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Is Renewable Energy As Clean As We Think?
Is Renewable Energy As Clean As We Think? Fossil fuel energy has understandably become the clay pigeon of environmentalists in the past decades – with oil & gas companies having lied too often about the impact of their activities on climate change or environmental pollution for the public to ignore. Oil spills have destroyed many […]
Are We Due for a Pandemic Flu? Here’s How to Prepare Just in Case
Are We Due for a Pandemic Flu? Here’s How to Prepare Just in Case It has been 100 years since the Spanish Flu (also known as the 1918 flu pandemic) spread across the globe, infecting 500 million people and causing the deaths of 50 million – which was three to five percent of the world’s […]
This small branch of Trans Mountain could derail Canada’s pipeline purchase
Trans Mountain and Puget Sound pipelines. Graphic: Carol Linnitt / The Narwhal This small branch of Trans Mountain could derail Canada’s pipeline purchase The vast majority of oilsands crude moving to the West Coast passes through the little regarded Puget Sound Pipeline, which is now heavily entangled in troubled Canada-U.S. relations Politicians and industry have […]
Exclusive: Shell Took 16 Years To Warn Shareholders of Climate Risks, Despite Knowing in Private All Along
Exclusive: Shell Took 16 Years To Warn Shareholders of Climate Risks, Despite Knowing in Private All Along It took oil company Shell more than 16 years to directly warn its shareholders that climate policy posed a financial risk to the company’s business model despite knowing — in private and for decades — about the relationship between its […]
“Worst Storm In A Quarter Century” Nears Hawaii, Gov Warns “Be Prepared To Shelter In Place”
“Worst Storm In A Quarter Century” Nears Hawaii, Gov Warns “Be Prepared To Shelter In Place” Overnight saw Hurricane Lane churn slowly toward Hawaii as 1.4 million people brace for the U.S. Pacific island state’s worst storm in a quarter century. Hurricane Lane in the early morning hours near Hawaii (Source/ The crew of the @Space_Station) […]
Extinction and Responsibility: Why Climate Disaster Might Heal Us Even As it Kills Us
Extinction and Responsibility: Why Climate Disaster Might Heal Us Even As it Kills Us If climate disaster has left us with no future do we still feel responsible to the earth that outlives us? Or do we say “who cares?” If we say “who cares?” then our sense of responsibility was never anything more than […]
Over The Last 7 Days Our Planet Has Been Violently Shaken By 144 Major Earthquakes
Over The Last 7 Days Our Planet Has Been Violently Shaken By 144 Major Earthquakes Within the past few days, we have seen an enormous magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit Venezuela and a giant magnitude 8.2 earthquake hit Fiji. Where will the next one strike? To many of us, it is becoming exceedingly clear that something […]
Hawaii Braces For Powerful Cat 4 Hurricane, Could See Direct Hit
Hawaii Braces For Powerful Cat 4 Hurricane, Could See Direct Hit A hurricane warning has been declared for Hawaii and Maui Counties as powerful Hurricane Lane continues moving west-northwestward towards the main Hawaiian islands as a Category 4 storm. The Central Pacific Hurricane Center issued the warning early Wednesday (500 AM HST Wed. Aug 22), […]
Ebola Death Toll Climbs To 55 As Number Of Infected Rise; Congo Authorities Lay Plans For Crisis
Ebola Death Toll Climbs To 55 As Number Of Infected Rise; Congo Authorities Lay Plans For Crisis Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DNC), South Africa, announced five new cases of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in the Mabalako hot zone of the North Kivu district, bringing the total number deaths to 55. Of the 69 currently […]
Fracking Wastewater Spikes 1,440% in Half Decade, Adding to Dry Regions’ Water Woes
Fracking Wastewater Spikes 1,440% in Half Decade, Adding to Dry Regions’ Water Woes Between 2011 and 2016, fracked oil and gas wells in the U.S. pumped out record-breaking amounts of wastewater, which is laced with toxic and radioactive materials, a new Duke University study concludes. The amount of wastewater from fracking rose 1,440 percent during that period. […]
Watch Out California! 53 Major Earthquakes (Including A Magnitude 8.2) Just Hit The Ring Of Fire In A 24 Hour Period
Watch Out California! 53 Major Earthquakes (Including A Magnitude 8.2) Just Hit The Ring Of Fire In A 24 Hour Period Is something unusual starting to happen to the crust of our planet? The USGS defines any earthquake of at least magnitude 4.5 as “significant”, and there were 53 earthquakes that met that criteria along […]
Ethanol Is Terrible for Health and the Environment, but Government Keeps Backing It
Ethanol Is Terrible for Health and the Environment, but Government Keeps Backing It The US federal government still strongly pushes corn- and soy-based ethanol despite the EPA’s new study showing its harmful effects. When the elected officials and bureaucrats who run a government want to stack the deck in favor of a politically connected special […]
The U.S. just suffered the hottest May-June-July on record
The U.S. just suffered the hottest May-June-July on record Death Valley had the hottest average monthly temperature for any recording station in the world, 108.1 degrees F. THE CONTINENTAL US JUST SUFFERED THE HOTTEST MAY-JUNE-JULLY ON RECORD. CREDIT: NOAA If you found yourself thinking it was scorching hot in recent weeks, well, you were right. […]
Supercharged by Pollution, Florida’s Toxic Algae Crisis Continues Unabated
Supercharged by Pollution, Florida’s Toxic Algae Crisis Continues Unabated “Covering stuff up doesn’t make it go away,” said Lilly Womble, an 18-year-old on vacation on Florida’s Sanibel Island. The island is world renowned for its sea shells but that day we were watching employees from the Sanibel Moorings Resort pull a sheet over a dead loggerhead sea […]
