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Has ‘organic’ been stripped of its meaning?
Has ‘organic’ been stripped of its meaning? The term ‘organic’ has come to be understood by most consumers as ‘grown without synthetic chemicals’, which to most people’s surprise, does not always mean that farming practices are sustainable. The Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platformdefines sustainable agriculture as “the efficient production of safe, high quality agricultural products, in a way that […]
We’ll all be Flint Michigan someday: U.S. water infrastructure is falling apart
We’ll all be Flint Michigan someday: U.S. water infrastructure is falling apart NRC. 2006. Drinking Water Distribution Systems: Assessing and Reducing Risks Committee on Public Water Supply Distribution Systems: Assessing and Reducing Risks. National Research Council, National Academies Press. [ According to this Free National Research Council report, most water systems and distribution pipes will be […]
Cloud blanket warms up melting icecap
Cloud blanket warms up melting icecap Ominous clouds over the icecap near Kangerlussuaq in Western Greenland. Image: Nikolaj F. Rasmussen via Flickr New study shows that up to 30% of the Greenland icecap melting is due to cloud cover that is helping to raise temperatures − and accelerate sea level rise. LONDON, 30 January, 2016 – Researchers have […]
Zika Outbreak Epicenter in Same Area Where GM Mosquitoes Were Released in 2015
Zika Outbreak Epicenter in Same Area Where GM Mosquitoes Were Released in 2015 (ANTIMEDIA) United States — The World Health Organization announced it will convene an Emergency Committee under International Health Regulations on Monday, February 1, concerning the Zika virus ‘explosive’ spread throughout the Americas. The virus reportedly has the potential to reach pandemic proportions — possibly around the […]
6 Cities in Michigan Have Even Higher Levels of Lead than Flint
6 Cities in Michigan Have Even Higher Levels of Lead than Flint (ANTIMEDIA) As the nation rightly focuses on Flint’s ongoing water crisis, other cities in the state of Michigan face even higher levels of lead contamination. The alarming pervasiveness of potentially toxic drinking water extends across the United States. The Detroit News reports that “Elevated blood-lead levels are seen in […]
Pipeline Reforms ‘Great Step’ but Don’t Account for Most Emissions, Say Climate Critics
Pipeline Reforms ‘Great Step’ but Don’t Account for Most Emissions, Say Climate Critics Does ignoring downstream impacts export Canada’s responsibilities? Canada’s minister of the environment and climate change Catherine McKenna at the COP21 climate summit in Paris, France in December. Photo by Mychaylo Prystupa. The Trudeau government’s newly announced reforms to pipeline environmental assessments still fail […]
“The Level Of Alarm Is Extremely High” As Zika “Spreading Explosively” WHO Warns
“The Level Of Alarm Is Extremely High” As Zika “Spreading Explosively” WHO Warns Meet the new Ebola. Well over a year since the global fears over the Ebola epidemic sent US stocks reeling in late 2014 ahead of an even sharper rebound, today the head of the World Health Organization delivered a very stern warning […]
The Flint Water Disaster: a Perfect Storm of Downplaying, Denial and Deceit
The Flint Water Disaster: a Perfect Storm of Downplaying, Denial and Deceit Flint, Michigan, the city portrayed as the embodiment of a rust belt city abandoned by deindustrialization in Michael Moore’s allegorical documentary, Roger & Me, has recently become a morality play of a different sort as it captures national headlines highlighting a controversial series of decisions […]
2015: record hot or not?
2015: record hot or not? With the 2015 lower troposphere temperatures in, NASA and NOAA have declared without any caveats or doubts, that 2015 was the warmest year since records began. This short post updates my charts that compare satellite with surface thermometers temperatures. The differences between the two methodologies are in fact tiny and subtle. […]
The Paris Gravity Well, Part II: Trillionization
The Paris Gravity Well, Part II: Trillionization “We will not suddenly convert steel mills, cement kilns and road surfacing machines to operate on sunbeams.” Charlie said, “That’s the trouble. You see it the way the banking industry sees it and they make money by manipulating money irrespective of effects in the real world. You’ve spent […]
How ‘Natural Geoengineering’ Can Help Slow Global Warming
How ‘Natural Geoengineering’ Can Help Slow Global Warming An overlooked tool in fighting climate change is enhancing biodiversity to maximize the ability of ecosystems to store carbon. Key to that strategy is preserving top predators to control populations of herbivores, whose grazing reduces the amount of CO2 that ecosystems absorb. As natural wonders go, perhaps the […]
20 Dead, 200 Hospitalized After Reports US Lab “Leaks” Deadly Virus In Ukraine
20 Dead, 200 Hospitalized After Reports US Lab “Leaks” Deadly Virus In Ukraine Amid the so-called “ceasefire” in Ukraine, yet ongoing shelling in many regions, the Donbass news agency reports that more than 20 Ukrainian solders have died and over 200 soldiers are hospitalized after an apparent leak of a deadly virus called “California Flu” from a US […]
Tomgram: Bill McKibben, The Real Zombie Apocalypse
Tomgram: Bill McKibben, The Real Zombie Apocalypse Here we are just a couple of weeks into 2016 and we already know that last year was the second-warmest on record in the continental United States (the winner so far being 2012); the month of December was a U.S. record-breaker for heat and also precipitation; and it’s assumed that, when the […]
Fukushima Mon Amour
Fukushima Mon Amour Is the crisis in Fukushima over or just beginning? You might be forgiven for scratching your head at that one. Nearly five years after the nuclear meltdown triggered by the Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami, one of the planet’s worst radioactive catastrophes has almost completely faded from both the media and public […]
