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Alabama Declares State of Emergency for the Flu Epidemic as the US Death Toll Rises
Alabama Declares State of Emergency for the Flu Epidemic as the US Death Toll Rises Citing a strain on “overwhelmed” health resources, Governor Kay Ivey declared an official State of Emergency in Alabama on Thursday due to the rapidly spreading flu epidemic. WHEREAS the State Health Officer has reported that an outbreak of the influenza […]
4 Big Ways Snow Can Benefit the Garden
4 Big Ways Snow Can Benefit the Garden All of the snow accumulation from the extreme temperatures occurring through the country could be doing your garden some good. That right, folks snow is great for the garden! Snow insulates plants and trees Snow cover protects plants from harsh, drying winter winds which can freeze the […]
Monsanto, Bayer and Neoliberalism: A Case of Hobson’s Choice
Monsanto, Bayer and Neoliberalism: A Case of Hobson’s Choice A Bayer marketing professional recently stated on Twitter that critics of GMOs deny choice to farmers. It’s a common accusation by the pro-GMO lobby. In a previous article, I noted the idea that GMOs offer increased choice is erroneous and that, by implication, corporations like Bayer or […]
Farming for a Small Planet
Farming for a Small Planet People yearn for alternatives to industrial agriculture, but they are worried. They see large-scale operations relying on corporate-supplied chemical inputs as the only high-productivity farming model. Another approach might be kinder to the environment and less risky for consumers, but, they assume, it would not be up to the task […]
Coastal States Protest Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan
Coastal States Protest Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan Less than a week after the Trump Administration proposed to open almost the entire U.S. coast to oil and gas drilling, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke backtracked and took Florida off the table for offshore oil and gas exploration. Now many are wondering why just Florida was […]
Global Warming Stirs the Methane Monster
Global Warming Stirs the Methane Monster Photo by Jeremy Buckingham | CC BY 2.0 It’s January, yet methane hydrates in the Arctic are growling like an incensed monster on a scorching hot mid-summer day. But, it is January; it’s winter, not July! On January 1st Arctic methane at 2,764 ppb spiked upwards into the atmosphere, […]
What We Can Learn 100 Years After the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918
What We Can Learn 100 Years After the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918 It has been 100 years since the Spanish flu infected 500 million people around the globe and wiped out an estimated 20 million to 50 million of them. (source) And here we are, potentially on the cusp of another influenza pandemic. H3N2, or […]
Dormant/Extinct Volcano Erupts for First Time in Recorded History
Dormant/Extinct Volcano Erupts for First Time in Recorded History Another dormant volcano has suddenly awakened erupting in a rather spectacular fashion, spewing lava for the first time in known history, It sent an ash cloud 2.1 kilometers into the sky. This ancient volcano on Kadovar Island, which is northeast of Papua New Guinea, has been dormant […]
Five Spills, Six Months in Operation: Dakota Access Track Record Highlights Unavoidable Reality–Pipelines Leak
Photo: Charles Mostoller/Bloomberg News/Getty Images FIVE SPILLS, SIX MONTHS IN OPERATION: DAKOTA ACCESS TRACK RECORD HIGHLIGHTS UNAVOIDABLE REALITY — PIPELINES LEAK REPRESENTATIVES FROM Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the controversial Dakota Access pipeline, traveled to Cambridge, Iowa, in October to present a series of $20,000 checks to emergency management departments in six counties. The […]
Pesticide Use Threatens Health in California
Pesticide Use Threatens Health in California President Trump boasts about all the regulations that he has eliminated but he never mentions the important good that many of these rules were doing, as Dennis J Bernstein explains. The battle to protect farmworkers and their families from dangerous pesticides has been going on for decades. But it […]
Individual vs collective: Are you responsible for fixing climate change?
Individual vs collective: Are you responsible for fixing climate change? The other day I saw a tweet that had escaped its platform of birth to become a Facebook meme. I can’t find it, but it said something like: “Can we all please stop acting like ordinary people are to blame for climate change because we […]
This was Sydney before “Climate Change” hit — fifty degrees
This was Sydney before “Climate Change” hit — fifty degrees: Jan, 12, 1939, The Northern Star Penrith may have recorded 47.3C for at least one-second this week, but Windsor is only 23 km north-east of Penrith, and on January 13th, 1939, it recorded 122F or 50.5C with an old fashioned liquid thermometer, not a modern […]
Flu Outbreak: Medicine Shortages And A Rising Death Toll In California
Flu Outbreak: Medicine Shortages And A Rising Death Toll In California A severe flu outbreak has struck California making the medicine used to treat the illness sparse, and filling emergency rooms with those suffering from the symptoms. The death toll is also rising rapidly as more and more people are succumbing to the virus. According […]
Get used to saying ‘bomb cyclone.’ This is our climate now.
REUTERS / Brian Snyder Get used to saying ‘bomb cyclone.’ This is our climate now. Now that one of the strongest nor’easters on record has swirled off to Canada, it’s time to talk about what everyone was thinking during the storm: Is this just what happens now? Short answer: yes. Get used to it. Wild […]
GMOs, Global Agribusiness and the Destruction of Choice
GMOs, Global Agribusiness and the Destruction of Choice One of the myths perpetuated by the pro-GMO (genetically modified organisms) lobby is that critics of GMOs in agriculture are denying choice to farmers and have an ideological agenda. The narrative is that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies, including GM crops. […]
