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U.S. isolates troops, Australia slaps visa ban on Ebola-hit West Africa states | Reuters
U.S. isolates troops, Australia slaps visa ban on Ebola-hit West Africa states | Reuters. (Reuters) – The U.S. military has started isolating soldiers returning from an Ebola response mission in West Africa and Australia became the first rich nation to impose a visa ban on the affected countries amid global anxiety about the spread of […]
EU Weakens Climate Deal To Keep UK, Poland On Board
EU Weakens Climate Deal To Keep UK, Poland On Board. European Union leaders have agreed to a landmark deal to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next 15 years. The agreement, reached Oct. 24, calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. European Council chair Herman Van Rompuy called the […]
Degrowth-movement refuted by climate-report? No, not at all! | Degrowth 2014
Degrowth-movement refuted by climate-report? No, not at all! | Degrowth 2014. Right before the recent UN climate change summit and shortly after the Leipzig Degrowth-Conference, international media, governments and the United Nations enthusiastically welcomed a new report entitled “Better Growth, Better Climate” and trumpeted its central message around the globe: that economic growth and tackling climate change can go hand in […]
Millions of Ebola Vaccine Doses Promised by Early 2015 | Environment News Service
Millions of Ebola Vaccine Doses Promised by Early 2015 | Environment News Service. GENEVA, Switzerland, October 26, 2014 (ENS) – At a high-level emergency meeting convened by the World Health Organization on Thursday, pharmaceutical companies developing Ebola vaccines committed to accelerate production capacity for millions of doses to be available in the first quarter of 2015. […]
Target Liberty: THE PAPER TRAIL: The US Government Involvement in Developing Ebola as a BioWeapon
Target Liberty: THE PAPER TRAIL: The US Government Involvement in Developing Ebola as a BioWeapon. It is my suspicion that the current Ebola outbreak is the result of US testing of the virus as a potential bioweapon (SEE: The US Military and the Ebola Outbreak and Ebola and the United States Government). Now, thanks to a paper […]
White House Presses States to Reconsider Mandatory Ebola Quarantine Orders – NYTimes.com
White House Presses States to Reconsider Mandatory Ebola Quarantine Orders – NYTimes.com. The Obama administration has expressed deep concerns to the governors of New York and New Jersey and is consulting with them to modify their orders to quarantine medical volunteers returning from West Africa as President Obama seeks to quickly develop a new, nationwide […]
Arctic Ice Melt Seen Doubling Risk of Harsh Winter in EU – Bloomberg
Arctic Ice Melt Seen Doubling Risk of Harsh Winter in EU – Bloomberg. The decline in Arctic sea ice has doubled the chance of severe winters in Europe andAsia in the past decade, according to researchers in Japan. Sea-ice melt in the Arctic, Barents and Kara seas since 2004 has made more than twice as likely atmospheric […]
EU reaches deal on CO2 emissions cut – Europe – Al Jazeera English
EU reaches deal on CO2 emissions cut – Europe – Al Jazeera English. The agreement adopts 27 percent targets for renewable energy supply and efficiency gains [EPA] European Union leaders have reached what they described as the world’s most ambitious climate change targets for 2030, paving the way for a new UN-backed global treaty next […]
COMBAT VS. CLIMATE: The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared – IPS
COMBAT VS. CLIMATE: The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared – IPS. As the U.S. debates the President’s plan for new military engagement, hundreds of thousands converged on New York to urge the world’s nations to take stronger action against the threat of climate change. A new report connects these two issues, and finds that the […]
Why Asia Could Be the Next Ebola Hotbed – The Epoch Times
Why Asia Could Be the Next Ebola Hotbed – The Epoch Times. SINGAPORE—The longer the Ebola outbreak rages in West Africa, the greater chance a traveler infected with the virus touches down in an Asian city. How quickly any case is detected — and the measures taken once it is — will determine whether the […]
Top Ebola Scientists: Ebola More Likely to be Spread by Aerosol In Cold, Dry Conditions than In Hot, Humid Africa Washington’s Blog
Top Ebola Scientists: Ebola More Likely to be Spread by Aerosol In Cold, Dry Conditions than In Hot, Humid Africa Washington’s Blog. Army’s Infectious Disease Research Unit and Discoverer of Ebola Strain Agree We’ve repeatedly warned that this strain of Ebola might be spread by aerosols. But there is a fascinating and terrifying wrinkle to this […]
Old, cold and bold: Ice Age people dwelled high in Peru’s Andes | Reuters
Old, cold and bold: Ice Age people dwelled high in Peru’s Andes | Reuters. (Reuters) – In a bleak, treeless landscape high in the southern Peruvian Andes, bands of intrepid Ice Age people hunkered down in rudimentary dwellings and withstood frigid weather, thin air and other hardships. Scientists on Thursday described the world’s highest known […]
Squabble Over $100 Billion Aid Stalls Global Warming Deal – Bloomberg
Squabble Over $100 Billion Aid Stalls Global Warming Deal – Bloomberg. A dispute about how to link greenhouse-gas emissions cuts to a promise from the wealthiest nations for $100 billion a year in climate aid emerged as a major stumbling block at UN talks on global warming. After a week of discussions that ended today […]
Will GM Crops Feed the World?
Will GM Crops Feed the World?. The Claim: We need GM crops to feed the world Full Report (550kb PDF) Supporters of genetically engineered (also called genetically modified or GM) crops claim that we need this technology to feed a growing global population. However, the promise to “feed the world” with GM crops overlooks the real […]
Oxford Real Farming Conference: power, lies, and the need for agrarian resistance | openDemocracy
Oxford Real Farming Conference: power, lies, and the need for agrarian resistance | openDemocracy. thecommunityfarm.co.uk The sad state of Britain’s dairying has the same root cause as the billion worldwide who are undernourished, the billion who are overweight and/or diabetic or in danger of heart disease, global warming, the mass extinction of our fellow creatures: […]
