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The Beetles: Eighty-Nine Million Acres of Abrupt Climate Change
Posted by Truthout: None Given on February 16th, 2016
Truthout: A 100,000-acre spruce beetle kill drapes this alpine mountain park like a heavy wool blanket. Except for a green strip of young trees along the old logging roads that crisscross forested areas like these, 90 percent or more of the rest of the forest has been killed. Groundhog Park, La Garita Range, Rio Grande National Forest, south central Colorado, elevation 11,000 feet. Background: Mesa Mountain, elevation 12,994 feet. (Photo: Bruce Melton)
We were awash for 19 days in a tumultuous sea of mountains...
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Comments Off on The Beetles: Eighty-Nine Million Acres of Abrupt Climate ChangeTexas Tar Sands Tree-Sit Launches to Halt Keystone XL Indefinitely
Posted by Truthout: None Given on September 27th, 2012
Truthout: Shannon Bebe and Benjamin Franklin locked themselves to construction equipment working nearly 300 yards away from a tree village blocking construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. (Photo: Tar Sands Blockade)
I've known some of the sitters for years. We started off organizing small rallies and protests at the University of North Texas - the usual, a forum here, a documentary screening there. Now some of my best friends are sitting in trees to halt construction of the Keystone XL pipeline in Winnsboro,...
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