Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Britain: Freezing Weather Affecting Food Supplies
January 10th, 2010Via: Guardian: Britons have been warned to brace themselves for an increase in food prices as plunging temperatures leave farmers unable to harvest vegetables and hauliers struggle to distribute fresh produce. Gordon Brown, who will chair a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee early this week to discuss the freeze, was today forced to reassure […]
Freezing Weather-Related Death Toll Rises to 22 in Britain
January 8th, 2010But first, we flashback to 2000: Independent: Snowfalls Are Now Just a Thing of the Past: Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives. Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our […]
2.4 Million Pounds of Plastic Pollution Enter the World’s Oceans Every Hour
January 6th, 2010Plasticalypse. Via: Chris Jordan: This new series looks at mass phenomena that occur on a global scale. Similarly to the first Running the Numbers series, each image portrays a specific quantity of something: the number of tuna fished from the world’s oceans every fifteen minutes, for example. But this time the statistics are global in […]
Soviet Era Gas Drilling Mishap Resulted in Giant Pit That Has Been Burning Since 1971
December 28th, 2009Here’s one for your Cap and Trade file folder: More: Derweze
Commercial Farms Emerging from Detroit Ruins
December 27th, 2009I’d love to know how Hantz Farms plans on building soil structure and providing soil nutrients on this scale. Since they’re doing this in decentralized cells, maybe they can designate a property to serve as a composting facility that can generate large amounts of black gold with shorter turn around times and then distribute it, […]
China: Clean Green Apocalypse
December 27th, 2009Via: New York Times: Some of the greenest technologies of the age, from electric cars to efficient light bulbs to very large wind turbines, are made possible by an unusual group of elements called rare earths. The world’s dependence on these substances is rising fast. Just one problem: These elements come almost entirely from China, […]
North Magnetic Pole Moving East Due to Core Flux
December 26th, 2009Via: National Geographic: Earth’s north magnetic pole is racing toward Russia at almost 40 miles (64 kilometers) a year due to magnetic changes in the planet’s core, new research says. The core is too deep for scientists to directly detect its magnetic field. But researchers can infer the field’s movements by tracking how Earth’s magnetic […]
UK’s Richest Man Could Make More Than £1 Billion from Carbon Trading Scheme
December 16th, 2009Via: ClickGreen: New analysis released by climate change NGO Sandbag has revealed that the UK’s richest resident, Lakshmi Mittal, CEO and major shareholder of the steel giant ArcelorMittal, could make over £1 billion between now and 2012 from his company’s participation in the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme.
Henrik Svensmark Heart Attack
December 14th, 2009I’ve only personally seen one person have a heart attack (my dad), but it didn’t look anything like this at all. Does anyone out there—who has witnessed a heart attack (or experienced one personally)—have any comments about this? Is the hit-by-taser looking reaction related to his pace maker? Via: YouTube: On live TV during the […]
U.S. Antitrust Investigation of Monsanto
November 30th, 2009Oh sure. Obama Chooses Monsanto Creature, Tom Vilsack, for Secretary of Agriculture Obama Chooses Former Monsanto Lobbyist for Food Safety Post Has anyone tried to calculate how much public money Monsanto winds up with each year due to corrupt, broken and bat shit insane agricultural subsidies? I’d guess that the answer to that question would […]
