Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Organic Food Production Could Secure Global Food Supplies with Reduced Environmental Impacts
May 8th, 2007Here’s one for your No-Shit-Rocket-Science-Brain-Surgery file. The problem, of course, is getting there from here. Conventional farmers walk a fine line that is so close to ruin that it’s mostly unthinkable for them to switch to organic methods. They are under incredible pressure to perform because they often don’t own the land that they’re farming […]
Please Lord, Not the Bees
May 6th, 2007Everything you didn’t want to know about Colony Collapse Disorder… Via: GNN: Among the various mythologies of the apocalypse, fear of insect plagues has always loomed larger than fear of species loss. But this may change, as a strange new plague is wiping out our honey bees one hive at a time. It has been […]
Wheat Super-Blight
May 4th, 2007Keep the “glorified bread-and-water diet” quote from the bee dieoff story in mind as you read this one. Via: New Scientist: “This thing has immense potential for social and human destruction.” Startling words – but spoken by the father of the Green Revolution, Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug, they are not easily dismissed. An infection is […]
Honeybee Die-Off Threatens Food Supply
May 3rd, 2007Via: Yahoo / AP: Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many of the nation’s honeybees could have a devastating effect on America’s dinner plate, perhaps even reducing us to a glorified bread-and-water diet. Honeybees don’t just make honey; they pollinate more than 90 of the tastiest flowering […]
Oblivion: National Survey Reveals More than 70% of Americans Don’t Know Plastic is Made from Oil
April 23rd, 2007The fact that some ADM-related thing purports to have “solutions” to the plastipocalypse just enhances the sense of oblivion that pervades these issues. On the one hand you have knuckle dragging people who will trample each other for bargains at WalMart, and on the other hand, you have ADM with “solutions.” In other news, 79% […]
Chinese Make First Artificial Snowfall
April 19th, 2007Via: Telegraph: China claimed yesterday to have caused a snowfall for the first time as part of its increasingly ambitious attempts to control the weather. Officials in the meteorological bureau in Tibet said they had used “rain-seeding” techniques to trigger a snowfall over the city of Nagqu last week. … China is the world’s largest […]
‘Water Police’ Crack Down in an Ever-Drier Australia
April 12th, 2007Via: Christian Science Monitor: At first glance it looks like a police car – a white vehicle with a black-and-yellow checkerboard stripe running along its flanks. But as the patrol vehicle turns a corner in the leafy district of Paddington, in central Sydney, its true purpose becomes clear from the bold black lettering across its […]
Two Cryptogon Readers Each Contribute $30; Question About Chemtrails
April 7th, 2007Thanks AS and EP! Along with his contribution, AS wondered: “Do you see chemtrails over the farm? If so how often?” The total lack of chemtrails in the Far North of New Zealand is one of the weirdest things about adjusting to life here. After seeing such extreme chemtrail activity over the Southern California area […]
Los Angeles Suffers Longest Dry Spell in 130 Years
April 2nd, 2007Via: Breitbart: Los Angeles is going through its longest dry spell in at least 130 years, the National Weather Service said Sunday, fueling fears of rampant wildfires which have plagued the US west coast in recent years. “The rain season is currently the driest to date in downtown Los Angeles since records began in 1877,” […]
As Bee Colonies Disappear Across the Nation, Experts Are Wondering Why
April 2nd, 2007Via: Jacksonville Daily News: Louie Foy has been charming Mother Nature’s pollinators for more than 40 years. Foy, who keeps bees at his home in Verona, makes honey from his tiny pets and knows everything about them — when they breed, what makes them angry, when they die. But for the past three weeks, Foy […]
