http://extras.denverpost.com/archive/captured.html These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America [...]

A whale hunted Sunday morning was landed and slaughtered during a whale festival in the Ayukawa district of the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, one of Japan’s major coastal whaling bases. The slaughter was performed before an audience of tourists as the roughly 10-meter-long, 10-ton Baird’s beaked whale was caught off Fukushima Prefecture and [...]

 Late yesterday we received some great news: As a result of a lawsuit brought in federal court by Defenders of Wildlife and other conservation groups, wolves in Greater Yellowstone and the Northern Rockies are again protected under the Endangered Species Act. A federal judge in Montana sided with Defenders and other conservation groups, overturning [...]

Oil Spill Assaults Kahnawakes Shoreline – With the horrific disaster in the Gulf it is easy to forget that oil spills are occurring practically every day somewhere in the worlds oceans. Most of these spills go unreported and unpunished. The frequency of the spills themselves have made oil spills pretty much routine until something like [...]

SEA SHEPHERD NEWS Galapagos Islands No Longer on UNESCO List of World Heritage in Danger – At the annual meeting of the UNESCO committee for World Heritage Sites, which was held this year in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, it was decided that Ecuador has improved the situation in the Galapagos Islands to such an [...]

“Fresh” Crater Found in Egypt; Changes Impact Risk? Main Content Geophysicists work in the newfound Kamil crater in an undated picture. Photograph courtesy Museo Nazionale dell’Antartide Università di Siena Andrew Fazekas for National Geographic News Published July 22, 2010 A small impact crater discovered in the Egyptian desert could change estimates for impact hazards to [...]

Photographer name unknown.  If anyone has that information please leave the information in the comment section so that I may give that person credit. Thanks. Paul Watson continues charting his course—being a controversial pain in the ass for whalers By: Arrissia Owen Turner Inland Empire Weekly Paul Watson demands attention. The founder of the Sea [...]

Global Warming “Undeniable,” U.S. Government Report Says Past decade hottest on record, NOAA study says. Main Content The retreating Iceberg Glacier in Chile’s Bernardo O’Higgins National Park (file). Photograph by Maria Stenzel, National Geographic Christine Dell’Amore National Geographic News Published July 28, 2010 “Global warming is undeniable,” and it’s happening fast, a new U.S. government [...]

Dead Sea Scrolls Mystery Solved? Main Content Sections of the Dead Sea Scrolls on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in 2008. Photograprh by Baz Ratner, Reuters Ker Than Published July 27, 2010 The recent decoding of a cryptic cup, the excavation of ancient Jerusalem tunnels, and other archaeological detective work may help solve [...]

Friday, July 30, 2010 Sea Shepherd Undercover Operative Addresses the People of the Faeroe Islands The following op-ed piece was published today in the biggest newspaper in the Faeroe Islands, Dimmalaetting. It is a letter from Sea Shepherd Undercover Operative Peter Hammarstedt to the Faroese people. Read more… http://seashepherd.org Monday, July 26, 2010 Sea Shepherd [...]