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Topic: Biodiversity / Biodevastation

  • Collapsing Rainforest Ecosystems

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    rsburke
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    The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences recently issued a report on the status of arthropods in rainforests (Bradford C. Lister and Andres Garcia, Climate-Driven Declines in Arthropod Abundance Restructure a Rainforest Food Web, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1722477115). The report’s shocking analysis discovered a collapsing food web in tropical rainforests. Oh please!…

  • Global Warming and East Coast Hurricanes

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    fitzdon

    This Communication is also our Monthly Temperature Update for August 2018 .  M onthly temperature update s  are available from either  web page ( Hansen  or  Sato ) or directly here .     Maps below show  the temperature anomaly for the past three months and the seasonal mean (Northern  Hemisphere Summer).  We draw attention…

  • In Germany, 50,0000 marchers celebrate unexpected win for Hambacher Forest against energy giant

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    squirrel

    An unexpected High Court ruling in the German state of North Rhein Westphalia (NRW) has blocked energy giant RWE from further destruction of the Hambacher Forest for the next couple of years. The decision has been hailed as a major victory by the newly-revitalised German environmental and climate justice movement.

  • An Unforeseen Climate Beast Awakens!

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    fitzdon

    East Antarctica is a big-time global warming player. Nothing is comparable. It is the world heavyweight, and nothing can impact the world with so much calamitous clout. As such, it would be a huge mistake to discount its capability to turn mean-spirited, striking all of a sudden, catching scientists and humanity unawares. In fact, it’s…

  • India: The State of Independence. British Colonialism Replaced by a New Hegemony

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    fitzdon

    India celebrates its independence from Britain on 15 August. However, the system of British colonial dominance has been replaced by a new hegemony based on the systemic rule of transnational capital, enforced by global institutions like the World Bank and WTO. At the same time, global agribusiness corporations are stepping into the boots of the…

  • India Mortgaged? Forced-Fed Illness and the Neoliberal Food Regime

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    fitzdon

    Like many countries, India’s food system was essentially clean just a generation or two ago but is now being comprehensively contaminated with sugar, bad fats, synthetic additives, GMOs and pesticides under the country’s neoliberal ‘great leap forward’. The result has been a surge in obesity, diabetes and cancer incidence, while there has been no let-up…

  • What, Me Worry? Humans Are Blind to Imminent Environmental Collapse

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    fitzdon

    A curious thing about H. sapiens is that we are clever enough to document — in exquisite detail — various trends that portend the collapse of modern civilization, yet not nearly smart enough to extricate ourselves from our self-induced predicament. This was underscored once again in October when scientists reported that flying insect populations in…

  • Scientists Warn UN of Capitalism’s Imminent Demise

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    henryr874

    Capitalism as we know it is over. So suggests a new report commissioned by a group of scientists appointed by the UN Secretary-General. The main reason? We’re transitioning rapidly to a radically different global economy, due to our increasingly unsustainable exploitation of the planet’s environmental resources. Climate change and species extinctions are accelerating even as…

  • One man’s suffering exposed Monsanto’s secrets to the world

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    briant

    A profile of the defendant in the recently successful lawsuit against Monsanto focusing on the effects of Roundup exposure.

  • San Francisco residents were sure nearby industry was harming their health. They were right.

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    fitzdon

    For decades, the residents of San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood have sounded the alarm that industry emissions and pollution in their backyard are making them sick. Located right off the Bay in the southeastern corner of the city, the historically black neighborhood has played host to a number of pollution sources over the years. It…