An understated environmental report today from the UK, calling climate change the biggest global-health threat of the 21st century. Lead author of the report Professor Anthony Costello: “The big message of this report is that climate…
Toxic Hog Dump (h/t to tristero at Hullabaloo). From December 2006 rollingstone.com: Smithfield Foods actually faces a more difficult task than transmogrifying the populations of America’s thirty-two largest cities into edible packages of meat. Hogs…
As all the world’s current problems and entanglements become more tightly bound together in a kind of Gordian knot, one item seems to be fading from any public discourse — the end of oil. Although there’s a…
Another strange little twist in modern living. From the BBC this week: The observations are baffling astronomers, who are due to study new pictures of the Sun, taken from space, at the UK National Astronomy Meeting.…