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Topic: Biodiversity / Biodevastation

  • Fukushima Catastrophe at 6: Normalizing Radiation Exposure Demeans Women and Kids and Risks Their Health

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    fitzdon

    Since the election of President Trump, certain words have taken prominence in our lexicon: “alternative facts”, “gaslighting”, “normalization”. But the techniques these words represent have been used by the nuclear industry and its purveyors in government since the Cold War love affair with nuclear weapons began. And as we deal with the continuing fallout 6…

  • Smokey was wrong. You can’t prevent wildfires, and you shouldn’t try.

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    fitzdon

    Richard Minnich, a professor of science at University of California at Riverside, likes to play a word game that sums up how confused the general public is about wildfires. It starts with a well-known slogan. “Smokey the Bear says, ‘Only you can prevent forest fires,’” Minnich says, then takes a pregnant pause. “Let’s change that…

  • Editing Evolution

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    squirrel

    Synthetic biology, commonly defined as the science of manipulating or editing genomes to engineer new living organisms, is basically genetic engineering 2.0. This rapidly growing biotech field is expected to be worth $38.7 billion by 2020. And right now, gene drives are the most exciting – and most potentially dangerous – new tool in the…

  • Climate Diplomacy and Climate Action: What’s Next?

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    briant
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    Simultaneously published in The Indypendent (NYC), May 2017 issue, available at https://indypendent.org/: Climate Diplomacy and Climate Action:  What’s Next? Brian Tokar Just over a year ago, diplomats from around the world were celebrating the final ratification of the December 2016 Paris Agreement, proclaimed to be the first globally inclusive step toward a meaningful climate solution.…

  • Trump administration exempts three CA oil fields from water protection rule at Jerry Brown’s request

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    fitzdon

    As soon as I heard on election night that Donald Trump was going to be the next President, I predicted on Twitter, Facebook and in conversations with friends that Governor Jerry Brown, in spite of his “green” image, would try to make a deal with Trump to build his legacy project, the environmentally destructive Delta Tunnels, and expand fracking…

  • The Way Forward Post Zinke’s Repeal of Obama Ban on Lead Ammunition

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    squirrel

    Surrounded by representatives from a host of sportsman’s organizations, including the National Rifle Association, Zinke overturned President Obama’s last minute effort to protect wildlife and human health. Toxic ammunition is not only deadly for the intended victim. One lead bullet that hits an animal fragments into hundreds of tiny particles that lodge in its flesh.…

  • 8 things to know about Channel 4’s Lost Tribe of the Amazon

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    CJ Oreilly

    To put it mildly, "the documentary "First Contact" omitted some crucial information, used some extremely misleading language, and made numerous factual errors. Here are eight things worth highlighting."

  • Obama’s Hidden Role in Worsening Climate Change

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    fitzdon

    It should be a scandal that leftists-liberals paint Trump as a special threat, a war mongerer – not Obama who is the first president to be at war everyday of his eight years, who is waging seven wars at present, who dropped three bombs an hour, 24 hours a day, the entire 2016. Here is some…

  • How TIAA Funds Environmental Disaster in Latin America

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    fitzdon

    If you are in U.S. academic, research, medical, or cultural fields, your assets are likely managed by pension fund giant TIAA(formerly TIAA-CREF). Though frequently neglected, pension funds constitute the largest sector of the financial industry. TIAA is among the 100 largest corporations in the United States, serving over five million active and retired employees from…

  • The Ghost of IG Farben: Can Monsanto Reform Bayer?

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    fitzdon

    Berlin. The marriage of Monsanto with Bayer breaks records not only due to its size but because of its evil smell, and not only due to Monsanto’s reputation for deadly trails of everything from disappearing wild flowers and butterflies to poverty-stricken family farmers forced to buy its seeds and pesticides. For Bayer, perhaps best known…