Category: RT Newswire

USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.

Former Tropical Storm Arthur Flooding Southern Mexico

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Storm Arthur threatens flooding in southern Mexico
Sun Jun 1, 2008 6:20pm EDT

By Chris Aspin

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Arthur, the first of the year in the Atlantic, weakened to a depression over Mexico on Sunday but still dumped torrential rain across the south of the country that threatened to create floods.

Arthur, which had been forecast to move early Sunday into the Gulf of Mexico where there are many oil installations, was still overland and was seen moving farther inland in coming hours and then losing punch.

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Activists Denounce Forest Stewardship Council for “Misleading the Public”

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Activists from Global Forests Coalition and World Rainforest Movement
made their voices heard at a side event organized by the Forest
Stewardship Council in Bonn. After listening to 45 minutes of polite
chat from the panel about how lovely FSC is, activists held up a
banner reading ?FSC: Stop Certifying Monoculture Tree Plantations?.
They also read out parts of the statement below.

After a couple of questions and a short discussion, Stefan Salvador
from FSC closed the meeting, although several more people wanted to
ask questions and some pointed out that this should be a democratic
space for discussing the problems with FSC.

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191 Nations Torpedo “Ocean-Fertilization” False Solution

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it appears the forces of sanity have won this one!

see ya planktos / climos etc!

~b

The World Torpedoes Ocean Fertilization:
End of Round One on Geo-Engineering.
191 countries agree landmark moratorium on ocean CO2 sequestration.

As the ninth meeting of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity
(CBD) draws to a close in Bonn, Germany the world’s governments are
set to unanimously agree a wide-ranging “de-facto moratorium” on ocean
fertilization activities. This first-ever global decision on a geo-
engineering technology should spell the end of commercial plans to
sequester carbon dioxide by dumping nutrients into the open ocean.
Nonetheless one ocean fertilization company, Climos Inc of San
Francisco, appears to be moving full steam ahead in defiance of
international consensus.

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Amazon Tribe Sighting Raises Contact Dilemma

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Amazon tribe sighting raises contact dilemma
Fri May 30, 2008 5:25pm EDT

By Stuart Grudgings

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Dramatic photographs of previously unfound Amazon Indians have highlighted the precariousness of the few remaining “lost” tribes and the dangers they face from contact with outsiders.

The bow-and-arrow wielding Indians in the pictures released on Thursday are likely the remnants of a larger tribe who were forced deeper into the forest by encroaching settlement, experts said.

Rather than being “lost”, they have likely had plenty of contact with other indigenous groups over the years, said Thomas Lovejoy, an Amazon expert who is president of The Heinz Center in Washington.

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