U.S. Coral Reefs Under Threat, Report Finds:
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN0743512120080707
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Corals Collapsing in More Acid Oceans:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/09/10227/
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— On Tue, 7/1/08, Margo Tamez <sumalhepa.nde.defense@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Margo Tamez <sumalhepa.nde.defense@gmail.com>
Subject: Dine’ “NEW LANDS”–State & Corporate Methods of Genocide
To: “sumalhepa. nde. defense” <sumalhepa.nde.defense@gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2008, 5:28 AM
“New Lands” – Navajo Reservation, near Black Mesa
Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:32 pm (PDT)
Blessings All
From: swaneagle harijan
rontlinemom@yahoo.com
The following AP article from June 26, 2008 fails to first of all mention that these
so called “New Lands” have water contaminated by a major nuclear accident in 1979
when United Nuclear’s Churchrock damn burst spilling 97 million gallons of highly
radioactive contaminants into the Rio Puerco, water source for the thousands of
relocatees. Many reported cancer, deformed babies and livestock.
The suicide rate among youth was highest in the nation at one time in this region.
Dine of all ages killed themselves in despair, many by walking into traffic on the
highway.
Twice i went to the “New Lands”, once with another nonIndian supporter and another
time with Pauline Whitesinger to visit the Bedonie family mentioned in the article.
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“Climate change has created desert-like conditions across much of the
central and western U.S., causing fires to burn larger and hotter and
amplifying negative effects on soil quality and ecosystem services.”
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Ecological Society of America
ESANEWS
MEDIA ADVISORY: For Immediate Release
July 7, 2008
Ecology, Soil and Economics Societies to Hold Briefings on Post-Wildfire
Resource Management
WASHINGTON-Three prominent scientific societies will present briefings
on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, July 9, to inform lawmakers about how to
manage natural areas after they have been consumed by wildfires. Jointly
sponsored by the Ecological Society of America (ESA), the Soil Science
Society of America (SSSA) and the Council on Food, Agricultural and
Resource Economics (C-FARE), the briefings will comprise three experts
in the fields of forest ecology, forest soil science and resource
economics.
In the July-August 2008 edition of Z Magazine:
One Leap Backwards for Biodiversity, One Giant Step Forward for Industry
Biodiversity loses at UN convention on biodiversity
By Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle; photos by Langelle
[Note: IPOs stand for Indigenous Peoples Organizations]
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) emerged, along with its cousin
the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), out of the Rio Earth
Summit in 1992. Its mission is ostensibly to recommend solutions to the
escalating biodiversity crisis, which is manifesting in the extinctions of
hundreds of species every day and which threatens the existence of entire races
of people.