The Official Launch of Blue Earth Defense (BED)
Blue Earth Defense is a network of grassroots advocates, communities, and movements committed to defending life on Earth from the threats of extractivism, greenwashing, and systemic inequality.BED envisions a world rooted in autonomy, mutual aid, cooperation, solidarity, and direct action—where people and nature coexist in balance, and where communities chart their own paths toward resilience […]
Talking The Wrong Way About Carbon
The climate movement is talking about carbon all wrong, a new book argues Carbon isn’t an enemy to “combat” or “tackle,” the environmentalist Paul Hawken writes, but the animating force of life “This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” Burning oil, gas, and coal — literal fossil fuels, […]
There is so much corruption’: hundreds of thousands protest in Manila over missing flood funds
An estimated 650,000 of them have flooded the centre of Manila to protest, amid fury over a spiralling corruption scandal in which billions of dollars in flood mitigation funds have evaporated. Organised by the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC), a powerful sect in the Philippines, the three-day rally has shut down schools, roads and offices. Many of those […]
Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It
Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Max Wilbert (Monkfish Book Publishing Company, 2021). https://www.brightgreenlies.com By Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) | Axis of Logic Axis of Logic exclusive Monday, Aug 30, 2021 “What do you know about this mendacity thing? Hell! I could write a book on it! Don’t you know that? I could write a book on […]
Study warns up to a quarter of Philippine vertebrates risk extinction
By Keith Anthony S. Fabro / Mongabay The Philippines, long recognized as one of the world’s most important biodiversity hotspots, could lose nearly a quarter of its unique land-dwelling vertebrate species unless urgent conservation action is taken, according to a new study. In a paper published in Science of The Total Environment, researchers assessed 1,294 species of amphibians, reptiles, […]
Philippine Tribes Revive Reforestation to Defy Coal Mining Expansion
By Bong S. Sarmiento / Mongabay SOUTH COTABATO, Philippines — It’s been three years since production began at a coal mine in the mountain village of Ned, some 1,500 kilometers, nearly 1,000 miles, south of Manila, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Since then, more than 2 million metric tons of deposits have been […]
NOAA Deep Seabed Mining: Revisions to Regulations for Exploration License and Commercial Recovery Permit
To National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in response to Deep Seabed Mining: Revisions to regulations for exploration license and commercial recovery permit applications ID NOAA-NOS-2025-0108-0001 Deep Sea Defenders is an all-volunteer international organization founded in September 2021. We are dedicated to protecting the integrity, stability and beauty of the deep sea environment, the organisms who […]
Community Efforts Yield New Marine Protected Area In the Philippines
By Kristine Sabillo / Mongabay The Philippines has officially designated a new marine protected area after an 18-year campaign by local communities, fisher associations, civil society organizations and government agencies, the Wildlife Conservation Society announcedAug. 13. The newly created Bitaug Marine Protected Area (MPA), which covers nearly 150 hectares (about 370 acres), is the largest MPA in […]
Filipino Communities Use Vast Variety of Endemic Plants
By Keith Anthony S. Fabro / Mongabay In the forested highlands of Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines, Mingay Dakias knows exactly where to find medicine — not in modern health clinics but in the leaves, roots and vines that grow wild around his community. Taught by his father, who learned from the elders before […]
Palestine Denounces Gaza Devastation as “Ecocide”
The Permanent Mission of the State of Palestine to the Kingdom of the Netherlands has formally described the environmental destruction in Gaza as ecocide, citing that less than 5% of agricultural land remains suitable for cultivation and calling for international legal recognition of the long-term consequences¹. The statement — the first by a state-level actor […]