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Pollution World Wide up 3 Percent Last Year

Posted by bchristo on Sunday, 02 December 2012 in Earth Violators

The 2011 figures for the biggest polluters: 1. China, up 10 percent to 10 billion tons. 2. United States, down 2 percent to 5.9 billion tons 3. India, up 7 percent to 2.5 billion tons. 4. Russia, up 3 percent to 1.8 billion tons. 5. Japan, up 0.4 percent to 1.3 billion tons. 6....

590 Whales Dead in The Farow Islands

Posted by EarthDude on Saturday, 22 September 2012 in Earth Violators

Some of the world’s leading environmental and marine conservation organisations have come together to write a letter to the Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands to halt one of the worlds most prolific whale hunts. This year (up to 24th August 2012) the islanders have killed 590 pilot whales...

Scotts Miracle-Gro poisons its bird food

Posted by peter.gephart@gmail.com on Sunday, 09 September 2012 in Earth Violators

The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company agreed yesterday to pay $12.5 million in fines and penalties for various violations of federal pesticide laws. The settlement was reached with the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The company pleaded guilty to adding a toxic insec...

Ivory Fuels Wars and Profits

Posted by Angel on Wednesday, 05 September 2012 in Earth Violators

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN / The New York Times GARAMBA NATIONAL PARK, Democratic Republic of Congo -- In 30 years of fighting poachers, Paul Onyango had never seen anything like this. Twenty-two dead elephants, including several very young ones, clumped together on the open savanna, many kil...

Polar bear killed in Arctic by BP security guard

Posted by lillianbarbeito on Saturday, 25 August 2012 in Earth Violators

A polar bear was inadvertently shot to death by a security guard at BP's Endicott field on the North Slope of Alaska when it approached a compound where oil workers live. The shooting earlier this month marked the first time one of the region's iconic bears -- listed as threatened under the federal...

Go Daddy CEO under fire for 'elephant snuff film'

Posted by smashley1988 on Thursday, 23 August 2012 in Earth Violators

PETA gives Parsons 'scummiest CEO' gong and boycott Bob Parsons, chief executive of the market-leading domain name registrar Go Daddy, has come to blows with animal-rights organisation PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), after he shot an African elephant and posted the video onlin...

Teens Surf Whale Carcass

Posted by amir on Tuesday, 24 July 2012 in Earth Violators

PEOPLE are being warned to keep away from the dead whale washed up near Warrnambool's Thunder Point after callous photographs appeared on a social networking site. One posted on Facebook yesterday shows a group of people touching the male humpback as one man stands on top of it in a surfing pose. ...

Big Energy Companies Plan to Turn the United States into a Third-World Petro-State

Posted by bensor on Thursday, 05 April 2012 in Earth Violators

The “curse” of oil wealth is a well-known phenomenon in Third World petro-states where millions of lives are wasted in poverty and the environment is ravaged, while tiny elites rake in the energy dollars and corruption rules the land. Recently, North America has been repeatedly ...

Is The Military Using Whales to Test Weapons

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 26 March 2012 in Earth Violators

A couple of years ago, there were rumblings at exactly 7: 30 a.m. every morning At the same time, we were told that the ocean floor was being banged on right where there is a marine reserve for whales. Not much later, dead whales washed up on the beach in Washington state. The U.S. air fo...

Dolphins Dying in the Gulf

Posted by Angel on Saturday, 24 March 2012 in Earth Violators

Over 675 wild dolphins have been stranded in the northern Gulf of Mexico since February 2010. Most of them were found dead, but 33 were alive and seven were taken to rehabilitation centers. The average number of dolphin strandings for the northern Gulf is 74 per year, according to NOAA. So...

Clean energy, dirty business

Posted by Aaron on Sunday, 26 February 2012 in Earth Violators

The fact is that 10 to 12 per cent of the primary energy supply today comes from renewable sources (not counting hydroelectric energy). But new renewables – technologies of the future – still make up only one or two per cent of this supply. The rest comes from biomass systems of the poor, ...

Big Greenwashing 101

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 16 February 2012 in Earth Violators

By Red Emma Greenwashing—[a compound word modeled on "whitewash"] a form of spin in which green PR or green marketing is deceptively used to promote the perception that a company’s policies or products are environmentally friendly. John Muir must be rolling over in his grave. Th...

Worst Year Yet for Elephants as Thousands are Slaughtered

Posted by bchristo on Friday, 30 December 2011 in Earth Violators

Large-scale tusk smuggling has reached a record high this year, with at least 2,500 dead elephants used for ivory.Organised criminals - particularly Asian syndicates - are increasingly involved in the illegal trade, according to environmental agency Traffic.Experts believe it has been the worst year...

Agony and Ivory - China's Hunt for Ivory

Posted by Angel on Sunday, 18 December 2011 in Earth Violators

Highly emotional and completely guileless, elephants mourn their dead—and across Africa, they are grieving daily as demand from China’s “suddenly wealthy” has driven the price of ivory to $700 a pound or more. With tens of thousands of elephants being slaughtered each year for their tusks, raising t...

Fracking Firm Admits It Caused Earthquakes

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 11 November 2011 in Earth Violators

Given the twin concerns of peak oil and climate change, it's no surprise that natural gas (with its lower carbon intensity than coal) has been hailed by many as the salvation of our modern way of life, at least for now. And with the discovery of enormous deposits under Marcellus Shale in the Eastern...

Annual Dolphin Hunt Season in Taiji, Japan Began on September 1st

Posted by Wolf on Wednesday, 28 September 2011 in Earth Violators

The annual dolphin hunt season in Taiji, Japan began on September 1st. We’ve told you recently aboutSave Japan Dolphins Day and Ric O’Barry in Taiji and Kelly Slater raising awareness of the dolphin slaughter. Now, reportedly the first dolphins of the season have been killed...

Shark Killing in the Galapagos National Park

Posted by bchristo on Saturday, 03 September 2011 in Earth Violators

On July 25th, Sea Shepherd reported the capture of a fishing vessel in what is the biggest case of shark killing in the history of the Galapagos National Park. We saw this as our opportunity to put almost two years of hard work in our legal project into practice and were preparing ourselve...

India Assessing Mumbai Oil Spill Damage

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 08 August 2011 in Earth Violators

India's coastline remains dangerously vulnerable. Last week MT Pavit, an unmanned oil tanker, ran aground on Juhu beach. That happened because, nitpicking over their jurisdictional responsibilities, Mumbai police sat on the information for hours. The alarm bells still ringing, a technical snag groun...

Montana Spill Clouds Pipeline Plan

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 24 July 2011 in Earth Violators

The fallout from a ruptured oil pipeline in the Yellowstone River this month is spilling into a larger debate over whether the U.S. should allow the expansion of a pipeline that would carry more crude from Canada's oil sands to American refineries. The July 1 accident at Exxon Mobil Corp.'s Silvert...

Yellowstone Cleanup Will Take More People

Posted by EarthDude on Sunday, 24 July 2011 in Earth Violators

Exxon Mobil Corp will bring in more people to mop up oil from a broken pipeline beneath the Yellowstone River as receding floodwaters reveal new contamination, federal officials said Friday.Also Friday, Montana environmental regulators said the pipeline may have leaked up to 1,200 barrels of oil int...