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Fault Line Wakes Up: New Zealand Could Be DESTROYED By Massive 9.0 Earthquake
Fault Line Wakes Up: New Zealand Could Be DESTROYED By Massive 9.0 Earthquake A 2016 earthquake has awoken a fault line that was thought to be dormant. Now that it’s becoming active, fears have arisen that New Zealand could be destroyed by a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake. The devastating Kaikura earthquake in 2016 has resurrected […]
Scarlet Fever Outbreak In England Leaves Researchers Confused: ‘We’re Concerned’
Scarlet Fever Outbreak In England Leaves Researchers Confused: ‘We’re Concerned’ Scarlet fever cases are now at 50-year-high sparking concerns for researchers, as they are baffled as to how “Victorian-era” diseases are making a comeback. The disease has been on the rise since 2014, and researchers are failing to find the cause. Scarlet fever hit its […]
What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today
Photo: Bettman/Getty Images What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today Sixty years after the nuclear tests, the groundwater is contaminated and the coconuts are radioactive. But are the coral reefs thriving? Nearly 60 years after the last of 23 nuclear explosions in its land, air and water, Bikini Atoll again looks like the idyllic Pacific paradise it […]
The Government Has Been Meddling in Food and Nutrition for a Long Time
The Government Has Been Meddling in Food and Nutrition for a Long Time For over a century, the federal government has had its hand in shaping what we eat in a multitude of ways, usually to bad effect. Government intrusion is often obvious. We know when government taxes our income, stops us from using our […]
Ice Apocalypse
Ice Apocalypse Rapid collapse of Antarctic glaciers could flood coastal cities by the end of this century. In a remote region of Antarctica known as Pine Island Bay, 2,500 miles from the tip of South America, two glaciers hold human civilization hostage. Stretching across a frozen plain more than 150 miles long, these glaciers, named […]
The Importance of Tree Crops in Sustainable Agriculture
THE IMPORTANCE OF TREE CROPS IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE Tree Crops are the most common perennial agricultural method. More specifically, orchards are one of the most common and successful forms of perennial agriculture. A well-maintained peach orchard will give you a steady crop for up to 20 years. An apple orchard can last up to 50 […]
There Have Been 698 Earthquakes In California Within The Past 30 Days
There Have Been 698 Earthquakes In California Within The Past 30 Days Why is the west coast shaking so violently? According to the latest data from Earthquake Track, there have been 698 earthquakes in California within the past 30 days. By the time that you read this article, that number will undoubtedly have changed. In […]
Airports Close, Thousands Flee As Bali’s Mt Agung Volcano Erupts: Live Feed
Airports Close, Thousands Flee As Bali’s Mt Agung Volcano Erupts: Live Feed Bali’s Mount Agung has been trembling and spewing ash into the sky for months, warnings that prompted the government to steadily evacuate more than 75,000 people living around the base of the active volcano. Now the long-anticipated eruption is finally happening. As the […]
Trump Resists Progress on Global Warming
Trump Resists Progress on Global Warming Exclusive: Market trends now favor renewable energy as a cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels, but President Trump’s resistance to this good news is doing real damage in the fight against global warming, reports Jonathan Marshall. With petrochemical billionaires Charles and David Koch paying many of the GOP’s bills these […]
Council of Canadians: Stop Nestle from bottling water on expired permits!
Stop Nestlé from bottling water on expired permits! Send an e-mail to your Member of Provincial Parliament calling on them to speak up against renewing Nestlé’s expired permits and for phasing out bottled water permits for good. 996,568,672 Nestlé is about to take its 1 billionth litre of groundwater on an expired permit […]
A Radioactive Plume That’s Clouded in Secrecy
A Radioactive Plume That’s Clouded in Secrecy September 29 marked the 60th anniversary of the world’s third most deadly— and least known — nuclear accident. It took place at the Mayak plutonium production facility, in a closed Soviet city in the Urals. The huge explosion was kept secret for decades. It spread hot particles over […]
“Chernobyl in a Can” – 71 Vulnerable-To-Cracking Radioactive Waste Canisters Set for CA Ocean-Front Burial at San Onofre: Donna Gilmore, NH #335
“Chernobyl in a Can” – 71 Vulnerable-To-Cracking Radioactive Waste Canisters Set for CA Ocean-Front Burial at San Onofre: Donna Gilmore, NH #335 This Week’s Featured Interview: Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org reports on Southern California Edison’s plans to bury 1,800 tons – that’s 3,600,000 pounds <!> of high-level radioactive waste a mere 36 yards from high […]
WTI Prices Surge On Keystone Spill
WTI Prices Surge On Keystone Spill Oil prices surged on Wednesday on news that the Keystone pipeline might not restart for several weeks. The outage at the damaged pipeline ended several years of contango for WTI, pushing the benchmark into a state of backwardation for the first time since 2014. TransCanada made a lot of […]
Trump Eyes Arctic Wildlife Refuge for Oil Drilling, Alarming Gwich’in
Trump Eyes Arctic Wildlife Refuge for Oil Drilling, Alarming Gwich’in In the remote north-eastern corner of Alaska, just under 20-million acres have been set aside as a federal protected area since 1960. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has recently come under threat, however, with President Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior proposing lifting restrictions on seismic exploration. […]
When the Next Pandemic Hits, Will We Be Prepared?
When the Next Pandemic Hits, Will We Be Prepared? The question isn’t whether a pandemic will strike—it’s how it will play out. Thought leaders gathered at the National Museum of Natural History to discuss the past, present and future of the flu.(Daniel Schwartz) What would it look like if the devastating Spanish flu crisis of […]
