Tag: Biodiversity
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Unacceptable Levels: New Film Links Childhood Illness to Unregulated Chemicals
“This film is a huge eye-opener! Once a parent sees this, they thankfully won’t ever approach their child’s health and future the same way ever again!”
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Another Chemical Plant Explodes as Industry Booms Due to Cheap Natural Gas from Fracking
Less than two months after the disaster at West Fertilizer Co. in West, TX, another chemical plant erupted in flames Thursday just south of Baton Rouge, LA. The explosion at the Williams Olefins plant in Geismar killed at least …
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A New Age Defines Human Impact on Global Water Cycle
Water in the Anthropocene is a three minute film charting the global impact of humans on the water cycle. Evidence is growing that our global footprint is now so significant we have driven Earth into a new geological epoch—the Anthropocene.
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Gezi Park: A Battle to Preserve Nature and Democracy
The protest, which began to save the park, became a rally for genuine democracy in Turkey. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government responded with police violence—beatings, pepper spray, water cannons and tear gas—but could not stop the protests from spreading, exposing Erdogan’s persecution of opposition …
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Fish on Prozac: Anxious, Anti-Social and Aggressive
When fish swim in waters tainted with antidepressant drugs, they become anxious, anti-social and sometimes even homicidal. New research has found that the pharmaceuticals, which are frequently showing up in U.S. streams …