Al Gore’s documentary on global warming officially moves to DVD today. How scary is it that with all the horror films in theaters these days, the most frightening one was a documentary? Terrifying. Slashdot has a great reminder commentary on the movie and why its one of the most important flicks of this generation. [...]

Appalachia is under attack by corrupt coal companies and greedy banks, like Wells Fargo, that fund them. The tactic is mountaintop removal. The result is a sort of bombing campaign wrecking havoc on Appalachian land, economy, people and culture. Rainforest Action Network is helping spread the word about this “bombing campaign” and popular opposition [...]

Just when you thought things were actually getting better, the Environment team at UK’s the Independent has to go and ruin it. But the truth hurts, right? CO2 emissions worldwide over the past five years were four times greater than for the preceding ten years. Data on carbon dioxide emissions shows that the global growth rate was [...]

Ok, so rarely do we toot our own horn around here but I thought this video that we recently put out was pretty dang good. For those of you new to RAN, it provides an excellent idea of who we are what we do. For our old friends and neighbors, well, it’ll bring back some [...]

End Oil Aid Now!! Not the catchiest of chants, but it gets the point across as we’re entering a new century where public institutions like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the US Treasury are STILL subsidizing Big Oil for power and profit with total disregard for the environment and people. Not only [...]

Rhett Butler over at Mongabay alerted me to an incredible story developing out of Venezuela. Illegal gold mining is on the rise in South America but most heavily in beautiful natural regions of the Amazonian river basin. Specifically, the Caura River Basin along the Venezuelan and Brazilian border. Known as one of the [...]

The U.S. House will soon vote on a bill that would define acts of peaceful protest as terrorism. Already passed by the Senate, the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, S. 1926 and H.R. 4239 (AETA) categorizes activists as terrorists if they engage in First Amendment-protected activities like demonstrations, leafleting, undercover investigations and boycotts targeted at any [...]

Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace have been in solitary confinement in Louisiana State Penitentiary for more than 34 years. In prison for armed robbery they were convicted of killing a prison guard in 1971 despite a substantial amount of questionable evidence against them. Woodfox and Wallace are two of the original Angola 3 [...]

As a great blue wave washed over America with a new majority in Congress and ousted Donald Rumsfeld from the Pentagon, George Bush and the Republican Party aren’t the only ones who were rebuked on November 7th. On Election Night, Massey Energy and its CEO Don Blankenship were foiled at the polls as over [...]

Here’s David’s report from his trip up to Ontario this week. The Grassy Narrows speaking tour has turned out to be a real hit – we have reached about 450 people in 6 cities in one week. You can hear a pin drop while the Grassy Narrows clan mothers speak, and they have had some very positive [...]