Archive for the 'Environment' Category
What to Do with All the Sandbags? Never Mind the Millions of Acres of Farmland Flooded in Toxic Soup
June 27th, 2008The water that flooded millions of acres of farmland is so dangerously polluted that the sand and the sandbags—used for flood control—need to be disposed of in landfills. Of course, the Associates Press doesn’t mention those millions of acres of flooded farmland in the piece below. Maybe the topsoil that didn’t wash away can just […]
Supreme Court Cuts Exxon Punitive Damages for Valdez Oil Spill by 80%
June 26th, 2008Via: San Francisco Chronicle: The Supreme Court, winding up a term of victories for businesses, cut punitive damages for Alaskans harmed by the Exxon Valdez oil spill by 80 percent today in a ruling that may signal new limits on damage awards for victims of corporate wrongdoing. In a 5-3 decision, the justices reduced punitive […]
Unbelievable Pictures of Iowa Flooding
June 20th, 2008Must see. Via: Boston Globe.
Brown Pushes EU to Allow More GMO Animal Feeds
June 20th, 2008Grim. Via: Independent: Gordon Brown is calling on the European Union to relax its rules on importing genetically modified animal feed in a further sign of the Government’s willingness to embrace the controversial technology. Mr Brown believes GM crops are vital to the attempt to cut spiralling food prices. His proposal comes the day after […]
Australia: Food Bowl Areas Soon “Beyond Repair”
June 18th, 2008Via: Bloomberg: Parts of Australia’s key Murray-Darling river food bowl may be beyond recovery unless a prolonged dry spell and political wrangling over water use ends by October, a leaked scientific report warned on Wednesday. “There has been 10 years at least that people have said you have got to restore the environmental flows to […]
500 Year Flood Submerges Iowa
June 16th, 2008Via: ENS Newswire: “Nearly one third of Iowa is already under water and water levels continue to rise,” said U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, urging federal financial assistance for his state. Waters are still rising in many parts of the state and the president responded. On Sunday, after touring some of the worst flooded […]
China’s Quake Aftershock: 5 Million Homeless
June 10th, 2008The scale of this disaster is very difficult to contemplate. Via: MSNBC: At the relief operations center in China’s mountainous Qingchuan county, government workers are still in emergency mode nearly a month after the devastating May 12 earthquake. Powerful aftershocks, heavy rains and dangerous “quake lakes” keep them from devoting all their attention to their […]
Australia: ABC TV Advises CO2-Emitting Children to Die Early
June 6th, 2008Via: The Register: Carbon Cult sickos are under fire for an interactive website that tells children they should die because they emit CO2. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Planet Slayer” site invites young children to take a “greenhouse gas quiz”, asking them “how big a pig are you?”. At the end of the quiz, the pig […]
Food Is Gold, and Investors Pour Billions Into Farming
June 5th, 2008One of two things is about to happen to people who can’t or won’t take responsibility for the food that crosses their own lips: 1) They’re going to be ripped off; or 2) They’re going to be killed off. Hmm. Why not both? Via: New York Times: “Farmland can be a bubble just like Florida […]
The World According to Monsanto
June 3rd, 2008Guys, I’m very behind with posts. One of the reasons is because I watched this documentary tonight. Please find the time to watch this and share it around. I’ll catch up on posts tomorrow. Watch: The World According to Monsanto Via: GreenPeace: A new movie has dealt yet another severe blow to the credibility of […]
