Tag: Featured
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Oil Consultant Turned Whistleblower Exposes Fracking Crimes in Alberta
This You Tube is a compilation of segments from a 90 minute talk. Jessica Ernst worked for more than three decades as an environmental biologist doing research and independent consulting for the Alberta, Canada petroleum industry. One of her main clients was the EnCana Company, which began large-scale fracking in the region of her home community…
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World Health Day: Small Bites and Big Threats
Today is World Health Day, which is celebrated on April 7 of each year to mark the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948 and to encourage individuals to engage in activities that can lead to better health. The topic for World Health Day 2014 is vector-borne disease. What are vectors and vector-borne…
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Which State Best Supports Its Locally Grown Foods?
The push for more people to buy and eat locally produced foods keeps growing, but which states are actually practicing what they preach? For the third consecutive year, Strolling of the Heifers answers that question with its 2014 Locavore Index. The rankings take the per-capita number of farmers markets, consumer-supported agriculture operations (CSAs) and food hubs into account, along…
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Scientists Discover New Atmospheric Hole Reinforcing Ozone Depletion
Researchers have discovered a large opening in the Earth’s atmosphere that is enabling pollutants to rise into the stratosphere and destroy the ozone layer. [caption id="attachment_329642" align="alignnone" width="500"] Location and extent of low ozone concentrations and thus of the OH hole over the West Pacific. Graphic courtesy of Alfred Wegener Institute[/caption] The hole, which is in a…
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In Light of Washington LNG Explosion, Community Demands Answers to Cove Point Export Terminal Concerns
The liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility explosion that rocked a Plymouth, WA, community on Monday, March 31, has Lusby residents demanding answers about a proposed expansion that would enable the Dominion Cove Point liquefied natural gas terminal to become an LNG export facility. The incident should also reignite debate on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s…