UN’s 2013 human development report urges action on climate change, deforestation and pollution before it is too late The number of people living in extreme poverty could increase by up to 3 billion by 2050…
Category: Environment
Global Research Editor’s Note: This article published by Global research on March 15, 2011 focuses on the chronology of an impending catastrophe. We recall that the first explosion was on March 11, 2011 at…
Nuclear Cores and Spent Fuel Pools Have Both Lost Containment Steven Starr – Director of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at the by Text-Enhance” href=”http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/announcement-of-cold-shutdown-of-fukushima-reactors-is-based-on-a-political-decision-rather-than-science.html#”>locations are little known. AP noted a couple of days later: The complex…
In the United States everything is polluted. Democracy is polluted with special interests and corrupt politicians. Accountability is polluted with executive branch exemptions from law and the Constitution and with special legal privileges for corporations,…
Capitalism is based on managing its inherent crises. It is also based on the need to maximise profit, beat down competitors, cut overheads and depress wages. In the 1960s and 70s, in the…
The environmental movement has developed a single-minded obsession with the supposed effects of carbon dioxide on the global climate. Rather than CO2 gas, however, the technologies that are now being proposed to mitigate this supposed…
Chris Kilham has been called the “Indiana Jones of natural medicine” and the “medicine hunter”. He is an ethnobotanist and has researched medicinal plants in over 30 countries. He travels, writes, studies, and…
Garrett McNamara of Hawaii rode a giant wave in Nazaré, Portugal yesterday. It was claimed to be 100 feet high, although the Guiness Book of World Records has not yet confirmed the measurement….
Life will perish as the environment perishes. (21st century ecological economist). Only in science fiction can humans escape the consequences of destroying their own habitat. In Robert A. Heinlein’s Time Enough For Love, the “Great Diaspora of the…
The widely held belief is that genetically modified ‘terminator seeds’ are not available on the commercial market anywhere. Since 2001, there has been a de facto worldwide moratorium on the use of terminator…