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Slow Money and the State of Soil
Slow Money and the State of Soil “Beetniks Against Global Warming.”There’s a placard you never saw in Paris. Because to a Beetnik—someone who has participated in a Slow Money Beetcoin campaign or anyone whose occasionally countercultural tendencies are tempered by an appreciation of local entrepreneurs and farmers— investing in a small food enterprise near where […]
Here’s the New Study the Fracking Industry Doesn’t Want You to See
Here’s the New Study the Fracking Industry Doesn’t Want You to See (ANTIMEDIA) Though fracking industry proponents scoff at any intimation their so-called vital industry poses even scant risks to the public, a new study published in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacologyjust proved those critics right — fracking wastewater causes cancer. Using human bronchial epithelial cells, which are commonly used to […]
Better water use can cut global food gap
Better water use can cut global food gap An irrigation system on a pumpkin patch in a semi-arid area of New Mexico in southwestern US. Image: Daniel Schwen via Wikimedia Commons Scientists say that forecasts of a world food shortage need not prove as disastrous as previously thought if humans learn to use water more effectively. LONDON, […]
Flint Residents May Have Been Drinking PFCs In Addition to Lead
FLINT RESIDENTS MAY HAVE BEEN DRINKING PFCS IN ADDITION TO LEAD RESIDENTS OF FLINT, MICHIGAN, who drank lead in their water may also have been exposed to perfluorinated compounds, or PFCs, according to a report from the Michigan Department of Community Health. The May 2015 report showed elevated levels of PFCs in the Flint River — including […]
How to Turn a Piece of Land Into a Thriving Project?
HOW TO TURN A PIECE OF LAND INTO A THRIVING PROJECT? Three years ago this month a client asked me to help him transform his land into an eco-tourism project and self-sufficient home. The land is located in fascinating Turkey, overlooking the Marmara Sea. In this article, I share the highlights of the process and […]
The collapse of the Western Roman Empire: was it caused by climate change?
The collapse of the Western Roman Empire: was it caused by climate change? Image from the recent paper by Buentgen et al., published on “Nature Geoscience” on February 8, 2016. The red curves are temperature changes reconstructed from tree rings in the Russian Altai (upper curve) and the European Alps (lower curve). Note the remarkable dip […]
Nationwide Resistance To Crude Oil ‘Bomb Trains’ Gaining Momentum
Nationwide Resistance To Crude Oil ‘Bomb Trains’ Gaining Momentum The speed and scale with which the oil and rail industries created the North American oil-by-rail infrastructure was impressive. And amazingly under the radar for the most part — until the trains started derailing and blowing up — leading to articles with titles like “The Invisible Bomb Trains.” […]
El Niño and Climate Change: Wild Weather May Get Wilder
El Niño and Climate Change: Wild Weather May Get Wilder This year’s El Niño phenomenon is spawning extreme weather around the planet. Now scientists are working to understand if global warming will lead to more powerful El Niños that will make droughts, floods, snowstorms, and hurricanes more intense. Wild weather is gripping the planet. An El […]
Integrated Pest Management-The Smart Solution
INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT-THE SMART SOLUTION Among the major challenges the present is world going through, producing enough food for its huge population is a vital one. The explosion of population forces the modern agriculture to produce the minimum amount of food required to feed the living human population without leaving too many scopes for the […]
If the world’s soils keep drying out that’s bad news for microbes (and people)
If the world’s soils keep drying out that’s bad news for microbes (and people) The world’s driest areas are tipped to get even drier, with potentially worrying implications for soil productivity. Author provided Deep beneath our feet, out of sight and out of mind, millions of tiny communities of microbes are working together to perform key functions […]
Oil Industry Caused 2005 Swarm of California Earthquakes: Newly Published Study
Oil Industry Caused 2005 Swarm of California Earthquakes: Newly Published Study Oil and gas wastewater disposal has been tied to a series of earthquakes in California for the first time, in a peer-reviewed study published last Thursday. A string of quakes ending on Sept. 22, 2005 struck in Kern County near the southern end of […]
The record of recent Man-made CO2 emissions: 1965 -2014
The record of recent Man-made CO2 emissions: 1965 -2014 Summary This post, using BP statistical review (2015) data, presents CO2 trends on an absolute and per capita basis for the main global economies. They add in the effect of recent Chinese under-reporting of CO2 emissions. They compare CO2 emissions / head as a representation of the […]
Water War Against the Poor: Flint and the Crimes of Capital
Water War Against the Poor: Flint and the Crimes of Capital If ever one wondered about the efficacy of a state government agency imposing officials on local governments, Flint has answered that question forever. In April, 2014, the state-appointed emergency manager, in order to save money, ordered that the city’s water source be changed from […]
Oceans are heating up at the double
Oceans are heating up at the double The British survey ship HMS Challenger blazed an oceanic trail a century and a half ago. Image: William Frederick Mitchell via Wikimedia Commons Records from a sailing ship’s round-the-world research voyage almost 150 years ago provide further evidence that the Earth is continuing to warm unchecked. LONDON, 6 […]
Sandra Postel: Repairing The Water Cycle
Sandra Postel: Repairing The Water Cycle It’s now a top priority for our species Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot – Oh Christ! That ever this should be. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge El Niño has been dropping much-needed […]
