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April 22, 2013 Inter Press Service

ICELAND DAM PROJECT PLAYS DICE WITH NATURE, AND LOSES

Since the controversial Karahnjukar dam in East Iceland was brought into operation in 2006, conditions in the downstream Lagarfljot lake have become much worse, according to information gathered...

The salmon stock has virtually disappeared and the trout population has decreased by 80 percent. The colour of the lake has changed and become much darker due to all the sediment and suspended sediment emanating from the glacial river that now runs into the lake. The capacity for photosynthesis by algae and other plants has decreased as so little light penetrates due to the sediments in the lake. And the plant biota as a whole has declined.

Besides the decline in the fish population, some birds are also being affected, both because there is less for them to eat and because their habitats are being destroyed... http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/04/iceland-project-plays-dice-with-nature-and-loses/

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                         April 22, 2013 - International Rivers
                                "DAMOCRACY THE MOVIE"

http://www.internationalrivers.org/resources/damocracy-the-movie-7782

 December 8, 2012 - Mongabay

DAMS ARE RAPIDLY DAMNING THE AMAZON http://news.mongabay.com/2012/1208-raisg-amazon-dams.html#z4PLhoBPx4vBhZD0.02

August 27, 2013 - World Wildlife Fund
MEKONG DAMS COULD ROB MILLIONS OF THEIR PRIMARY PROTEIN SOURCE http://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?uNewsID=206033

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                                   Full Episode - PBS Nature

                           "SALMON: RUNNING THE GAUNTLET"

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/salmon-running-the-gauntlet/video-full-episode/6620/

28,000 RIVERS WIPED OFF THE MAP OF CHINA http://sco.lt/7paeFV

DESTRUCTIVE DAMS :INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES, ECOSYSTEMS, FORESTS DEVASTATED - BIG MONEY DRIVES EXTINCTIONI http://sco.lt/6zxQWX

April 17, 2013 Mongabya

Rising agricultural profitability due to higher prices, improved crop productivity, and forest conservation itself could make it increasingly difficult for conservation programs tied to payments for ecosystem services to succeed, warns a study  published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ... 

Whereas subsistence farmers may now accept a pittance for abandoning low-yielding agriculture, in the future, higher-yields from improved genetic stock (including genetically modified crops), increased fertilizer use, and better farming practices would necessitate far higher payments to persuade farmers to keep forests standing. In other words, a program that compensated farmers based on the carbon stored in forests — like the nascent Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) mechanism — would have difficulty competing against increasingly industrialized agriculture....

http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0417-redd-intensification.html

Environmental News Network, September 11, 2014
▶  ILLEGAL LAND CLEARING FOR COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE RESPONSIBLE FOR HALF OF TROPICAL DEFORESTATION. A comprehensive new analysis says that nearly half (49%) of all recent tropical deforestation is the result of illegal clearing for commercial agriculture. The study also finds that the majority of this illegal destruction was driven by overseas demand for agricultural commodities including palm oil, beef, soy, and wood products. In addition to devastating impacts on forest-dependent people and biodiversity, the illegal conversion of tropical forests for commercial agriculture is estimated to produce 1.47 gigatonnes of carbon each year—equivalent to 25% of the EU's annual fossil fuel-based emissions. http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/47822

WATCH VIDEOS:

+++CARBON AND FOREST ECOCIDE: CAN UN-REDD EVER BECOME GREEN"?  http://sco.lt/6uQmif

San Jose Mercury News, July 19, 2014

▶ NEW, RUSHED THROUGH PERU LAW WEAKENS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS INCREASES BENEFITS & TAX BREAKS FOR FOREIGN MULTINATIONALS: DESTRUCTION OF ENVIRONMENT INEVITABLE
The nation pocked by more than 300 major mines already offers the industry incentives unmatched in the Americas, even by mining-friendly Chile and Mexico. Enacted July 11 by President Ollanta Humala after limited debate in Congress, the new law also further streamlines environmental reviews for new projects, and, for the next three years, lowers by half the maximum fines for all but the most serious of environmental violations.
     At the same time, it re-establishes tax breaks for big mining multinationals, which already enjoy such benefits as simultaneous, indefinite concessions for both exploration and exploitation as long as they make nominal payments. In some Peruvian states, more than half the territory is under concession.  http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_26182459/new-peru-law-weakens-environmental-safeguards

The Ecologist, March 17, 2015
▶ LET THEM EAT CARBON! THE CORPORATE PLAN TO COOK AFRICA IN ITS OWN FOSSIL FUELS http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2796838/let_them_eat_carbon_the_corporate_plan_to_cook_africa_in_its_own_fossil_fuels.html

Mongabay, August 20, 2014
▶   LOOMING MINING 'TSUNAMI' SET TO TAKE AFRICA BY STORM. A new report published by a team of scientists from James Cook University in Cairns, Australia, documents a surging tide of foreign interest in mining in Africa and cautions that the sector’s unchecked development and expansion could devastate the environment. http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0820-gfrn-john-cannon-africa-mining-tsunami.html?n3ws1ttr

July 9, 2013 Alternet
▶   MINING THE WORLD TO DEATH http://www.alternet.org/books/mining-world-death-end-extractiveindustrial-model

                                                       PHOTOS 

                              June 6, 2013 Global Possibilities

▶   BY MAN OR NATURE, PLACES THAT WILL NEVER BE THE SAME

http://www.globalpossibilities.org/by-man-or-nature-places-that-will-never-be-the-same/

  ▶   MYANMAR FARMERS PROTEST FOREIGN LAND SEIZURES FOR COPPER MINE, POISONING LAND AND PEOPLE http://sco.lt/6maOP3

Triple Pundit, November 12, 2014
▶ REPORT:  NATIVE PEOPLES AT HIGH RISK FROM EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/11/report-native-peoples-high-risk-extractive-industries/

                                                 VIDEO REPORT
                                PBS Newshour, February 17, 2015
UNEARTHING MERCURY POISONING AND TOXIC CONDITIONS IN THE GOLD MINING INDUSTRY http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/unearthing-toxic-conditions-impoverished-gold-miners/

First Peoples Worldwide 
▶  NEW STUDY FINDS 94% OF U.S. EXTRACTIVE COMPANIES IGNORE RURAL AND INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY IMPACTS…INDIGENOUS RIGHTS RISK REPORT  Recent community backlash against the Keystone XL pipeline, Indigenous protests against oil and gas concession auctions in Ecuador and Peru, and violent resource conflicts in Indonesia have all exposed extractive companies’ poor community engagement practices – and companies are doing nothing about it. 

http://firstpeoples.org/wp/new-study-finds-94-of-us-companies-ignore-rural-community-impacts/

Al Jazeera America, Augut 07, 2014
▶ ENTIRE SALMON RUN THREATENED BY 'UNPRECEDENTED' BRITISH COLUMBIA MEGA MINING SPILL http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/8/7/bc-mine-tailings.html

                                                WATCH (26:40)
                   MINING BATTLES: URANIUM COAL AND GOLD
https://www.linktv.org/programs/earth-focus-mining-battles-uranium-coal-and-gold

New Eastern Outlook, June 14, 2014
▶  THE AMERICAN MINING COMPANY, "FREEPORT" AND THEIR ACTIVITY IN INDONESIA/PAPUA:  THE SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL COST. The world’s largest company mining gold and copper, U.S. based Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc., has been is firmly established in the Indonesian province of Papua since the 1960s. Freeport’s internal security forces are accused of being responsible for carrying out killings, abductions, rape, torture and persecution. And the Indonesian army, using vulnerable local residents, imposed a tax for the so-called protection of Freeport, whose interests it actively served and enriched by access to its resources and allowed it to conduct illegal business, which, in 2005, was estimated at 8 billion dollars. http://journal-neo.org/2014/06/14/rus-e-kologicheskaya-i-sotsial-naya-tsena-deyatel-nosti-amerikanskoj-kompanii-freeport-v-indonezii/

Global Issues, January 30, 2015
▶ PEOPLE'S TRIBUNAL HOPES VERDICT ON MINING ABUSES GAINS TRACTION http://www.globalissues.org/news/2015/01/30/20563

▶ IN THE RAIN FORESTS OF PERU, A MODERN GOLD RUSH POISONS THE ENVIRONMENT AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES  http://sco.lt/8m0TwH

 ▶ THE THIRST FOR PROFIT: ISOLATED YANOMAMI INDIANS "MASSACRED" BY GOLDMINERS IN VENEZUELA http://sco.lt/8eseCv

May 23, 2013 Human Rights Watch

▶ MOZAMBIQUE'S COAL MINING BOOM AND FORCED RESETTLEMENTS http://www.hrw.org/node/115802

Guardian Sustainable Business, January 05, 2015
▶   SUSTAINABLE MINING: AN INHERENT CONTRADICTION IN TERMS

  http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/jan/05/sustainable-mining-business-poverty-environment-new-framework

▶   MINERAL-RICH MONGOLIA RAPIDLY BECOMING 'MINE-GOLIA'  http://sco.lt/78Ug1x

First Peoples Worldwide, March 2015
▶ CORPORATIONS AND THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES; ADVANCING THE STRUGGLE FOR PROTECTION, RECOGNITION, AND REDRESS AT THE THIRD UN FORUM ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS http://firstpeoples.org/wp/corporations-and-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples-advancing-the-struggle-for-protection-recognition-and-redress-at-the-third-un-forum-on-business-and-human-rights/

Inhabitat, February 27, 2014
▶  SHOCKING PHOTOS REVEAL THE UGLY TRUTH BEHIND SMARTPHONE MANUFACTURING  http://inhabitat.com/marcus-bleasdales-stunning-photos-reveal-the-ugly-truth-behind-smartphone-manufacturing/

Quartz, December 06, 2014
-▶ ETHICALLY SOURCED iPHONES ARE RUINING THE CONGO.  GO SEE THE GORILLAS AND SAVE IT http://qz.com/307478/ethically-sourced-iphones-are-ruining-the-congo-go-see-the-gorillas-and-help-save-it/

                                                  VIDEO 11:15
                                               Peak Prosperity
                        THE ENVIRONMENT: INCREASING WASTE
http://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/89489/environment-increasing-waste-crash-course-chapter-24

 Mongabay, May 14, 2014

▶  NEW REPORT REVEALS HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES BY CORPORATIONS, GOVERNMENTS IN THE AMAZON. 

The report took over six months to complete and gives an in-depth account of the conflicts activists and indigenous peoples (IPs) are having with corporations and governmental agencies. It relays a situation that does not look good. The report details everything from physical attacks to “systematic pressure” by corporations and governments. According to the report, conflicts over land and territories have reached a ten-year peak in Brazil. In Peru, social conflicts have tripled since 2008, with two-thirds of the reported cases defined as “socioenvironmental” conflicts. http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0514-dulaney-regnskogfondet.html

Ecowatch, December 30, 2013
▶  AMAZON DEFORESTATION, MINING, AGRICULTURE AND HYDROPOWER THREATEN THE FUTURE OF SOUTH AMERICAN CONTINENT http://ecowatch.com/2013/12/30/amazon-deforestation-threatens-south-americas-water/

                                                     VIDEO

                                           THE TRUE STORY

              CHEVRON'S ECUADOR ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER

A terrifying but terrific short documentary explaining Chevron's #ecocide and #genocide in Ecuador http://sco.lt/63ewyH

The Borgen Project, February 13, 2014

-▶ HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN WEST PAPUA NEW GUINEA:  ONE OF THE MOST UNDER-REPORTED EXPLOITATIONS OF INDIGENOUS GROUPS IN THE 21st CENTURY http://borgenproject.org/human-rights-abuses-west-papua/

Papua New Guinea Mine Watch , July 03, 2011
-▶ AUSTRALIAN NICKEL MINING DESTROYING WEST PAPUA PARADISE http://ramumine.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/australian-nickel-mining-destroying-west-papua-paradise/

The Ecologist, October 05, 2014
▶  AN AUSTRALIAN MINING COMPANY'S $300 MILLION ATTACK ON EL SALVADOR'S WATER. "This lawsuit is a direct attack against the sovereignty and legitimate right of the Salvadoran population to reject an industry that is a threat to our lives." http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2562735/a_mining_companys_300_million_attack_on_el_salvadors_water.html

▶   DEVASTATING MINING EXPLOITATION OF WEST PAPUA http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~cline/papua/mines.htm  

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                                    MINING THE MOON (28:47)

                       QUEST Science, December 16, 2014
THE BILLION DOLLAR SPACE RACE : SILICON VALLEY GOES TO SPACE - A new generation of entrepreneurs – sprung from the high-risk, high-tech culture of Silicon Valley – is launching private, for-profit ventures to open up space for mining the moon, tourism, transportation and rapid earth imaging   http://science.kqed.org/quest/video/silicon-valley-goes-to-space/

                                              REPORT : VIDEO

                                             MINING FOR JADE

                              New York Times, December 01, 2014
              CHINA'S JADE JOURNEY MARKED BY DRUGS AND DEATH  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/world/searching-for-burmese-jade-and-finding-misery.html?_r=0

 Al Jazeera English, December 03, 2014
-▶ MYANMAR'S JADE CURSE. China's jade obsession drives a multi-billion dollar black market that fuels a drug-infested jade mining industry.  http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/101east/2014/11/myanmar-jade-curse-201411249233318531.html

 allAfrica, November 24, 2014
-▶ CONGO-KINSHASA. BELGIAN MINING GIANT LIED OVER BULLDOZING HUNDREDS OF HOMES, DISPLACING LOCAL PEOPLES http://allafrica.com/stories/201411242089.html

▶   CANADIAN MINING COMPANY TO STRIP INDONESIAN FOREST OF PROTECTED STATUS http://sco.lt/6ZfKnh

                                                         VIDEO

FOREIGN CORPORATIONS DESTROYING ECOSYSTEMS, INDIGENOUS LIVELIHOODS, NULLIFYING LAND RIGHTS -- CREATING POVERTY, DEPENDENCE ON A GLOBAL SCALE http://sco.lt/5vdZgH

August 23, 2013 Intercontinental Cry Magazine

▶   TIBETAN PROTESTORS, DESTRUCTIVE MINING, AND GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN http://intercontinentalcry.org/tibetan-protestors-destructive-mining-and-government-crackdown-20042/

Mongabay, February 05, 2014

▶   GAS COMPANY TO DRILL IN MANU NATIONAL PARK BUFFER ZONE, IMPERILING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND ECOSYSTEMS http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0204-hill-gas-manu.html?n3ws1ttr

Guardian Environment, September 03, 2014
▶  MEGA-MINING THREATENS TO EAT UP NORTHERN EUROPE'S LAST WILDERNESS http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/03/mining-threat-northern-europe-wilderness-finland-sweden-norway

November 02 2012 Spiegel Online International

▶   FINLAND MINING BOOM UNDERWAY IN SEARCH FOR MINERAL DEPOSITS http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/mining-boom-underway-in-finland-in-the-search-for-mineral-deposits-a-864561.html

Reuters, October 19, 2013
▶   THOUSANDS PROTEST IN ROMANIA AGAINST SHALE GAS, GOLD MINE http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/19/us-romania-shale-protest-idUSBRE99I09M20131019

allAfrica.com, September 02, 2014
▶   TANZANIA:  YES, MINING COMPANIES MUST TAKE CARE OF THE ENVIRONMENT. There is an interesting new development in Tanzania's mining sector where the government is finalising preparations for establishing an environmental rehabilitation bond. Under the envisaged environmental bond, mining companies will be compelled to rehabilitate depleted mines once they wind up their operations. http://allafrica.com/stories/201409020908.html

Thomson Reuters Foundton, August 18, 2014
▶   THE INDONESIAN HOUSEWIFE WHO TOOK ON MINING COMPANIES AND WON The Indonesian housewife who took on mining companies and won http://www.trust.org/item/20140818092642-qdpr9/

First Peoples Worldwide »
▶ RAPE, SEX TRAFFICKING, AND THE BOTTOMLINE: CORPORATIONS' COMPLICITY IN VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN http://firstpeoples.org/wp/rape-sex-trafficking-and-the-bottom-line-corporations-complicity-in-violence-against-women/

Climate Progress, August 18, 2014
▶   10 MILLION GALLON MINING ACID SPILL NEAR U.S. BORDER CLOSES 88 SCHOOLS, LEAVES THOUSANDS OF MEXICANS WITHOUT WATER. An acid spill from a large copper mine in northern Mexico is keeping 88 schools closed starting Monday due to uncertainty over the safety of drinking water. The 12-day-old spill, which sent 10 million gallons (40,000 cubic meters) of toxic wastewater into portions of the Bacanuchi and Sonora rivers, may keep schools closed for over a week according to the Associated Press http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/08/18/3472343/mexican-mining-spill-border-88-schools/

ClimateProgress, August 05, 2014
▶ CANADIANS CAN'T DRINK THEIR WATER AFTER 1.3 BILLION GALLONS OF MINING WASTE FLOWS INTO RIVERS http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/08/05/3467611/bc-water-tailings-pond-breach/

Telegraph, May 27, 2014
▶  GLOBAL MINING GIANT, RIO TINTO, SIGNS £12bn DEAL TO DEVELOP WORLD'S BIGGEST UNTAPPED IRON ORE DEPOSIT IN SOUTHERN GUINEA. The world's second biggest mining company has signed a deal to create Africa’s biggest ever infrastructure venture. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/mining/10858045/Rio-Tinto-signs-12bn-Guinea-iron-ore-deal.html

April 15, 2013 - Deutsche Welle: Environment & Development »

▶   THE RUN ON LATIN AMERICA'S RESOURCES Once neglected, now courted: Latin America is becoming increasingly important as a supplier of raw materials for German industry. China, Canada and the US are competitors in the race for natural resources.... http://www.dw.de/the-run-on-latin-americas-resources/a-16745677?maca=en-rss-en-environment-4553-rdf

The Ecologist, August 08, 2014
▶ COMMUNITY SELF-DEFENSE AGAINST MINING MEGA-PROJECTS. If the state does not defend citizens against the violence and destruction of mining, people and communities must defend themselves, writes Raul Zibechi. http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2500598/community_selfdefense_against_mining_megaprojects.html

Guardian, John Vidal
▶   SWALLOWED BY COAL: UK PROFITS FROM INDONESIA'S RAPE AND PILLAGE OF ENVIRONMENT BY HARMFUL COAL INDUSTRY http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/oct/30/coal-mining-uk-profits-indonesia

 Mongabay, June 05, 2014

▶  INDONESIA: MAJOR MINING COMPANY ATTACKS SCUBA DIVING TOURISTS:  WHAT ARE THEY HIDING? http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0605-hadinaryanto-bangka.html

                      PHOTOS: 10 MOST INCREDIBLE EARTH SCARS
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/most-incredible-earth-scars/16808?utm_source=scribol.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=scribol.com

July 26, 2013 Quartz

▶   A TINY TRIBE IN INDIA STANDS IN THE WAY OF A $1.7 BILLION PROJECT AND A MOUNTAIN OF ALUMINIUM QUARTZ http://qz.com/108066/a-small-tribe-in-india-stands-between-1-7-billion-and-a-mountain-full-of-aluminum-ore/

CBC News
▶  PRISTINE LAKES ACROSS CANADA QUIETLY BEING "RECLASSIFIED" AS TOXIC DUMP SITES FOR MINES Environmentalists say the process amounts to a "hidden subsidy" to mining companies, allowing them to get around laws against the destruction of fish habitat. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/lakes-across-canada-face-being-turned-into-mine-dump-sites-1.733972

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                                  THE TERRIBLE PRICE OF GOLD

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                                                      WATCH
                                         "WE CAN'T EAT GOLD':

                         An Alaskan Documentary on Pebble Mine

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/21/alaska-bristol-bay-gold-mine-pebble

Redd Monitor, June 06, 2014
▶   GOLD MINING IN GUYANA:  IS THIS WHAT THE LOW CARBON DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY LOOK LIKE? Gold mining in Guyana is booming. It’s the country’s biggest export. Last year Guyana exported gold worth US$1 billion. But government is failing to address the serious environmental and social impacts caused by gold mining. http://www.redd-monitor.org/2014/06/06/gold-mining-in-guyana-is-this-what-the-low-carbon-development-strategy-looks-like/

  
                                                         VIDEO:
                          Huffington Post Canada, October 1, 2013

                                   Carnegie Airborne Observatory
▶   AMAZON GOLD MINING VIDEO REVEALS DEFORESTATION DEVASTATION BEYOND OUR UNDERSTANDING http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/09/29/amazon-gold-mining-video-carnegie_n_4013594.html

▶ A MODERN GOLD RUSH IN THE RAIN FORESTS OF PERU, POISONS THE ENVIRONMENT, RIVERS AND FORESTS http://sco.lt/5ha9RJ

Guardian Global Development, March 17, 2014
▶   NIGERIAN GOLD MINING:  FARMERS CHOOSE DEATH BY LEAD POISONING OVER POVERTY Unregulated mining in rural northern Nigeria is causing blindness and paralysis among children and making adults infertile http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/mar/17/nigeria-gold-mining-farmers-lead-poisoning-poverty

                                                        VIDEO

                                     July 10, 2013 PBS Newshour
▶   THE TERRIBLE HUMAN PRICE WE PAY FOR GOLD: ONE MILLION CHILDREN LABOR IN AFRICA'S GOLDMINES  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/world/july-dec13/burkinafaso_07-10.html

NY Daily News, February 11, 2014

▶   HELD AS SLAVES, CHILDREN IN PERU FORCED TO WORK IN MINES THAT PRODUCE MUCH OF WORLD'S GOLD http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/child-labor-sex-slaves-peru-gold-mines-article-1.1610110

                                                  -- WATCH --

                         September 2, 2014 Newshour PBS REPORT
▶   CHILD LABOR IN BURKINA FASO TOXIC, DANGEROUS SMALL ARTISANAL GOLD MINES http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/july-dec13/burkinafaso_09-02.html

Inter Press Service, November 18, 2014
- ▶ SHALE OIL FUELS INDIGENOUS CONFLICT IN ARGENTINA. 

Three thousand metres below Campo Maripe lies one of the world’s biggest reserves of shale gas and oil. The land that the community used for grazing is now part of the Loma Campana oilfield, operated by the state-run YPF oil company in partnership with U.S. oil giant Chevron.

“More or less 160 wells have been drilled here,” Campo said. “When they reach 500 wells, we won’t have any land for our animals. They stole what is ours.” http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/11/shale-oil-fuels-indigenous-conflict-in-argentina/

May 25, 2013 SF Gate

▶   CHILE'S INDIANS TAKE ON WORLD'S LARGEST GOLD MINER http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/Chile-s-Indians-take-on-world-s-largest-gold-miner-4548096.php

The New Environmentalist
▶   A DEADLY SHADE OF GOLD - TRANSYLVANIAN GOLD http://www.newenvironmentalist.co.uk/?page_id=905

June 6, 2013 Al Jazeera
▶   LOCAL GOLD PROSPECTORS LEFT OUT BY MULTI-NATIONAL GOLD RUSH http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/05/2013515161130258616.html

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                                           -- A MUST WATCH --

                               September 15, 2013 The Real News
                                               VIDEO REPORT

                     "It is better to die from bullets than from hunger"
▶   PHILIPPINE ACTIVISTS FIGHT BACK AGAINST CORPORATE AND MILITARY FORCES DESTROYING THEIR LAND, FORESTS AND LIVELIHOODS. Corporate agri-businesses like U.S.-based Dole, Del Monte, Monsanto, along with international and Philippine mines, are polluting waterways and destroying the surrounding farms. Chinese, European, Canadian, and Filipino mines are stripping away the mountains to get at what some estimate to be the largest iron deposit in the world. There also some of the most significant gold, nickel, and copper reserves in Asia. http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10725

Eco-Business, June 04, 2014

▶  CHINA'S RARE EARTH TOXIC TIME BOMB TO SPUR $12 BILLION OF MINES http://www.eco-business.com/news/chinas-rare-earth-toxic-time-bomb-spur-12-billion-mines/

 Al Jazeera America

▶  INTERACTIVE: CHINA'S AFRICAN SPENDING SPREE - Take a tour of the dams, stadiums, mines and super-highways financed, sometimes controversially, by Beijing http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2014/03/interactive-china-african-spending-spree-2014320121349799136.html

Economy Watch,  January 02, 2014

-▶ WHY SOUTH AFRICA (AND OTHER DEVELOPING NATIONS) IS CANCELLING FOREIGN INVESTMENT DEALS http://www.economywatch.com/features/south-africa-cancelling-foreign-investment.02-01.html

                                                    WATCH (56:27)
                            STEALING AFRICA: WHY POVERTY?

                                   HOW MUCH PROFIT IS FAIR?
                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNYemuiAOfU

                                    PHOTO EXPOSE AND VIDEO

                SIERRA MAGAZINE PRESENTS: THE COST OF COAL

                                          http://sco.lt/5wLb2f

▶ STOP BURNING RAIN FORESTS FOR PALM OIL AND MONOCROP AGRICULTURE  http://sco.lt/5Ylp7h

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                                                       USA

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                         COAL BURNING EXACTS A LETHAL PRICE 

                                          http://sco.lt/8wLmKX

 June 6, 2013 Global Possibilities
▶   AN INSIDE LOOK INTO WHAT A COAL TERMINAL'S REALLY LIKE: This is required reading — and viewing — for anyone worried about how export terminals handle coal... http://www.globalpossibilities.org/an-inside-look-into-what-a-coal-terminals-really-like/

  ▶   MINING CORPORATIONS DEVASTATE PRISTINE WISCONSIN FOR FRAC-SAND - LEAVING A MINING, CHEMICAL WASTELAND  http://sco.lt/6gL1ov

                                                       PHOTOS 

                                  July 16, 2013 Mother Jones

▶   U.S. MINING COMPANY DEPLOYS MORE MASKED MILITIAMEN AGAINST "ECO-TERRORISTS" IN WISCONSIN - Debate over a proposed open-pit iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin went from heated to outright bizarre when masked guards brandishing assault rifles showed up at the site in the remote and scenic wilderness of Penokee Hills... http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/07/walker-backed-mine-hires-militiamen-intimidate-protesters

Los Angeles Times, July 18, 2014

▶  EPA'S PROPOSED LIMITS POSE ROADBLOCK FOR ALASKA'S BRISTOL BAY MINE http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-epa-proposes-to-restrict-mining-on-bristol-bay-20140718-story.html

Alaska Dispatch, July 18, 2014

▶  EPA PROPOSES STRICT LIMITS ON ALASKA PEBBLE MINING TO PROTECT SALMON AND NATURAL HABITAT http://www.adn.com/article/20140718/epa-proposes-strict-limits-pebble-mine-protect-salmon

 ▶   REBUILDING A CHEMICAL WASTELAND - ONE OF THE MOST POISONED PLACES ON EARTH - A $2 BILLION CLEAN UP PROGRAM http://sco.lt/7ZWTRp

                                                VIDEO REPORT
                              Democracy Now, March 17, 2014
                               A SLOW GENOCIDE OF THE PEOPLE:

U.S. GRAND CANYON URANIUM MINING LEAVES TOXIC NUCLEAR LEGACY ON INDIGENOUS LAND http://www.democracynow.org/2014/3/14/a_slow_genocide_of_the_people

                                                       PHOTOS

The Institute for Southern Studies

▶   UN HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION OF MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL MINING IN APPALACHIA http://www.southernstudies.org/2013/05/un-human-rights-group-calls-for-investigation-of-m.html

                                                       PHOTOS

                               June 6, 2013 Global Possibilities

 ▶  COAL MINING ON NAVAJO NATION IN ARIZONA TAKES HEAVY TOLL  (PHOTOS) | http://www.globalpossibilities.org/coal-mining-on-navajo-nation-in-arizona-takes-heavy-toll-photos-2/

                                                   WATCH

4 BILLION GALLONS OF MINING WASTE POUR INTO PRISTINE B.C. WATERWAYS. The massive release of materials from a mine tailings pond near Quesnel, B.C. is “virtually impossible to clean up,” according to a marine researcher — and may have already damaged salmon habitat beyond repair. http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/08/07/video-watch-4-billion-gallons-mining-waste-pour-pristine-bc-waterways-156295

                                                WATCH (27:42)
                        AMERICA'S DIRTY SECRET:  COAL ASH
  https://www.linktv.org/programs/earth-focus/video/3560398598001

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     OBAMA'S ARCTIC STRATEGY SETS OFF A CLIMATE TIME BOMB

                                        http://sco.lt/9MK5eT

                                                 *** WATCH: ***

                                      Video Winner of Goldman Prize 

                   ALASKA: THE KILLING IMPACT OF OIL AND MINING

                                          http://sco.lt/68m1x3

 -▶  DEEP SEA MINING RUSH MOVES CLOSER AS ICE MELTS: DEVASTATING OCEAN SEABEDS, DESTROYING UNKNOWN ECOSYSTEMS  http://sco.lt/85WcRl

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                                                   WATCH 

                                         'MERCURY RISING"

                        POISONED PLANET, POISONED FOOD

                                        http://sco.lt/51lBMv

                   FINANCIALIZING NATURE WILL BANKRUPT US ALL. 

                            OLD ECONOMICS OR SUSTAINING POLICY?

                                                   http://sco.lt/8fNIET

                                      ERADICATING ECOCIDE

WHY BUSINESS LEADERS MUST STEP UP TO THE CHALLENGE

                                          http://sco.lt/56vkOH

                                            LAND GRABS

HOW FOREIGN "INVESTMENTS" ARE REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH, LAND AND WATER ACROSS THE GLOBE http://sco.lt/96H2yv

                                         PLANET PALM OIL:

                        The Bait and Switch of Palm Oil Giants

                                         http://sco.lt/9KfyXBhttp://sco.lt/9KfyXB

                        THE SHALE GAS 'FRACKING' REVOLUTION

                               AN ENVIRONMENTAL NIGHTMARE

                                           http://sco.lt/8VentB

  ▶   2010 BP DEEPWATER HORIZON DISASTER CONTINUES TO IMPACT GULF'S ECOSYSTEMS -- 4 YEARS ON http://sco.lt/5Ahg6D

 ▶   WRECKING THE OCEAN ECOSYSTEM:  OVERFISHING, COLLAPSING FISHERIES, OCEAN DEPENDENT SPECIES STARVING http://sco.lt/6bO2nR

 ▶   DEFORESTATION IS DESERTIFICATION : A DEADLY GAME FOR ALL LIFE: GLOBAL ECOCIDE  http://sco.lt/7xeu1Z

                              DAMS, ECOCIDE AND WATER RIGHTS

                                BIG MONEY DRIVES EXTINCTION

             Indigenous Communities, EcoSystems, Forests Devastated

                                      http://sco.lt/79BRmT

                                                 ENOUGHNESS

                WESTERN THOUGHT vs INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHY

                                            http://sco.lt/6EFbPt

▶  SHOULD COMPANIES COMPENSATE SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION FROM WHICH THEY PROFIT?  http://sco.lt/5x2tqz

                                              EXTINCTION CRISIS

IN 40 YEARS WE HAVE DISAPPEARED HALF THE WORLD'S WILD ANIMALS: ECOLOGICAL ARMAGEDDON http://sco.lt/8fK5eT

                DON'T MISS THIS AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY

                       &

HuffPost Green, March 22, 2015
▶ HEALTHY FORESTS MEAN A HEALTHY FUTURE FOR US ALL http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-abusow/healthy-forests-mean-a-healthy-future-for-all-of-us_b_6904722.html?utm_hp_ref=green

BBC News, June 23, 2014
-▶ UN:  WORLD'S FORESTS FUNDAMENTAL TO HUMAN WELL-BEING - WORLD'S FOREST REPORT http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27963330

BBC News, June 05, 2014
-▶  U.N. URGES ACTION TO PROTECT FORESTS GENETIC DIVERSITY http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27715552

 The Permaculture Research Institute, October 21, 2013
-▶  THINKING LIKE A FOREST - George Monbiot http://permaculturenews.org/2013/10/21/thinking-like-forest/

 ▶ ELDERS OF THE FOREST DISAPPEARING WORLDWIDE - IRREPLACEABLE HABITAT FOR MANY ANIMALS  http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3632517130/elders-of-the-forests-disappearing-worldwide-irreplaceable-habitat-for-many-animals

 PLOS ONE, February 25, 2014
▶  WHY BIODIVERSITY AND IT'S LOSS MATTERS: INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND THEIR OUTBREAKS IN ASIA-PACIFIC : REPORT http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0090032

 Summit Voice, November 18, 2013
-▶ STUDY: ECOSYSTEM ALTERATIONS LEADING TO WIDESPREAD HUMAN HEALTH IMPACTS http://summitcountyvoice.com/2013/11/18/study-ecosystem-alterations-leading-to-widespread-human-health-impacts/

Conservation Magazine, University of Washington
-▶ COULD DECLINING BIODIVERSITY BE LINKED TO THE RISING PREVALENCE OF ALLERGIES AND ECOSYSTEM VIRUSES? http://conservationmagazine.org/2012/09/biodiversity-under-our-skin-2/

 University of Washington, Department of Public Health
▶ THE CONNECTION BETWEEN ANIMALS, ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH http://sph.washington.edu/news/closeup/profile.asp?content_ID=4506

▶ ECOCIDE: A PLAGUE OF DEFORESTATION SWEEPS ACROSS SOUTH EAST ASIA WITH TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE AND BIODIVERSITY http://sco.lt/4lJ5ZR

Summit Voice, November 18, 2013
-▶ STUDY: ECOSYSTEM ALTERATIONS LEADING TO WIDESPREAD HUMAN HEALTH IMPACTS http://summitcountyvoice.com/2013/11/18/study-ecosystem-alterations-leading-to-widespread-human-health-impacts/

Stanford Daily, February 18, 2015
▶ DOCTOR NATURE:  HOW OUR HEALTH HINGES ON BIODIVERSITY http://www.stanforddaily.com/2015/02/18/doctor-nature-how-our-health-hinges-on-biodiversity/

MongaBay, March 17,2015
▶ NEW REPORT CONNECTS HUMAN HEALTH TO BIODIVERSITY PROTECTION http://news.mongabay.com/2015/0317-force-biodiversity-health.html

One Green Planet, February 18, 2015
▶ THE SURPRISING EFFECT BEING DISCONNECTED FROM NATURE HAS ON OUR HEALTH AND WELL-BEING  http://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/natural-world-impact-on-human-health-and-well-being/

▶ HUMANS ARE TURNING THE EARTH INTO A 'LONELY AND VERY DANGEROUS PLNET', ECOLOGIST WARNS http://sco.lt/4xff17

April 22, 2012 National Geographic

▶ SAVING LIVES, LIVELIHOODS AND LIVES

By Harold E. Varmus, Director of the U.S. National Cancer Institute; and Robert D. Hormats, Under Sectary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment

▶ Tragically—and to the detriment of all of us—Earth’s biodiversity is disappearing at an alarming rate. This is due to factors such as deforestation, environmental degradation, and habitat destruction from agriculture, settlement, and other uses; pollution; climate change; and chronic over-exploitation or poaching of fish and wildlife species. Scientists estimate that the planet is losing species at a rate 1,000 to 10,000 times above the rate of species extinction that would occur normally without human activity. Particularly disheartening is the fact that, in many cases, we are losing species before we even know of them or know how they fit into our shared planet.... http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/22/saving-lives-livelihoods-and-life/

                                                      WATCH

                       AWESOME!  BIODIVERSITY VISUALIZED

                                       Vancouver Film School

                                           http://sco.lt/5dcRur

 - ▶  WHY BIODIVERSITY IS IMPORTANT? http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/ourwork/conservation/biodiversity/importance/default.aspx

The Economist, November 18, 2013
-▶ BEWARE THE AGE OF LONELINESS: MAN MUST DO MORE TO PRESERVE THE REST OF LIFE ON EARTH - EDWARD O. WILSON
http://www.economist.com/news/21589083-man-must-do-more-preserve-rest-life-earth-warns-edward-o-wilson-professor-emeritus

HuffPost Green, February 17, 2014

-▶ E.O.WILSON: PRESERVING BIODIVERSITY IS AN ETHICAL IMPERATIVE http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-chameides/eo-wilson-preserving-biod_b_4803125.html

 - ▶ DON'T FORGET WHAT IS KEEPING YOU ALIVE:  DAVID ATTENBOROUGH ON OUR ALIENATION FROM NATURE http://sco.lt/8oZkvZ

FastCo Exist
 - ▶ A DOSE OF NATURE HELPS CITY DWELLERS FIGHT THEIR NEED FOR INSTANT GRATIFICATION http://www.fastcoexist.com/3024153/a-dose-of-nature-helps-city-dwellers-fight-their-need-for-instant-gratification

Inter Press Service, September 30, 2014
-▶ A ROADMAP TO LIVING -- AND THRIVING -- IN HARMONY WITH NATURE. biodiversity is not just a problem to be solved, but rather the source of solutions to 21st century challenges such as climate change, food and water security, health, disaster risk reduction, and poverty alleviation.  In taking this action, countries affirmatively recognised that biodiversity is essential for sustainable development and the foundation for human well-being. The Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets are a framework for the world to achieve the vision of human beings living in harmony with nature.  If achieved, by the middle of the 21st century, we will enjoy economic and social well-being while conserving and sustainably using the biodiversity that sustains our healthy planet and delivers the benefits essential to us all. http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/09/opinion-a-roadmap-to-living-and-thriving-in-harmony-with-nature/

EcoInternet, October 01, 2014
-▶  EBOLA A SYMPTOM OF ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL COLLAPSE http://www.ecointernet.org/2014/10/01/ebola-a-symptom-of-ecological-and-social-collapse/

The Guardian - Vital Signs
▶ HOW SAVING WEST AFRICAN FORESTS MIGHT HAVE PREVENTED THE EBOLA EPIDEMIC http://www.theguardian.com/vital-signs/2014/oct/03/ebola-epidemic-bats-deforestation-west-africa-guinea-sierra-leone-liberia

Climate Desk, July 07, 2014
-▶ WE ARE MAKING DEADLY EBOLA OUTBREAKS WORSE BY CUTTING DOWN FORESTS http://climatedesk.org/2014/07/we-are-making-ebola-outbreaks-worse-by-cutting-down-forests/

Climate Desk, July 07, 2014
-▶ WE ARE MAKING DEADLY EBOLA OUTBREAKS WORSE BY CUTTING DOWN FORESTS http://climatedesk.org/2014/07/we-are-making-ebola-outbreaks-worse-by-cutting-down-forests/

Mongabay, May 22, 2014
-▶ NEXT BIG IDEA IN FOREST CONSERVATION? LINKING PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0322-forestinnovation-kimbrough-gordon.html?n3ws1ttr

Mongabay, May 08, 2014

 NEW HOLISTIC  'ONE HEALTH'  CONNECTS HUMANS, ANIMALS AND ECOSYSTEMS.  Recently, the dilemma of human–wildlife conflict has created great opportunity to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems for both people and ecosystems. The emerging holistic “One Health” movement explicitly recognizes the inextricable connections between human, animal, and ecosystem health, and is leading not only to new scientific research but also to projects that help people rise out of poverty, improve their health, reduce conflicts with wildlife, and preserve ecosystems, such as Bwindi’s tropical montane forest... http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0501-nicole-sri-ehp-one-health.html

                                   ECOLOGICAL ARMAGEDDON

                                          EXTINCTION CRISIS

WE HAVE DISAPPEARED HALF OF THE WORLD'S WILD ANIMALS IN 40 YEARS:  http://sco.lt/8fK5eT

                                                -- WATCH --

   "THE IMPACT OF VANISHING BIODIVERSITY ON HUMAN HEALTH" http://news.linktv.org/videos/the-impact-of-vanishing-biodiversity-on-human-health

▶  HUMANITY HAS EXCEEDED 4 OF 9 'PLANETARY BOUNDARIES,' THAT KEEP HUMANITY IN A 'SAFE OPERATING SPACE'  http://sco.lt/7Ji72v

▶  MASSIVE DESERTIFICATION, MASS EPIDEMIC ILLNESSES COMING WITH GLOBAL WARMING AS OUR WORLD MELTS  http://sco.lt/7KDmGv

▶ LARGE-SCALE BIODIVERSITY IS VITAL TO MAINTAIN ECOSYSTEM AND HUMAN  HEALTH http://sco.lt/666xPN

▶ FUTURE GENERATIONS TO PAY FOR OUR MISTAKES: BIODIVERSITY LOSS IMPACT MAY NOT APPEAR FOR DECADES http://sco.lt/5kP4Of

May 29, 2013 Seed Daily

-▶ EVEN FARM ANIMAL DIVERSITY IS DECLINING AS ACCELERATING SPECIES LOSS THREATENS HUMANITY http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/Even_farm_animal_diversity_is_declining_as_accelerating_species_loss_threatens_humanity_999.html

OSLO (Reuters) - May 27, 2013

-▶ DECLINE IN BIODIVERSITY OF FARMED PLANTS AND ANIMALS GATHERING PACE. A decline in the diversity of farmed plants and livestock breeds is gathering pace, threatening future food supplies for the world's growing population, the head of a new United Nations panel on biodiversity said on Monday... 

   Zakri said there were 30,000 edible plants but that just 30 crops accounted for 95 percent of the energy in human food that is dominated by rice, wheat, maize, millet and sorghum....

   He said it was "more important than ever to have a large genetic pool to enable organisms to withstand and adapt to new conditions." That would help to ensure food for a global population set to reach 9 billion by 2050 from 7 billion now.... http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/27/environment-food-idUSL5N0E80Q420130527

Just Means, March 11, 2014
 -▶  WORLD BANK SAY BIODIVERSITY IS CRITICAL TO ENDING GLOBAL POVERTY http://www.justmeans.com/blogs/world-bank-says-biodiversity-is-critical-to-ending-global-poverty

One World News, December 9, 2013
-▶ INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE VITAL FOR BIODIVERSITY, SAY EXPERTS. With species disappearing up to 1,000 times faster than the natural extinction rate, biodiversity experts say knowledge co-production with indigenous peoples has growing importance.
 http://oneworld.org/2013/12/05/indigenous-knowledge-vital-for-biodiversity-say-experts/

-▶ HUMANS ARE TURNING THE EARTH INTO A 'LONELY AND VERY DANGEROUS PLANET", ECOLOGIST WARNS http://sco.lt/4xff17

 ▶ UN REPORT: URGENT ACTION NEEDED: GROWING HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS FROM SPREAD OF CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY UNEP said chemicals have become so important to daily life in today's world that the value of their output has grown to $4.12 TRILLION, compared to $171 billion in 1970. http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/2862196581/un-report-urgent-action-needed-growing-health-and-environmental-hazards-from-spread-of-chemical-dependency

                 IUCN RED LIST OF ENDANGERED ECOSYSTEMS
Everyone knows that coral reefs are in danger, and that the rainforests are disappearing – or do we? What do we actually know in scientific terms? How much of these ecosystems are left, and how likely are they to disappear? IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature is developing a new tool to provide answers to these questions – the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems. http://www.iucnredlistofecosystems.org/about-us/red-list-ecosystems/

▶ BALANCE OF NATURE: EXPOSING THE BIG GAME http://exposingthebiggame.wordpress.com/tag/balance-of-nature/

August 14, 2012 Science Daily

-▶ STUDY DEMONSTRATES THAT ONE EXTINCTION LEADS TO ANOTHER  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120814213500.htm?+Animals+News+--+Nature%29

Global Issues
▶ LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY AND EXTINCTIONS http://www.globalissues.org/article/171/loss-of-biodiversity-and-extinctions

-▶ WEB-OF-LIFE UNRAVELLING - Healthy Ecosystems Vital for All Planetary Life http://sco.lt/7Obz0L

EcoInternet, August 04, 2014
-▶ NEW SCIENCE SUGGESTS MORE LAND-BASED ECOSYSTEMS LOST THAN BIOSPHERE CAN BEAR http://www.ecointernet.org/2014/08/04/biosphere_collapse/

                       THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION IS UPON US

                                        CAN HUMANS SURVIVE?

                                                http://sco.lt/630INt

- ▶ NO TO BIODIVERSITY OFFSETTING:  CONSERVING OUR BIODIVERSITY IS BECOMING DEPENDENT ON IT DESTRUCTION http://sco.lt/6ZjXGr

▶  MAJOR PALM OIL COMPANIES ACCUSED OF ECOCIDE, BREAKING ETHICAL PROMISES IN ASIA AND AFRICA  http://sco.lt/8TkGjh

                                       BEAUTIFUL WATCH
                        "WE ARE ALL ONE: - A SHORT FILM  -`❤´- -
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-EWIp1IPmM

Ensia, August 12, 2014
-▶ ECOSYSTEMS ARE NOT MACHINES. If we want to save the world, we need to treat nature more as an organism and less as disposable and replaceable technology. http://ensia.com/voices/ecosystems-are-not-machines/

-▶ THE END OF CORAL REEFS?  AROUND FOR 10 MILLION YEARS, WIPED OUT IN 100  http://sco.lt/7y1XHt

 May 7, 2013

▶ ARCTIC OCEAN 'ACIDIFYING RAPIDLY' - HIGHEST LEVELS IN HUMAN HISTORY - ARCTIC OCEAN TO BE ICE-FREE IN TWO YEARS http://sco.lt/6qm61h

▶ HEALTH OF OCEANS 'DECLINING FAST' - MASS EXTINCTION MAY BE INEVITABLE  http://sco.lt/8ZyX6v

 -▶ SURROUNDED BY DEFORESTATION, CRITICALLY ENDANGERED GORILLAS HANG ON BY A THREAD http://sco.lt/91dA7F

                                                          WATCH:

                                  FROGS: THE THIN GREEN LINE

                                     A World Without Amphibians

                                              http://sco.lt/6pPisL

 THICH NHAT HANH:

-▶ BEYOND ENVIRONMENT: FALLING BACK IN LOVE WITH MOTHER EARTH | Guardian Sustainable Business http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/zen-thich-naht-hanh-buddhidm-business-values?intcmp=239

-▶ KEEPING NATURE IN OUR FUTURE:  HEALTHY ECOSYSTEMS ESSENTIAL FOR ECONOMIC AND PLANETARY SURVIVAL http://sco.lt/99SfhJ

August 20, 2013 Guardian Environment
-▶ NEVER MIND THE ECONOMIC DEFICIT.  WHAT ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT DEFICIT - THAT WHICH WE DEPEND UPON FOR SURVIVAL  http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/20/earth-overshoot-day-environmental-deficit?CMP=twt_gu

                                       BEYOND GDP:  VIDEO REPORT

                           THE SEARCH FOR A NEW ECONOMIC SYSTEM

                                    -- THIS TIME WITH MEANING

                                                 http://sco.lt/8HZxrN

- ▶ ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT TO WORSEN OVER TIME AS RESOURCES BECOME HARDER TO REACH http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2014/03/25/3970411.htm

 -▶ THE NEW CORPORATE COLONIALISM. DESTRUCTION OF PLANETARY LIFE IN THE NAME OF "GROWTH"  http://sco.lt/5nT3OT

Upside, February 28, 2013
▶  A CORPORATION SHOULD BE MORE THAN A MONEY COW. We need a new market system according to Pavan Sukhdev, founder/CEO of GIST Advisory. A market that is not set on just financial success but for once focuses on the whole picture http://www.upsides.com/2013/02/28/why-a-corporation-should-be-so-much-more-than-a-money-cow/

 - ▶ MORE THAN HALF OF U.S. RIVERS ARE TOO POLLUTED TO SUPPORT LIFE SHOCKING REPORT REVEALS http://sco.lt/5JvEi9

▶ A DISASTER:  LOSS OF TWO THIRDS OF TOP PREDATORS CAUSING GLOBAL ECOSYSTEMS TO COLLAPSE http://sco.lt/7XHisr

 Mongabay, December 3, 2013
-▶ ANIMAL EARTH: EXPLORING THE HIDDEN BIODIVERSITY OF OUR PLANET http://news.mongabay.com/2013/1203-reynolds-animal-earth.html

 allAfrica.com, December 15, 2013
▶ TANZANIA:  GOING GREEN IN FIGHTING AGAINST POVERTY THE relationship between poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation http://allafrica.com/stories/201312160255.html?viewall=1

 August 26, 2013 Yale Environment 360
▶ ON A REMOTE ISLAND, LESSONS IN HOW ECOSYSTEMS FUNCTION
 http://e360.yale.edu/feature/on_a_remote_island_lessons__in_how_ecosystems_function/2683/

 eTNDaily, November 24, 2013
▶ SOUTH AFRICA:  BIODIVERSITY STEWARDSHIP AS A MECHANISM FOR ADAPTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE http://www.eturbonews.com/39998/biodiversity-stewardship-mechanism-adaptation-climate-change

August 19, 2013 Yale Environment 360

▶ BRINGING BACK THE NIGHT: THE FIGHT AGAINST LIGHT POLLUTION http://e360.yale.edu/feature/bringing_back_the_night_the__fight_against_light_pollution/2681/

▶ THE HIDDEN WORLD OF SOIL UNDER OUR FEET -  - SOIL AS A LIFELINE - CLIMATE CHANGE  http://sco.lt/4nJvdp

29 April, 2013 Planet Ark
▶ PLANTS SLOW CLIMATE CHANGE BY FORMING CLOUD SUNSHADE: STUDY http://planetark.org/wen/68527

▶ FOOD FORESTS CAN MITIGATE RISKS OF "FEAST OR FAMINE" - BIG CORPORATE AG IS NOT THE ANSWER http://sco.lt/8q2M41

▶ WHAT'S BAD ABOUT TREE PLANTATIONS?  http://sco.lt/4iLDeL

                  A Must see VIDEO for all - Geneticist David Suzuki:

                "BIOTECHNOLOGY GENETICS IS OUT OF CONTROL"

                                          http://sco.lt/4lxOIj

 ▶ CONTEMPORARY AGRICULTURE IS BURNING UP OUR PLANET http://sco.lt/99tRI1

 ▶ PESTICIDE/CHEMICAL REGULATION OVERHAUL NEEDED TO PROTECT WILDLIFE, ECOSYSTEMS AND FOOD CHAIN  http://sco.lt/5oplFx

                                                    VIDEO

                                              KQED Quest

TOP CATS: HOW PUMAS AND OTHER APEX PREDATORS' POPULATIONS AFFECT THE BIG BIODIVERSITY PICTURE  http://science.kqed.org/quest/2013/05/01/top-cats-how-pumas-and-other-apex-predators-populations-affect-the-big-biodiversity-picture/

 August 13, 2013 Scientific American
▶ IMPERFECT APART: GIANT TORTOISES AND BAOBAB TREES http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/2013/08/13/giant-tortoises-baobab-trees/

▶ SAVE THE FROG, SAVE OURSELVES - The Incredible Role Of Frogs in Our Biosystems http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0904-frog_editorial.html?fbfnpg

▶ SAVE THE BEES, SAVE ME http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides?q=SAVE+THE+BEES

                                                        WATCH

                         300 YEAR OLD FOOD FOREST IN VIETNAM

Built on 2 acres of land and still functioning well in the same family 28 generations later http://sco.lt/8avJaL

                                                     GR8 VIDEO -

                                                        AWHAR

RESTORING THE MESOPOTAMIAN MARSHES IN IRAQ - FULL EPISODE

                                            http://sco.lt/5T7sNV

                                                         VIDEO:

                           INTO THE HEART OF ECUADOR'S YASUNI

                              A PENDING CORPORATE OIL PLUNDER

                                             http://sco.lt/6LRpjN

                                               ENOUGHNESS 

               WESTERN THOUGHT vs INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHY

                                           http://sco.lt/6EFbPt

-▶  DAMS, ECOCIDE AND WATER RIGHTS: INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES, ECOSYSTEM, FORESTS DEVASTATED - BIG MONEY DRIVES EXTINCTION  http://sco.lt/79BRmT

-▶ MEGA MINING, FOREIGN LAND GRABS DESTROYING LOCAL COMMUNITIES, ENVIRONMENT AND ECOSYSTEMS http://sco.lt/8nJQf3

 International Institute for Environment and Development, March 18, 2013
-▶ FOUR ACTIONS TO REDUCE THE 'FOREST FOOTPRINT' OF COMMODITIES http://www.iied.org/four-actions-reduce-forest-footprint-commodities

May 10, 2013

▶ MARCH TOWARD DISASTER: WORLD HITS 400 PPM CO2 MILESTONE' http://sco.lt/7yyCx7

▶  WHO OWNS NATURE? CORPORATE POWER AND THE FINAL FRONTIER IN THE COMMODIFICATION OF LIFE  http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/2299601530/who-owns-nature-corporate-power-and-the-final-frontier-in-the-commodification-of-life

-▶ BANKRUPTING NATURE: DENYING OUR PLANETARY BOUNDARIES http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/bankrupting-nature-denying-our-planetary-boundaries

▶ 12 MOST AMAZING TIME-LAPSE VIDEOS OF STARS, LANDSCAPES AND URBAN SCENES http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/natural-sciences/12-most-amazing-time-lapse-videos-stars-landscapes-and-urban-scenes/page/2/#slide-top

 ▶ *** ERADICATING ECOCIDE: WHY BUSINESS LEADERS MUST STEP UP TO THE CHALLENGE http://sco.lt/56vkOH

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                                    HOW SMART ARE PLANTS? 

              THE INCREDIBLE PLANT "BRAIN" COMMUNICATION

                                        http://sco.lt/6uwPcP

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-▶ RESTORING THE EARTH: THE BONN CHALLENGE  http://sco.lt/4p7B3Z

                              AN URGENT MEMO TO THE WORLD

                                       The Natural Eye Project

http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/an-urgent-memo-to-the-world/

                                                   WATCH

                                                 "HOME"

                                       Yann Arthus-Bertrand

                An Exquisite Dedication To the Stewards of Our Planet

                             Solutions For A Sustainable Planet

http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/home-an-exquisite-story-of-our-world/