GST Original Articles
By Robert Hunziker / 08 October 2022

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According to the Marine Stewardship Council, depletion of fish stocks is the most urgent threat to the world’s oceans.
Ninety-three percent (93%) of the world’s major marine fish stocks are classified as fully exploited, overexploited, or significantly depleted. “Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing is a pervasive, far-reaching security threat.” (Source: Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing, United States... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 02 October 2022

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This article addresses the most current research on sea level rise, as well as adaptation measures being taken around the world. Of special interest, brilliant adaptation measures are taking place in the face of higher seas.
“Sea level has been fairly stable for 6,000 years, which is most of human civilization… but it’s risen eight (8) inches or twenty (20) centimeters in the last century, and the rate is tripling right... Read more
By Katie Singer / 28 September 2022
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A field of destroyed solar panels after a storm in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, 2017. Photo by Jocelyn Augustino, FEMA
Say that a restaurant offers “healthy, natural” chicken soup. How do you know what it means by “healthy” or “natural?” Farmers can cage chickens, feed them genetically-modified soy, wash butchered birds in antibiotics—and still call their chickens natural. Cooks can use lead-coated pots1 and chemically-fertilized vegetables–and... Read more
By Henry Robertson / 24 September 2022

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Solar Ends Growth
Sun shines, winds blow
Plants grow, waters flow
They’re all sunshine in the end
Sunshine is the one great flow
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Caption for photo: Trump/Biden/CIA appointee Lisa Kenna with Dina Boluarte.
By Karl Grossman / 16 December 2022

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There was great hoopla—largely unquestioned by media—with the announcement this week by the U.S. Department of Energy of a “major scientific breakthrough” in the development of fusion energy. But, as Dr. Daniel Jassby, for 25 years principal research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab working on fusion energy research and development... Read more
By ANNA V. SMITH, JESSIE BLAESER AND JOSEPH LEE / 11 December 2022
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Indigenous nations in the basin are making a stand for their water — and upsetting the river’s power structure.
In early November, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case brought by the Navajo Nation that could have far-reaching impacts on tribal water rights in the Colorado River Basin. In its suit, the Navajo Nation argues that the Department of Interior has a responsibility, grounded in... Read more
By ANNA V. SMITH, JESSIE BLAESER AND JOSEPH LEE / 11 December 2022
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Indigenous nations in the basin are making a stand for their water — and upsetting the river’s power structure.
In early November, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case brought by the Navajo Nation that could have far-reaching impacts on tribal water rights in the Colorado River Basin. In its suit, the Navajo Nation argues that the Department of Interior has a responsibility, grounded in... Read more