environment
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The parched planet: Nearly 800 million people lack access to safe drinking water and 2.5 Billion have no proper sanitation
Researchers are exploring unconventional sources of fresh water to quench the globe’s growing thirst. In an effort to combat his country’s long-standing water crisis, Iran’s president took to Twitter last year. “We need plan to save water in agriculture, prevent… Continue reading
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A Slow Death by the Proper Name…
Since 1954, the World Meteorological Organization has been naming extreme storms after people. But we propose a new naming system. One that names extreme storms caused by climate change, after the policy makers who deny climate change and obstruct climate… Continue reading
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Poverty does bad things to your brain | Futurity
Poverty and the worry that goes with it uses up so much mental energy that the poor have little room in their brains for anything else. As a result, people of limited means are more likely to make mistakes and… Continue reading
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Why One Nation Wants To Turn Its Undersea Volcanoes Into A National Park | Popular Science
Back in 2008, researchers discovered a massive hydrothermal vent system in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, between Greenland and Norway. This is basically a group of enormous undersea volcanoes, more than 7,500 feet underwater, shooting out superheated water in 40-foot plumes of… Continue reading
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Climate Change And Violence Linked, Breakthrough Study Finds
Shifts in climate change are strongly linked to human violence around the world, according to a comprehensive new study released Thursday by the University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University. The research, which was published in Science, examined 60 previous… Continue reading
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Let Us Now Sing About the Warmed Earth
On July 25 the journal Nature published an article about the “Economic time bomb” that is slowly being detonated by Arctic warming. Gail Whiteman of Erasmus University in the Netherlands, and Chris Hope and Peter Wadhams of the University of Cambridge suggest—based on… Continue reading
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Article: Scientists love to hate greens, because what greens say matters
…many scientists suggest that human progress, understood in such a way, cannot reach ever greater heights. Indeed, the impacts of environmental shocks, food shortages, or technological developments may cause civilisation to break down. Martin Rees’s Our Final Century, Jared Diamond’s Collapse and Stephen… Continue reading
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This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is Gas Land
The Obama Administration has proposed new regulations for hydraulic fracturing on 756 million acres of public and tribal lands. The rules were written by the drilling industry and will be streamlined into effect by a new intergovernmental task force, established… Continue reading
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The Dragonfly: A Giant Winged Vertical Farm for New York City
Modeled after the wings of a dragonfly, this incredible urban farm concept for New York Citys Roosevelt Island intends to ease the problems of food mileage and shortage, and reconnect consumers with producers. Urban farming is a growing trend amongst… Continue reading
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Big-Food’s Impact on the South: A View from Brazil
Traditional long-established food systems and dietary patterns are being displaced in Brazil and in other countries in the South (Africa, Asia, and Latin America) by ultra-processed products made by transnational food corporations (“Big Food” and “Big Snack”).This displacement increases… Continue reading
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Civilization’s jungle paths
Cambodia’s vast lost city: world’s greatest pre-industrial site unearthed A ground-breaking archaeological discovery in Cambodia has revealed a colossal 700-year old urban landscape connecting ancient cities and temples to Angkor Wat. via Cambodia’s vast lost city: world’s greatest pre-industrial site… Continue reading
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[Harper’s Index] | July 2013
This months grab bag of statistics from the always wonderful Harpers Magazine: …Portion of university teaching positions that are filled by graduate students or adjunct faculty : 3/4 Percentage of college professors teaching online courses who do not believe students… Continue reading
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How Big Business Robs Us With “Externalities”
A lot of folks go around talking about the efficiency of corporations and businesses based on the size of their profit margins. They often cite this as evidence that these busyness people really know how to do things the right… Continue reading
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This Image Should NOT be Seen by the Whole World | How to be an Anthropologist
I find the Facebook meme distressing, not because of the Belo Monte Dan Project, but because the author and all of the people who share it have fed into and bolstered (even if unknowingly) a narrative that depicts indigenous people… Continue reading
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How does Vandana Shiva do it?
Reading Freire‘s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and other works that are transforming my anarchocynicism, my thoughts keep returning to Vandana Shiva. “[How do I do it?] Well, it’s always a mystery, because you don’t know why you get depleted or recharged.… Continue reading
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Nearly Squashed
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‘Blind Faith Of Climate Change Deniers Endangers Us All’ | ThinkProgress
Open Thread And Cartoon Of The Week: ‘Blind Faith Of Climate Change Deniers Endangers Us All’ | ThinkProgress. Continue reading
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