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EPA Division That Studies the Health Risks of Toxic Chemicals is in a Fight For Its Life–Against the EPA
Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images EPA DIVISION THAT STUDIES THE HEALTH RISKS OF TOXIC CHEMICALS IS IN A FIGHT FOR ITS LIFE — AGAINST THE EPA A SMALL BUT vitally important program within the Environmental Protection Agency is in a fight for its life. The Integrated Risk Information System, or IRIS, is the only division of […]
NASA Admits Pole Shift is Close: Here’s What You Can Do to Prepare
NASA Admits Pole Shift is Close: Here’s What You Can Do to Prepare With all of the horrific weather anomalies, and the increase in earthquakes and volcanoes over the past six months…pronouncing themselves especially just in the past week…there is a cause for concern. In the article, “Earth’s Magnetic Poles Show Signs They’re About to Flip […]
“One Typhoon Away From Full Breach” – US Nuke-Test Dome Leaking Fatal Radiation Into Pacific Ocean
“One Typhoon Away From Full Breach” – US Nuke-Test Dome Leaking Fatal Radiation Into Pacific Ocean Before the 1970s, the United States and other nuclear-armed countries conducted more than 500 atomic weapons tests in the atmosphere. During these tests, radioactive debris and gases were flung up into the atmosphere and traveled around the world. The Centers […]
Earth’s Poles Show Signs Of FLIPPING: Widespread Grid Failures Imminent
Earth’s Poles Show Signs Of FLIPPING: Widespread Grid Failures Imminent Scientists from the University of Colorado in Boulder are sounding the alarm that the Earth’s magnetic poles are showing signs of reversing. Although the pole reversal, in and of itself, isn’t unprecedented, the solar winds that would take out the power grid and make parts […]
Gasoline–Such a Big Bang for the Buck
Gasoline–Such a Big Bang for the Buck Are you a fan of beheadings? Are you fond of autocratic regimes? Do you want to help those kooky, lovable Koch brothers purchase another member of Congress? Do you yearn to support Saudi Arabia, Iran, Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin, but it seems so difficult to give them […]
Megadams Not Clean or Green, Says Expert
Megadams Not Clean or Green, Says Expert Forty years of research show hydro dams create environmental damage, says David Schindler. ‘When you add the emissions from building and producing materials for a dam, as well as the emissions from clearing forests and moving earth, the greenhouse gas production from hydro is expected to be about […]
How a U.S. Company is Suing Canada for Rejecting Quarry in Endangered Whale Nursery
How a U.S. Company is Suing Canada for Rejecting Quarry in Endangered Whale Nursery When a Canadian federal-provincial environmental review panel ruled in 2007 that a proposed quarry would go against community core values and would threaten right whales and other marine life in the Bay of Fundy, groups that had fought against the project […]
BP solar chief forecasts global clean energy renaissance
BP solar chief forecasts global clean energy renaissance A new paradigm of ‘planetary ecology’ might emerge after 2050 Published as part of the launch of the new beta platform for INSURGE intelligence, a crowdfunded journalism platform for people and planet A new book put together by the Chairman of the philanthropic arm of Europe’s largest solar company, […]
The Death of Sunspot Cycle 24, Huge Snow and Record Cold
The Death of Sunspot Cycle 24, Huge Snow and Record Cold My friend Alex is in Chamonix in the shadow of Mont Blanc in the French Alps. He sent some very snowy pics and mentioned that it was fair dinging down. The most snow since 2010. Knowing that sunspot cycle 24 was well-advanced I did […]
Making Local Woods Work
Making Local Woods Work The Forestry Commission estimates that 47% of England’s woodlands are unmanaged. If you like to think of woods as wild places and flinch at the idea of a tree being felled, then you might consider this a good thing. But woodlands, at least in this country, need management. Whilst truly wild […]
Study Fills in Missing Data on Homes, Schools, Habitats at Risk from Shell’s Falcon Pipeline
Study Fills in Missing Data on Homes, Schools, Habitats at Risk from Shell’s Falcon Pipeline At the end of 2017, Shell ran slightly afoul of Pennsylvania state regulators after filing a pipeline permit application to the state and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that failed to show sensitive environmental areas in the path of its proposed […]
