| Ocean Ecosystems Collapsing, Running Out of Fish |
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 As incredible as it may sound, the world's oceans are running out of fish [ark]. Terribly wasteful and unsustainable industrial harvest of natural, wild fisheries [search] has led to much of humanity's swollen population eating ever smaller fish from inexorably shrinking populations. "Ninety years of industrial-scale exploitation of fish has... led to 'ecological meltdown'. Whole biological food chains have been destroyed."
Remaining high quality fish stocks are being stolen by rich nations from developing countries, and neither politicians nor consumers have invested much in developing a sustainable wild fish industry. Solutions including ... See entire news item |
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| Changes in Natural Systems: Pinned to Global Warming |
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 Major changes in the Earth's natural systems are being driven by global warming, according to a vast analysis.
Glacier and permafrost melting, earlier spring-time, coastal erosion and animal migrations are among the observations laid at the door of man-made warming.
The research, in the journal Nature, involves many scientists who took part in last year's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
It links warming and... See entire news item |
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| Will Al Gore help shut the nuke power loophole? |
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.jpg "Al Gore") Last month Al Gore unveiled a massive campaign to fight climate chaos.
But the hugely funded atomic power industry has jumped on global warming with the Big Lie that its failed reactors can somehow help. It's a sorry replay of the 1950s promise that atomic power would be "too cheap to meter."
Just before the 2000 election, as senior advisor to the Nuclear Information & Resource Service, I wrote then-Vice President Gore asking that he help delete from the Kyoto Accords any reference to... See entire blog |
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| Democratic candidates play up 'clean coal' |
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 Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are talking more about "clean coal" and less about global warming as they woo voters in West Virginia and Kentucky – two states that sit at the heart of the nation's coal economy.
In a bid to draw voters ahead of Democratic primaries in West Virginia on Tuesday and Kentucky on May 20, both candidates are playing up the ascendant role of commercially untested and so far economically nonviable ways of converting America's plentiful coal supplies into electricity without spewing massive quantities of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. |
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| Can Your Green Company Get Big and Stay Real? |
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 [Editor's note: I chose this story not as proof that dealing with conglomerates is a good and ethical strategy for a small organic food company, but so the reader can see some of the issues and questions that the company owner and his followers had to face and evaluate]
For 10 years, since he founded Honest Tea, in 1998, Seth Goldman... See entire news item |
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| First-Ever Comprehensive Global Map Of Freshwater Systems Released |
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 Over a decade of work and contributions by more than 200 leading conservation scientists have produced a first-ever comprehensive map and database of the diversity of life in the world's freshwater ecosystems. The map and associated fish data – a collaborative project between World Wildlife Fund and The Nature Conservancy – are featured in the May issue of the journal BioScience.
Freshwater Ecoregions of the World divides the world's freshwater systems into 426 distinct conservation units, many of which are rich... See entire news item |
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| Cultural Change at the Limits to Growth |
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 Well, humanity certainly seems to be in a bit of a pickle at the moment.
There are already too many of us for comfort (6.6 billion by the latest estimates), our population is still growing (perhaps to 9 billion by 2050), our economic activity and resource use is still increasing, climate change is showing signs of drastic acceleration, we are running into production limits on food and energy, the oceans are knackered and the glaciers on which so many people depend for fresh water are draining away before our eyes.
To top it all off, the global financial system appears to be developing some very ominous cracks. To anyone who has been following the news for... See entire blog |
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| Climate Models Overheat Antarctica, New Study Finds |
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 Computer analyses of global climate have consistently overstated warming in Antarctica, concludes new research by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Ohio State University. The study can help scientists improve computer models and determine if Earth's southernmost continent will warm significantly this century, a major research question because of Antarctica's potential impact on global sea-level rise.
"We can now compare computer simulations with observations of actual climate trends... See entire news item |
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| 'Clearing the Air' on Liquid Natural Gas |
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 Every month when I see the magazine Seed in my mailbox I can't wait to sit down and read it. This month I found a DVD inside the magazine with the oil company Shell's short movie, Clearing the Air on it. My attention peaked, and I watched the movie.
Clearing the Air is a fictional account of the development of gas to liquid (GTL) or liquid natural gas (LNG). The California Energy Commission defines LNG as "fuels that can be produced... See entire news item |
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