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Sun, Jul 27, 2008
from Birmingham Sunday Mercury:
Human sewage used on crops in the Midlands
"FARMERS are using treated human sewage as crop fertiliser on almost 3,000 Midland fields.
Severn Trent Water says demand for the waste has soared because it is now just a fifth of the cost of conventional animal-based fertiliser, which is closely linked to the price of oil.
The treated human sewage, known as sludge, is being used on fields to grow crops including maize, corn and oats." ...
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There's something sooooooo interconnected about this farming practice.
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Sun, Jul 27, 2008
from Des Moines Register:
Floods foul Iowa environment
"The scope of environmental damage in the wake of this spring's massive flooding is just starting to come into focus. The early findings: Iowa is awash in bacteria, plagued with pesticides, and doused in oil and dangerous compounds, but at concentrations that don't pose an immediate risk to aquatic life or human health. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency collected 169,836 stray computers, appliances, televisions and containers as of July 17, most in Linn County." ...
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There is no ark that can save us from this flood.
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Sun, Jul 27, 2008
from New York Times:
Green, Greener, Greenest
"...Green is good for the planet, but also for a college's public image. In a Princeton Review survey this year of 10,300 college applicants, 63 percent said that a college's commitment to the environment could affect their decision to go there." ...
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And the youth shall lead us
into the Promised Land.
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Sun, Jul 27, 2008
from Fairbanks Daily News-Miner:
Change in the land of frozen ground, fish and hardy trees
"Alaska is changing, and not just in the booming suburbs or shrinking villages, but in the trees on the hillsides, the fish in the oceans, and the climate itself -- the very things that make Alaska what it is. The spruce and birch of the boreal forest are struggling with warm summers, and shrubs are moving into the tundra. Grizzly bear, moose, and king salmon are showing up in places they haven't been seen before, and subtropical fish are taking fishermen's bait in the Gulf of Alaska." ...
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Seward's Icebox has come unplugged.
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Sat, Jul 26, 2008
from Orange County Register:
Sites endangered by global warming
"That dream vacation -- diving along the Great Barrier Reef, skiing in the Swiss Alps -- could remain a dream forever if you don't get a move on... It's been called climate sightseeing, a kind of farewell tour of Earth's greatest hits. The subject is full of paradoxes: The more you travel, for example, the more you're contributing to the problem that made you go to an endangered site in the first place." ...
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But isn't it our right to destroy the planet?
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Sat, Jul 26, 2008
from Newsweek:
Beetlemania
"After ravaging 22 million acres of pine trees in Canada over the last 12 years, the rice-sized insects have been feasting their way southward. Their favorite meal: the majestic lodgepole pine, which makes up 8 percent of Colorado's 22 million acres of forests. Before landing in Beaver Creek, the pine beetles tore through neighboring Vail, Winter Park, Breckenridge and several areas around Steamboat Springs. So far, say state foresters, the beetles have eaten through 1.5 million acres, about 70 percent of the all the state's lodgepole pines. The tree's entire population will be wiped out in the next few years, Colorado state foresters predict, leaving behind a deforested area about the size of Rhode Island." ...
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Majestic lodgepole pine... my, that does sound tasty!
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Sat, Jul 26, 2008
from Time Magazine:
Coral Reefs Face Extinction
"You don't have to be a marine biologist to understand the importance of corals -- just ask any diver. The tiny underwater creatures are the architects of the beautiful, electric-colored coral reefs that lie in shallow tropical waters around the world. Divers swarm to them not merely for their intrinsic beauty, but because the reefs play host to a wealth of biodiversity unlike anywhere else in the underwater world. Coral reefs are home to more than 25 percent of total marine species. Take out the corals, and there are no reefs -- remove the reefs, and entire ecosystems collapse." ...
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You don't have to be a marine biologist, but you can play one on tv!
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Sat, Jul 26, 2008
from Ohio State University via ScienceDaily:
New Material May Help Autos Turn Heat Into Electricity
"Researchers have invented a new material that will make cars even more efficient, by converting heat wasted through engine exhaust into electricity. In the current issue of the journal Science, they describe a material with twice the efficiency of anything currently on the market." ...
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We could drive around enough to power our homes -- or better yet, never have to go home again!
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Sat, Jul 26, 2008
from The West Australian:
Fears over new mosquito-borne virus
Health experts fear a mosquito-borne virus could cause a spike in cases of a debilitating disease.... In the past two years, West Australia health authorities have been notified of 15 cases of chikungunya, the Swahili term for the stooped posture which the virus causes in sufferers with joint pain. The disease also causes vomiting, extreme fatigue and, in rare cases, death. The Health Department declared chikungunya a notifiable infectious disease two months ago. ...
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Where's the DEET?
Heck, where's the DDT?
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Sat, Jul 26, 2008
from Globe and Mail (Canada), via Taras Grescoe:
Finny finis?
Stern trawlers the size of destroyers, purse-seiners that can encircle a dozen nuclear submarines, sonar, spotter planes, GPS and DuPont's nylon monofilament netting become the norm. Equipped with the latest technology, the fishing fleets of the world become armadas facing enemies with brains the size of chickpeas.
By the turn of the millennium, 90 per cent of the world's predator fish - tuna, sharks, swordfish - have been removed from the ocean; leading marine ecologists to project that, because of pollution, climate change and overfishing, all the world's major fisheries will collapse within the next 50 years. The saga ends where it began, in North Atlantic fishing towns, where the locals are reduced to catching slime eels and tourists in search of the quaint get served farmed-in-China tilapia at local seafood shacks. ...
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Phytoplankton curry, anyone?
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Sat, Jul 26, 2008
from Sociological Quarterly, via EurekAlert:
Wealth Does Not Dictate Concern for the Environment
It has been a long-held assumption that poor nations will not support efforts to protect the environment since their citizens are too preoccupied with meeting basic needs, such as food and housing. However, a new study in The Sociological Quarterly reveals that citizens of poorer nations are just as concerned about environmental quality as their counterparts in rich nations. ...
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Funny -- I thought it was the rich countries who didn't give a shit.
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Sat, Jul 26, 2008
from Guardian (UK):
Democrats: White House must publish 'chilling' climate change document
[W]histleblowers have revealed that the White House ordered the agency to scrap its proposal. Democratic attempts to investigate the backroom dealings were stymied until this week, when senators were finally permitted a look at the plan.
... California Democrat Barbara Boxer, released a summary of the proposal to reporters. Boxer was allowed to take notes on the plan but not given a copy.... Democrats asked the EPA administrator, Stephen Johnson, to testify next week at a hearing exploring allegations of White House obstruction on climate change. But Johnson refused, citing executive privilege and forcing the cancellation of the hearing. ...
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Hey little Nero -- is that the whiff of smoke I smell?
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Fri, Jul 25, 2008
from Good Magazine:
The Economy: America Love It Or Fix It 2008
"If we’re addicted to oil, our twelve-step program should begin with admitting that we have a problem. As the price of oil creeps ever higher, finding new energy sources is more important than ever. But the search for alternatives, combined with environmental disruptions, is putting new pressures on other essentials like food. There are some things that are going well in the world. Right now, the economy is not one of them." ...
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Fri, Jul 25, 2008
from University of Maryland vis ScienceDaily:
Costs Of Climate Change, State-by-state: Billions, Says New Report
"Climate change will carry a price tag of billions of dollars for a number of U.S. states, says a new series of reports from the University of Maryland's Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER). The researchers conclude that the costs have already begun to accrue and are likely to endure... "We don't have a crystal ball and can't predict specific bottom lines, but the trend is very clear for these eight states and the nation as a whole: climate change will cost billions in the long run and the bottom line will be red," says Matthias Ruth, who coordinated the research and directs the Center for Integrative Environmental Research at the University of Maryland." ...
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When he says "the bottom line will be red" does he mean written in blood?
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Fri, Jul 25, 2008
from Wall Street Journal:
It's all about the lighting
"Around the world, the night sky is vanishing in a fog of artificial light, which a coalition of naturalists, astronomers and medical researchers consider one of the fastest growing forms of pollution, with consequences for wildlife, people's health -- and the human spirit. About two-thirds of the world's population, including almost everyone in the continental U.S. and Europe, no longer see a starry sky where they live." ...
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The only connection we have with The Milky Way is as a candy bar.
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Fri, Jul 25, 2008
from National Post (Canada):
Fuel cell cars at least 15 years away at best: Study
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are still 15 years away from becoming a viable business for automakers even if they overcome remaining technical hurdles and the U. S. government provides massive subsidies, a government-funded report said last week.
Under a best-case scenario, automakers will only be able to sell about two million electric vehicles powered by fuel cells by 2020, according to the study by the National Research Council. That would mean that less than 1 percent of the vehicles on U.S. roads by that date would be powered by fuel cells. ...
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That's fuelish.
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Fri, Jul 25, 2008
from Natural News:
Chemical Causes of Diabetes: Overeating Is Not the Only Problem
Medical science has discovered how sensitive the insulin receptor sites are to chemical poisoning. Metals such as cadmium, mercury, arsenic, lead, fluoride and possibly aluminum may play a role in the actual destruction of beta cells through stimulating an auto-immune reaction to them after they have bonded to these cells in the pancreas. ...
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Great -- gimme another piece of pie.
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Fri, Jul 25, 2008
from Downey Patriot:
Getting rid of your TV and a tsunami of waste
[T]he biggest loser to the great HDTV switchover could be our environment. Solid waste managers worry that consumers will opt for HDTV en masse, consigning perfectly good analog TVs to the U.S. waste stream. Eighty to 200 million televisions could be discarded over the next 30 months.... Picture tubes hold up to eight pounds of toxic lead, while television plastic casings contain cancer-causing flame retardants. Other TV toxins can include cadmium, mercury, chromium, beryllium and arsenic. If not recycled, toxic TVs can poison people, soils and groundwater. ...
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But hey, we'll be able to watch the devolution in high def!
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Fri, Jul 25, 2008
from Surfbirds.com:
Hundreds of dead penguins wash ashore
Biologists are puzzled by the hundreds of young penguins that have been washing up along the Brazilian coastline since late June. The Magellanic Penguins have been found dead or barely alive, along beaches all over south-eastern Brazil. The mainly young birds will have come from colonies about 2,500 miles south in Argentina. Penguins regularly move north into the waters off southern Brazil in search of food.... "The penguin population is intimately linked to their supplies of food, so this suggests something is happening to the population of fish they eat." ...
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Poor li'l guys -- but at least they're well dressed.
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Thu, Jul 24, 2008
from Chicago Sun-Times:
Global warming may boost kitten population
"Global warming and kittens. While it may seem hard to see the connection between the two -- a climate phenomenon that melts glaciers and acidifies oceans, and cuddly, 4-ounce balls of fur -- experts say there could be one. Each spring, the onset of warm weather and longer days drives female cats into heat, resulting in a few months of booming kitten populations known as "kitten season." ... What shelter officials and veterinarians have begun noticing, however, is that kitten season is starting to begin earlier and last longer." ...
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oh how cute! maybe global warming won't be all bad...
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Thu, Jul 24, 2008
from London Daily Telegraph:
Cow power could generate electricity for millions, US study shows
"...Scientists have calculated for the first time how much of a country's electricity needs could be provided from the manure of cattle and other livestock. They estimate that 3 per cent of America's total electricity demand could be created from animal waste, enough to power millions of homes and businesses... Broken down and then burnt, the scientists estimate that the manure from hundreds of millions of livestock in America could produce approximately 100 billion kilowatt hours of electricity a year." ...
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That's probably enough juice to run the milking machines!
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Thu, Jul 24, 2008
from Albany Times-Union:
Mercury release wasn't stopped
Federal environmental officials failed to stop cement plants from releasing unsafe levels of toxic mercury despite repeatedly being sued by environmentalists for disobeying federal law, according to report issued Wednesday.
Such lawsuits led the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reveal this year that cement plants sent nearly 23,000 pounds of mercury into the air nationwide -- more than double what the agency had reported just two years earlier.... Mercury that drifts back to earth enters the food chain mostly through water.... One-seventieth of a teaspoon of mercury is enough to taint a 25-acre lake. ...
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What's EPA stand for? Perhaps
Environmental Procrastination Agency?
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Thu, Jul 24, 2008
from EUobserver.com:
EU clears baby bottle chemical despite Canada ban
The levels of bisphenol A, or BPA, found in such items is safe for infants in small amounts, according to a European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)scientific opinion issued on Wednesday (23 July), which stated that the substance "provides a sufficient margin of safety for the protection of the consumer, including fetuses and newborns." ... "The scientists also concluded that newborns are similarly able to metabolise and eliminate BPA at doses below 1 milligram per kilogram of body weight per day." ...
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Whew! Endocrine disruptors are safe for my newborn, then.
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Thu, Jul 24, 2008
from Ohio State University:
Paying to save tropical forests could reduce carbon emissions
Wealthy nations willing to collectively spend about $1 billion annually could prevent the emission of roughly half a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year for the next 25 years, new research suggests.
It would take about that much money to put an end to a tenth of the tropical deforestation in the world, one of the top contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, researchers estimate. If adopted, this type of program could have potential to reduce global carbon emissions by between 2 and 10 percent. ...
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A billion a year? Come on, make it 10 billion!
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Thu, Jul 24, 2008
from The Oregonian:
Sockeye come back in record numbers
One of the great fish surprises in years has landed in the Northwest: Sockeye salmon, an ocean-going species that starts and ends its life hundreds of river miles inland, have swum their way up the Columbia River this summer in numbers unseen in five decades.
No one knows exactly why. Some say it's because federal courts ordered the release of extra water over dams in 2006 and 2007 to make passage easier when the fish were young and migrating to sea. Others cite improved ocean conditions. ...
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Great! Let's eat!
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Wed, Jul 23, 2008
from BBC:
Warming world 'drying wetlands'
"More than 700 scientists are attending a major conference to draw up an action plan to protect the world's wetlands. Rising temperatures are not only accelerating evaporation rates, but also reducing rainfall levels and the volume of meltwater from glaciers.
Although only covering 6 percent of the Earth's land surface, they store up to an estimated 20 percent of terrestrial carbon." ...
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Perhaps all our tears will be able to compensate for some of the loss.
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Wed, Jul 23, 2008
from NaturalNews.com:
Colony Collapse Disorder Debunked: Pesticides Cause Bee Deaths
"The great mystery of bee deaths has been solved. Colony Collapse Disorder is poisoning with a known insect neurotoxin. Clothianidin, a pesticide manufactured by Bayer, has been clearly linked to die offs in Germany and France.
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Oy. Trying to follow this story... it just gives me a headache!
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Wed, Jul 23, 2008
from University of Illinois:
Study predicts crop-production costs will jump dramatically in 2009
Costs to get crops in the ground will jump by about a third in 2009, fueled by fertilizer prices expected to surge 82 percent for corn and 117 percent for soybeans, said Gary Schnitkey, an agricultural economist who conducts the annual survey of input costs.... "Roughly 80 percent of the cost of producing nitrogen fertilizer is natural gas, so as natural gas costs have gone up so have the costs of those inputs," he said. "Phosphorus and potassium are mined, and as energy costs increase, mining costs increase." ...
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But won't grain-based ethanol solve this problem?
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Wed, Jul 23, 2008
from Guardian (UK):
A recession will give ecological development a new life
"This is an opportunity to think strategically about development," says environmental adviser Chris Baines. "Sites where biodiversity is being lost may have a reprieve, and this breathing space is the opportunity to think about establishing a green infrastructure ahead of a restart in building and to analyse the social implications to families of such high-density housing without significant green space. There are opportunities for tree-planting, wetlands for flood management, energy crops, adventure playgrounds." ...
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Maybe these clouds have a green lining.
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Wed, Jul 23, 2008
from Times Online (UK):
Mystery as dead birds fall from the sky over Western Australia
Post-mortem examinations have failed to determine the cause of the birds' deaths. Last December 5,000 birds died in the coastal town of Esperance, 500 km south of Perth, after being poisoned by lead carbonate blowing through the town as it was being exported through Esperance Port.... "The birds, when they are showing signs of having been poisoned become a bit wobbly on their feet, they sit down and within 10 to 15 minutes they're dead." ... He said it was particularly puzzling that the deaths were confined to seagulls. In Esperance, wattle birds, yellow throated miners and honey-eaters died. ...
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Surely it's nothing we've done.
This time.
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Wed, Jul 23, 2008
from Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Fresh scent may hide toxic secret
Ten of the 100 volatile organic compounds identified qualified under federal rules as toxic or hazardous, and three of those -- 1,4-dioxane, acetaldehyde and chloromethane -- are "hazardous air pollutants" considered unsafe to breathe at any concentration, according to the study.... [A]s this UW study shows, it's disturbingly easy to find toxic chemicals in everyday products like these because companies don't have to say what's in their products." ...
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But how else can I get the smell of faux nature in my sheets?
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Wed, Jul 23, 2008
from Mail and Guardian (South Africa):
Climate change affecting Uganda
Rainfall in the March to June rainy season is becoming more erratic, followed by heavy downpours from October to December, which destroy crops and increase soil erosion.
Long droughts have led to farmers producing less food, while pastoralists find traditional grazing areas are shrinking and turning arid. This has curtailed their movements and led to competition and conflict for ever-smaller resources. When rains arrive they are often torrential, causing floods and doing more harm than good. Floods destroy crops and increase the prevalence of water-borne diseases. ...
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And these folks produce 0.3 percent of the climate gases that Americans do. Lucky us!
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Wed, Jul 23, 2008
from TIME:
When Jellyfish Attack
Beaches from Marseille to Monaco have been plagued this summer by millions of the gelatinous invaders, whose burning stings have sent scores of holiday-makers fleeing the surf with yelps of pain since large numbers of jellyfish were first sighted along France's coast in June. And those menacing the shorelines are simply the outriders of giant shoals that marine biologists have identified hovering between Corsica and France's southern shores.... Overfishing and other destructive human activity have prompted the prolific multiplication of jellyfish by decimating their natural predators: tuna, sharks and turtles. ...
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A new status symbol:
"Oh yes, I got these stings swimming off Monaco."
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Wed, Jul 23, 2008
from ANI, via MSN (India):
Allergy-causing sofas from China
Thousands of Brits have developed severe allergies after coming in contact with the toxic gas emitted by an anti-mould agent in their Chinese sofas. An increasing number of patients are being treated in hospitals for symptoms, which appeared to range from skin cancer, and chemical burns to severe eczema.
The cases have been linked to an estimated 100,000 sofas... He added that it could take weeks or months to become hypersensitised to the chemical, which disguised the link to the furniture in many cases.
Exposure to dimethyl fumarate can make a person more vulnerable to reactions to other chemicals. ...
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So much for kicking back and watching the game.
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Tue, Jul 22, 2008
from World Wildlife Fund via NaturalNews.com:
Half the Amazon Rainforest to be Lost by 2030
"Due to the effects of global warming and deforestation, more than half of the Amazon rainforest may be destroyed or severely damaged by the year 2030, according to a report released by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
The report, "Amazon's Vicious Cycles: Drought and Fire," concludes that 55 percent of the world's largest rainforest stands to be severely damaged from agriculture, drought, fire, logging and livestock ranching in the next 22 years." ...
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We've seen fire and we've seen rain, but we don't like seeing fire in the rainforest.
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Tue, Jul 22, 2008
from Scientific American:
Happy Fish Go Hungry?
"...Toxicologists at Clemson University in South Carolina have found that hybrid striped bass exposed to the antidepressant fluoxetine (the generic name for Eli Lilly's Prozac) were markedly less interested in feeding than other fish. The more fluoxetine ingested, the less the appetite. The fish also did things that could lead to life-shortening events -- like failing to take usual precautions around predators and making them easier prey." ...
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We knew clams were happy, but now we know striped bass are rockin'!
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Tue, Jul 22, 2008
from Washington Post:
An Oilman's Bet Against Oil
"...perhaps the strangest role the 80-year-old, Oklahoma-born Pickens has fashioned for himself is his current one: the billionaire speculator as energy wise man, an oil-and-gas magnate as champion of wind power, and a lifetime Republican who has become a fellow traveler among environmentally minded Democrats -- even though he helped finance the "Swift boat" ads that savaged the campaign of the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.)." ...
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It's going to take everyone to save the planet.
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Tue, Jul 22, 2008
from Guardian (UK):
Energy efficiency schemes 'could save British business 2.5 billion pounds a year'
[Energy efficiencies] would also cut 22 million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere....
"Our research shows that energy efficiency measures, not job cuts or salary freezes, are the cost-cutting steps businesses are considering first during this economically challenging time. It's an encouraging sign that wise companies are realising that cutting carbon and being green is the easiest way to make a business lean," he adds.
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Necessity is the brother of prevention.
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Tue, Jul 22, 2008
from UPI:
UK government says pandemic 'inevitable'
A British government committee said globalization and lifestyle changes make it inevitable that Britain will be hit with a pandemic of some sort.... "Estimates are that the next pandemic will kill between 2 million and 50 million people worldwide and between 50,000 and 75,000 in (Britain)," the government report said. "Socio-economic disruption will be massive." ...
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PostApocaiku:
Pandemic horrors,
disrupted economies:
inevitable.
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Tue, Jul 22, 2008
from Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, via EurekAlert:
Study reveals air pollution is causing widespread and serious impacts to ecosystems
[A]ir pollution is degrading every major ecosystem type in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic United States.... "Deposited pollutants have tangible human impacts. Mercury contamination results in fish that are unsafe to eat. Acidification kills fish and strips nutrients from soils. Excess nitrogen pollutes estuaries, to the detriment of coastal fisheries. And ground-level ozone reduces plant growth, a threat to forestry and agriculture." ...
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Take a deep breath...
again... again...
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Mon, Jul 21, 2008
from Pioneer Press (Minnesota):
Asphalt shortage raises the price of roadwork
Refinery asphalt prices nationally have risen more than 40 percent since March, government statistics show.... According to Simonson, refiners are trimming asphalt production in favor of more profitable products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel and kerosene. Some refiners have invested heavily in cokers, he said, to further break up crude oil molecules and wring out still more fuel, leaving little or no asphalt.
"That shift, plus record-high crude prices, explains the huge surge in asphalt prices in the last few months," Simonson said. ...
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What one road gets, another road takes away.
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Mon, Jul 21, 2008
from The Durango Herald (Colorado):
Gasfield chemicals sicken nurse, state agency pushing for transparency
All the tests on Cathy Behr were negative. As the medical mystery deepened, her body began failing.... Finally, doctors ... diagnosed a chemical exposure that happened in their own emergency room, where Behr works 12-hour shifts as a nurse. She had treated a sick gas-field worker and breathed the fumes on his clothes from a chemical called ZetaFlow for five or 10 minutes.... ZetaFlow and similar chemicals are exempt from many federal and state environmental laws. ...
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Wonder what the worker was sick from.
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Mon, Jul 21, 2008
from The Project for PostApocology:
PANIQuiz for the week ending July 20 now online
What did the WWF recently ask cruise ships in the Baltic Sea to
stop doing? Antarctic worms, sea spiders, urchins and other marine creatures
are now being threatened by what? What is the current concern regarding the "fish Ebola" detected in
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These questions, their answers, and more.
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Mon, Jul 21, 2008
from Times Online (UK):
IEA warns non-Opec oil could peak in two years
Dr Birol, who is leading an investigation into the condition of the world's largest oilfields, said that the world was entering a "new oil order".
"Demand growth is no longer coming from the US and Europe but from China, India and the Middle East," he said. "Because their disposable incomes are growing so fast and because of subsidies, high oil prices will not have a major impact on demand growth." This meant that prices would remain extremely high for the foreseeable future and that the fundamental dynamics of the global oil market increasingly were outside of the control of Western countries. ...
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PostApocaiku
Hegamonic rule
roadkilled by oil dynamics:
all could be flattened.
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Mon, Jul 21, 2008
from Oregon State University, via EurekAlert:
Lionfish decimating tropical fish populations, threaten coral reefs
[T]his invasive species, which is native to the tropical Pacific and Indian Ocean and has few natural enemies to help control it in the Atlantic Ocean. It is believed that the first lionfish -- a beautiful fish with dramatic coloring and large, spiny fins -- were introduced into marine waters off Florida in the early 1990s from local aquariums or fish hobbyists. They have since spread across much of the Caribbean Sea and north along the United States coast as far as Rhode Island.... "These fish eat many other species and they seem to eat constantly." ...
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Maybe they should be called "humanfish."
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Mon, Jul 21, 2008
from United Nations University, via EurekAlert:
Massive greenhouse gases may be released as destruction, drying of world wetlands worsens: UN
Warming world temperatures are speeding both rates of decomposition of trapped organic material and evaporation, while threatening critical sources of wetlands recharge by melting glaciers and reducing precipitation.... Says UN Under Secretary-General Konrad Osterwalder, Rector of UNU: "Too often in the past, people have unwittingly considered wetlands to be problems in need of a solution. Yet wetlands are essential to the planet's health -- and with hindsight, the problems in reality have turned out to be the draining of wetlands and other 'solutions' we humans devised." ...
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From his lips to Gaia's ears.
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Mon, Jul 21, 2008
from Society of Chemical Industry, via EurekAlert:
A dash of lime -- a new twist that may cut CO2 levels back to pre-industrial levels
Scientists say they have found a workable way of reducing CO2 levels in the atmosphere by adding lime to seawater. And they think it has the potential to dramatically reverse CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere... [I]t could be made workable by locating [lime production] in regions that have a combination of low-cost 'stranded' energy considered too remote to be economically viable to exploit – like flared natural gas or solar energy in deserts – and that are rich in limestone, making it feasible for calcination to take place on site. ...
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That'll work until we get to "peak limestone."
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