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Globalization’s Deadly Footprint
Globalization’s Deadly Footprint That pollution is bad for our health will come as a surprise to no one. That pollution kills at least 9 million people every year might. This is 16 percent of all deaths worldwide – 3 times more than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined, and 15 times more than all wars and […]
Junk Planet: Is Earth the Largest Garbage Dump in the Universe?
Junk Planet: Is Earth the Largest Garbage Dump in the Universe? Is Earth the largest garbage dump in the Universe? I don’t know. But it’s a safe bet that Earth would be a contender were such a competition to be held. Let me explain why. To start, just listing the types of rubbish generated by […]
Waiting for the Debris Flows
Waiting for the Debris Flows In J.M. Coetzee’s 1980 novel, Waiting for the Barbarians, his characters sit around in an isolated colonial fort in a nameless desert country, awaiting their destiny – an invasion of the barbarians. The novel concerns its characters’ slow realization of their complicity, as agents of the Empire, in their fate. Something […]
Climate change: The feel-good catastrophe
Climate change: The feel-good catastrophe Last week my newly adopted home of Washington, D.C. had two back-to-back days of summer in the middle of winter. The first day the temperature reached 78 degrees (when the high is normally 48 degrees). That was a new record. The next day the high was 82 degrees (normally 49 […]
“What Just Hit Us?” – Bay Area Rattled By Unusual Quake Swarm, Trains Delayed
“What Just Hit Us?” – Bay Area Rattled By Unusual Quake Swarm, Trains Delayed Following “strained” magma chamber concerns at Yellowstone, Bay Area residents have grown increasingly concerned this week as a swarm of well over 50 earthquakes has struck in recent days… Culminating in at least 32 quakes in the last 24 hours as […]
The Great Danger of Anthropocentricity
The Great Danger of Anthropocentricity Photo by Becker1999 | CC BY 2.0 Evincing an almost unbelievable ignorance of environmental science, last week Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump’s head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, told reporters “we know humans have most flourished during times of warming trends. So I think there are assumptions made that […]
Japan Erects Huge New Roof Above Crippled Fukushima Reactor
Japan Erects Huge New Roof Above Crippled Fukushima Reactor In what the Japanese press heralds as an important step to safely removing all the radioactive material left inside the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant’s ruined reactors, the Japanese utility in charge of cleaning up the site has finished installing a roof over reactor No. 3. The […]
State of emergency, child missing amid Ontario floods
State of emergency, child missing amid Ontario floods Brantford state of emergency: HIGHLIGHTS, must-see visuals of ice jam Thursday, February 22, 2018, 7:34 AM – Wednesday was marked by flood crises in parts of southern Ontario, particularly the Grand River, where flood warnings were still in effect for much of its watershed Thursday. One person […]
Stunning new research finds fracking a major source of carbon pollution in Pennsylvania
Stunning new research finds fracking a major source of carbon pollution in Pennsylvania Methane leaks in the state’s oil and gas industry equal 11 coal-fired power plants. FLARING TAKES PLACE AFTER A GAS WELL HAS BEEN DRILLED AND BEFORE IT IS PUT INTO OPERATION. CREDIT: CAROLYN COLE/L.A. TIMES VIA GETTY IMAGES The evidence is now […]
The Anthropocene’s Birthday, or the Birth-Year of Human-Accelerated Climate Change
The Anthropocene’s Birthday, or the Birth-Year of Human-Accelerated Climate Change Scientists have found a major spike in the amount of Carbon-14 within the tree rings of “The Loneliest Tree In The World,” which ring corresponds to October-December 1965. This tree is a Sitka Spruce, a species from the American Northwest (and into Canada) that was […]
Exposing Africa’s Manmade Water Crisis
Exposing Africa’s Manmade Water Crisis The imminent shutdown of Cape Town’s piped water network should serve as a wake-up call for all of Africa to overhaul urban water-management systems. Unfortunately, like Africa’s water resources themselves, Cape Town’s crisis seems likely to be wasted. About a decade ago, at a meeting of South African mayors convened […]
New Map Reveals Which Countries are Most Likely to Survive Climate Change
New Map Reveals Which Countries are Most Likely to Survive Climate Change Climate change is real, and it’s happening. But will you survive it? Melting ice caps, record high temperatures and rising sea levels are just some of the telltale signs. Climate change is one of the most pressing crises facing humanity. Caused by an […]
Why Waterloo Region Needs Greenbelt Protection
WHY WATERLOO REGION NEEDS GREENBELT PROTECTION Kevin Thomason is an eco-warrior who has battled for years to successfully protect thousands of acres of rural countryside in Waterloo Region. Today, Kevin’s vision is to build on local protections and further protect essential resources through Greenbelt expansion. He believes this is crucial to balance future urban growth, […]
Ozone loss may have caused mass extinction
Ozone loss may have caused mass extinction Pinus mugo in the French Pyrenees. Image: By Sébastien D’ARCO, via Wikimedia Commons The loss of ozone may have caused the extinction many millions of years ago of most life on Earth, scientists believe. LONDON, 21 February, 2018 – Californian scientists have found a new way to account […]
Acidification could leave oceans ‘uninhabitable’ for cold-water corals
Acidification could leave oceans ‘uninhabitable’ for cold-water corals The world’s oceans could become “uninhabitable” for cold-water corals by the end of the century as a result of ocean acidification, research suggests. Ocean acidification, which occurs as seawater takes up CO2 from the atmosphere, could threaten around 70% of cold-water coral living below 1,500 metres in […]
