Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Hidden Cameras and Secret Trackers Reveal Where Amazon Returns End Up
October 10th, 2020Via: CBC: It’s safe to say that online shoppers like the promise of easy — and even better, free — returns. But it may surprise consumers to learn what can actually happen to all those unwanted items. A Marketplace investigation into Amazon Canada has found that perfectly good items are being liquidated by the truckload […]
The Pandemic is a Test Run
September 23rd, 2020Via: The Corbett Report: The death cult that wants to suppress humanity has issued their warning: the lockdown of the world in the name of the global scamdemic is not the end of this madness. It is only the beginning.
California to Ban New Gasoline Cars by 2035
September 23rd, 2020Via: Bloomberg: California will phase out sales of new, gasoline-powered cars by 2035 as part of its fight against climate change, Governor Gavin Newsom announced — the first state to set an expiration date for the traditional automobile.
How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
September 13th, 2020Via: NPR: Laura Leebrick, a manager at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon, is standing on the end of its landfill watching an avalanche of plastic trash pour out of a semitrailer: containers, bags, packaging, strawberry containers, yogurt cups. None of this plastic will be turned into new plastic things. All of it is […]
Russia’s ‘Slow-Motion Chernobyl’ at Sea
September 2nd, 2020Via: BBC: Beneath some of the world’s busiest fisheries, radioactive submarines from the Soviet era lie disintegrating on the seafloor. Decades later, Russia is preparing to retrieve them.
“Bomb Carbon” Has Been Found in Deep-Ocean Creatures
August 12th, 2020Via: Scientific American: Until now, it has been unclear whether bomb carbon has managed to spread into the farthest crevices of the world, especially the deepest seas. It would have taken natural oceanic circulation about 1,000 years to carry it to the depths of the Mariana Trench. And in fact, testing for the new study […]
Scientists Revive Microbes from 100 Million Years Ago
July 29th, 2020Via: AFP: Scientists have successfully revived microbes that had lain dormant at the bottom of the sea since the age of the dinosaurs, allowing the organisms to eat and even multiply after eons in the deep. Their research sheds light on the remarkable survival power of some of Earth’s most primitive species, which can exist […]
Mysterious Seed Packets from China Sent to Dozens of People in 3 States, Officials Say
July 25th, 2020Via: Tacoma News Tribune: A strange package has been sent to people in multiple states: random, unidentified seeds from China. Residents in Washington, Utah and Virginia have received small packages of seeds in the mail that appear to be sent from China, officials said. “Today we received reports of people receiving seeds in the mail […]
Open Seeds: Biopiracy and the Patenting of Life
July 7th, 2020This is from 2012. It will be old, sad news for many of you, but it’s worth a look if you are new to the topic. Via: Corbett Report Extras:
Tons of Microplastic Rain Onto Western U.S.
June 27th, 2020Via: EarthSky: A new study estimates that more than 1,000 tons of microplastics from the air – equivalent to more than 123 million plastic water bottles – rain down onto protected areas in the western U.S. each year. The discovery of the microplastics was a surprise. A research team was analyzing rainwater samples from national […]
