“There is No Planet B”: Earth Day, April 22, 2024
“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic.”― George Carlin Welcome to our open forum about Earth day, and find information MORE
“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic.”― George Carlin Welcome to our open forum about Earth day, and find information MORE
“This is a problem that humans have created. This wasn’t nature happening on its own,” said a researcher from the Center of Conservation Biology at UC. At first glance the problem appears to be that MORE
NBC reports: On remote Marion island near Antarctica, mice are breeding out of control. They are eating seabirds and causing major harm in a special nature reserve with “unique biodiversity.” Now conservationists are planning a MORE
The second-largest wildfire in Texas history raged across the state’s panhandle along with several other major blazes on Wednesday, prompting evacuations, school closures and a temporary shut down of the nation’s primary nuclear weapons facility. Amarillo MORE
UPDATE: Trapped orcas escape from drift ice near Japan But on Wednesday, officials reported back saying their latest monitoring trip appeared to show the whales had moved away from the space. “We believe they were MORE
Billions of Cicadas. The last time this double brood event occurred, Thomas Jefferson was President. The next co-emergence of these broods won’t happen for another 221 years in the year 2245. “When the soil temperature MORE
“It’s not every day you get to see camels and zebras and mini-horses on an interstate,” said Indiana State Police public information officer Sgt. Steven Glass. . . According to USA Today, Indiana first MORE
Some electric vehicle owners have reported having trouble keeping their cars charged in the midst of an Arctic blast sweeping much of the country. Not only does the cold weather have an effect on how MORE
This week’s cold snap across the U.S. will be one of “the most impressive Arctic outbreaks of this century,” one climate scientist says. This is “global weirding rather than global warming. . . .” The MORE
“They have a reputation for being a very fierce cat, pound for pound,” said Bob Cisneros, the zoo’s associate director of animal care, in an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune. From the Huffington Post: Utah’s MORE
Unless you live in the Northeast or Alaska, this Winter may be more rainy and stormy than anything else, but the 115 million people traveling home after Christmas will still encounter slippery driving conditions with MORE
With the stroke of a pen, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer pushed the Midwest state away from fossil fuels and toward a 100% clean, green future by 2040. And in order to do that, the state MORE
Fox News mouthpiece Jesse Watters said a big dog bit him in the groin over the Thanksgiving break. (Is the dog okay?) On Monday’s episode of Jesse Watters Primetime, the Fox host explained that he MORE
The beast is born in fire. Once a prehistoric denizen of the deeps, it comes ashore on a tsunami tide, tall as a thunderhead, shrugging off artillery as it bellows a foghorn scream. It stomps. MORE
While the scientific consensus is clear that human activities, particularly through carbon emissions, are the main culprit of climate change, political views differ with respect to the causes of climate change, its political importance, and MORE
Conflicting With Efforts to Cut Heat-Trapping Pollution and Republican Disinformation United States domestic oil production hit an all-time high last week, contrasting with efforts to slice heat-trapping carbon emissions by the Biden administration and world MORE
Most, if not all, climate scientists had a feeling that the next two years were going to be pretty warm, but I think everyone has been a little surprised just how warm globally it has MORE
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Management of a south Oklahoma City mobile home park urged its residents this week not to speak out about a 13-foot-long cat-eating albino python still in the neighborhood. Residents of Burntwood MORE
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs’ administration on Monday announced two steps to stop a controversial Saudi Arabian company from using groundwater beneath state land in western Arizona to grow and export alfalfa that feeds the kingdom’s MORE
The impact of anti-vaccine activists is spreading beyond humans. A recent study found many dog owners are skeptical of vaccinating their pets — even though that leaves animals and humans at risk. The study, led MORE
13-hour flight Gill and Warren Press paid extra for premium economy seats for the 13-hour flight on Singapore Airlines, they told Insider. When they arrived at their assigned seats, they said they discovered that they MORE
Reuters reports that, “The first discharge of wastewater from the nuclear plant destroyed in 2011 was 7,800 cubic metres – the equivalent of about three Olympic swimming pools of water – will take place over MORE
According to the New York Times, “The burn zone is large, and the search for remains has been slow and painstaking. About 85 percent of the burn area had been searched as of Friday evening. MORE
This is a follow-up to a discussion from last April titled “The Race to Free Washington’s Last Orca in Captivity” Lolita, the beloved killer whale who’s spent the past five decades at the Miami Seaquarium, MORE
As Hurricane Hillary moved up Mexico’s Pacific coast, it strengthened to a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds near 140 mph (220 kph) early Friday morning. However, by the time it makes its way up MORE