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Guinea Says Ebola Spreads to Regions Near AngloGold Mine – Bloomberg
Guinea Says Ebola Spreads to Regions Near AngloGold Mine – Bloomberg. The Ebola virus has spread to two new regions in Guinea, including an area where an AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. (ANG) mine is located. The village that reported the infections in Siguiri is 30 kilometers (19 miles) from the Johannesburg-based company’s facility, the Ministry of Health and AngloGold […]
Ebola Travel Ban Now!
Ebola Travel Ban Now!. Is Barack Obama completely insane? By not instituting an immediate ban on all non-essential travel between the United States and West Africa, he is putting the lives of more than 300 million Americans at risk. Anyone with a shred of common sense knows that you keep more people from getting sick […]
Electric Power Rights of Way: A New Frontier for Conservation by Richard Conniff: Yale Environment 360
Electric Power Rights of Way: A New Frontier for Conservation by Richard Conniff: Yale Environment 360. Often mowed and doused with herbicides, power transmission lines have long been a bane for environmentalists. But that’s changing, as some utilities are starting to manage these areas as potentially valuable corridors for threatened wildlife. by richard conniff Nobody […]
The Economist explains: Why airport screening won’t stop Ebola | The Economist
The Economist explains: Why airport screening won’t stop Ebola | The Economist. THOSE who got sick, and there were many, developed large, dark blisters that oozed pus and blood. Later came fever and bloody vomiting. Long before Ebola, there was the Black Death, which killed millions in the 14th century. And as with Ebola, nervous […]
Activist Post: FEMA Conducting Pandemic Drills Amidst Ebola Crisis
Activist Post: FEMA Conducting Pandemic Drills Amidst Ebola Crisis. In yet another curious coincidence surrounding the recent Ebola crisis, it appears that FEMA has been preparing for the appearance of a pandemic of deadly disease in the near future all along. As part of the FEMA Pandemic Exercise Series: PANDEMIC ACCORD: 2013-14 Pandemic Influenza Continuity Exercise […]
Video of the Day – Stunning Scenes from California’s Central Valley Drought | Liberty Blitzkrieg
Video of the Day – Stunning Scenes from California’s Central Valley Drought | Liberty Blitzkrieg. Michael Krieger | Posted Friday Oct 17, 2014 at 11:26 am No matter what you have read or seen so far on California’s historic Central Valley drought, you probably haven’t been touched by it as much as you will be by the following video from […]
Power out for thousands in Bermuda as hurricane moves away | Reuters
Power out for thousands in Bermuda as hurricane moves away | Reuters. People stand on the island’s south shore to feel the winds from approaching Hurricane Gonzalo, in Astwood Park, October 17, 2014. CREDIT: REUTERS/NICOLA MUIRHEAD (Reuters) – Power was out for tens of thousands in Bermuda on Saturday morning after Hurricane Gonzalo pummeled the […]
BBC News – Caribbean countries announce Ebola travel bans
BBC News – Caribbean countries announce Ebola travel bans. Continue reading the main story Thousands of tourists visit Jamaica’s Montego Bay each year Jamaica said it would not accept travellers from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone for the time being. A group of Caribbean countries have announced bans on entry to foreigners who have travelled […]
Fracking Moves To China, Part II — Sea Change Radio Sea Change Radio
Fracking Moves To China, Part II — Sea Change Radio Sea Change Radio. Last week on Sea Change Radio, we learned about the new shale gas boom in China. This week, in the second part of my discussion with Jaeah Lee and James West of Mother Jones, we examine the larger questions that surround this shift […]
