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Breakthrough Accord Could Bring Reparations for Guatemala Massacre Survivors

After months of delay, a new agreement between the President of Guatemala and civil society has breathed life into a long-running campaign to secure compensation for families that lost relatives during the notorious Rio Negro massacres in the early 1980s.

Environmental Activists Expose Dangers of E-Waste

November 14, 2008, Delhi, India: In the streets of Mustaffabad, a poor quarter of Delhi, children in sandals sit on top of piles of broken glass and twisted metal, smashing computer monitors. Men with blowtorches melt circuit boards, while nearby, women sort and scrub other boards with diluted acid. Charred fiberglass and copper dust litter the ground.

This is the world of the electronic waste (e-waste) recyclers, who make a living by tearing apart the toxic remains of old home computers, cell phones and printer cartridges from the United States and other countries. India imported about 50,000 tons of e-waste last year, and e-waste employs about 25,000 people in Delhi.

Environmentalist Preaches Conservation as Chaos Engulfs Eastern Congo

Environmentalist Preaches Conservation as Chaos Engulfs Eastern Congo

November 4, 2008, Uvira, Democratic Republic of Congo: With little more than a motorbike and a mission, Clement Kitambala has been spreading news about environmental issues in remote communities of the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo.

Amid renewed fighting that has displaced more than 130,000, ongoing food crises and rampant sexual violence, his newsletter, Tunza Mazingira ("Conserve the Environment" in Swahili), has provided a steady voice for conservation. Mr Kitambala painstakingly distributes the newsletter in person, from village to village, on his motorbike.

Spokompton » Commissioner of Public Lands

Here's why the Commissioner for Public Lands matters to Washington State.

YouTube - Peter Goldmark for Public Lands Commissioner

Video of Peter Goldmark's campaign launch

SR.com: Goldmark starts campaign for state lands commissioner

Peter Goldmark, a rancher from Eastern Washington will oppose incumbent Doug Sutherland for the extremely important position of Commissioner for Public Lands. Sutherland has adopted a policy of balancing egregious giveaways to the timber industry with a fleecing of public resource and a siphoning of public money from health care and education.

I'm Traveling Pole To Pole To Save The Planet

I am Jon Earle, 28, a New Zealander and an active member of the Pole to Pole Leadership Institute, a non-profit organization devoted to inspiring, empowering and training youth to address the critical issues of our time. Right now we re preparing for the second Pole to Pole journey. The first expedition was run in 2000 which would travel from the North to the South Pole via the Americas, stopping off at different environmental conservation and humanitarian projects along the way.

Time To Ban Hunting

Although it was a crucial part of humans survival 100,000 years ago, hunting is now nothing more than a violent form of recreation that the vast majority of hunters does not need for subsistence. Many animals suffer prolonged, painful deaths when they are injured but not killed by hunters. Here's a dramatic expose of this so called "sport."

3 Biologists Question Evidence in Sighting of Rare Woodpecker

Might not be an ivory-bill after all. Scientific debate about to rage...