Avengers - The Endgame. Maybe it is time for humanity to focus on the real endgame and end the oblivion and distractions - or disappear from the planet...
Political will to fight climate change is fading, warns UN chief - BBC News
Iceland Glacier Gone
Sunday, May 12, 2019
Thursday, May 9, 2019
What Losing 1 Million Species Means for the Planet — and Humanity • The Revelator
A new UN report finds that at least 1 million species are at risk of extinction. Will this finally be enough to motivate worldwide action?
The United Nations this week released a powerful report on the state of nature around the planet. Among its disheartening conclusions, the report — by hundreds of experts from 50 countries — estimates that a staggering 1 million species are at risk of extinction in the next few decades due to human-related causes.
Continue reading at: What Losing 1 Million Species Means for the Planet — and Humanity • The Revelator
The United Nations this week released a powerful report on the state of nature around the planet. Among its disheartening conclusions, the report — by hundreds of experts from 50 countries — estimates that a staggering 1 million species are at risk of extinction in the next few decades due to human-related causes.
Saturday, May 4, 2019
Southern German city declares ‘climate emergency’
I am so proud of my Alma mater to follow the UKs example.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/southern-german-city-declares-climate-emergency/2019/05/03/32f25b9a-6da5-11e9-bbe7-1c798fb80536_story.html
Friday, May 3, 2019
Food safety: Dung beetles and soil bacteria reduce risk of human pathogens -- ScienceDaily
Food safety regulations increasingly pressure growers to remove hedgerows, ponds and other natural habitats from farms to keep out pathogen-carrying wildlife and livestock. Yet, this could come at the cost of biodiversity. New research encourages the presence of dung beetles and soil bacteria at farms as they naturally suppress E. coli and other harmful pathogens before spreading to humans.
Continue reading at: Food safety: Dung beetles and soil bacteria reduce risk of human pathogens -- ScienceDaily
Continue reading at: Food safety: Dung beetles and soil bacteria reduce risk of human pathogens -- ScienceDaily
Thursday, May 2, 2019
UK Parliament declares climate change emergency - BBC News
This is leadership needed from every government!
MPs have approved a motion to declare an environment and climate emergency.
This proposal, which demonstrates the will of the Commons on the issue but does not legally compel the government to act, was approved without a vote.
Continue reading at: UK Parliament declares climate change emergency - BBC News
MPs have approved a motion to declare an environment and climate emergency.
This proposal, which demonstrates the will of the Commons on the issue but does not legally compel the government to act, was approved without a vote.
Continue reading at: UK Parliament declares climate change emergency - BBC News
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
PFAS found in Saline during investigation across River Raisin watershed - mlive.com
Michigan officials are investigating PFAS contamination in a second watershed that feeds into Lake Erie.
The chemicals were found last summer in Saline, southwest of Ann Arbor, where the city’s wastewater treatment plant was discharging them to a tributary of the River Raisin.
That’s also near a contaminated industrial site, located just steps from the Saline River, that has even higher levels of the unsafe chemicals in groundwater- and they’re possibly moving into the river, officials say.
Continue reading at: PFAS found in Saline during investigation across River Raisin watershed - mlive.com
The chemicals were found last summer in Saline, southwest of Ann Arbor, where the city’s wastewater treatment plant was discharging them to a tributary of the River Raisin.
That’s also near a contaminated industrial site, located just steps from the Saline River, that has even higher levels of the unsafe chemicals in groundwater- and they’re possibly moving into the river, officials say.
Continue reading at: PFAS found in Saline during investigation across River Raisin watershed - mlive.com
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