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The Forum regularly posts news articles of interest here from a variety of sources and news outlets. You can check back here or view the most recent ones from the homepage. We also archive these articles here, for those doing research, with news going back to 2006. Use the menu on the right to explore the archived articles.

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Indigenous Nations Are at the Forefront of the Conflict With Transnational Corporate Power

October 16, 2013
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Truthout

8 Tribes That Are Way Ahead of the Climate-Adaptation Curve

October 15, 2013
By Terri Hansen
Indian Country Today Media Network

Sacred Sites Research Newsletter (SSIREN)

October 2013

To view this newsletter, visit:
http://fore.research.yale.edu/files/SSIREN_October_2013.pdf

Yogyakarta Farmer Pioneers Islamic Environmentalism

October 16, 2013
By Cory Rogers
Jakarta Globe

Atop the craggy hilltops southeast of Yogyakarta, not far from the rock-hewn cemetery where visitors pay homage to past sultans, a small farm is striving to demonstrate that modern agriculture practice need not — like the nearby tombs — be set in stone.

Green Church Newsletter

October 2013

http://egliseverte-greenchurch.ca/green/index.php?option=com_acymailing&ctrl=archive&task=view&mailid=41&key=fcfb13f4a3394262512d3bfb7559edd1...

New global treaty cuts mercury emissions and releases, sets up controls

Full title:

New global treaty cuts mercury emissions and releases, sets up controls on products, mines and industrial plants

Japan among the first to sign Minamata Convention on Mercury
    
United Nations Environment Programme
October 10, 2013

In a Polluted Stream, a Pathway to Peace

October 9, 2013
By Jeff Wheelwright
New York Times

MORRO BAY, Calif. — PEACE talks are under way again in Jerusalem. If the past is any guide, the two sides are stymied over difficult issues like settlements and borders. The negotiators badly need a new approach, and one is right beneath their feet, in the Kidron Valley, the deep ravine that runs from the Old City through the...

Quakers in Britain to disinvest from fossil fuels

October 6, 2013
By Nicolò Wojewoda
Go Fossil Free

Following up to last month’s launch of our partner Operation Noah’s divestment campaign, for fossil free churches, here’s another great news from the UK, and the press release by ON that welcomes it.

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Penn Bioethics Journal - Call for Papers

Penn Bioethics Journal

Open to all Undergraduate Students

Deadlines for submissions: Oct. 14, Nov. 4, Nov. 18, Dec. 3, 2013

http://fore.research.yale.edu/files/PBJ_call_for_papers_Fall_2013.pdf

World's sacred forests may fall prey to developers, scientists warn

October 4, 2013
By Isaiah Esipisu
Thomson Reuters Foundation

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sacred forests, which have mainly been protected by indigenous communities following traditional beliefs, are among the few remaining forest ecosystems that have been spared by loggers, but they are increasingly under threat, scientists warn.

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