Sunday, March 11, 2018

Ecology and Pollution related links 031218



Over three billion barrels of Alberta bitumen has become carbon pollution absorbed by the oceans


 

More Energy Giants Moving Towards A Renewable Energy Future


 

Got non-dairy alternative milk?


 

Puerto Rico asks a DC university to review possible Hurricane Maria deaths


 

Chips off the Old Block: How a Father’s Preconception Exposures Might Affect the Health of His Children


 

Summer in February: 80°F in Massachusetts, 78°F in New York City – “It is simply amazing to beat a state temperature record by some 8°F!”


 

Biggest Volcanic Eruption Ever in the World - Supervolcano (Special Documentary)


 

Can the CIA weaponise the weather? A leading climate-change scientist has warned that the US secret service’s interest in geoengineering technology may not be benign. But it’s not the first time a government has tried to control weather patterns


 

Euglena Aims to Make Aviation Biofuel Cost-Competitive Against Fossil Fuels


 

Agency rethinks how climbers dispose of poop on Alaska peak


 

The climate cover-up - big oil’s deception: For decades, oil companies have known that burning fossil fuels drives climate change. Why have they been keeping this information hidden? Investigations deliberating to what extent the public have been mislead have started in the USA.


 

Coca-Cola, Nestle seek to privatize world’s second largest aquifer


 

Trump Nominee Faces Questions About Administration’s Demand for Sensitive Oil Data: Former astronaut James Reilly is Trump’s pick to run the US Geological Survey.


 

Trump to consider elephant trophy imports on 'case-by-case' basis


 

Billions of pieces of plastic on coral reefs send disease soaring, research reveals: A major new study estimates 11bn pieces of plastic contaminate vital reefs and result in infections: ‘It’s like getting gangrene,’ scientists warn


 

BP reports one of its strongest quarters in years: While its peers disappointed, profits and production set recent records for the British supermajor.


 

The long read How death got cool: The latest death trend is a cross between hygge and Marie Kondo: a sign that dying well has become a defining obsession of our time.


 

Nasty chemicals abound in what was thought an untouched environment


 

Approaching Day Zero: With Cape Town nearing "Day Zero," the world may be seeing a grim portent of a drier future. Here's everything you need to know:


 

Why Cape Town Is Running Out of Water, and Who’s Next: The South African city plans to shut off the taps to 4 million people. But it's just one of many cities around the world facing a future with too little water.


 

Energy Secretary Rick Perry says moving from fossil fuels to renewables is ‘immoral’: But it's okay to waste $1.6 trillion on energy sources that put millions of lives at risk and destroy the climate.


 

EPA chief: insufficient 'scientific facts' to support evolution


 

Satellite observations show sea levels rising, and climate change is accelerating it


 

Farewell to the Horse: The Final Century of Our Relationship – review.  Ulrich Raulff’s idiosyncratic and wide-ranging study of the horse’s role in human history more than earns its spurs


 

Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History


 

Parts of the Arctic Spiked to 45 Degrees Above Normal: Meanwhile, Europe is bitterly cold.


 

Teenagers Defeat Trump’s Move to Kill Climate Change Lawsuit


 

Residente Says the United States Owes Puerto Rico, Not the Other Way Around: The Puerto Rican rapper talks to The Nation about colonialism, Bernie Sanders, and the path to recovery after Hurricane Maria.


 

3 Strategies to Get to a Fossil-Free America: None of them rely on Washington to do anything useful.

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