By Alex Pietrowski Water is life, unless said water has been poisoned and is toxic, then water kills life. As the Standing Rock movement enters the next phase of their struggle against the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the world has for once mustered en masse for…
By Gary G. Kohls, MD, special guest to Natural Blaze Lessons From the Most Toxic Open Pit Copper Mine in the WorldIn November of 1995, a large flock of migrating snow geese, heading south for the winter, took refuge from a snowstorm and landed on…
By Nadia Prupis The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirmed on Tuesday that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, contaminates drinking water—but claimed a lack of information makes it impossible to determine how widespread the risks are. In a final report issued Tuesday, Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and…
By Amanda Froelich Meet the future of plastic: a bag that looks and feels like plastic, but will biodegrade within 180 days and can be eaten. When several Indian cities introduced a partial or total ban on plastic bags, environmental advocates applauded the effort. However,…
By Lily Dane Washington is suing agrichemical giant Monsanto over pollution from polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). It is the first state to file such a suit, joining cities including Portland, Oregon, and Oakland, Berkeley, San Jose, Long Beach, and San Diego in California. Those cases are ongoing. Gov….
By Heather Callaghan, Editor During a recent snowstorm, several thousand or more snow geese died together after they were forced to take refuge on an acidic, metal-laden body of water of an old, open pit mine in Montana. The 700-acre Berkeley Pit – a former mine…
By Alexis Henning The spill is one of the largest in North Dakota history. A farmer in North Dakota discovered one of the largest crude oil spills ever recorded in the state just “bubbling up out of the ground” while harvesting wheat a few months…
By Amanda Froelich Today, hundreds of veterans from across the United States took a knee and begged for forgiveness for crimes committed toward indigenous people in the name of the U.S. military. A massive awakening is being realized, and it’s stemming from the Standing Rock…
By Amanda Froelich Energy Transfer Partners released a statement making it clear that the Obama administration’s decision will in no way halt the DAPL’s construction. Sunday afternoon, hundreds of thousands of “water protectors” celebrated around the world – and specifically at the Standing Rock protest…
Veterans are already arriving at camp. #NoDAPL pic.twitter.com/oMdxsKxaVT — Ruth Hopkins (@RuthHHopkins) December 1, 2016 By Nika Knight “I signed up to serve my country and my people.” As tensions grow in North Dakota, with multiple eviction orders facing the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Meet the living wall – a new site for sore eyes that is raising questions of both “why?” and “why didn’t we do this sooner?” Lest we think that living walls are only the realized fantasies of eco-fascists or corporate green-washers – let’s…
By Daisy Luther This is one of the weirdest stories I’ve heard in a long time. So very weird that I have to call BS (baloney sandwiches) on the whole darned thing. Last week, 8500 people were sent to the hospital in Melbourne, Australia during…
By Cassius Kamarampi (Era of Wisdom) A woman fighting the DAPL pipeline at Standing Rock made a video describing chemical warfare being used against protesters. She described a November 14 incident where helicopters were encircling protesters at night with no lights on. She says from 1:40…
By Whitney Webb After receiving notice of the US Army Corps’ plan to evict peaceful protestors from their camps, Sioux tribal leaders have responded with dignity and defiance, promising to stay put in defense of their land and people. Throughout the months of protests against…
Investigative report by Charlie Parker Buried in the Safe Drinking Water Act: CFR 40 Part 141-149, are the regulations for the range of pH levels of drinking water. These standards are set by, among others, our friends the EPA. The Base measurement for drinking water…
By Alex Pietrowski In the background of modern life, as people go on debating politics and working for a living, something dreadful is happening to the eco-systems which support us. Major disasters like the ongoing radioactive leak at Fukushima, the apocalyptic fires burning throughout Indonesia, even…
By Dylan Charles Now that the establishment corporate and liberal media have declared open war on so-called ‘fake news,’ already rolling out plans to flag, censor, robotically restrict and demonetize the efforts of independent journalists, the world waits with bated breath to see exactly what form…
By Whitney Webb Last Friday, Slovenia amended its constitution to protect its abundant clean water supplies from corporate greed. In 2013, Nestle’s then-CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe drew the ire of many when he declared that water is not a human right, but a market commodity. Nestle,…
By Alex Pietrowski The rise in health conditions such cancer, diabetes, asthma, obesity, autoimmune diseases and even mental disorders like ADHD, run parallel with the rise in usage of chemicals in agriculture and industry. Our environment is highly contaminated, the average person now has thousands…
(CommonDreams) An independent pipeline expert has concluded that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ environmental assessment (EA) of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is insufficient and fails to account for the impact on tribal members, prompting the Standing Rock Sioux to demand that the federal agency…
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