Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Brazil: Worst Oil Spill in Country’s History
October 24th, 2019Via: Telegraph: Brazil has deployed 5,000 troops to its beaches amid mounting fury at the government’s inaction over the worst oil spill in the country’s history. The environmental catastrophe began in early September when large quantities of oil inexplicably washed ashore. The mysterious spill has continued and has now touched more than 1,000 miles of […]
Historic Midwest Blizzard Has Farmers “Expecting Massive Crop Losses – As Devastating As We’ve Ever Seen”
October 19th, 2019Via: Activist Post: Millions upon millions of acres of wheat and soybeans that were about to be harvested are now completely gone.
Unprecedented Movement Detected on California Earthquake Fault Capable of 8.0 Temblor
October 18th, 2019Via: Los Angeles Times: A major California fault capable of producing a magnitude 8 earthquake has begun moving for the first time on record, a result of this year’s Ridgecrest earthquake sequence destabilizing nearby faults, Caltech scientists say in a new study released in the journal Science on Thursday. In the modern historical record, the […]
Counterfeiting Microsoft’s “Restore CD” Landed Me in Prison for a Year
October 14th, 2019“When I save something, that’s taking away from their market share.” Via: Vice:
World’s Largest Wind Turbines to be Built Off Yorkshire Coast
October 7th, 2019Via: Guardian: The largest offshore wind turbines ever built will begin powering millions of British homes using blades more than 100 metres long by the early 2020s. Each of the new mega-turbines planned for the world’s biggest offshore windfarm at Dogger Bank in the North Sea will reach 220 metres high and generate enough electricity […]
Global Groundwater Extraction a “Ticking Time Bomb”
October 4th, 2019New Zealand: Council in Drought Prone Canterbury Consents to Foreign Company Extracting 40 Billion Litres of Water Via: Cosmos Magazine: A glimpse into the sustainability of global groundwater extraction for rivers, streams and lakes in the next few decades has revealed a worrying picture. The hydrological model, published in the journal Nature, shows that in […]
Man Spends 30 Years Regenerating Farmland Into Amazing Forest
October 2nd, 2019Via: Happen Films:
Plastic Apocalypse: Alarming Levels Of Plastic Found In Children
September 19th, 2019Via: ZeroHedge: The study, conducted by the German Environment Ministry and the Robert Koch Institute, found an alarming 97% of blood and urine samples from 2,500 children tested between 2014 and 2017 had traces of microplastics. Der Spiegel, the German weekly magazine, published the findings over the weekend, which were part of a national study […]
Plan to Kill Off Mosquitoes Backfires Spectacularly, Making the Disease-Carriers Even More Resilient
September 18th, 2019Imagine my shock. And Now: “Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Join The Fight To Stop Zika Virus” Woman Behind Effort to Stop Release of Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Found Dead in Swimming Pool Via: New York Post: Life has found a way. In what sounds like the plot to a Syfy channel original movie, a plan to curb […]
Magnesium: Mineral Content of Vegetables Has Declined 80–90% Last 100 Years
September 14th, 2019This is from 2018. Via: Nutrients: Magnesium is a critical mineral in the human body and is involved in ~80% of known metabolic functions. It is currently estimated that 60% of adults do not achieve the average dietary intake (ADI) and 45% of Americans are magnesium deficient, a condition associated with disease states like hypertension, […]
