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Sound forest management crucial for sustainability
Dec 31, 2019 07:09The article you are about to hear has been penned by Pitamber Kaushik who is a columnist and writer. The article deals with the topic of forest management and sustainability and carries the title, “Sound forest management crucial for sustainability”.
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Okinawans keep up fight against US military base in biodiverse Oura Bay
Dec 24, 2019 16:31Marine biologists and environmentalists say that the controversial construction project of US military base in Okinawa could disrupt ocean currents that corals need to survive, such as carrying in nutrients, filtering out sediment and debris, and maintaining the ecological balance within the bay. The base also poses a risk to other marine wildlife, including the northernmost dugong population.
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Plastics chemicals are disrupting our hormones, and the FDA is dragging its feet (1)
Dec 22, 2019 13:08"It is clear that the FDA is not using modern science in protecting the public from potentially toxic chemicals. It is also clear that BPA and other endocrine disruptors threaten to disrupt the status quo of toxic chemical regulation", says Lynne Peeples, environmental health reporter from Seattle. Her article was published in the Truthout website under the heading: Plastics Chemicals Are Disrupting Our Hormones, and the FDA Is Dragging Its Feet.
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The greatest scam in history (2)
Nov 28, 2019 16:29It’s a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the one that threatens to take history down with it. Think of it as the climate-change scam that beat science, big time.
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The greatest scam in history (1)
Nov 22, 2019 14:19It’s a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the one that threatens to take history down with it. Think of it as the climate-change scam that beat science, big time.
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Our vanishing world: Insects
Nov 09, 2019 16:46About 12,000 years ago, late stone-age humans precipitated the neolithic (agricultural) revolution that marked the start of the steady rise to civilization. Coincidentally, this occurred at the same time as the beginning of what is now known as the Holocene Epoch, the geological epoch in which humans still live.
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We can’t solve the plastics crisis with other disposables
Oct 28, 2019 15:01We can’t solve the plastics crisis with other disposables
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Pentagon climate change report ignores its own role in fueling the crisis
Oct 25, 2019 18:30The U.S. Department of Defense produces more hazardous waste than the five biggest U.S.-based chemical companies combined and is the biggest contributor to global pollution in the world.
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The rights of nature
Oct 18, 2019 11:54We're still treating a living, life-sustaining, crucial being as property: the ecosystem. And in the process, we’re choking our own habitat—that is to say, ourselves—to death.
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We need biodiversity-based agriculture to solve the climate crisis
Oct 14, 2019 17:51The Earth is living, and also creates life. Over 4 billion years the Earth has evolved a rich biodiversity — an abundance of different living organisms and ecosystems — that can meet all our needs and sustain life.