Missouri River Breaches Levees in Two Places: Hundreds Evacuate
Two levees along the Missouri River near the Iowa city of Hamburg and 72km down-river another levee failed in north-west Missouri's Holt County letting millions of gallons of water rush through at the rate of 1.1 million gallons per second.
International Legal Experts Challenge US Judge’s Injunction Against Ecuadorians
The Ecuadorian trial court found Chevron liable for dumping billions of gallons of toxic waste into the waters of the Amazon. The toxic waste poisoned vast lands and decimated lives of indigenous groups that suffered from oil-related diseases, even
Florida’s Lake Okeechobee Disappearing?
Florida is best known for its surf and sunshine but lately it is making headlines for all of the wrong reasons. Currently the sunshine state is in the middle of a heat wave and drought of biblical proportions that has been ongoing since early Octob
Forum Set to Address E-Waste Global Threat
The forum is organized by the Joint Public Advisory Committee of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). The forum will also feature participant companies such as Dell Computers and REMSA, a Mexican electronics recycler.
German Dolphin Defenders Celebrate The Closing of a Turkish Dolphinarium
Activists of both organisations made a protest tour about 2,000 kilometres long to all nine dolphinaria in Turkey in April, 2011. In doing so, delegations of the dolphin defenders spoke with mayors of the dolphinaria towns to cause a closing of the
