Environment & Climate
The Organic Revolution: Change the System, Not the Climate
What if there were an organic technology that could cut greenhouse emissions in half and literally suck down and sequester carbon dioxide in living soil - bringing the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere down to 350 ppm - the level scientists warn us we must acheive in order to avert a climate catastrophe?
Cook Organic, Not the Planet. Boycott Factory-Farmed Foods.
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October 2, 2006
Lead exposure levels long considered safe for adults have been linked
to higher death rates from stroke and heart attack, says cheery
research in the medical journal Circulation. The Occupational
Safety and Health Administration suggests that safe blood lead levels
for adults are up to 400 micrograms per liter, but the study -- which
tracked 13,946 subjects for 12 years -- found increased risk of
cardiovascular death at levels of 20 mcg/liter. The results were steady
across socioeconomic classes, ethnic and racial groups, and gender.
U.S. citizens' exposure to lead has dropped Read more
Scientific Study
The Associated Press
GRANTS PASS, Ore. – A team of Canadian scientists has found the most direct evidence yet that baby salmon pick up fatal infections of sea lice while swimming past salmon farms in British Columbia's Broughton Archipelago, and that the more salmon farms the more baby salmon die.
"Before we knew there were potential problems," said Martin Krkosek, a doctoral student at the University of Alberta who was lead author of the study released Monday by the American journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Now it is very clear we have severe problems here."
In Read more
"Before we knew there were potential problems," said Martin Krkosek, a doctoral student at the University of Alberta who was lead author of the study released Monday by the American journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Now it is very clear we have severe problems here."
In Read more
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September 29, 2006
Here's some straight talk on recycling that you're unlikely to hear anywhere else. Once a week in my neighborhood, all the neighbors pull out their recycling bins and place them by the curb where recycling trucks can pick them up. Everybody talks about how recycling is good for the environment, but we never really talk about what's inside those bins. Have you taken a look at what's in there? People are recycling old cardboard boxes from laundry detergent made with toxic ingredients and chemicals that wash down the drain and pollute the streams, groundwater and, ultimately, the ocean. They're Read more
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September 4, 2006
In recent decades, livestock and poultry production in the United States has undergone a transformation that has serious environmental consequences.
Traditional farms increasingly have been replaced by commercial animal growing operations designed to maximize profits through economies of scale. The largest 5 percent of these farm factories are called "concentrated animal feeding operations," or CAFOs.
Each year, CAFOs generate an estimated 300 million tons of manure containing an array of contaminants that seep into waterways and groundwater in 29 states, including Read more
Traditional farms increasingly have been replaced by commercial animal growing operations designed to maximize profits through economies of scale. The largest 5 percent of these farm factories are called "concentrated animal feeding operations," or CAFOs.
Each year, CAFOs generate an estimated 300 million tons of manure containing an array of contaminants that seep into waterways and groundwater in 29 states, including Read more
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September 29, 2006
SUDDENLY, NUCLEAR power is in vogue. At the G-8 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, President Bush and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin announced a far-reaching agreement to cooperate in the rapid expansion of nuclear energy worldwide and called on other countries to join them. It was the latest in a series of high-profile initiatives by the White House to promote nuclear power. Bush argues that the future energy security of the United States and the world will depend on increasing reliance on nuclear energy.
A technology that for years suffered ignominiously in scientific Read more
A technology that for years suffered ignominiously in scientific Read more
News
September 28, 2006
Scientists Form Group to Support Science-Friendly
Candidates
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By Cornelia Dean,
The New York
Times,
September 28, 2006
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News
September 27, 2006
California Set to Enact Landmark
Law
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By Rick Jurgens and Mike
Taugher,
MediaNews,
September 27, 2006.
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News
September 26, 2006
Earth May Be at Warmest Point in 1 Million
Years
.
By Deborah Zabarenko,
Reuters,
September 26, 2006.
"Earth may be close to the warmest it has
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