This week’s environmental newsletter from Planet Waves covers such diverse topics as: Crest announcing it will phase out plastic microbeads in its toothpastes; public comment being reopened on a proposal to hold electromagnetic war games in Olympic National Forest; more trouble at the Hanford nuclear site; a leaked document from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP); fewer abortion clinics connected to the lowest ratings for women’s and children’s health; and news about global warming.

This week’s edition of Monsanto Eco features such diverse topics as: the approval of new GMO crops able to withstand Agent Orange’s active ingredients; renegade, unclassified GMO wheat found in a Montana field; a mining company suing El Salvador for not letting it run roughshod over the country’s natural resources; antibiotic pesticides found to be linked to allergic reactions; a federal judge restoring protections for wolves in Wyoming — and more.

This pair of photos by Amanda Painter and Hal J. Cohen from yesterday’s massive climate march in Manhattan give a glimpse of the creativity marchers brought to the event, and hints at later direct action. Early estimates put the turnout at about 310,000 marchers, though it looked like easily twice that.