A glaring example of how long climate change has been developing, and how the warming quickens/intensifies nature. Climate Central reports a study on the migration north of Southern magnolias, among several tree species, where average…
Environmental disasters are nothing new, neither are financial disasters, and both are man made for the way-most part. The on-going ‘Occupy Wall Street’ demonstration, which is gaining a shitload of traction the last few days,…
“If you don’t want it to be the most expensive year [for gasoline prices,] you’re surreptitiously rooting for an economic debacle.†— Tom Kloza of the Oil Price Information Service (via the Washington Post last…
(Illustration found here). Fifty percent of the US political system is eaten completely up with hardcore dumb ass — and to make it even far worse, apparently that half don’t give a shit. Not only…
Either resigned to fate, or highly naive: Rebecca Sparks, who works at the town’s Barber Shop, says she’s not nervous: “I believe they’d tell us if there was a problem.” Ugly business, nuclear power. Near…
The Gulf of Mexico: Seen from space, seemingly shimmering in shades of 3-D-green-and-blue, looking so fertile, sprawled open like a priceless pearl floating carefree in that proverbial oyster bed of life — a most-wondrous sight…
Even as President Obama attempts to throw out some kind of jobs plan tonight — the hornet’s nest in the US economy right now — one problem that’s quickly creeping worse strikes at the heart…
Just as tropical storm warnings were issued Friday for the Gulf of Mexico, there’s come reports the infamous BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster is coming back to life. There’s reports oil is leaking from the…
As Hurricane Irene slammed into Cape Lookout, North Carolina, early this morning, the storm had weakened, but wow the size and water content. Flooding not necessarily from seawater is a major threat: “Water is the…
Early Wednesday, a sharp 4.5 aftershock hit about five miles from the epicenter of Tuesday’s earthquake, which rattled the whole US eastern seaboard and has put people on edge. Via Twitter this morning: visionAri_style 1:30am:…