By Tyler Durden One of California’s most critical hydroelectric plants is at risk of closing for the first time in five decades as water levels continue to sink. A megadrought and scorching heat, both worsened by La Nina weather effects, have depleted some of the…
By Patricia Burke “The greatest polluting element in the earth’s environment is the proliferation of electromagnetic fields. I consider that to be a far greater threat on a global scale than warming, or the increase of chemical elements in the environment.”– Robert O. Becker “The…
By Amal Jayasinghe More dead turtles washed up on Sri Lankan beaches Friday, underscoring the environmental blight caused by a container ship fire off the country’s coast. The Singapore-registered MV X-Press Pearl was carrying hundreds of tonnes of chemicals and plastics when it caught fire…
By Alicia Green Did you know that atmospheric viricides are being deployed into the air we breathe? They are being used in public spaces and in public schools. These products claim to stop the spread of viruses and other airborne pathogens, but could they be…
Consumers love – and live on – their smartphones, tablets and laptops. A cascade of new devices pours endlessly into the market, promising even better communication, non-stop entertainment and instant information. The numbers are staggering. By 2020, four billion people will have a personal computer….
By Ice Age Farmer The WATER WARS have begun: the state is simply turning off the water to farms and ranches, depriving them of water needed to grow food and raise animals. This will create food shortages by design, in order to then point at…
By Tyler Durden Readers know by now that the Western US is facing one of the most severe droughts in years. We’ve documented (read here & here) this spring of a “megadrought” sweeping across states like California and Nevada as risks of a second Dust Bowl increase by the…
By Hom Dhakal, University of Portsmouth Plastics are very useful materials. They’ve contributed significant benefits to modern society. But the unprecedented amount of plastics produced over the past few decades has caused serious environmental pollution. Packaging alone was responsible for 46% out of 340 million…
By Fabian Ommar It’s official: Brazil is facing drought. Earlier this month, the government issued a hydric emergency alert (AEH) for five of the twenty-seven federative units. It’s the first in over a century – more precisely, 111 years – which tells something about the…
By Robert Wheeler California and Nevada are 100% in drought. Direct from Drought.gov: After two water years of dry conditions, both California and Nevada are now 100% in drought. And with dire drought conditions, rapidly decreasing snowpack, and low reservoir levels, concern for wildfire season…
By Patricia Burke Lance McKee, Open Geospatial Consortium I met Lance McKee when I was invited to a potluck dinner at his beautiful home. Worcester was the site of the infamous National Grid smart meter pilot program. Residents who knew about the pilot were being…
By Ice Age Farmer The World Economic Forum’s “Investing in Forests” program sounds great — who doesn’t want to plant more trees? But behind its philanthropic appeal lies a global surveillance grid, monitoring all activity on the planet — just as prescribed by Agenda 2030…
By Elias Marat Chinese researchers have achieved a new world record after scientists developing an “artificial sun” ran the device on Friday at a record-shattering temperature of 120 million degrees Celsius for over 100 seconds. The experiment was held at the Institute of Plasma Physics…
By Matt Agorist This time last year, the price of lumber was $300 per thousand board feet. In only a year, the price has shot up over 400% to $1,686 for the same amount. According to the National Association of Home Builders, the surge in lumber…
By Tyler Durden It was literally raining oil in St. Croix a couple weeks ago – and not in the good “newly discovered oil”-type way most people know from movies and TV. The oil falling from the sky was the result of a “flare incident”…
By Doga Celik Published on May 17, Greenpeace’s latest report, “Trashed: How the UK is still dumping plastic waste on the rest of the world,” has revealed that the UK exports most of its waste to Turkey. The report documents how trash from Britain was found in…
By Tyler Durden Beekeeping is an ancient cultural practice that dates back 9,000 years and has recently seen a resurgence in popularity over concerns about biodiversity and food security. Taking a long-term look at beekeeping trends in world regions, however, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz notes,…
By Janine Mendes-Franco On May 20, the world marks the fourth annual World Bee Day via a virtual event hosted by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, guided by the theme “Bee engaged—Build Back Better for Bees.” Bees play an important role in pollination,…
By Tyler Durden Global crop and food prices are skyrocketing to multi-year highs, and the culprit could be due to La Niña, a weather pattern characterized by the cooling of the equatorial Pacific and triggers atmospheric shifts that cause droughts in some regions of the world…
By Tyler Durden This week’s solar activity report shows a geomagnetic storm watch is in effect between May 18-19. Two Earth-facing sunspots have been identified by NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) satellite and could produce storms as early as Tuesday. NASA designated the sunspots as…
