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Topic: Biodiversity / Biodevastation

  • Barbarous Deforestation in Western Ukraine

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    fitzdon

    Forests in the Ukrainian Carpathians are on the verge of extinction as the country faces an ecological disaster of unprecedented proportions, environmentalists say. Illegal loggers are illegally trafficking abroad entire trains of fir trees, earning millions of dollars. According to local residents, deforestation has dramatically intensified over the past two years. The scale of the…

  • Unsafe at any Dose? Diagnosing Chemical Safety Failures, from DDT to BPA

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    fitzdon

    Piecemeal, and at long last, chemical manufacturers have begun removing the endocrine-disrupting plastic bisphenol-A (BPA) from products they sell. Sunoco no longer sells BPA for products that might be used by children under three. France has a national ban on BPA food packaging. The EU has banned BPA from baby bottles. These bans and associated product…

  • Moving Past the Transportation Gridlocks in Our National Parks

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    squirrel

    As the National Park Service enters its second century, it made me consider: What is the impact of millions of vehicles on our nation’s “best idea” and how does it compromise our experience of these grand places? What is being done to minimize auto traffic in national parks? Which parks are accessible via alternative transportation?

  • Biking Bill is a Smokescreen for Opening Up Wilderness

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    CJ Oreilly

    Are you ready for mechanized vehicles on every wilderness trail in the United States? That's what you'll get if a deceptive piece of federal legislation becomes law. Portrayed as a “modest” proposal for mountain bike access, the legislation is a Trojan horse that would throw open all designated wilderness areas to bikes and prevent federal…

  • Nuclear energy dangerous to your wallet, not only the environment

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    fitzdon
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         The ongoing environmental disaster at Fukushima is a grim enough reminder of the dangers of nuclear power, but nuclear does not make sense economically, either. The entire industry would not exist without massive government subsidies.      Quite an insult: Subsidies prop up an industry that points a dagger at the heart of the communities…

  • Global Agribusiness, Dependency and the Marginalisation of Self-Sufficiency, Organic Farming and Agroecology

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    fitzdon

    Is organic-based farming merely a niche model of agriculture that is not capable of feeding the global population? Or does it have a major role to play? In addressing these questions, it would be useful to consider a selection of relevant literature to see what it says about the role of organic farming, how this model of…

  • An LA Story

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    squirrel

    In the hills near Hollywood, a lone mountain lion is challenging us to prove that humans and wildlife can coexist.

  • Damning Probe Finds EPA ‘Turning Blind Eye’ to Toxic Chemical Cocktails

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    mesrod

    Despite the EPA's claims, information on dangerous synergistic effects is publicly available. In fact, the agro-giants collected it themselves

  • Violence on the Factory Farm: How not to Feed the World

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    fitzdon

    The amount of meat humans eat is immense. In 1965, 10 billion livestock animals were slaughtered each year. That number is now over 55 billion. Factory farming is the fastest growing method of animal production worldwide. While industrialised nations dominate this form of farming, developing countries are rapidly expanding and intensifying their production systems. Violence on…

  • Why Chimpanzee-Testing in Medicine Had to End

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    fitzdon

    A French man died last month and five others in the same clinical trial were hospitalized after they took an experimental drug. The drug had been deemed safe for humans after having been tested on chimpanzees in preclinical trials. The National Institutes of Health’s recent decision to end federally supported chimpanzee experimentation could prevent future fatalities…