Thanks to Don Davis for sharing this interesting item: GE is sending these water purification units to Haiti.
“A single Sunspring unit is capable of producing 19,000 liters of drinkable water every day,” notes CBS news in its story about the shipment. “The units are quick to deploy and can be operational three hours after arrival.”
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Atrazine, one of the most commonly used and controversial weedkillers, can turn male frogs into females, researchers reported on Monday.
“Ten percent of the exposed genetic males developed into functional females that copulated with unexposed males and produced viable eggs,” the researchers wrote.
The European Union banned atrazine in 2004. The finding may add [...]
Each year an estimated 30 to 60 million coral reef fish are removed from tropical reefs and shipped halfway around the world for ornamental display in the United States and Europe. Along the way, many die. Their perilous journey takes them from their coral reef home to a diver’s net, to a boat, to a [...]
This article from Maria Minno brings to mind many warnings about the push to vaccinate against the flu from our correspondent Ted LaCombe:
The finger is being pointed directly at the World Health Organisation, which stands accused of announcing ‘a false pandemic’; in June last year.
Critics now claim that the drug companies manipulated the WHO into [...]
We’re streaming forward with our plans for the first annual Gainesville Environmental Film Festival – and we invite you to get involved if you’d like to help! Please join our meeting for all volunteers and those who’d like to volunteer, 4 – 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 3 at Boca Fiesta, 232 SE 1st St in [...]
Every time I see a photo of the towers of Dubai Leering over the ocean, I envision this oil-built city tumbling into the sea… I think of the ruins of the Coliseum in Rome, and I can see the future of our insane civilization.
“…an aquarium containing hundreds of sharks and thousands of sprung a leak.
Though [...]
Why do we try to keep intelligent creatures in captivity for profit? Now and then they object….
A SeaWorld killer whale snatched a trainer from a poolside platform Wednesday in its jaws and thrashed the woman around underwater, killing her in front of a horrified audience. It marked the third time the animal had been involved [...]
Photo: Thomas B. Dunklin
Thanks to correspondent Terri Hansen for this story on an historic and long-awaited decision to undue one of man’s failed attempts to control nature:
The world’s largest river restoration and dam removal effort kicked off in a spirit of celebration inside the grand rotunda of Oregon’s Capitol Feb. 18.
The agreements could be a [...]
More news from Ed Brown:
…synthetic nitrogen’s effect on carbon sequestration swings from being an important ecological advantage to perhaps its gravest liability. Not only would nitrogen fertilizer be contributing to climate change in a way not previously taken into account, but it would also be undermining the long-term productivity of the soil.
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From our correspondent Christine Heinrichs:
Toxic waste pits overflow, this one into Denton Creek in Texas, which is a watershed for the Metroplex. Blogger Sharon Wilson, http://txsharon.blogspot.com/, created this video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6GXwdNDL7w on the situation in which one farm family finds itself.
After the video was posted, Aruba sent a truck out and sucked up all [...]
