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Is it time to shut down the shipping lanes in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba for oil tankers, fertilizer, and other dangerous cargo that risk ecological catastrophes? The Red Sea links Europe through Africa and the Middle East, with Djibouti, Egypt,...
by Pakalolo
on Sat Feb 24, 2024 at 04:39 PM PST
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This is the letter for week 9�of a weekly climate strike that went on for 4 years in front of SF City Hall, beginning early March 2019. �For more context, see this story . �For an annotated table of ...
by birches
on Sat Jun 24, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
with 5 Recommends
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UPDATE: Sunday, May 21, 2023 · 3:29:47 PM +00:00 · Pakalolo The diary was updated to emphasize that the shipment was intact upon arrival in Saltdale, California. If true, it would not have been a 1000-mile start to finish but a 3-mile journey. The...
by Pakalolo
on Sun May 21, 2023 at 03:39 AM PDT
with 501 Recommends
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If you are just starting to follow us, read Chapter One at www.dailykos.com/ … We want this information for the public so we will be posting the entire book, a chapter at a time, on Daily Kos. In ...
by nailkeg
on Wed Dec 13, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
with 17 Recommends
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck and Rise ...
by side pocket
on Sun Mar 20, 2022 at 09:00 PM PDT
with 38 Recommends
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I got family that ain’t blood. Teamwork makes the dream work. I married in to a Black American family, ten years ago. My wife, of course, is my constant companion, and closest ally. But if we need some help from somebody else, we get it from her Black...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
on Sun Nov 21, 2021 at 08:25 PM PST
with 3 Recommends
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From Yale E 360 “Growing up in rural Iowa in the 1990s, Isaac Larsen remembers a unique herald of springtime. The snowbanks piled along roads, once white or gray, would ...
by nailkeg
on Thu May 27, 2021 at 01:00 PM PDT
with 24 Recommends
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Mississippi is feeling some of the effects of our changing climate running up against our reliance on pollutants to control our environments. All 21 beaches along the Mississippi gulf coast have been closed due to an enormous blue-green harmful algal...
by Walter Einenkel
on Mon Jul 08, 2019 at 10:05 AM PDT
with 115 Recommends
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A Mosaic Co. phosphate fertilizer facility in Mulberry, Florida says that a 45-foot-wide sinkhole opened up and leaked out 215 million gallons of “slightly radioactive water.” Please, don’t undersell this. It’s also hard to take them at their word as...
by Walter Einenkel
on Fri Sep 16, 2016 at 02:31 PM PDT
with 50 Recommends
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Originally published: bioscriptionblog.com/...
Since 2006, China has focused on a number of projects to maximize its further industrialization and economic dominance in the world sphere, with the county branching out into several new fields. This...
by Sterling Ericsson
on Sun Jul 10, 2016 at 06:02 AM PDT
with 5 Recommends
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Our home planet dies a bit. Soon to be reduced to a stone skeleton; clothed in a burial shroud of 200 degree gases, 300 years from now.
A few humans will remain using their technology to survive in underground homes at high elevations. They...
by flatmotor
on Tue May 24, 2016 at 10:24 PM PDT
with 3 Recommends
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If you go into Mammoth Cave National Park, among all the flowstone draperies and crystal-encrusted formations, there’s one notable feature of decidedly non-natural origins. It’s a saltpeter mine. Saltpeter (chiefly potassium nitrate) was gathered from...
by Mark Sumner
on Mon May 23, 2016 at 06:07 AM PDT
with 25 Recommends
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A dark and sleazy history has led to the destruction of large areas of coastal Florida and the Everglades. James Bovard in a post in USA Today provides a short history of the environmental and social impacts of the sugar industry:
In 1816, Congres
by Pakalolo
on Tue Mar 08, 2016 at 08:09 AM PST
with 138 Recommends
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The EPA has a process by which is allows chemicals like pesticides into the public market. Frequently, the EPA gives a tentative approval to a product under the identification “conditional” basis. Thi
by Walter Einenkel
on Thu Mar 03, 2016 at 12:37 PM PST
with 21 Recommends
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There are few things as satisfying to a political cartoonist, or as close as I can get, as the perfect visual metaphor. I only regret I couldn’t squeeze in a little blood-sucking, too. (For those who’
by Raging Pencils
on Tue Mar 01, 2016 at 10:16 AM PST
with 6 Recommends
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It doesn't always "wash away"
Fertilizer ...
by Walter Einenkel
on Thu Oct 01, 2015 at 11:04 AM PDT
with 13 Recommends
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When it first came out, I did a lengthy " socialized reflection " on the praxis implications of Pope Francis'...
by Galtisalie
on Thu Jul 16, 2015 at 01:11 PM PDT
with 19 Recommends
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In sidepocket's KTK yesterday the subject came up in the comments about growing things since sidepocket is a master grower of things, esp. tomatoes. He showed us his farm shoes which he wore to ...
by paradise50
on Mon Jul 28, 2014 at 05:15 PM PDT
with 49 Recommends
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The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note any observations you have made of the world around you. Rain, sun, wind...insects, birds, flowers......
by OceanDiver
on Sat Apr 05, 2014 at 07:01 AM PDT
with 63 Recommends
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Announcement Information was supplied by Trudy Douglass, to update mettle fatigue's Kitchen Table Kibitzing diary...
by mettle fatigue
on Mon Nov 18, 2013 at 05:16 PM PST
with 4 Recommends
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