Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Beneficial Soil Fungus Thrives in Presence of White Noise
October 3rd, 2024Via: Science Alert: Fungi may not have ears, but their growth appears to be tuned to the noises of their surroundings. When a high-frequency monotone crackle, like that of radio static, is played to the fungus species, Trichoderma harzianum, researchers have found the organism grows and produces spores much faster than is typical – almost […]
“Modern Economy Rests On Single Road” In North Carolina Where Hurricane Collapsed Bridges
September 30th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: In March, a Wharton professor who studies artificial intelligence and start-ups claimed on X, “The modern economy rests on a single road in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The road runs to the two mines that are the sole supplier of the quartz required to make the crucibles needed to refine silicon wafers.” Ethan […]
Prozac in Waterways Is Changing How Fish Behave
August 27th, 2024After reading this article about Prozac pollution and fish, you can probably guess my next search: “prozac in drinking water” From 2004, Prozac’s in the Water: Britain’s Drinking Water Inspectorate noted that the drug “was likely to be found in a considerably watered down form that is unlikely to pose any health risk.” Nevertheless, environmentalists […]
Greek Oil Tanker on Fire After Multiple Attacks in Red Sea
August 23rd, 2024Via: Al Jazeera: A crew of 25 has been rescued from a Greek-flagged oil tanker after it caught fire after multiple attacks in the Red Sea. The Sounion was attacked by more than a dozen people on two small boats who fired multiple projectiles at the ship when it was about 77 nautical miles (143km) […]
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
