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The United Nations again raised its world population projections within 90 years to reach 10.1 billion human beings on this already ecologically devastated planet.
Honeybees are taking emergency measures to protect their hives from pesticides, in an extraordinary example of the natural world adapting swiftly to our depredations, according to a prominent bee expert. Scientists have found numerous examples of a n
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“The main issue at hand seems to be the question of time frame. I don't think that Brown or anyone would disagree with the premise that anything short of immediate stabilization (i.e. zero population growth) of population will save us."
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In relation, part of the problem with them is perhaps an inability to make connections. For the most part, they seem to have little or no idea about the collective consequences of their individual behaviors.
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“In viewing the world from the broader ecological perspective, however, there is no hope for a brighter future, because the fundamental assumption underlying our limited anthropocentric perspective is wrong.”
TOKYO — One must accept a risk of radiation exposure when flying in and out of Narita International Airport, the busiest airport in Japan, just east of Tokyo, but perhaps not for the reason you are thinking.
An MIT study argues that keeping it in temporary storage for decades, rather than permanently burying it, has many benefits.
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"Unlimited population growth cannot be sustained; you cannot sustain growth in the rates of consumption of resources. No species can overrun the carrying capacity of a finite land mass." Dr. Albert Bartlett, University of Colorado, USA.
BP is a crime organization
Earth Day co-founder Ira Einhorn who helped bring awareness to environmental issues and also preached against the Vietnam War — and any violence — had a secret dark side.
George Carlin on Celebrating Earth Day. Make the world safe for my Volvo!!
Eco-insanity
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National Public Radio sprints away from the issue like it’s being chased by the Tasmanian Devil.
Not green at all, reports a study suggesting that the methane released by fracking and drilling makes it worse than coal.
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In that 41 years since the first Earth Day, we added 112 million more Americans to this already overloaded country, and the citizens of the planet added another 5.0 billion human beings. You have to wonder how inept, how stupid our species.
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“A simple look at the upward path of global greenhouse emissions indicates we will continue to squeeze the trigger on the gun we have put to our own head.” Eugene Linden
BP continues to receive tens of millions of dollars in government contracts, despite the fact that the British oil company is under federal criminal investigation over the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and twice violated its probation late last year
Recently, the question has been asked, What In the World Are They Spraying? The documentary with the same name answers many of those questions.
Not green at all, reports a study suggesting that the methane released by fracking and drilling makes it worse than coal.
Fukushima getting worse
Study lends credence to abiogenic petroleum theory, which means there may be more oil in our future than we thought
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He said, “Rapid Population Decline (RPD) isn’t everything---it is the only thing humanity must focus on because it is the prerequisite of everything else we need to do.”
Fukushima is multiples worse than Chernobyl
Japan added to the evacuation zone near a stricken nuclear plant, as a powerful aftershock rattled the nation a month after its biggest recorded earthquake wrought devastation.
Nearly a decade ago, NASA built an Earth-monitoring satellite that could have observed global warming in action. Then the agency stashed it in a warehouse in Maryland, where it remains to this day
Japan's disaster worsens
Washington state's only nuclear power plant evacuated about 25 workers after a small amount of hydrogen sprang from a pipe and ignited in a six-inch flash, plant officials said on Friday.
Coverup of Japan's nuclear disaster
Growing dangers are concealed
The journal Nature is publishing several articles today looking at the long term impact of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima in Japan. They're all available to the public. One news report considers what it will take decommission the damaged plant
