, as investors and corporations consolidate their power over elected governments and cement in the global rule of unaccountable capital.
… people and farmers in Canada, the US and Mexico. More than 300,000 jobs in the US alone …
Landfill sites, giant hog farms, incinerators and other 'bad neighbor' industries in the US tend to be situated in African American communities, writes Heather Kathryn Ross. The Environmental Protection Agency is legally obliged to prevent 'environmental racism', but from California to Michigan, low-income communities of color have been waiting years for it to take a stand. Now, backed by Earthjustice, they are forcing the issue - in the courts.
… Beaumont, Texas; and Chaves County, New Mexico, where EPA discrimination complaints …
The increasingly militant protests by dairy farmers against low prices forced on them by the corporate 'free market' represent serious and effective resistance against the 'free trade' agenda being forced on the world by neoliberal governments, writes David Miller. They are the first steps to building a new global food system that respects food, people, culture and environment.
… including the United States, Canada and Mexico, covers an area that generates 40% of …
The Port of Seattle is violating its shoreline permit in allowing Shell to set up a 'home port' for its Arctic oil drilling fleet, according to Seattle officials. The finding could nix Shell's oil drilling plans for the 2015 season.
… in the 2010 Macondo oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Both drill ships could come to the …
After a five year battle against fracking companies, the New York Court of Appeals has ruled that towns and cities can pass zoning laws that forbid fracking and other industrial land uses. The verdict will inspire other communities across the USA to enact similar measures.
… in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Florida, North Carolina, California …
Recognising nature as a legal stakeholder with inalienable rights in environmental law proceedings is a powerful counterbalance to corporate dictatorship, writes Mumta Ito. It empowers people and governments to stand up for nature - the underlying basis of our economy and our lives. And it stands in contrast to feeble approaches based on the financialisation and commodification of nature, which may be twisted to justify more destruction.
… levels in Bolivia, Ecuador, New Zealand, Mexico, Brazil, India, Africa and the USA. …
An unprecedented coalition of 20 Attorneys General from US states and the Virgin Islands have combined to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the deception they have inflicted on customers and the wider public over climate change, writes Lauren McCauley, in a move hailed as a 'turning point' in the battle to save the climate.
… Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, …
Canada's 'Anti-Terrorism Bill' proposes a massive increase in the power of security services, writes Pete Dolack - and in the crosshairs are campaigners against a tar sands industry that's intent on releasing 240 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, and those fighting the pipelines needed to get the heavy crude to market. Who are the real 'extremists'?
… wants to build Keystone XL to the Gulf of Mexico, is also proposing an Energy East …
This Tuesday voters in Oregon and Colorado will have the chance to strike a decisive blow for consumers' right to know by forcing the labeling of GMO ingredients. Big Food is spending big to mislead and confuse voters, writes Ronnie Cummins - but the outcome is looking too close to call.
… of the Organic Consumers Association and its Mexico affiliate, Via Organica . This article …
When we speak of WMD, we usually think of weapons - nuclear, biological, or chemical - that are delivered in a moment, writes Tom Engelhardt. But what of climate change: a WMD on a long fuse, already lit and smoking ...
… sea drilling rigs to platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, the machinery that produces this kind …
From the creation of the very first national parks and game reserves, 'conservation' has always been about repressing and expropriating indigenous tribes, Survival International director Stephen Corry told Alice Bayer. And despite all the evidence that indigenous peoples are the best wildlife managers, old attitudes die hard ...
… indigenous-led approaches to development in Mexico. She has visited tribal communities in …