- Tensions high in Ukraine after at least 21 die in fiery clashes
- 4 dead after Thai police clash with anti-government protesters in Bangkok
- Cheered by supporters, Venezuelan opposition leader Lopez surrenders
- Violence derails Brazilian protest movement—"Smashed shopfronts, burning buses, injured protesters and the death of a cameraman - an ugly escalation of violence threatens to relegate Brazil's protest movement to a position from which it is unlikely to recover."
- Vietnam: Ballroom dancers break up war protest
- Spy Chief: We Should’ve Told You We Track Your Calls—"The U.S. government long considered its collection of Americans' call records to be a state secret. Now the Director of National Intelligence admits it would have been better if Washington had acknowledged the surveillance in the first place."
- Hillary Clinton goes mum on NSA, skirts surveillance fight Politico
- Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks and Its Supporters
- Imprisoned CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou Threatened with 'Diesel Therapy,' Suffers Shakedowns for Talking to Press
- AT&T reveals number of NSA and location demands in first-ever transparency report
- It's OK to parody the NSA—"NSA backs down, admits man can use their seal for T-shirts and mugs on Zazzle."
- UK Court: David Miranda Detention Legal Under Terrorism Law
- Removal of Russian radio station CEO stokes concerns—"Shareholders replaced the head of one of Russia's few independent broadcasters on Tuesday, fueling concerns that a government crackdown on civil liberties and human rights is growing more intense."
- China Accused of Exporting Media Censorship Across Asia
- Memo reveals Ohio regulatory agency had planned to support fracking and wage PR campaign
- Ohio Governor Reverses Course On Fracking In State Parks After Plan To Discredit Environmentalists Leaked
- ALEC's Fracking Chemical Disclosure Bill Moving Through Florida Legislature—"ALEC's model bill, like HB 157, has a trade secrets exemption for chemicals deemed proprietary."
- Refineries Seeking Canadian Tar Sands Quietly Finance Pro-Keystone XL Advocacy
- Native Americans vow a last stand to block Keystone XL pipeline
- Whistle-Blower Fired From Hanford Nuclear Site—"Whistle-blower Donna Busche, who raised safety concerns at the nation's most polluted nuclear weapons production site, was fired Tuesday from her job at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation."
- Dolphins 'suffering miscarriage, lung disease, losing teeth after BP oil spill' researchers claim
- Saturated with oil money, Texas legislature saved industry from pollution rule
- Chevron: Sorry Our Gas Well Exploded, Here's a Free Pizza
- Chinese villagers attack polluting factory, police
- NC: McCrory on defensive over coal ash spill
- NC Gov. McCrory briefed on Duke coal ash lawsuit—"...resulting in a negotiated settlement that fined the $50 billion corporation $99,111 to resolve violations over groundwater contamination leaching from two huge coal ash dumps."
- Toxins leaking from 2nd pipe at NC coal ash dump—"North Carolina officials said Tuesday that groundwater containing unsafe levels of arsenic apparently leaching from a Duke Energy coal ash dump is still pouring into the Dan River, which is already contaminated from a massive Feb. 2 spill."
- Obama to propose $1 billion to prepare for climate change WaPo
- Kerry calls climate change a weapon of mass destruction, derides skeptics WaPo
- How Big Oil Gave Up On the Climate—"Five years ago Shell was ready to fight global warming. Now it’s rooting for it."
- Flurry of Storms: A Result of Climate Change?—"Scientist Bill Nye and Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., discuss the politics of weather emergencies and climate change."
- Climate change is here now and it could lead to global conflict—"Extreme weather events in the UK and overseas are part of a growing pattern that it would be very unwise for us, or our leaders, to ignore, writes the author of the influential 2006 report on the economics of climate change."
- Wavier jet stream 'may drive weather shift'
- Utah lawmaker: Our atmosphere needs more carbon dioxide—Note to self: former science teachers from Utah are batshit crazy.
- Slaughtered for Ivory: 65 Percent of Forest Elephants Killed Since 2002
- Four African nations pledge to end all sales of ivory
- N.J. man convicted of narwhal tusk trafficking
- Killer starfish are eating the Great Barrier Reef by smothering and digesting its flesh
- Deep-sea mining 'must responsibly respect ecosystems'
- Parody video: Shark Cull
- Father and son charged with poisoning bald eagles
- Australian fined for killing great white shark
- Teen charged with shooting cat 17 times in Sarnia, Ont.
- Disputed 'ag gag bill' advances in Idaho Senate—Protecting animal cruelty (or maybe animal love?) from 'marauding invaders'.
- This Is Not a Drill: Hot Pockets Yanked From Shelves for Containing 'Diseased and Unsound Animals'
- 2 El Monterey brand products recalled due to diseased beef concerns
- Kroger accused of being not-so-honest in 'Simple Truth' chicken labels
- 11 arrested for serving human meat at Nigerian hotel restaurant: report—"Two human heads were found at an unnamed hotel restaurant and wrapped in cellophane, according to a report out of Anambra, Nigeria, in which police were tipped off to the restaurant allegedly serving human meat in burgers."
