Environment

The book’s reviewers offer no clue that Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future is the most important book published in this century. And it is that. Its fictional form makes climate science and climate remediation readable. It’s scary (pulling ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Jul 29 2022 - 11:33am

Is Amazon Rainforest Burning At Record Rates? What Is The Way Forward?

Short summary: we have had wild fires for many years now in the Amazon, even in the tropical rainforest- mainly started by humans for forest clearing and ranching. It is not enough to impact significantly on the Paris agreement pledges yet, though it is i ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 9 2022 - 2:21pm

COP Meetings – 27 Of ‘em! – With Still No.…

And back at home, Congressman John Curtis (R Utah) tells National Public Radio that the “conservative climate caucus,” which he chairs, seeks climate solutions that “don’t demonize fossil fuels.”* Now, as many of you know, I’m a political centrist at hear ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Nov 24 2022 - 1:19pm

Industrial Corn Farming: Ruining Health, Polluting Watersheds

Last summer’s Lake Erie toxic algae outbreak shut down the water supply for almost half a million people in Toledo and the surrounding suburbs. Bottled water ran out in stores across the area, and residents fled the city in search of clean water — an opti ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 9 2022 - 10:44am

This Is Your Opportunity To Tell NASA You Want To Keep Earth Extra Safe During Their Samples From Mars Mission

For those who don’t know the background, NASA’s Perseverance rover is gathering rock samples in Jezero crater on Mars where there used to be a delta long ago. It is a very interesting place for past life. The samples are in tubes on Mars. They want to ret ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 18 2022 - 3:02pm

NASA- Your Samples From Mars Need A Better Than Biosafety Level 4 Facility- NOT Designed To Contain Even Earth's Tiniest Cells

First for anyone who doesn't know about it, NASA are planning to return its Mars samples of rock and some dust / soil to biosafety level 4 facilities (BSL-4). The samples are in tubes on Mars. They want to return them some time around 2033. ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 23 2022 - 4:43am

Cows Are Smarter Than Whole Foods Shoppers

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Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 19 2023 - 6:27pm

The Top 3 Causes Of Bee Colony Collapses Are Mites, Mites, And Mites- Any Other Claim Is Selling Something

Some food grown in the US, especially high-cost luxuries like almonds, are pollinated using bees. Since bees are most often rented and transported for such purposes, keeping them alive is important to owners and growers. As their value for higher-cost food ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 6 2023 - 5:01am

Ohio Train Derailment Real Dangers of Hydrogen Chloride VS Chemophobic Coverage

O n coverage of the Ohio train derailment remembers the issue isn’t scary chemical names it’s what the chemical compounds are and their concentrations in the environment that are an issue. Anyone who tells you a big black cloud of chemical smoke is good t ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Feb 20 2023 - 11:15am

America's Next Challenge May Be Not Enough Farmland In Use

Right now, 17 percent of the US is cropland while 51 percent is open and essentially unused. We have more open space in the US than the entire continent of Africa, only 3 percent of our land is urban, but you might not be aware of that because activists in ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 27 2023 - 8:31pm