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Groundwater Contamination from Fracking Changes over Time: Study
Groundwater Contamination from Fracking Changes over Time: Study Texas study finds quality fluctuates as nearby industry evolves. A new Texas study is the first to measure groundwater quality from private water wells before, during, and after the expansion of fracking. Water photo via Shutterstock. A new Texas study has found that horizontal oil wells fractured by the injection of […]
Solomons sinking: Five Pacific reef islands swallowed by rising sea levels
Solomons sinking: Five Pacific reef islands swallowed by rising sea levels © Rick Rycroft / Reuters Five reef islands have disappeared from the Pacific’s Solomon Islands and six more have been severely damaged due to rising sea levels and coastal erosion, according to new research. Studying the relationship between sea level rise and wave exposure […]
Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat
Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat Ninety-nine percent of the planet’s freshwater ice is locked up in the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps. Now, a growing number of studies are raising the possibility that as those ice sheets melt, sea levels could rise by six feet this century, and far higher in the […]
“Out Of Control” Canada Wildfire Could Double In Size Today: Fort McKay Evacuated
“Out Of Control” Canada Wildfire Could Double In Size Today: Fort McKay Evacuated Since we first reported on the massive fire (and the fallout) that was burning in Canada’s oil sands gateway, Fort McMurray, things have gone from bad to worse. Today we learn that the fire that has already devastated 600 square miles, growing an additional 50% […]
Gov’t Is Incapable of Managing Anything – The Electric Crisis in Europe
Gov’t Is Incapable of Managing Anything – The Electric Crisis in Europe Part of the global warming/climate change deals, many people do not realize that in Europe there will be no more gasoline and diesel cars on the streets come 2020. From Norway to India the year 2020 will mark the end of petrol or […]
More evacuation orders issued for Fort McMurray area
More evacuation orders issued for Fort McMurray area Anzac, Gregoire Lake Estates and Fort McMurray First Nation forced to evacuate late Wednesday Many evacuees forced from their Fort McMurray homes by wildfire Tuesday are on the move once again. Three communities south of Fort McMurray, one including an evacuation centre, were ordered to leave as changing weather patterns turned […]
Exclusive: Release of Inspection Reports From TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline Expose Risk of Future Spills
Exclusive: Release of Inspection Reports From TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline Expose Risk of Future Spills The US government agency responsible for interstate pipelines recorded a catalog of problems with the construction of TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline and the Cushing Extension, a DeSmog investigation has found. Inspectors at the US Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) observed TransCanada’s […]
Massive Fire Burns At Gateway Town To Alberta’s Oilsands; 30,000 Evacuated
Massive Fire Burns At Gateway Town To Alberta’s Oilsands; 30,000 Evacuated Residents of neighborhoods in the Canadian boomtown of Fort McMurray – considered the gateway to Alberta’s oil sands as the Athabasca oil sands are roughly centered around the town – are under mandatory evacuation as a massive wildfire has jumped across Highway 63 and […]
The Global Growth Funk
The Global Growth Funk NEW YORK – The International Monetary Fund and others have recently revised downward their forecasts for global growth – yet again. Little wonder: The world economy has few bright spots – and many that are dimming rapidly. Among advanced economies, the United States has just experienced two quarters of growth averaging […]
Ethics and Ecosystem Interactions: Why Reconciliation Ecology Matters
Ethics and Ecosystem Interactions: Why Reconciliation Ecology Matters The problem with ecosystem interactions Here’s a phrase that’s lately been haunting me: “the extinction of ecosystem interactions.” I first encountered it in science writer Connie Barlow’s fascinating book, The Ghosts of Evolution, which is about the plants, mainly trees, that have lingered into modern times even though […]
“There is no doubt”: Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s
“There is no doubt”: Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s By Brendan DeMelle and Kevin Grandia • Tuesday, April 26, 2016 – 09:19 Throughout Exxon’s global operations, the company knew that CO2 was a harmful pollutant in the atmosphere years earlier than previously reported. DeSmog has uncovered Exxon corporate documents from the late […]
Earth Changes In 2016? How To Get Prepared For The Coming Earthquakes And Volcanic Eruptions
Earth Changes In 2016? How To Get Prepared For The Coming Earthquakes And Volcanic Eruptions All over the world seismic activity is increasing. In recent weeks we have seen a dramatic earthquake in Ecuador, more than 600 earthquakes have experts extremely alarmed about what is happening to Japan’s southern Island, and 37 volcanoes around the planet are erupting right […]
A carbon tax is bad for Alberta
A carbon tax is bad for Alberta Yesterday, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley asserted that Canada was “absolutely” closer to a new pipeline due to her province’s new carbon tax. According to the premier, “Alberta is not the Alberta that they thought of a year ago, or two years ago, or three years ago. After years of […]
