Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Your Body Is a Corporate Test Tube
May 8th, 2013Via: Tom Dispatch: A hidden epidemic is poisoning America. The toxins are in the air we breathe and the water we drink, in the walls of our homes and the furniture within them. We can’t escape it in our cars. It’s in cities and suburbs. It afflicts rich and poor, young and old. And there’s […]
Bees: EU to Ban Neonicotinoid Pesticides
April 30th, 2013Via: BBC: The European Commission will restrict the use of pesticides linked to bee deaths by researchers, despite a split among EU states on the issue. There is great concern across Europe about the collapse of bee populations. Neonicotinoid chemicals in pesticides are believed to harm bees and the European Commission says they should be […]
Living in U.S. Raises Risk of Allergies
April 30th, 2013Via: AFP: Children born outside the United States have a lower risk of asthma, skin and food allergies, and living in the United States for a decade or more may raise the risk of some allergies, said a study Monday. The research in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that certain environmental exposures […]
Corexit: Countless Gulf Residents with Symptoms Resembling Something from a Sci-Fi Horror Film, Bleeding from Nose, Ears, Breasts, Anus; Others Complain of Cognitive Damage
April 26th, 2013Via: Huffington Post: Three years ago, when BP’s Deepwater Horizon began leaking some 210 million gallons of Louisiana Crude into the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. government allowed the company to apply chemical “dispersants” to the blossoming oil slick to prevent toxic gunk from reaching the fragile bays, beaches, and mangroves of the coast, where […]
Viruses From Sewage Contaminate Deep Well Water
April 23rd, 2013Via: Chemical & Engineering News: Scientists once thought that pathogens could not reach drinking water wells sunk into deep, protected groundwater aquifers. Nevertheless, over the past decade, researchers have identified diarrhea-causing viruses at a handful of deep bedrock well sites in the U.S. and Europe. Now, researchers in Madison, Wis., report where these pathogenic viruses […]
Hundreds Feared Dead in Iran Earthquake
April 16th, 2013Via: Irish Times: An Iranian government official said today he expected hundreds of deaths from a major earthquake that struck Iran near the border with Pakistan. “It was the biggest earthquake in Iran in 40 years and we are expecting hundreds of dead,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The US Geological […]
Shocker: Solar Panels Could Destroy U.S. Utilities, According to U.S. Utilities
April 14th, 2013Via: Grist: Solar power and other distributed renewable energy technologies could lay waste to U.S. power utilities and burn the utility business model, which has remained virtually unchanged for a century, to the ground. That is not wild-eyed hippie talk. It is the assessment of the utilities themselves. Back in January, the Edison Electric Institute […]
Report Uncovers ‘Water-Apartheid’ in the Occupied West Bank
April 14th, 2013Via: Common Dreams: A new report on Israel’s water grab in the occupied West Bank links the widespread deprivation of Palestinian water rights to Israel’s settlement expansion strategy, saying both demonstrate “a clear testament to its colonial and apartheid motives.” Published Monday by the Ramallah-based human rights organization Al-Haq, “Water for One People Only: Discriminatory […]
U.S. Rice Imports Contain Harmful Levels of Lead Paper Withdrawn by Author
April 11th, 2013
Via: Natural News: But the authors themselves discovered worrisome discrepancies when they sent the samples to a third-party lab for verification. According to an email acquired by Natural News, the results from this third-party lab showed all sub-ppm levels of lead, not the much higher numbers the Tongesayi team had reported. Why the Tongesayi team […]
FUKUSHIMA: AT LEAST THREE OF SEVEN UNDERGROUND CHAMBERS LEAKING RADIOACTIVE WATER
April 9th, 2013Via: New York Times: The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant halted an emergency operation Tuesday to pump thousands of gallons of radioactive water from a leaking underground storage pool after workers discovered that a similar pool, to which the water was being transferred, was also leaking. At least three of seven underground chambers at […]
