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Water Wars Coming To California? Is The Drought Really Over?
Water Wars Coming To California? Is The Drought Really Over? Authored by Capt. William E. Simpson II – USMM Ret., In California, the poor growth and development policies that have resulted from a lack of vision have led-to and are continuing to lead Californians down a path of unsustainable growth and a widening gap between the […]
50 Million Americans Brace For Major Blizzard In US Northeast
50 Million Americans Brace For Major Blizzard In US Northeast A major Nor’easter threatens to shut down travel due to heavy snow and strong winds from Washington, D.C., to New York City and Boston early this week, as weather forecasters on Sunday put the U.S. East Coast on a blizzard watch, warning some 50 million […]
Faulty Logic Fuels Fossil Fools
Faulty Logic Fuels Fossil Fools Apparently, fossil fuel companies protect watersheds and rivers by removing oil. That’s according to comments on the David Suzuki Foundation Facebook page and elsewhere, including this: “The amount of contamination occuring [sic] from extraction is far less than if we just left the oil there to continue polluting the waterways.” […]
Could Artificial Earthquakes Trigger Disaster? Oklahoma’s Risk “Now Equal to That of San Francisco”
Could Artificial Earthquakes Trigger Disaster? Oklahoma’s Risk “Now Equal to That of San Francisco” While Oklahoma has had a handful of notable earthquakes over the past century, it was essentially never an earthquake state. And rightfully so, given that the USGS and other officials, up until quite recently, ranked Oklahoma’s earthquake hazard level at the […]
California Floods To Trigger “The Big One”? – Geologists Warn Of Quake Risks From Snowpack, Rising Reservoirs
California Floods To Trigger “The Big One”? – Geologists Warn Of Quake Risks From Snowpack, Rising Reservoirs For years geologists have warned that Southern California is overdue for “The Big One”, a massive 8.0 or greater earthquake that would undoubtedly cause unprecedented death and destruction in several heavily populated urban centers sprinkled along the San […]
Study Finds Connection Between Living Near Oil and Gas Development and Childhood Leukaemia
Study Finds Connection Between Living Near Oil and Gas Development and Childhood Leukaemia With the rise of new technologies like fracking and horizontal drilling, oil and gas development in the United States has exploded over the past 15 years. As development expands, it’s also pushing ever closer into areas where people live. It’s been estimated […]
Dramatic Drone Footage Shows Extent Of San Jose Flooding
Dramatic Drone Footage Shows Extent Of San Jose Flooding While the series of major storms hitting California have begun to subside, residents of San Jose are being warned to keep away from affected homes until water levels decrease to a safe level. Flash floods along the west coast of the US have seen thousands of […]
“Hell to pay” if Trump targets EPA climate science, says U.S. Chamber official
“Hell to pay” if Trump targets EPA climate science, says U.S. Chamber official A senior official with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce warned that if Trump tries to rescind the EPA’s endangerment finding for greenhouse gasses, it will be a “huge, huge buzzsaw”. A senior energy official at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce recently warned […]
Are Fossil Fuel Companies Telling Investors Enough About the Risks of Climate Change?
Are Fossil Fuel Companies Telling Investors Enough About the Risks of Climate Change? Prior to President Donald Trump taking office, there was a push to require oil and gas companies to inform their investors about the risks of climate change. As governments step up efforts to regulate carbon emissions, the thinking goes, fossil fuel companies’ assets could depreciate in […]
What Permaculture Can Teach Us About Commons
What Permaculture Can Teach Us About Commons As a developed set of social practices, techniques and ethical norms, permaculture has a lot to say to the world of the commons. This is immediately clear from reading the twelve design principles of permaculture that David Holmgren enumerated in his 2002 book Permaculture: Principles and Practices Beyond Sustainability. It […]
Concerns Grow About A Nuclear “Incident” In Europe After Spike In Radioactive Iodine Levels
Concerns Grow About A Nuclear “Incident” In Europe Concerns about a potential, and so far unsubstantiated, nuclear “incident”, reportedly in the vicinity of the Arctic circle, spread in the past week after trace amounts of radioactive Iodine-131 of unknown origin were detected in January over large areas in Europe according to a report by the Institute for […]
Fukushima Aborts Latest Robot Mission Inside Reactor; Radiation At “Unimaginable” Levels
Fukushima Aborts Latest Robot Mission Inside Reactor; Radiation At “Unimaginable” Levels Two years after sacrificing one robot, TEPCO officials have aborted their latest robot mission inside the Fukushima reactor after the ‘scorpion’ became unresponsive as it investigated the previously discovered hole where the core is believed to have melted. A “scorpion” robot sent into a Japanese nuclear reactor […]
West Coast sizzles; Mangaluru records all time high temperature for February month
West Coast sizzles; Mangaluru records all time high temperature for February month It’s not only Mangaluru, but also Honnavar and Karwar, where the weather observatories have recorded abnormall… Read More MANGALURU: The west coasthas been witnessing an abnormal increase in day temperature since past few days. On Wednesday, the evening temperature was 38.7 degree C for Mangaluru […]
Carbon Taxes, Cow Farts, And Central Planning
Carbon Taxes, Cow Farts, And Central Planning Submitted by Erico Matias Tavares via Sinclair & Co., In a centrally planned economy decisions on what to produce, how to produce and for whom are taken primarily by the government. The term is usually associated with communist economies. However, since US President Franklin D. Roosevelt implemented a […]
Degraded Land Impacts the Metabolism of Local Bees
DEGRADED LAND IMPACTS THE METABOLISM OF LOCAL BEES Researchers in Perth have potentially uncovered a secret to understanding the declining populations of bees around the globe. According to a study conducted by Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Curtin University, and the University of Western Australia, when human impact leaves bees with a lack of food, […]
