Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Ecology and Pollution related links 071420


Before genetically modified mosquitoes are released, we need a better EPA: If risks are being assessed, it is largely happening behind closed doors between technology developers and EPA employees.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/22/opinion/before-genetically-modified-mosquitoes-are-released-we-need-better-epa/?et_rid=707087590&s_campaign=todayinopinion:newsletter

 

Trump's Fireworks Show at Mt. Rushmore Is a Dangerous Idea, Fire and Public Health Experts Say

https://www.ecowatch.com/mt-rushmore-fireworks-trump-public-health-2646260174.html?fbclid=IwAR23SIFgigb83zxUo9n7spUAeQp7PW6eOArElql0VYz15IKnJ-sRFntQsbc

 

Not So Different After All: Frans de Waal On Animal Intelligence And Emotions

https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/535/not-so-different-after-all

 

Digging Up The Roots

https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/535/digging-up-the-roots

 

EPA’s New Meaning Under Trump

https://www.populist.com/26.12.lingo.html

 

S. David Freeman: Seven Decades of Participating in Power for All of Us

https://nader.org/2020/05/28/s-david-freeman-seven-decades-of-participating-in-power-for-all-of-us/

 

Rwanda: Government to Ban Charcoal Use in Kigali

https://allafrica.com/stories/202005290188.html

 

Hawaii Aims for 100 Percent Renewable Power by 2045: To reduce oil imports, Hawaii may become the first state to attempt to eliminate fossil fuels

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hawaii-aims-for-100-percent-renewable-power-by-2045/

 

Cultivating a taste for traditional crops in Hawaii

https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/05/1064192

 

Temperatures Hit a Sweltering 100.4 Degrees Fahrenheit in Arctic Town: The likely record-setting day is the latest development in a blistering heat wave that’s been warming the region and exacerbating wildfires

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/temperatures-hit-sweltering-1004-degrees-fahrenheit-arctic-town-180975179/

 

'We live in a cage': residents hide as macaque 'gangs' take over Thai city.  Officials in Lopburi plan to sterilise the animals that have turned nasty after tourists’ bananas were replaced with junk food

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/24/we-live-in-a-cage-residents-hide-as-macaque-gangs-take-over-thai-city

 

Dispute Over Nile Dam Keeps Tensions Between Egypt and Ethiopia High: Cairo fears dam on the Blue Nile will reduce the water on which the entire country depends, while Addis Ababa decries U.S. intervention on behalf of Egypt

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-dispute-over-nile-dam-keeps-tensions-between-egypt-and-ethiopia-high-1.8928454

 

Egypt calls on UN to intervene after impasse in Nile dam talks: Egypt appeals for UN Security Council help on Ethiopia's Nile dam after latest round of talks ended without a deal.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/egypt-calls-intervene-impasse-nile-dam-talks-200620034331540.html

 

Where's Airborne Plastic? Everywhere, Scientists Find

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/climate/airborne-plastic-pollution.html

 

Scientists say most likely number of contactable alien civilisations is 36: New calculations come up with estimate for worlds capable of communicating with others

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jun/15/scientists-say-most-likely-number-of-contactable-alien-civilisations-is-36

 

Great Science Books to Read Right Now: Now's the time to pick up a book about the science of breath, the physics of destruction, or how one major U.S. city is responding to climate change.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/great-science-books-to-read-right-now

 

“Yes, changing how you breathe will help you live longer .”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05/21/arts/living-breathing/

 

REVIEW: 'The Next Great Migration,' by Sonia Shah.  NONFICTION: In a thought-provoking and lyrical book, Sonia Shah makes a case that "invasive species"' are not a bad thing, but a natural and necessary thing.

https://www.startribune.com/review-the-next-great-migration-by-sonia-shah/571218752/

 

Bayer to Pay Up to $10.9 Billion to Settle Lawsuits Over Roundup Weedkiller: Agreement, however, leaves open the potential of more lawsuits being filed against the company in the future

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bayer-reaches-10-5-billion-settlement-over-weedkiller-roundup-11593017309

 

Court orders temporary shutdown of Dakota Access Pipeline

https://www.axios.com/dakota-access-pipeline-court-shutdown-6f402378-0384-4d1e-ab94-c5e4c6421b55.html?utm_campaign=organic&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR38bxIOeecKdF_p4sOn7aGDV2QLpb95Mp6ZBS4-Jj2hxMggcP8_VfhMeEQ

 

America Has Failed the Existential-Crisis Test: What the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic means for the global fight against climate change

https://newrepublic.com/article/158266/america-coronavirus-pandemic-response-climate-change

 

A Tesla EV-charging rival just completed its first cross-country recharge station network, setting up non-Tesla electric-car owners to drive across the US

https://www.businessinsider.com/electrify-america-finished-its-first-cross-country-ev-charging-route-2020-6

 

Humans Don’t Have a Monopoly on Culture: A new book explains how species pass skills and knowledge down generations—and what it means for conservation goals.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/july-august-2020/humans-dont-have-a-monopoly-on-culture/

 

The Legal Fight For Yellowstone’s Grizzly Bears

https://earthjustice.org/features/yellowstone-grizzly-bears-legal-fight-explained?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1Gq8QVocxF7Uo6Byuy7-fWE9aJs1ULGbLhixKfJ6jnKqeYJNj7UB1wYc8

 

Environmental law supports social justice—Trump’s attacks undermine it

https://www.wilderness.org/articles/blog/environmental-law-supports-social-justice-trumps-attacks-undermine-it

 

Why we must teach the ugly side of public lands history + a tool to help

https://www.wilderness.org/articles/blog/why-we-must-teach-ugly-side-public-lands-history-tool-help

 

National Monuments Drive Economic Growth in American West: Land protection boosts local business and job creation, study finds

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2020/03/18/national-monuments-drive-economic-growth-in-american-west

 

If Life Feels Bleak, It’s Because Our Civilization is Beginning to Collapse: 2030 Will Be Even Worse than 2020. And 2040 Will Be Even Worse than That. Unless.

https://eand.co/if-life-feels-bleak-its-because-our-civilization-is-beginning-to-collapse-a787d62d714b

 

Camp Ozark sends campers home due to coronavirus outbreak

https://katv.com/news/local/camp-ozark-sends-campers-home-due-to-coronavirus-outbreak

 

Farmers and animal rights activists are coming together to fight big factory farms: Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren have a new bill, and a new coalition, with far-reaching consequences.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/7/8/21311327/farmers-factory-farms-cafos-animal-rights-booker-warren-khanna?fbclid=IwAR0jQHpyGKLfynvYqs26VREj2mU-2ulEOAxYdXrJ8_Hp0Hbc-Dhm767ToJ4

 

Innovation: Africa - Inspired By Israel 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_qtHbcg9Vg

 

Canadian Grocery Store Grows Its Own Organic Veggies on Rooftop

https://returntonow.net/2020/06/18/canadian-grocery-store-grows-its-own-organic-veggies-on-rooftop/?fbclid=IwAR2XBuLTyQfiwuFqWqS-FdN1_d5f3-tExpNLJOHLySvxHc8JHzAotg2BuEY

 

Climate crisis: 150 years of industrialisation has undone 6,000 years of global cooling, study shows.  Increasing greenhouse gas emissions from industrialised economies have contributed to global average temperatures 1C above the mid-19th century

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-global-warming-cooling-ice-age-industrialisation-emissions-a9594301.html?fbclid=IwAR22-g21iXmgtuyTahUZ6lw0BlWK11w6frhloB0Mcd7sMv0P-z4gVGnf1qI

 

Some new climate models are projecting extreme warming. Are they correct?Recent climate models are 'running hot,' projecting catastrophic global warming. Puzzled scientists are weighing whether the models need correcting or whether severe warming is a real threat.

https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/07/some-new-climate-models-are-projecting-extreme-warming-are-they-correct/

 

Death Valley sets record for planet's hottest temperature in years — and the heat wave is forecast to spread

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/death-valley-hottest-temperature-record-heat-wave/

 

Cancer Alley Now Coronavirus Alley: The pollution-induced illnesses these Louisianans have suffered for decades put them at greater risk from COVID-19

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/cancer-alley-now-coronavirus-alley?suppress=true&utm_campaign=sierramag&utm_medium=broadcast&utm_source=messenger


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