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The Battle To Save Our Dying Soil
The Battle To Save Our Dying Soil This camp in southern Spain is finding ways to restore degraded land LA JUNQUERA, Spain ― In this sparsely populated region of rural Murcia in southern Spain, fields of thirsty almond trees eek sustenance out of the dusty soil and pale rocks tumble down slopes onto the sides of […]
Yellowstone Supervolcano: The Steamboat Geyser Just Went off AGAIN
Yellowstone Supervolcano: The Steamboat Geyser Just Went off AGAIN As scientists continue to tell the public not to worry, the largest geyser in Yellowstone has just gone off for the ninth time. Normally, this geyser is quiet for years at a time, but scientists are now saying this is the new normal. Over the past […]
US East Coast Risk of Tsunami & Earthquakes that Threaten NYC
US East Coast Risk of Tsunami & Earthquakes that Threaten NYC QUESTION: Hey Marty, Thanks for all your insight the last few years on what the models are projecting for volcanic & seismic activity. As usual, you’re on the money. The forecast of events laying out to 2032 is really starting to add up in […]
The True Cost of Food: An Excerpt from Nourished Planet, Publishing in June 2018
The True Cost of Food: An Excerpt from Nourished Planet, Publishing in June 2018 The following is an excerpt from Nourished Planet: Sustainability in the Global Food System, published by Island Press in June of 2018. Nourished Planet was edited by Danielle Nierenberg, president of Food Tank, and produced with support from the Barilla Center […]
Civilization as asteroid: humans, livestock, and extinctions
Mass of humans, livestock, and wild animals (terrestrial mammals and birds) Civilization as asteroid: humans, livestock, and extinctions Humans and our livestock now make up 97 percent of all animals on land. Wild animals (mammals and birds) have been reduced to a mere remnant: just 3 percent. This is based on mass. Humans and our […]
The Plight of Birds and the Hand of Man in the Sixth Great Extinction
The Plight of Birds and the Hand of Man in the Sixth Great Extinction Photo by Mark Gillow | CC BY 2.0 As birds become fewer, wildflowers vanish, butterflies disappear, and animals in the wild are threatened, extinction and a grim future haunts. How often did Rumi write about birdsong … there is a reason. […]
ALERT: Presenter Warns of ‘Ecological Apocalypse’ In Great Britain
ALERT: Presenter Warns of ‘Ecological Apocalypse’ In Great Britain Springwatch presenter Chris Packham is warning Great Britain of an “ecological apocalypse.” On this year’s Springwatch, Packham warns that we are presiding over “an ecological apocalypse” and Britain is increasingly becoming “a green and unpleasant land.” According to The Guardian, Packham, who is a naturalist and broadcaster, is […]
A Yellow Alert Has Just Been Issued For 2 Major Volcanoes In North America
A Yellow Alert Has Just Been Issued For 2 Major Volcanoes In North America Massive eruptions of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano and Guatemala’s Fuego volcano have captivated the entire world in recent days, and now it looks like even more volcanoes are starting to wake up. In fact, yellow alerts were just issued for Mexico’s Mt. […]
EPA Staff Say the Trump Administration Is Changing Their Mission From Protecting Human Health and the Environment to Protecting Industry
EPA Staff Say the Trump Administration Is Changing Their Mission From Protecting Human Health and the Environment to Protecting Industry The Environmental Protection Agency made news recently for excluding reporters from a “summit” meeting on chemical contamination in drinking water. Episodes like this are symptoms of a larger problem: an ongoing, broad-scale takeover of the […]
Fact-Checking the “Fact-Checkers”: Snopes & Politifact Said I’m a Big Fat Liar, But Let’s Look at THEIR “Facts”
Fact-Checking the “Fact-Checkers”: Snopes & Politifact Said I’m a Big Fat Liar, But Let’s Look at THEIR “Facts” Last weekend when I wrote about the new bills that were turned into law in California by a mercifully-departing Governor Jerry Brown, I never expected a hub-bub. I did my research, came to some conclusions, and titled […]
Trump Skipping G7 Meeting on Climate, Clean Energy, Oceans
Trump Skipping G7 Meeting on Climate, Clean Energy, Oceans President Donald Trump headed for the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Canada on Friday but will be leaving before Saturday’s meeting on climate change, clean energy and oceans. The White House said an aide will take Trump’s place, CNN reported. The announcement of his early departure comes amid a brewing war on tariffs. […]
If You Think the Water Restrictions in California Are Tough, Check Out Cape Town
If You Think the Water Restrictions in California Are Tough, Check Out Cape Town Remember earlier in the year when the news was abuzz about Day Zero in Cape Town, South Africa? According to the press at the time, the day was looming when the city of 3.74 million people would run completely out of […]
TransCanada’s New ‘Best-In-Class’ Gas Pipeline Explodes in West Virginia, Causing Fiery Blast
TransCanada’s New ‘Best-In-Class’ Gas Pipeline Explodes in West Virginia, Causing Fiery Blast This morning, residents of Marshall County, West Virginia, awoke at 4:15 a.m. to a major natural gas rupture and explosion on TransCanada’s Leach XPress pipeline on Nixon Ridge — a quickly built pipeline only half a year old. The fire was visible for miles, […]
Volcanic Activity Melting Ice at the North & South Poles
Volcanic Activity Melting Ice at the North & South Poles Scientists have long suspected that there is a thermal heat source under the ice in Antarctica that may be the real cause of some ice melting in that region rather than climate change theories. NASAhas confirmed that indeed this heat source exists which many have been […]
Remember What the Climate War Is About
Remember What the Climate War Is About Lately, I’ve been wondering if the battles being fought to maintain federal energy and environment policies and programs are clouding the nation’s collective understanding of what the war being waged against the Trump administration is really about? Before suggesting what it—the metaphorical war of which I write–should be […]
