- The 18 Most Corrupt Countries In The World
- Grand corruption is 'crime against humanity' - lawmakers
- Anti-corruption crusader stuns Indian politics with election surge
- Polar Bear Researcher Gets $100,000 In Settlement With Feds—"A scientist whose observations of drowned polar bears raised alarms about climate change has received $100,000 to settle a whistle-blower complaint against an agency of the Department of the Interior. [...] Monnett believes this was an effort to silence scientific efforts that might interfere with oil and gas development in the Arctic."
- Police remove protesters from Chevron's fracking site in Romania—"Villagers complain of police brutality after being forced out of their camping site in fields targeted for shale gas drilling."
- The war on democracy—"How corporations and spy agencies use 'security' to defend profiteering and crush activism."
- US House approves $5,000 fee for official drilling protests, less federal authority over fracking
- New Zealand's government sides with Texas oil giant, Anadarko, bans protests around its oil rig
- Tas Opposition reveals plan for tougher illegal forestry protest penalties
- Wikileaks reveals failed plans to suppress anti-Keystone activists—"A 2010 presentation laid out strategies for dealing with environmentalists." Salon
- BP wins reprieve over Gulf of Mexico oil spill payouts
- Dredging set to swamp decades of Great Barrier Reef protection
- Louisiana failed to collect millions in oil and gas taxes
- ALEC calls for penalties on 'freerider' homeowners in assault on clean energy
- Worst-Case Scenario for Oil Sands Industry Has Come to Life, Leaked Document Shows
- Harvard fracking study rings methane alarm bells in Australia
- Oil Company Caught Illegally Dumping Fracking Discharge In Central Valley
- Dixie, LA family finds their tap water is
- Anti-fracking protests in Canada turn violent
- Oil and gas industry sues Colorado cities over fracking bans
- Most climate change gases can be traced to just 90 companies
- Media failure on Iraq War repeated in climate change coverage—"The media failed to accurately report facts prior to the Iraq War; climate reporting is failing in similar fashion."
- GOP: No Climate Change because, Bible
- Climate change is increasing the intensity of extreme weather events—"Far from being isolated, the Philippines typhoon Haiyan followed other extraordinary meteorological events that are becoming more frequent and increasingly severe."
- Kiribati man denied climate change asylum in NZ
- Flights canceled as record air pollution chokes Shanghai—Runaway environmental deruglation at work Salon
- It's as clear as day - China needs its own Clean Air Act—"The new leadership has paid greater mind to pollution, but much more needs to be done to ease the country's worsening smog crisis."
- Japan, South Korea concerned that China's smog will affect them
- Chris Hadfield: We Should Treat Earth as Kindly as We Treat Spacecraft
- Sea stars are wasting away in larger numbers on a wider scale in two oceans WaPo
- The Year the Monarch Didn't Appear—"The precipitous loss of native vegetation across the United States has led to a dramatic decline of insect populations." NYT
- H&M stops making angora products after rabbit torture video
- Woman who took cattle abuse video charged with animal abuse
- Guess Which Company Won’t Drop Pork Supplier After Horrific Video Exposes Abuse
- African elephant numbers 'could fall by one-fifth' due to poaching—"The scale of the elephant poaching epidemic could lead to local populations becoming extinct, an IUCN report says."
- IoS Charity Appeal: Slaughter of elephants on a huge scale
- Deal to halt illegal ivory trade signed—"African and Asian states, including China, yesterday struck a deal at the Elephant Summit being held in Gaborone, Botswana, on the tackling of the illegal ivory trade."
- The Silent Crisis: Vietnam's Elephants on the Verge of Extinction
- India: To protect elephants, stop night movement of trains
- Changes to Canada's fisheries law alarm biologists—"Revisions that take effect today remove protections for 80% of endangered freshwater species."
- Japan whaling ships leave for Antarctic hunt
- China bans shark fin dinners, suites for officials in latest crackdown
