Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Court Ruling: Monsanto’s Genetically Engineered Sugar Beets Pose Risk of Irreparable Environmental Harm
December 3rd, 2010In case you’re wondering how this is going to wind up (on appeal), here are some hints: Monsanto Wins as Supreme Court Backs Alfalfa Seed Planting Change We Can Believe In: Obama Chooses Monsanto Creature, Tom Vilsack, for Secretary of Agriculture Has Obama Ever Met an Industrial Food Shill He Didn’t Appoint? Obama Gives Key […]
Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick?
November 23rd, 2010Via: PC World: Radiation from Wi-Fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark, according to a recent study in the Netherlands. All deciduous trees in the Western world are affected, according to the study by Wageningen University. The city of Alphen aan den […]
Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina
November 22nd, 2010This story is a couple of years old, but I’d never heard of it before. Via: Counterpunch: Looking for weapons of mass destruction? Try the backwoods of North Carolina. The site is easy to find. You don’t need infrared telemetry, informants, or a global positioning satellite. Just follow the railroad tracks deep into the heart […]
Genetically Altered Mosquitoes Released into the Wild
November 12th, 2010What happens to the bats, dragonflies, bird and other creatures that eat the GM mosquitoes? Via: New Scientist: An outdoor trial of mosquitoes genetically engineered to sabotage Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which spread dengue fever, has been declared a success by scientists in the field. … Oxitec breeds millions of males carrying an altered gene called […]
Multiple Independent Lab Tests Confirm Oil in Gulf Shrimp
November 10th, 2010Via: Raw Story: The federal government is going out of its way to assure the public that seafood pulled from recently reopened Gulf of Mexico waters is safe to consume, in spite of the largest accidental release of crude oil in America’s history. However, testing methodologies used by the government to deem areas of water […]
Grain Pains
November 9th, 2010Via: Foreign Policy: LB: While the heat wave in Russia reduced their grain harvest — and I’ll use round numbers and say from 100 million tons to 60 million tons, so they lost 40 million tons — it could have been much worse. If that heat wave had been centered in Chicago, we would have […]
Halliburton Knew Cement it Mixed for BP’s Well Was Unstable
October 29th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: Halliburton Co. may face increased liability in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill after the staff of a U.S. presidential panel said the contractor knew cement it mixed for BP Plc’s well was unstable. The staff of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill said documents provided by Halliburton showed […]
‘Coal Country’ Documentary, Aired on Planet Green, Called Potential Threat by PA Dept of Homeland Security
October 28th, 2010Via: Treehugger: I don’t know if we should be flattered or scared: It’s come to TreeHugger’s attention that Coal Country, a documentary which originally aired on Planet Green’s Reel Impact series of programing last November, was singled out at the time as a potential security threat by the Pennsylvania Department of Homeland Security…
Introduction to Permaculture Design DVD
October 27th, 2010Via: Permaculture Research Institute of Australia: Based on the 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate Course as devised by Bill Mollison, join Geoff Lawton as he takes you into the world of Permaculture Design and introduces you to a new way of looking at the world. Learn how to apply your design skills by observing, analyzing and […]
Philippines May Lose 600,000 Tons Rice as Supertyphoon Megi Makes Landfall
October 18th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: The Philippines, the world’s biggest rice buyer, may lose 600,000 metric tons of the crop as Supertyphoon Megi, the strongest to hit the nation this year, strikes some of the nation’s biggest producing areas, a government official said. Rice futures advanced. “Once the typhoon hits those areas, the crop will be affected,” Agriculture […]
