Category: The Environment

Ebola outbreak directly related to our cousin mammals, environmental destruction

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Ebola hemorrhagic fever affects much of the mammalian family tree: its spread should make us remember our intimate connection with other mammals and the environment All animals sustain themselves on an ecological tightrope of sorts, delicately balancing so many needs, including water, food, space and safety, all tied to the habitat they live in. You … Continue reading “Ebola outbreak directly related to our cousin mammals, environmental destruction”

How Can the U.S. Constitutional System Cope When Big Fracking Bucks mean Big Toxin Dumping?

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With New Forms of Toxic Waste from the Fracking Bonanza Piling Up, What Must Be Done? I really like the PBS documentary mini-series Constitution USA, because it brings forward the constitutional arguments that are so relevant to the problems we face in our country today.  It explores a worthy cross-section of important legal/constitutional debates with … Continue reading “How Can the U.S. Constitutional System Cope When Big Fracking Bucks mean Big Toxin Dumping?”

OMG! Invasive Species: Asian Carp Confound U.S. System

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The Mississippi River watershed a post-aCARPalypse world, the Great Lakes fear Carpmageddon! Verb: zerg (third-person singular simple present zergs, present participle zerging, simple past and past participle zerged) (slang, video games, strategy games) To attack an opponent with a large swarm of units before they have been able to build sufficient defenses. From the game StarCraft (1998), in … Continue reading “OMG! Invasive Species: Asian Carp Confound U.S. System”

An Inconvenient Blob

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Will The Blob Devour Us All? From this charming piece in Slate, Dispatch from Blob Fest: Though Phillips might not have intended The Blob to have a political message, she did accidentally insert an environmental warning, which was reflected in the Blob Fest’s 2007 theme: “An Inconvenient Blob.” I thought it was just an attempt … Continue reading “An Inconvenient Blob”

Global Warming Now Wiping Out Species

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Global Warming Now Wiping Out Species Someone forgot to tell the animals global warming is a hoax. Damn. WASHINGTON – Animal and plant species have begun dying off or changing sooner than predicted because of global warming, a review of hundreds of research studies contends. These fast-moving adaptations come as a surprise even to biologists … Continue reading “Global Warming Now Wiping Out Species”

Global Warming

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How Can Anyone Not See It? We’re digging up fossil fuels and pumping them into the air like never before, and the government still denies mass carbon emissions are causing global warming. All the smog that’s increasing children’s allergies and asthma worldwide on a scale heretofor unimaginable, is being ignored. I just clicked on Yahoo … Continue reading “Global Warming”