Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Jet-Setting Starbucks Boss Makes a Mockery of the Company’s Green Claptrap
August 23rd, 2024haha. Charbucks is hilariously bad. It’s astonishing that so many people continue to buy that dreck. Anyway, this is easily the most delicious thing Charbucks has ever served. Via: Telegraph: What surely can’t be in doubt is the chain’s desire to show how committed it is to saving the planet. In fact, anyone who has […]
WEF Coming After Rice?
July 24th, 2024Now they're coming after rice, to "save the planet". ? World Bank president Ajay Banga, speaking at the WEF: "Methane is eighty times more dangerous than carbon dioxide." "We're talking about… taking out ten million tonnes of methane by focusing on [rice paddy cultivation],… pic.twitter.com/KpQEVRUBxa — Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) July 24, 2024
The Land, Water and Air Around Us Are Chock-Full of DNA Fragments from Fungi that Mycologists Can’t Link to Known Organisms
June 28th, 2024Via: Scientific American: If you want to discover a hidden world of new life-forms, you don’t have to scour dark caves or slog through remote rainforests. Just look under your feet. When then-graduate student Anna Rosling went to northern Sweden to map the distribution of a particular root-loving fungus, she found something much more intriguing: […]
Pentagon Wants to Feed Troops ‘Experimental’ Lab-Grown Meat to ‘Reduce CO2 Footprint’
June 14th, 2024The U.S. military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries, so feed U.S. military personnel experimental lab-grown meat??? Via: Washington Free Beacon: A Pentagon-funded company is seeking proposals to feed America’s soldiers lab-grown meat in a bid to “reduce the CO2 footprint” at Defense Department outposts. BioMADE, a public-private company that has […]
Water Is Bursting from Another Abandoned West Texas Oil Well
June 12th, 2024Via: The Texas Tribune: In recent years, Schuyler Wight has noticed a growing number of abandoned oil wells coming back to life, gurgling fluids on the surface of his West Texas ranch. Last week he found the biggest one yet. Gassy water was gushing from the ground and down a quarter mile of roadway before […]
Off the Grid with Thomas Massie
June 9th, 2024Via: Free the People: Research Credit: NH
Fusion Tech Finds Geothermal Energy Application
June 4th, 2024Via: IEEE: The upper 10 kilometers of the Earth’s crust contains vast geothermal reserves, essentially awaiting human energy consumption to begin to tap into its unstinting power output—which itself yields no greenhouse gasses. And yet, geothermal sources currently produce only three-tenths of one percent of the world’s electricity. This promising energy source has long been […]
Microplastics Now Detected in Human Testicles, “Might Impact Male Fertility”
May 20th, 2024Via: Science Alert: We can now add testicles to the list of places where microplastics have managed to spread – alongside human placentas, ancient rocks, clogged arteries, blue whales, baby poop, the wilderness of Antarctica, near the peak of Mount Everest, and the bottom of the ocean. Research led by the University of New Mexico […]
Gavin Newsom Is Coming For Your Car, And He Wants You To Know It
May 12th, 2024Via: Politico: Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking California’s climate story — with its big ambitions and political risks — on the road. The Democratic governor, Biden surrogate and potential presidential contender is pushing aggressive climate action in appearances from China to the Vatican, selling it as a winning issue beyond the borders of his deep-blue […]
First ‘Extreme’ Solar Storm in 20 Years Brings Spectacular Auroras
May 11th, 2024I saw it. Pretty wild. It was a dim orange glow from the southeast to southwest for me. Others in New Zealand saw very spectacular displays. Via: AFP: The most powerful solar storm in more than two decades struck Earth on Friday, triggering spectacular celestial light shows from Tasmania to Britain — and threatening possible […]
