How Scientists Are Preparing for Apophis’s Unnervingly Close Brush With Earth
How Scientists Are Preparing for Apophis’s Unnervingly Close Brush With Earth The potentially hazardous asteroid is on its way for an uncomfortably close flyby of Earth in 2029. This is radar image of a near-Earth asteroid similar to Apophis. We actually know very little about what Apophis looks like, but its pending flyby in 2029 […]
‘A serious risk’: Mexican villagers take on cartel-backed avocado farms as water dries up
‘A serious risk’: Mexican villagers take on cartel-backed avocado farms as water dries up Copyright AP Photo/Armando Solis After enduring years of drought and ‘invading’ fruit farmers in Mexico, these locals are taking matters into their own hands. Desperate Mexican villagers are taking direct action on commercial avocado farms that are drying up streams while […]
Russia To Seize $440 Million From JPMorgan
Russia To Seize $440 Million From JPMorgan Seizing assets? Two can play at that game… Just days after Washington voted to authorize the REPO Act – paving the way for the Biden administration confiscate billions in Russian sovereign assets which sit in US banks – it appears Moscow has a plan of its own (let’s call it the […]
Houthis Launch Attack On US Cargo & Navy Ships Following Two Weeks Of Quiet
Houthis Launch Attack On US Cargo & Navy Ships Following Two Weeks Of Quiet Yemen’s Iran-linked Houthis have announced new aggressive actions in the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea regions, saying late Wednesday that projectiles were launched against more US and Israeli-owned commercial vessels, and that a US warship was also targeted. This follows a […]
The Lancet Publishes CDC Studies on Misinformation, Hoping You Forgot The Lancet and CDC Spread Pandemic Misinformation
The Lancet Publishes CDC Studies on Misinformation, Hoping You Forgot The Lancet and CDC Spread Pandemic Misinformation Censorship academic Claire Wardle helps guide the journal’s descent into authoritarian, censorship hell. Medical authorities and like-minded charlatans address public failure with several strategies. One method is to deny error, feign outrage at critics pointing to the screwup, […]
America’s plastic catastrophe
America’s plastic catastrophe China stopped taking our plastic waste. Now we’re drowning in it. Americans produce 40 million tons of plastic waste each year. And it has to go somewhere. Carl Godfrey for BI America has long had a plastic problem. It’s an urgent question — what do we do with the 40 million tons of […]
Big Tech Sponsors Event With Canadian Pro-Censorship Justice Minister Advocating Online Censorship
Big Tech Sponsors Event With Canadian Pro-Censorship Justice Minister Advocating Online Censorship Canada’s justice minister, Arif Virani, proposes speech-restrictive legislation at an event backed by corporate sponsorship from Meta and AWS. Canada’s government, represented by “captain of censorship” Arif Virani – the country’s justice minister and attorney general, will use an upcoming event as the […]
The Human Ecology of Overshoot: Why a Major ‘Population Correction’ Is Inevitable
The Human Ecology of Overshoot: Why a Major ‘Population Correction’ Is Inevitable This is an article (or in science speak a paper) review. My method is to start with a copy pasted into the Medium editor unread and boil it down to key bits [and add comments in brackets as I read/assess/vet the offering, which […]
‘We were in disbelief’: Antarctica is behaving in a way we’ve never seen before. Can it recover?
‘We were in disbelief’: Antarctica is behaving in a way we’ve never seen before. Can it recover? Antarctic sea ice has been disappearing over the last several summers. Now, climate scientists are wondering whether it will ever come back. A small boat glides around patches of sea ice in the water off Deception Island in […]
Kazakhstan’s Oil Flows to Germany Threatened as Russia Demands Transit Fees
Kazakhstan’s Oil Flows to Germany Threatened as Russia Demands Transit Fees Russian pipeline operator Transneft has warned Kazakhstan’s oil companies that ship crude to Germany via Transneft’s Druzhba pipeline that the customers of the Kazakh firms have until June to pay for metering services or risk a halt to supplies, trading sources told Reuters on Thursday. In […]
US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century as births dipped in 2023
US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century as births dipped in 2023 The teen birth rate reached another record low in the US in 2023, while women ages 30 to 34 had the highest birth rate, according to provisional data from the CDC. hxyume/E+/Getty Images The fertility rate in the United States has […]
Mosquito-borne diseases spreading in Europe due to climate crisis, says expert
Mosquito-borne diseases spreading in Europe due to climate crisis, says expert Illnesses such as dengue and malaria to reach unaffected parts of northern Europe, America, Asia and Australia, conference to hear Mosquito-borne diseases are spreading across the globe, and particularly in Europe, due to climate breakdown, an expert has said. The insects spread illnesses such as […]
Big Oil’s Dangerous Radioactive Secret
Big Oil’s Dangerous Radioactive Secret DeSmog writer Justin Nobel’s new book explores how workers bear the brunt of the oil and gas industry’s hidden contaminated waste. Left, Petroleum 238 cover. Credit: Sabrina Bedford, design; Julie Dermansky, photo. Right, author Justin Nobel. Credit: Karen LeBlanc. In Paris, France, there are fine cafés and famous landmarks. But […]
Flooding situation in Nairobi escalates to extreme levels, Kenya
Flooding situation in Nairobi escalates to extreme levels, Kenya Kenya is facing a severe flood crisis with 38 confirmed deaths and more than 40 000 displaced due to continuous heavy rains since mid-March 2024. The floods have particularly devastated Nairobi and surrounding regions, prompting urgent national emergency responses. Since mid-March 2024, Kenya has been grappling […]
Brazil Targets Twitter Files Author Who Revealed Censorship Orders
Brazil Targets Twitter Files Author Who Revealed Censorship Orders Brazil’s Attorney General claims his Twitter Files coverage amounts to a “probable crime” against the state, a charge the journalist vehemently denies. Twitter Files journalist Michael Shellenberger, who has recently been covering the public clash between X owner Elon Musk and the President of Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court […]
