Not racism, police brutality, or elections. Logging. “A string of protests against old-growth logging in western Canada have become the biggest act of civil disobedience in the country’s history,” with hundreds of protesters arrested, the Guardian reported on Wednesday, September 8, 20[...]
Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
August 29th, 2021 - 4:49 pm § in Environment, Politics
Should we stop farmers from wrecking the climate?
Fossil fuels. Cars and planes. Food production. All contribute to climate change. Farms produce methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Lots of it. You’ve heard of burping cows? No joke, cows are a major emitter of methane (see story here; for a quick overview of agricultural pollution in general, g[...]
August 28th, 2021 - 9:02 pm § in Environment, Science
How to beat gender discrimination
Female hummingbirds, like females everywhere, have to put up with a lot of crap. But some of them have figured out a way around it. Don’t want to be harassed at meal time, or chased, plucked, and body-slammed? Then retain your blue feathers so the boys will think you’re one of them. Read[...]
August 22nd, 2021 - 12:29 pm § in Environment, Misc.
Video: Polar bear encounter
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August 16th, 2021 - 5:35 pm § in Environment
Water rationing is coming to the Colorado River
Using the Mississippi River as a dividing line, the eastern U.S. is wet, the western U.S. is dry (see map of mean annual precipitation here). The American West is dependent on rivers, fed by mountain snowmelt, and its economy depends heavily on reclamation projects involving the damming of rivers. A[...]
Climate change? What climate change? Oh, that climate change.
NOAA “announced Friday that July was the hottest month since record-keeping began 142 years ago,” NBC News reported on Sunday, August 15, 2021 (read story here). NOAA, if you don’t know, is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a federal agency under the Department o[...]
August 11th, 2021 - 8:09 pm § in Environment, Misc.
Video: Windy Norway
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August 9th, 2021 - 4:47 pm § in Environment
PHOTOGRAPHY: Woodland angel
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Climate experts: “Almost out of time”
“As the world battles historic droughts, landscape-altering wildfires and deadly floods, a landmark report from global scientists says the window is rapidly closing to cut our reliance on fossil fuels and avoid catastrophic changes that would transform life as we know it,” CNN reported o[...]
“Biblical” wildfires ravage Greece
“Wildfires rampaged through Greek forests for yet another day,” Huffington Post reported on Saturday, August 7, 2021, “threatening homes and triggering more evacuations a day after hundreds of people were plucked off beaches by ferries in a dramatic overnight rescue. … Dozens[...]