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Thousands of abandoned coal
mines dot the U.S.
landscape, vestiges of old
fossil fuel boomtowns and
industrial hubs. But despite
no longer producing coal,
these sites are still
contributing to climate
change by leaking carbon
dioxide into the
atmosphere...
...the country of Cuba is
99 percent vaccinated and
has almost 300 percent less
autism than the U.S. Why is
this?
The answer is actually
quite simple. Cuban children
receive fewer vaccines than
American children. Cuba
manufactures many of the
vaccines their children
receive and they have higher
safety standards than the
U.S. They have limited
exposure to genetically
modified foods (GMOs) and do
not allow the sale of
acetaminophen over the
counter.
Immigration is being
used as a political weapon
to destabilize the West. Western
governments and political
leaders are
deliberately permitting unlimited
unreasonable amounts of
legal and illegal
immigration as well as
accepting hundreds of
thousands of refugees from
Muslim nations into their
own states.
Additionally, radical Islam
is admittedly using
immigration into Western
nations as a tactic to
achieve the publicly stated
and oft-repeated goal of
conquering non-Muslim
nations from within their
own borders by simply
outgrowing them.
The Caribbean Sea is
whistling in an A-flat tone,
roughly 30 octaves below the
bottom of a piano.
University of Liverpool
researchers detected the
noise when they were
analyzing sea level and sea
floor pressure in the
Caribbean Sea, an area that
has been monitored for the
past 60 years. But something
unusual showed up on their
ocean activity models: there
were pressure oscillations
across the Caribbean basin,
according to Science Alert.
The House Select
Committee on Benghazi
continued to slam the State
Department Monday for
apparently refusing to turn
over information regarding
emails and records the
committee has deemed
pertinent to its
investigation.
“For nearly a year and a
half, the State Department
has withheld documents and
information about Benghazi
and Libya from the American
people’s elected
representatives in
Congress,..
In a fast-moving news cycle
that has already turned to
the election battle between
Donald Trump and Hillary
Clinton, Bernie Sanders has
quickly become a sideshow.
But that did not stop the
Vermont Senator from
defiantly promising to
continue the political
revolution in a town hall on
Thursday, giving a glimpse
into his possible future
role in the Democratic Party
in which he campaigns for
progressive candidates
across the country.
And extending the use of
solar energy is part of
Musk's broader vision of
putting Tesla at the center
of what he sees as the
sustainable energy industry
of the future: Combining
solar power with batteries
that allow it to be stored
and used at any time of the
day or night, and building
affordable electric cars
that eventually replace
today's gas-powered
vehicles.
On the surface, Pacific Gas
& Electric's recent decision
not to seek to renew its
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission operating
licenses that expire in 2024
and 2025 -- for two nuclear
reactors at the Diablo
Canyon power plant in San
Luis Obispo County -- makes
sense for a variety of
reasons.
One of my favorite pieces of
wisdom to live by is that
our life is a reflection of
the perspective we hold
about it. When you look at
the current state of your
life, what does it reflect?
What does it reflect about
who you are and how you see
yourself? Your
relationships? Your work?
Your hobbies? Your life
purpose? Is your life a
sequence of extraordinary
moments strung together to
make a richly diverse
tapestry, or a mundane
ordinary paint stroke on a
bleak canvas day after day?
Weapons provided by the
Central Intelligence Agency
that were supposed to go to
Syrian rebels have found to
be “systematically stolen”
and sold on the black
market, according to the New
York Times.
But according to
officials, those weapons
have also been used to kill
Americans.
Chemists from the
Universities of Basel and
Zurich in Switzerland have
come one step closer to
generating energy from
sunlight: for the first
time, they were able to
reproduce one of the crucial
phases of natural
photosynthesis with
artificial molecules. Their
results have been published
by the journal Angewandte
Chemie (international
edition).
It was going to be an El
Niño to end all El Niños.
The warmest ocean
temperature anomalies on
record blossomed in its
core, the largest area of
exceptionally warm water
ever seen in the tropical
Pacific. The California
drought was death watch — it
would bring “one storm after
another like a conveyor
belt.” It was named
Godzilla.
Beijing and surrounding
areas of China often suffer
from choking smog. The
Chinese government has made
commitments to improving air
quality and has achieved
notable results in reducing
emissions from the power and
transportation sectors.
However, new research
indicates that the
government could achieve
dramatic air quality
improvements with more
attention on an overlooked
source of outdoor pollution
-- residential cooking and
heating.
A reactor at the Indian
Point nuclear Power plant,
46 miles north of Manhattan,
had to be taken offline
after authorities found a
leaking pipe.
The reactor will
reportedly be shut down for
a few days for repairs even
as anti-Indian Point
protesters spoke out on the
safety hazards in the power
plant.
Israel has reached a
reconciliation deal with
Turkey to end a bitter
six-year rift between the
Mideast powers, an official
said Sunday.
Relations between the
former close allies imploded
in 2010 following an Israeli
naval raid that killed nine
Turkish activists, including
a dual American citizen, who
were on a ship trying to
breach Israel’s blockade of
the Gaza Strip.
When you go beyond all the
feel-good and meaningless
rhetoric about "The
Environment," maintaining a
sustainable and habitable
world that does not look
like a Mad Max movie is
complex.
I believe that you do not
only sleep at night, but
also during the daytime. I
believe that in your present
state of consciousness, your
greatest illusion is that
you think you are awake. I
believe that in your present
existence, your greatest
illusion is when you think
that you are alert. What I
see is that in your present
state of consciousness you
are asleep, and at present
you are dreaming, and what
you see and hear are all
parts of your dream.
A mother had just
returned home in southeast
Portland, Oregon, with her
two children, 5 and 10 years
old, early Sunday morning
when she discovered
something out of place.
NASA has made significant
progress toward establishing
a more reliable, and
potentially
solar-system-spanning
communication system with
the installation of a new
breed of data network aboard
the International Space
Station (ISS). As its name
suggests, the
Delay/Disruption Tolerant
Networking (DTN) service
allows for the storage of
partial pieces of
information in the nodes
along a communication path,
which will allow for faster
and more stable
transmissions.
Six million American
children were overweight
or obese in 2001. Today,
that number exceeds 23
million. Clearly, the
dietary recommendations
provided to the public
over the past 15 years
are deeply flawed
While 80 percent of the
obese population is
sick, metabolic
dysfunction affects
normal weight people as
well. About 40 percent
of normal weight
individuals have the
same health problems as
those who are obese
The real problem is not
obesity but rather
metabolic syndrome,
which is caused by
excessive fructose
consumption; 80 percent
of all foods sold in the
U.S. contain high
fructose corn syrup and
other added sugars
According to a new
breakthrough study, the
Octopuses DNA is not of this
world! That is right, their
genome is far more complex
than a human and contains
around 33,000 protein-coding
genes! This never before
seen Alien DNA is nothing
like anything else we have
studied here on earth.
Fireworks exploded as a huge
container ship made an
inaugural passage through
the newly expanded Panama
Canal on Sunday, formally
launching the Central
American nation's
multibillion-dollar bet on a
bright economic future
despite tough times for
global shipping.
In the hours following the
U.K.’s historic vote to
leave the European Union,
the Islamic State has
reportedly called for
attacks in Brussels and
Berlin in order to
“paralyze” Europe.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on days one, two, and three
(28 Jun, 29 Jun, 30 Jun).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet
levels on days one and two
(28 Jun, 29 Jun) and quiet
to active levels on day
three (30 Jun).
Beyond unnecessary delays,
the DEA has created a
“Catch-22” — saying
marijuana has no medicinal
value, while impeding
research which would likely
prove otherwise.
Brussels simply went too
far. They cross the line
moving from an economic
union to a political
subordination of Europe. Now
five more countries want to
hold referendums to exit the
EU – France, the
Netherlands, Italy, Austria,
Finland and Hungary all
could leave. With Hollande
approval rating at about
11%, Merkel lucky she is not
tarred & feathered,
the Front National leader
Marine Le Pen has pledged to
hold a French referendum. If
she emerges victorious in
next year’s presidential
elections, that means the
next major player in the EU
after Germany is out and
there goes the EU.
Now let’s discuss what
happens if you charge, first
there is a good chance
others may join you. People
react to a leader. If the
shooter has to deal with
you, it buys time for others
to flee. If you are shot,
but if the suspect goes down
as a result of several
people charging, you will
get medical help much
sooner. You won’t lie there
for three hours, slowly
bleeding to death. I
believe that fighting back
will reduce the death toll
in most situations.
Billionaire investor George
Soros has warned that
Britain's vote to leave the
European Union makes the
disintegration of the bloc
"practically irreversible".
As Southern California
braces for an incoming heat
wave, California's electric
grid operator is requesting
emergency reductions in
electricity today and may do
so again tomorrow. Highs are
expected to hit triple
digits in the Los Angeles
area.
This Stonehenge monument –
built in 3,000 to 2,000 BC –
shows how carefully our
ancestors watched the sun.
Astronomical observations
such as these surely
controlled human activities
such as the mating of
animals, the sowing of crops
and the metering of winter
reserves between harvests.
Stonehenge is perhaps the
most famous of of the
ancient astronomical
monuments found around the
world.
GMO foods are those with
DNA that’s been altered in a
laboratory. More than just
selective breeding, the
process introduces
completely foreign genetic
material, often from
unrelated organisms such as
bacteria and viruses.
Of course, multinational
biotech corporations like
Monsanto insist these
“Frankenfoods” and the
mutant seeds they’re grown
from are just as safe as
heirloom varieties.
But the truth is,
scientists can’t predict
what will happen once they
insert genes from one
species into another. Genes
interact in complex ways
that still aren’t well
understood, and the only
thing we do know is that
genetic modification can
have unintended
consequences.
Boulder City is under an
excessive heat warning and,
as temperatures rise in the
triple digits, the city's
power grid could struggle to
operate.
On Sunday the city
experienced a two-hour power
outage in the residential
areas south of Adams
Boulevard. The cause of the
outage was an old and
overworked transformer.
Donald Trump is releasing a
35-page document that takes
down Hillary Clinton's
foreign policy and economic
stances — a 50-point attack
that pulls together news
articles, documents and
speeches critical of the
former secretary of state.
Washing with detergent
soaps wipes out the
bacteria on your skin
temporarily, but it
quickly reestablishes
itself, typically with
an imbalance that favors
odor-producing microbes
When you give your body
a break from the soap
and shampoo, the
ecosystem has a chance
to right itself and
offensive body odor
largely disappears
Daily showers disrupt
microbial communities on
your skin and may
exacerbate skin
conditions
Physicist Klaus Lackner has
long advocated deploying
devices that extract carbon
dioxide from the atmosphere
to combat climate change.
Now, as emissions keep
soaring, Lackner says in a
Yale Environment 360
interview that such “air
capture” approaches may be
our last best hope.
By August, ocean water on
that same beach will be much
warmer. And the snow line
will have crept up the
mountaintops. That’s why the
hottest weather comes some
months after the year’s
longest day. The land and
oceans simply need those
extra months to warm up – a
scientist might say to
store heat – after the
cold of winter.
Antarctic sea ice is
constantly on the move as
powerful winds blow it away
from the coast and out
toward the open ocean. A new
study shows how that ice
migration may be more
important for the global
ocean circulation than
anyone realized.
Should a self-driving car
kill its passengers for the
greater good – for instance,
by swerving into a wall to
avoid hitting a large number
of pedestrians? Surveys of
nearly 2,000 US residents
revealed that, while we
strongly agree that
autonomous vehicles should
strive to save as many lives
as possible, we are not
willing to buy such a car
for ourselves, preferring
instead one that tries to
preserve the lives of its
passengers at all costs.
In case you’re not aware,
the confusing conundrum
first began when Dr.
Bradstreet was found dead
exactly one year ago – yes,
on Father’s Day – in the
U.S. The noted autism
doctor, researcher, and
parent was found in a river
with a gunshot wound to the
chest. While authorities at
first thought his death was
a result of suicide, it has
since been confirmed that
Dr. Bradstreet was
murdered and that the wound
was not
self-inflicted.
In 2013, a team of citizen
science volunteers who
collaborate on the climate
myth debunking website
SkepticalScience.com
published a paper finding a
97% expert consensus on
human-caused global warming
in peer-reviewed research.
Over the past 3 years, that
paper has been downloaded
more than 500,000 times. For
perspective, that’s 4 times
more than the second-most
downloaded paper in the
Institute of Physics
journals (which includes
Environmental Research
Letters, where the 97%
consensus paper was
published).
Acupuncture
downregulates (or turns
off) pro-inflammatory
cells known as M1
macrophages
Acupuncture also
upregulates (or
activates)
anti-inflammatory M2
macrophages, thereby
reducing pain and
swelling
M2 macrophages are a
source of
anti-inflammatory
interleukin-10 (IL-10);
by upregulating M2
macrophages, acupuncture
leads to an increase in
IL-10, which
subsequently helps
relieve pain and
inflammation
A hacker who goes by the
name ‘Guccifer 2.0’ claims
to have published a dossier
of Hillary Clinton-related
documents accessed during
the recent attack on the
Democratic National
Committee’s computers.
The recent confirmation of
gravity waves observed by
the LIGO project represents
a huge breakthrough in
physics, verifying Albert
Einstein's predictions
regarding the effect of mass
on space and time and
supporting his general
theory of relativity
published in 1916. But what
of his other grand
hypothesis? Einstein's
unified field theory
consumed the last 30 years
of his life without
resolution, but how much
closer have we come to a
theory that brings every
known force in the universe
together into a single,
all-encompassing frame of
reference?
Recently, Sen. Lamar
Alexander took to the floor
of the U.S. Senate to
discuss an important issue:
a proposed wind farm that
would be located in
Cumberland County, if
approved. His opposition was
quickly followed by
Rep.Diane Black, who also
came out against the
proposal by writing to
several federal agencies
voicing her concerns.
So why are they opposing
this? "Clean" energy like
wind must be a positive
thing for the environment,
right? And it must therefore
also be a good thing for
wildlife, too, yes?
The truth is, the impacts
of wind farms are
significant and they are
decidedly not positive for
Tennessee's environment and
wildlife. These numbers tell
the story.
An expert welcomes the
decision to close
California's last nuclear
power plant, calling the
facility costly, dangerous
and unnecessary given the
rise of solar and other
renewable energy sources.
Pacific Gas & Electric
Co. and environmental groups
said Tuesday that the Diablo
Canyon plant would be
shuttered by the time its
license runs out in 2025.
An oil spill of 700
barrels of crude spilled
from a pipeline near
California's coast on
Thursday but was quickly
contained in a dry creek bed
and did not reach the
Pacific Ocean in Ventura
County, officials said.
The Ventura County Fire
Department had initially
estimated the size of the
leak from the Crimson
Pipeline at 5,000 barrels,
but later said a much
smaller amount was released
in a stain stretching a
half-mile.
A new way of recycling
millions of tons of plastic
garbage into liquid fuel has
been devised by researchers
from the University of
California, Irvine and the
Shanghai Institute of
Organic Chemistry (SIOC) in
China.
"Synthetic plastics are a
fundamental part of modern
life, but our use of them in
large volume has created
serious environmental
problems," said UCI chemist
Zhibin Guan. "Our goal
through this research was to
address the issue of plastic
pollution as well as
achieving a beneficial
outcome of creating a new
source of liquid fuel."
A federal lawsuit aimed at
stopping Dominion Virginia
Power's plans to bury its
coal ash in unlined pits
could hinge on whether
environmentalists can prove
that arsenic detected in the
Elizabeth River is directly
linked to the utility's
now-closed coal plant in
Chesapeake.
A Duke University study
of coal ash ponds near 21
power plants in five
Southeastern U.S. states has
found evidence that nearby
surface waters and
groundwater are consistently
and lastingly contaminated
by the unlined ponds.
High levels of toxic
heavy metals including
arsenic and selenium were
found in surface waters or
groundwater at all of the
sites tested. Concentrations
of trace elements in 29
percent of the surface water
samples exceeded EPA
standards for drinking water
and aquatic life.
Colombian coffee growers
still dealing with the
consequences of the El Nino
drought are now bracing for
heavy La Nina rains which
could hurt the country's
harvest even more, the head
of the coffee federation
said on Tuesday.
Growers, who are
finishing harvesting beans
shrunk by lack of water,
will soon have to contend
with overly humid soil and
the possible spread of the
roya leaf rust disease,
Roberto Velez, the head of
the country's Coffee
Federation, told Reuters in
an interview.
The 2015 Healthy Kids
Colorado survey of about
17,000 middle and high
school students across the
state showed that 21.2
percent of high school
students reported that they
currently use pot. That’s
just a hair below the
national average, which was
21.7 percent.
In first tests, the new
modules have shown the same
maximum power output as a
monofacial PV module and
compared to bifacial PV
modules with a glass back,
they have even shown a 5%
increase in energy yield.
A Dutch foundation has
developed floating barriers
to try to collect trash from
the world's oceans, and will
launch a 100 meter-long
prototype in the North Sea
this week to see how it
fares during storms...
Experts have sounded the
alarm in recent years over
millions of tons of plastic
pollution floating in the
ocean that is killing vast
numbers of seabirds, marine
mammals, sea turtles and
other creatures.
The agency’s Draft
Protective Action Guide
advises officials on how to
react to “a nuclear meltdown
or a dirty bomb, a weapon
that combines conventional
explosives such as dynamite
with radioactive material,”
ThinkProgress reported.
“During a radiological
emergency, radioactive
material could be released
into the rivers, lakes, and
streams used by public water
suppliers.”
Record-setting temperatures
in the Southland climbed
well past the 100-degree
mark on the hottest day of a
brutal three-day heat wave,
causing widespread power
outages, raging wildfires
and prompting officials to
issue excessive heat
warnings.
California's last nuclear
power plant will close by
2025 under an agreement that
will replace production with
energy sources that don't
produce greenhouse gases.
Here are some facts about
the Diablo Canyon nuclear
plant:
The Obama
administration's hydraulic
fracturing rule is dead.
In a monumental ruling
last night, the U.S.
District Court for the
District of Wyoming struck
down the years-in-the-making
regulation, concluding that
the Bureau of Land
Management has no authority
over fracking.
Supporters of the rule
plan to appeal the decision,
calling it a stunning
assault on BLM's ability to
regulate development on
public lands.
The Mexican government’s
deadly crackdown on a
teacher’s union protest has
rattled the nation in recent
days, as 200,000 doctors on
Wednesday joined the ongoing
national strike against
President Enrique Peña
Nieto’s neoliberal reforms.
The Burning of Frankincense
has been part of cultural
and religious ceremonies for
over a
millennium! Frankincense is
actually made out of a resin
from the Boswellia tree
which is made into oils,
incense, and is used in
everything from helping your
soul reach higher spiritual
planes to medicinal uses.
The
breach affects customers in
the US and Canada who made
purchases before April 28,
2016.
If you’ve purchased an
Acer device from the
company’s online store
within the last year, there
is a good chance your credit
card information was stolen.
“Obamacare is making things
worse by the day. It drives
up premiums and deductible
costs for individuals,
families, and businesses,”
the report’s authors wrote.
“It forces people off the
plans they like. It fuels
waste, fraud, and abuse. And
it cannot be fixed. Its knot
of regulations, taxes, and
mandates cannot be
untangled. Obamacare must be
fully repealed so we can
start over and take a new
approach.”
The utility that ran the
Fukushima nuclear plant
acknowledged Tuesday its
delayed disclosure of the
meltdowns at three reactors
was tantamount to a cover-up
and apologized for it.
The San Andreas fault
is almost synonymous with
California—after all, the
spot marks the boundary
between the Pacific Plate
and the North American plate
that defines the state’s
geography. And then there’s
the chance of a catastrophic
earthquake that could one
day rip down the gash in the
Earth, wreaking havoc in
some of the United States’
most populous areas. But
surprisingly, it’s been hard
for researchers to figure
out just how the fault is
affecting California over
time. Until now:
Dylan West says the Pink
Pistols gun club in Atlanta
has been a stagnant
group since he joined a year
ago. But that's all changed
now.
The gun club for LGBT
people has roughly doubled
in size to 230 members
following this month's
nightmarish shooting at an
Orlando gay nightclub that
left 49 dead and 53 injured.
Biomass – is that the same
as energy-from-waste? A.
Yes, it actually is. Biomass
is sourced from a wide
variety of raw materials,
and while it has its
positive aspects,
environmental regulations
require that the generated
flue gases have to be
treated.
On a beautiful barren
stretch of the Scottish
Highlands, just south of
Inverness, spin 20 brand new
3,300-kilowatt wind
turbines. The second these
industrial-scale turbines
came on stream last month,
all Mars UK’s factories and
offices became immediately
zero carbon.
With the American
public eager to see what the
disastrous Modoc War of
1872–1873 looked like,
rising-star photographer
Edward Muybridge knew what
he needed to do: Give his
viewers what they expected
to see. And if that meant
creating fiction, he was
willing to play.
We saw it coming, but
it's still a jolt to see it
arrive so fast. Wasn't it
yesterday that we were
calling solar power the
energy supply of the future?
And suddenly, today is
the future -- or very nearly
so.
An update to the Toxic
Substances Control Act
(TSCA) will require the
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA)
to determine whether a
chemical meets a set
safety standard before
it enters the market
The EPA will only have
to test 20 chemicals at
a time and each chemical
has a seven-year
deadline
No adequate funding is
required from the
chemical industry, which
means there’s a good
chance the EPA will lack
the funding needed to
review toxic chemicals
already on the market
North Carolina may be
nearing a renewable energy
tipping point that could
well be dubbed peak solar.
The state ranks third in
the nation for solar energy
production, thanks to
utility-scale solar farms
that have sprouted on cheap
farmland in recent years.
But North Carolina's
frenetic rate of solar
energy buildout can't go on
forever, and solar
developers and experts say
they're beginning to see
early signs that solar power
development may be peaking
in North Carolina
Tesla Motors made an offer
to buy Solar City Tuesday,
marking one of the company's
biggest steps into the clean
energy industry to date.
Tesla has been making moves
toward creating an
end-to-end power supply,
storage and distribution
system, and this development
further indicates a future
of uncertainty for electric
utilities.
The amount of power
generated by cogeneration
electric plants around the
fire-ravaged town of Fort
McMurray in Alberta, Canada,
climbed near levels seen
before wildfires forced oil
sands producers to shut
their facilities in May.
Analysts look to the
rising output from the
cogeneration plants as a
precursor to an increase in
production from the oil
sands facilities.
Hydrogen is the
most-abundant element in the
universe. It's also the
simplest--sporting only a
single electron in each
atom. But that simplicity is
deceptive, because there is
still so much we have to
learn about hydrogen.
One of the biggest
unknowns is its
transformation under the
extreme pressures and
temperatures found in the
interiors of giant planets,
where it is squeezed until
it becomes liquid metal,
capable of conducting
electricity.
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission officials heard
concerns from members of the
public Monday night, many
calling for the NRC to deny
Seabrook Station nuclear
power plant a license
extension.
Plastic pipes used in
water systems are raising
concern among some
scientists about the
potential for leaching
chemicals into tap water.
Andrew Whelton, an
environmental engineer at
Purdue University, is
studying the impact of
plastic piping material
known as cross-linked
polyethylene, or PEX, on tap
water, according to AlterNet
Denver Broncos quarterback
Mark Sanchez and other
professional athletes were
scammed out of millions of
dollars by an investment
adviser who gained their
trust by stressing his
Christian faith and claiming
to be a certified public
accountant, a newly unsealed
federal lawsuit charges.
Toilets are spewing
sewage into Baltimore homes
and resolving the problem is
billions of dollars and a
decade beyond reach.
“The problem is a side
effect of the city's
incomplete efforts to stop
sewage from overflowing into
streams — despite a court
order that it fix the aged
system by the end of last
year. Sewer rates have more
than doubled in the
meantime,” The Baltimore
Sun reported.
“In a lawsuit filed May 31,
Alina and Alberto Casadevall
say the first floor, garage,
patio and yard of their home
were flooded with as much as
8 inches of sewage on June
15, caused by sewer work
being done by the city's
Department of Public Works,”
the report said.
The share of global
electricity generated by
solar photovoltaics could
increase from 2% today to as
much as 13% by 2030,
according to a new report
from the International
Renewable Energy Agency
(IRENA).
It’s hard to know which is
worse. The corporations that
profit from poisoning your
food and water. Or the
politicians who will happily
sell you down the river for
a few campaign
contributions.
As Southern California
braces for an incoming heat
wave, California's electric
grid operator is requesting
emergency reductions in
electricity today and may do
so again tomorrow. Highs are
expected to hit triple
digits in the Los Angeles
area.
The Supreme Court ruled
Monday that courts need not
throw out evidence of a
crime even if the arresting
police officer used unlawful
tactics to obtain it.
Almost three out of four
large US-based corporations
in a new survey plan to
pursue renewables over the
next two years, but experts
differ regarding the
validity of the survey's
conclusions and how they
might affect wholesale power
prices.
Poor oral health
increases your risk for
many different health
problems and diseases,
including bad breath,
dementia, pneumonia,
erectile dysfunction,
kidney disease and head
and neck cancers
Your diet is the most
significant determinant
of your oral and dental
health, but how you
clean your teeth can
also make a big
difference. Flossing is
an important strategy,
yet one-third of
American adults never
floss
When done correctly, oil
pulling has a
significant cleansing,
detoxifying and healing
effect that can help
improve both your oral
and general health
The Sun makes itself known
throughout much of the Solar
System by the influence the
solar wind of high-speed
charged particles constantly
blowing off the Sun. The
solar wind may be viewed as
an extension of the outer
atmosphere of the Sun (the
corona) into interplanetary
space.
California’s record
four-year drought has primed
its coastal forests for a
bug invasion. Millions of
native bark beetles, which
thrive in warm conditions,
are burrowing into trees
weakened by a lack of water,
leaving in their wake dry,
dead wood that becomes
natural tinder. The beetles
and drought have already
killed off 29m trees, with
tens of millions more
expected to become
casualties.
More stringent treatment
requirements are being
imposed by the regulatory
community. Two major issues
driving these mandates
include the control and
treatment of wet weather
flow, and nutrient removal
The website “will showcase
some of Clinton’s most
disastrous lies to the
American people,” according
to a press release from the
Trump campaign. As of
Wednesday morning, the
website only asked
supporters to sign up to
receive text message alerts
“for exclusive access.”
Donald Trump launched a
massive attack on a Hillary
Clinton presidency
Wednesday, calling the
Democratic nominee "the most
corrupt person ever to seek
the presidency" and saying
her foreign policy "cost
America thousands of lives
and trillions of dollars
and unleashed ISIS across
the world."
Brothers Chris and Joel
Hayes hail from Louisburg,
North Carolina, and have
recently stepped up to the
YouTube plate to bring
America a piece of their
minds with a mix of
politics, social commentary
and humor.
Portugal just did something
pretty amazing. In fact,
it’s historic — something no
other nation has ever done.
Portugal just powered its
entire country’s electricity
needs for four consecutive
days using nothing
but renewable energy.
Demand for US natural gas
for export -- including both
pipeline and LNG exports --
is set to skyrocket through
the next few decades, a US
Department of Energy
official said Thursday,
adding the country was on a
path to become a top
supplier to the
international market.
A Utah energy cooperative
sees a future where
coal-fired generation is no
longer a viable option for
baseload power supply and is
pursuing a three-pronged
strategy that contemplates
nuclear power.
The report reveals that most
cities need to improve their
resilience in the face of
extreme weather events and
climate change - including
the nine American cities
examined in the index:
Washington, D.C., New York,
Houston, Boston,
Philadelphia, Dallas,
Chicago, San Francisco and
Los Angeles. All have work
to do to ensure that the
water supply and treatment
facilities remain stable in
any situation, and that the
cities are well protected
from the impact of storm
surges, heavy rains, and
drought.
America's first new nuclear
power plant to be added to
the grid in the 21st century
shut down Monday afternoon
for the second time in three
weeks when an auxiliary
feedwater system tripped the
reactor.
There are now over 5,000
federal statutory crimes and
over 300,000 regulatory
crimes on the books—though
Americans are unaware of an
overwhelming majority of
them. As a result, it has
been estimated that the
typical professional
unknowingly commits several
federal crimes in the course
of a single workday. (Dog
owners, beware! It is now a
federal crime to walk your
dog on federal lands with a
leash that is longer than
six feet!)
While any amount of current
over 10 mA is capable of
producing painful to severe
shock, currents between 100
and 200 mA are considered
lethal
Essentially, “current kills”
is correct, because after
all, it’s the electric
current that burns tissue,
freezes muscles, and
fibrillates hearts. But
electric current doesn’t
occur on its own — there
must be voltage available to
motivate electrons to flow
through a victim. What also
must be taken into account
is that a human body
presents resistance to
current.
Vaccine stores in Africa
have repeatedly been
depleted. The WHO's decision
to allow mini-doses reflects
a precarious—and
cyclical—shortage
Even as Zika dominates
headlines, another
mosquito-transmitted disease
has been marching steadily
across Africa: yellow fever.
With over 900
confirmed cases and
thousands more suspected in
Angola and the Democratic
Republic of Congo, health
officials are scrambling to
vaccinate populations in
these areas in time to halt
the virus’ spread. The
problem: there isn’t enough
of the vaccine to go around.
Scientists with the
Australian start-up Licella
have devised a way to use
biomass waste from the
papermaking process to make
a new petroleum substitute –
biocrude oil – that has
attracted the interest of
Canadian pulp and paper
producer CanFor.
Although there is
a worldwide conspiracy, dark
forces control the world and
things look bleak, you
ultimately have the power to
overcome all of that. This
article is written for those
who object to the insane
world around us and want to
help change it for the
better…
The makers of
neonicotinoids, the
bee-killing insecticide that
was banned all over Europe,
won’t be able to refute this
latest phenomenon. Millions
of bees were found dead
after GMO corn was planted
in Ontario, Canada. This
isn’t new news, but it
should be known news.
Two state agencies say Xcel
Energy's proposed
electricity rate hike for
its Minnesota customers --
9.8 percent over three years
-- is excessive and should
be significantly reduced.
Illinois has a long history
with the atom. The world's
first nuclear reactor began
operating in 1942 beneath a
football field at the
University of Chicago, where
scientists with the secret
Manhattan Project were
developing the atomic bomb.
Illinois now has 11
commercial nuclear reactors
generating electricity at
six sites ? the most nuclear
power reactors of any state.
Antarctica has breached a
symbolic threshold, seeing
carbon dioxide levels of 400
ppm for the first time in 4
million years.
In fact, the frozen
continent is a laggard in
this respect. The
announcement Wednesday by
the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) gave the date of this
milestone as May 23. But the
global annual mean
concentration of carbon
dioxide already surpassed
400 ppm last year, the first
time that has happened in
human history.
Be careful with
antibiotics:
antibiotics can be a
life-saving intervention,
but we should reserve their
use for serious infections.
Over or inappropriate use
(e.g. taking antibiotics for
a low grade or a viral
infection) encourages gut
dysbiosis, and facilitates
the evolution of antibiotic
resistant bacterial strains.
Try natural antibiotics such
as garlic, cat’s claw tea or
oregano oil.
Brian and Keri Fosse of
Atlanta just moved into
their newly built home in
the Grant Park neighborhood.
Because the lot they chose
had no city water (or sewer)
connection, they would have
had to pay a lot to have
them installed, because the
lot was high on a hill and
other factors. So,
logically, Brian and Keri
went a different route.
An evolved future for
mankind will only be
possible if wise men would
rewrite history, based upon
newfound truths. Otherwise
history keeps repeating
itself, because mankind did
not or will not learn from
its recidivist mistakes.
True change is achieved with
the realization that history
is/was written by the
victor, or the ones who hold
on to a position of power,
and the realization that
history is twisted and
biased. Every holy book has
been manipulated, kept
secret (i.e. the women’s
status in holy books) to
control the people.
“The rate of increase in
such a short time suggests a
silent or even a ‘hidden’
epidemic, in which
environmental factors must
play a major part, not just
ageing,” lead researcher
Colin Pritchard said.
“Modern living produces
multi-interactional
environmental pollution but
the changes in human
morbidity, including
neurological disease is
remarkable and points to
environmental influences.”
Asteroid 2016 HO3 is Earth’s
nearby companion in space.
It’s not a second moon, but
it has an orbit so similar
to ours that it’ll remain
nearby for hundreds of
years.
If there has ever been one
plant that “does it all”,
turmeric (Curcuma longa),
seems the perfect candidate.
Its many health benefits and
applications fill entire
libraries: a search for
“turmeric” on Web of Science
returned 6.681 hits, and a
search for “curcumin”,
turmeric’s best known
constituent, yielded a
whopping 28.122 papers.
A forum in Arizona aimed at
gathering grass-roots voices
to help shape the Democratic
Party platform drew calls
Friday for a tax on carbon
emissions to curb climate
change and for an end to the
practice of fracking in
natural gas production.
Food self-sufficiency is a
hot topic in the U.S. and
beyond as our industrial
agricultural system begins
to crumble, poisonous
conventional farming methods
are brought to light and the
crisis of our depleted
topsoil looms ominously. In
response to these threats,
homesteading and community
gardens are on the rise
across the nation as people
take control of both the
quality and cost of their
food. It’s a modern spin on
the classic Victory Gardens
of the past.
Humans are social animals.
We naturally bond and pair
as couples in partnerships
and marriage. We live
together as families and
tribes, and we gather as
communities. No doubt this
is a manifestation of our
spiritual selves which are
never alone. This concept
has many forms of dress. We
call it our connection to
God, or with our higher
Self, or our oneness with
Nature. In some religious
traditions, we are all
spiritual children of the
Creator, or the Great
Spirit. In others, as in
Kabbalistic traditions, we
originate from sparks of one
light.
A mail box sits on an
abandoned well pipe near
blooming peonies, logs snag
on metal casings rising out
of a creek, children swing
next to rusted pump jacks.
In Pennsylvania,
birthplace of the U.S. oil
industry, century-old
abandoned oil wells have
long been part of the
landscape. Nobody gave much
thought to it when many were
left unplugged or filled
haphazardly with dirt,
lumber and cannon balls that
slipped or rotted away.
Sound Artist Charlie Morrow
Organized Artists and
Scientists From Around the
Earth to Celebrate the
Solstice
Morrow is putting on
an international,
multi-media event that is
described as “a happy
marriage between science,
media, art and indigenous
cultures, celebrating the
solstice as never seen
before. A feat of
international internet
streaming that will allow
viewers and listeners to
tune into one rotation of
programming around the world
from wherever they are.”
The speaker of Libya's
eastern parliament has
declared martial law in
areas under its control, a
move intended to empower its
military to respond quickly
to infiltration by militias
loyal to the rival,
U.N.-brokered government in
the capital, Tripoli.
Back in February, NASA
announced that it intends to
bring back the X-planes, a
series of experimental
aircraft designed to test
out new technologies that
dates back to the first
plane to break the sound
barrier in 1947. Now the
newest member of the family,
dubbed the X-57, has been
revealed. With 14 electric
motors driving 14
propellors, the X-57 is
designed to test greener
propulsion technologies.
Improvements to ocean
temperature measurements are
making good measurements
great
I have often said that
global warming is really
ocean warming. As humans add
more heat-trapping gases to
the atmosphere, it causes
the Earth to gain energy.
Almost all of that energy
ends up in the oceans. So,
if you want to know how fast
the Earth is warming, you
have to measure how fast the
oceans are heating up.
Executive Vice President and
CEO of the National Rifle
Association, Wayne LaPierre,
told CBS anchor John
Dickerson Sunday on “Face
the Nation” that he opposes
Republican presidential
candidate Donald Trump’s
claim that people should be
allowed to carry concealed
weapons in places where
alcohol is being consumed.
How many more data dumps
does this hacker have with
him that has yet to be
exposed?
Well, no one
knows the answer, but we
were recently made aware of
another data breach from
Peace – the same Russian
hacker who was behind the
massive breaches in some of
the most popular social
media sites including
LinkedIn, MySpace, Tumblr,
and VK.com.
Would it surprise you to
hear that the pesticide
industry is actively working
to halt measures that would
protect bees from dying in
record numbers across the
continent? A new report
published by Friends of the
Earth (FOE) this week lists
the tactics the industry is
using to get in the way of
much needed federal and
state legislation and,
spoiler alert, there are a
lot of them.
In a desert city used to
triple-digit temperatures,
some hunker down inside and
some head to the pool, while
others still want to hit
Phoenix’s many hiking
trails. But with
temperatures creeping above
115 degrees during a heat
wave boiling parts of the
Southwest, that decision can
have deadly consequences.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one, two, and three (21 Jun,
22 Jun, 23 Jun). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet
levels on days one and two
(21 Jun, 22 Jun) and quiet
to unsettled levels on day
three (23 Jun).
“Biofuel derived from
perennial plants, such as
grass and common weeds, is
most desirable because these
plants grow on marginal land
and can be harvested
repeatedly,” Feng Wang,
associate professor of
physical chemistry in J.
William Fulbright College of
Arts and Sciences, said in a
June 14 statement. “But
first we have to solve the
problem of breaking down
cellulose fibrils before
biomass can be considered an
economically viable source
of renewable energy.”
Solar Impulse 2 (SI2) has
taken off from New York on
the next leg of its around
the world journey, which
will take the zero fuel
aircraft across the Atlantic
to Europe. The mission has
already claimed 8 world
records in an attempt to
highlight the potential of
green technologies that
could help protect the
environment from mankind's
ever-increasing footprint.
Solar-concentrating thermal
technology is being used to
power the air-conditioning
system of an entire shopping
center in Australia solely
from the rays of the sun.
With around 60 percent of
all energy used in shopping
centers being consumed by
heating and cooling needs,
the new system could lead
the way to significant power
and cost savings in a range
of large commercial spaces.
Government report expresses
concerns about accuracy,
privacy, and transparency.
We know of cases where
people (even 8-year-old
children) end up on the
federal watch lists because
they have names that are
similar to those of
suspected terrorists. Based
on a new Government
Accountability Office (GAO)
report, we should maybe also
start worrying about whether
our faces look like those of
suspected criminals or
terrorists.
In a decision in a case
closely followed by Texas'
oil and natural gas
industry, the state Supreme
Court Friday ruled that an
oil and gas producer could
not qualify for a sales tax
exemption on the purchase of
drilling equipment.
The present human condition
is predicated on one of the
biggest lies ever – that the
economy can grow
indefinitely. In a
self-serving logical
contortion, economists in
service to the oligarchy
measure the well-being of a
society by how fast the
economy grows, with little
regard to the state of
natural capital, human
inequity, the welfare of
ecosystems and other
species, or the extent to
which people and society are
happy. Natural capital is
defined as Earth’s stocks of
natural assets including
ecosystem services which
make all life possible,
which is unmeasured and thus
undervalued by indices of
economic growth.
The best mercury test
analyzes blood, hair,
and urine to identify
the type of mercury you
have in your body,
allowing you to
determine the best
course for
detoxification
Glutathione is the
dominant agent that
binds to and helps move
mercury and other heavy
metals out of your
tissues. Part of
effective detox involves
upregulating chemistry
that then mobilizes and
eliminates the metals
Three pillars of heavy
metal detox are: cleanse
and clear your GI tract
of metals and toxins,
optimize glutathione,
and upregulate detox
genes. Kidney- and
liver-supporting herbs
and supplements are
valuable adjuncts
The solar industry is
changing rapidly as it
experiences unprecedented
growth. Here are 6
facts that may surprise you
about this increasingly
popular source of power.
The FDA announced it gave
its approval for
the marketing release of
their new anesthetic dart
guns, specifically
designed to calm children
suffering from ADHD. The new
product is capable of
putting a child to sleep in
less than 4 seconds
and reportedly has no
serious long-term effects on
the health of children.
Hotter weather and higher
natural gas prices have
helped increase coal
consumption for power
generation to near a
year-high mark.
Coal
consumption last week topped
16.5 million st, a weekly
volume eclipsed only once
this year when 17.1 million
st was burned the week
ending January 21, according
to Bentek Energy, a unit of
S&P Global Platts.
Of course there is city
water that most of us
utilize abundantly. But we
also have rainwater,
greywater, and blackwater.
All of these are potential
sources of water that could
be used to drive our net
water use to zero or better;
help us to become a net
producer of water.
ISIS attacks in Brussels,
California and Paris may be
just the beginning of an
unprecedented plot to bring
America to its knees by
targeting our nation's
scandalously vulnerable
electric grid, warn
officials at the Pentagon
and FBI.
Two years into the worst
oil price rout in a
generation, large and
mid-sized U.S. independent
producers are surviving and
eyeing growth again as oil
nears $50 a barrel,
confounding OPEC and Saudi
Arabia with their
resiliency.
That shale giants Hess
Corp, Apache Corp and more
than 25 other companies have
beaten back OPEC's attempt
to sideline them would have
been unthinkable just months
ago, when oil plumbed $26 a
barrel and collapses were
feared.
The U.S. government has no
intention of scrapping the
$100 bill in an attempt to
thwart criminal activity,
The Wall Street
Journal reported...
Several agencies, including
Treasury, the Federal
Reserve and the Drug
Enforcement Administration,
cited numerous reasons to
the Journal for keeping
Benjaim Franklin’s currency
portrait.
Love not fear is at the
heart of any solution to
overcoming the conspiracy of
control or the NWO (New
World Order) which has grown
in the darkness around us.
It may sound trite, it may
sound hippie-ish, it may
sound soppy, but that is
only if you don’t recognize
and have forgotten the power
of love.
The makers of
neonicotinoids, the
bee-killing insecticide that
was banned all over Europe,
won’t be able to refute this
latest phenomenon. Millions
of bees were found dead
after GMO corn was planted
in Ontario, Canada. This
isn’t new news, but it
should be known news.
The keeper of these bees,
Dave Schuit, who produces
honey, reported that he lost
over 600 hives – around 37
million bees.
A farming technique
practised for centuries by
villagers in West Africa,
which converts nutrient-poor
rainforest soil into fertile
farmland, could be the
answer to mitigating climate
change and revolutionising
farming across Africa.
The headlines say yes,
but the medical
establishment is ignoring
some important new evidence
that could yet save
antibiotics.
Antibiotic-resistant
illnesses currently kill an
estimated 700,000 people a
year globally. By 2050,
these illnesses are
expected to kill 10 million
people. Based on
recent news, this could be
coming a lot sooner.
A positive attitude
about your age can help
you to stay happy and
healthy well into your
golden years
Older individuals who
reported positive
self-perceptions of
aging lived 7.5 years
longer than those with
less positive
self-perceptions of
aging
Older people with
positive stereotypes
about aging were 44
percent more likely to
fully recover from
severe disability than
those with negative age
stereotypes
Australian Prime Minister
Malcolm Turnbull, facing a
tight re-election battle,
pledged on Monday a A$1
billion ($738 million) fund
for the Great Barrier Reef,
where scientists say mass
coral bleaching has
destroyed vast tracts of the
World Heritage site.
A report late last month
said mass coral bleaching,
caused by climate change,
had destroyed at least 35
percent of the northern and
central Great Barrier Reef
and that the coral mortality
rate would likely rise.
Pollen collected by bees
next to corn fields is
contaminated with up to
32 different pesticides
The highest levels of
contamination in pollen
came from pyrethroid
insecticides, which are
often used as repellents
for mosquitoes and other
household pests
The common mosquito
repellent DEET
(N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide)
was found in every
pollen sample tested
The European Union
executive on Thursday
stepped up efforts to stop
Poland from its planned
increase in logging in
Europe's last primeval
forest, adding to bad blood
between Brussels and Warsaw.
The Bialowieza forest is
a UNESCO World Heritage site
that sprawls across the
border between Poland and
Belarus and is home to rare
European wood bison and many
other species. Only a sixth
of the forest is protected.
California has overtaken
France as the world’s
sixth-largest economy,
fueled by strong growth and
the U.S. dollar’s gains
against foreign currencies,
state data released Tuesday
show.
The most-populous U.S.
state, with a gross domestic
product of $2.5 trillion,
has also eclipsed
recession-plagued Brazi
The People’s Bank of
China, owner of the world’s
biggest foreign-exchange
reserves, burnt through 20
percent of its war chest
since 2014, dumping about
$250 billion of U.S.
government debt and using
the funds to support the
yuan and stem capital
outflows.
While China’s sales of
Treasurys have slowed, its
holdings of U.S. equities
are now showing steep
declines.
The Department of
Homeland Security issued an
updated terror alert
bulletin Wednesday
highlighting the threat
level the United States is
currently facing.
The new bulletin mentions
the agency’s specific
concern over “homegrown
violent extremists who could
strike with little or no
notice,” citing terror
attacks in San Bernardino,
Paris, Brussels and Orlando.
Jeffrey Gundlach, the chief
executive of DoubleLine
Capital, said investors are
dropping risky assets and
turning to safer securities
including Treasurys and gold
because they are losing
faith in central banks.
Say goodbye to 400 ppm—and
hello to Earth's new
atmospheric reality
At the top of Hawaii’s Mauna
Loa stands an unexpected
sight: a cluster of domed
buildings standing in stark
contrast to the surrounding
volcanic landscape. But
rather than look down toward
the lava-lined slopes or the
distant ocean, the
observatory peers toward the
skies. Now, reports The
Washington Post’s Chris
Mooney, measurements from
the Mauna Loa Observatory
have documented something
scary: carbon dioxide levels
surpassing a critical
threshold.
The committee says the
so-called black box has been
damaged but that the vessel
searching for the wreckage
has managed to safely pull
the "memory unit which is
the most important in the
recorder."
The recent El Niño has
driven a rise in atmospheric
CO2. Scientists expect it to
surpass 400 parts per
million for the year and
stay there at least a human
lifetime.
Melting ice in Antarctica
puts as many as 30 million
people in Bangladesh at risk
of losing their homes over
the coming century,
according to a new
documentary focused on the
human cost of climate
change.
As airlines struggle to
find cleaner ways to power
jets and with an
industry-wide meeting on CO2
emissions just months away,
scientists are busy growing
algae in vast open tanks at
an Airbus site at Ottobrun,
near Munich.
The European aerospace
group is part-financing the
Munich Technical University
project to grow algae for
biofuel and, although
commercial production is a
long way off, hopes are
high.
Scientists announce the
second detection of
gravitational waves
For the second time this
year—and the second time in
history—scientists confirmed
the detection of ripples in
the fabric of space-time
known as gravitational
waves.
The "Hack the Pentagon" bug
bounty program by the United
States Department of Defense
(DoD) has been successful
with more than 100
vulnerabilities uncovered by
white hat hackers in
Pentagon infrastructure.
Lack of sun exposure
combined with artificial
lighting late into the
night disrupts your
biological clock and
melatonin production,
and can provoke a number
of adverse health
effects, including
elevating your cancer
risk
In a recent study, light
therapy outperformed
Prozac for the treatment
of major depression
Relapses of multiple
sclerosis that occur
during spring and summer
— which tend to be less
common due to higher
vitamin D levels but do
happen — may be related
to decreased melatonin
levels
Riversimple has had a busy
year so far, what with the
launch of its
hydrogen-powered Rasa city
car, showing it off at the
London Motor Show and
unveiling two new concept
designs. Now, the Welsh
carmaker has announced the
first UK trial of its
innovative automobiles.
Controversial Imam Abu
Taubah, whose real name is
Marcus Robertson, believes
“some journalists need to be
beheaded,” a bold statement
he insisted was said
“facetiously.”
Speaking Tuesday with Fox
News host Greta Van Susteren
about the deadly Orlando
terrorist attack, which he
condemned, Taubah suggested
the fact that radical
Islamists behead American
reporters, like James Foley,
is not the U.S.’s business.
Efforts to save the world's
forests hinge on securing
private sector funds and
ensuring indigenous
communities in tropical
forests are more involved in
protecting their
environment, Norway's
environment minister said.
The FBI is conducting a
"criminal investigation"
into Hillary Clinton's
private email server, a
federal judge has declared –
the first explicit
confirmation refuting
Clinton's referral to the
probe as a "security
review," reports
say.
In a court
filing Tuesday, U.S.
District Court Judge Emmet
Sullivan ordered the
deposition of former State
Department information
technology specialist Bryan
Pagliano – who helped set up
Clinton's private email
server – to go forward and
be videotaped, the
Washington Post reports.
A Kenyan court on Thursday
upheld the use of anal
examinations to determine a
suspect's sexual
orientation, dismissing the
argument that the procedure
amounts to torture and
degrading treatment.
Every system in the body
depends on water. [1] Enzyme
production, digestion,
detoxification, even the
beating of your heart are
all processes that require
water. Water is a solvent
for minerals, vitamins, and
other nutrients. Water is
essential for the
elimination of waste. Water
is involved with everything
and there’s a good reason
“drink more water” is advice
that’s frequently dispensed.
The days of the rackety,
energy-gobbling refrigerator
may be numbered with the
advent of more efficient
systems that cool with the
use of magnets. The idea has
been around almost as long
as your standard
gas-compression fridge, but
it hasn't yet been viable
for the household and
commercial markets. Now,
Cooltech Applications has
launched the first magnetic
refrigeration system (MRS)
for commercial use.
A scientist developing the
Deep Space Atomic clock on
why it’s key for future
space missions...
To navigate in deep space,
we measure the transit time
of a radio signal traveling
back and forth between a
spacecraft and one of our
transmitting antennae on
Earth (usually one of NASA’s
Deep Space Network complexes
located in Goldstone,
California; Madrid, Spain;
or Canberra, Australia).
About 470 million years ago,
two asteroids smashed into
each other in outer space
and shattered into
multitudinous pieces. Many
of those pieces rained down
on Earth over the course of
a million years as
meteorites, and have become
well-known by scientists.
But the other space rock
involved in the cosmic
head-on collision has never
been known – until now,
thanks to the discovery of a
meteorite that's never been
seen before on our planet.
U.S. Secretary of Energy
Ernest Moniz made a rare
stop at Idaho National
Laboratory this week, as he
met with his advisory board
and announced $82 million in
federal investment for
advanced nuclear
technologies.
Methane's concentration in
the atmosphere might be
outweighed and outlasted by
the more bountiful CO2, but
this greenhouse gas is
perfectly capable of doing
some damage while it's up
there. Due to its superior
radiation-trapping
abilities, methane presents
a much more potent threat to
the climate than CO2 does
pound-for-pound, so
monitoring the source of
methane emissions is
therefore pretty important
The trilayer
gold-carbon-gold metasurface
strongly absorbs light
across the solar spectrum
but minimises emission of
thermal radiation from the
structure. The use of gold
in the research is a first
step towards a high
temperature metasurface
where gold can be replaced
by other refractory metals
such as tungsten or chrome.
The cell will be used for
solar thermal energy
applications and has the
potential to reach much
higher temperatures than
simple black surfaces
because it can minimise the
emission of thermal
radiation
Pembina has completely
shut-in its 50,000 b/d
Western Pipeline in British
Colombia as a precautionary
measure after erosion
exposed a portion of the
light crude line, the
company said Thursday.
Sewage treatment uses
huge amounts of energy,
accounting for up to 20 per
cent of total electricity
consumption in some cities –
but what if that waste could
be turned back into power?
A University of
Queensland researcher has
done just that, partnering
with Queensland Urban
Utilities to convert biogas
into electricity.
Rosemary oil has been
extensively used and
studied since ancient
times for a variety of
health benefits. Today,
it is included in many
medicinal preparations,
with many potential
offerings.
The versatility of
rosemary essential oil
makes is so widely used
in aromatherapy as an
aroma in many
combinations.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on days one, two, and three
(17 Jun, 18 Jun, 19 Jun).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on day one
(17 Jun) and quiet levels on
days two and three (18 Jun,
19 Jun).
Greenpeace analysis of
satellite data reveals 3.5m
hectares have burned this
year, while government
statistics claim only
669,000 hectares...
Climate change is making
wildfires much more likely
in Russia, but regional
officials have been
reluctant to report the true
extent of the problem, and
campaigners are warning that
the harm to forests,
property and human lives
could rise.
Ball State University
researchers are examining
Kentucky’s myriad caves,
sinkholes and underground
rivers to help landowners,
local governments and state
agencies better understand
how farm waste may affect
the aquifers that supply
drinking water and support
freshwater ecosystems.
Researchers have
accidentally created
nanorods that can
absorb water at low
humidity and expel
it as the humidity
increases.
Learning from your
mistakes is a key life
lesson, and it's one
that researchers at
Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory
(PNNL) can attest to.
After unintentionally
creating carbon-rich
nanorods, the team
realized its accidental
invention behaves
weirdly with water,
demonstrating a 20-year
old theory and
potentially paving the
way to low-energy water
harvesting systems and
sweat-removing fabrics.
Climate change is by
definition a global
phenomenon, but there are
few locations feeling its
immediate impacts like
Australia's Great Barrier
Reef. Just a month after
local scientists were left
reeling as warming seas
triggered the worst coral
bleaching event in its
history, researchers are now
reporting the reef's only
endemic mammal species has
become extinct as a result
of rising sea levels,
describing its demise as the
first mammal species to be
killed off by human-induced
global warming.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a
former contender for the
Republican presidential
nomination, attended a
dinner with more than 20
leading conservatives to
flesh out his comeback as a
movement standard-bearer in
the order of Ronald Reagan.
$602 Billion Bill Quickly
Passed After Key Debates
Were Blocked
In a 85-13 vote today, the
US Senate passed its $602
billion military spending
bill, setting the stage for
what will likely be an
intense committee battle to
reconcile it with the
already passed House
version. Unlike the House
version, which removed the
proposal, the Senate’s
version included a provision
requiring women to register
for the military draft.
The use of social
engineering to mount attacks
on business data and
information networks is
emerging as a major risk to
cyber security at nuclear
power plants, experts told
Nuclear Energy Insider.
Now over 400 veterans
suffering serious illnesses
— Former Japan Prime
Minister breaks down crying,
“This can’t be ignored any
longer… The number of sick
people is increasing and
their symptoms are
worsening”
During the past few decades,
the absence of a cohesive
national approach to the
issue has forced many power
plants, including Pilgrim,
to stockpile spent fuel rods
and other radioactive
materials on site, creating
a situation as dangerous as
it is foolish. Pilgrim and
other nuclear power stations
in the U.S. have become de
facto nuclear waste dumps.
About 200 pages of what
looks to be opposition
research on Donald Trump
stolen from the Democratic
National Committee's files
were dumped online
Wednesday, according to
Gawker, which published some
of the files.
For the first time in 10
years, the death rate
for people in the U.S.
has risen
This rise is a larger
increase than has been
experienced since 1992,
when the rise was
attributed to an
increased number of
deaths from HIV
The underlying
conditions that may be
responsible for the
overall rise, and are
responsible for the rise
in death rates of
middle-aged white
people, are
cardiovascular disease,
stroke and diabetes, all
of which are linked to
obesity
The global ecological system
is collapsing and dying as
humanity overruns natural
ecosystems and the climate.
We are entering an age of
unrelenting violence and
suffering, prior to
biosphere collapse and the
end of being, unless
dramatic social change based
upon a global ecology ethic
arises quickly.
Beginning in 3700 B.C.
with Sumer, the ancient city
believed to be the world’s
first urban civilization,
the map shows the growth of
urban settlements.
Galka notes on his blog
that tracking urbanization
that occurred before the
mid-20th century was a
difficult task up until very
recently, when a team of
Yale researchers released a
comprehensive collection of
urban population data dating
back to ancient times.
"I watched President Obama
today," the presumptive
Republican nominee said at
the Greensboro Coliseum.
"And he was more angry at me
than he was at the shooter —
and many people said that.
A gay gun-rights
group, Pink Pistols, is
calling on the LGBT
community to not
overreact and remember
that the blame is not on
guns it is on the people
who use them.
“Our job now is not
to demonize the man’s
tools, but to condemn
his acts and work to
prevent such acts in the
future.”
Pink Pistols
believes that harsher
gun restrictions would
only disadvantage
law-abiding citizens.
Given we are already at one
degree above pre-industrial
levels, halting at 1.5 would
look to be at least twice as
hard as the two-degree
option. So would it be worth
it? And is it even remotely
achievable?
Even in the wake of
monstrous terror, the
President refuses to take
the threat seriously--and
he’s facetious about it in
the process.
But to answer his
question--what exactly would
it accomplish to accurately
describe our enemies? There
is a simple response: it
would give us a chance to
win the war we are engaged
in.
Used to deliver power to
your home, office, and any
other building you can think
of, alternating current (AC)
voltage is relied on to
provide power flawlessly on
a daily basis. But why isn’t
direct current (DC) voltage,
commonly found in most
digital electronics, used in
these settings?
Simply put, AC voltage is
capable of converting
voltage levels with just a
transformer, making it far
easier to transport across
great distance than DC,
whose conversion requires
more complex electronic
circuitry.
Hundreds of people have
evacuated to escape a
wildfire in coastal Southern
California and a larger
blaze in rural New Mexico as
hot weather feeds the
flames, raising health
concerns in other regions,
officials said on Thursday.
Archer Daniels Midland Co
and other supporters of
biofuels on Thursday said
U.S. regulators grossly
underestimated the amount of
higher-ethanol fuel blends
at pumps when requirements
for next year's use of
renewables were proposed.
Last week, the utility told
customers it is committed to
returning them to their
homes safely, providing
necessary resources to do
that, working with
investigators to determine
the cause of leak and
prevent future issues,
ensuring the safety of wells
at the facility and
complying with all
requirements concerning
environmental emissions
Remote lakes in a
perpetually ice-free area of
Antarctica show not only the
chemical signature of
ancient wildfires, but also
some much more recent
evidence of fossil-fuel
combustion, according to
National Science Foundation
(NSF)-funded research
published this week in the
journal Geophysical Research
Letters.
The numbers are staggering,
impossible to comprehend and
difficult to even believe.
At least 49 dead, another
50+ wounded. From what I’ve
read, there were only
300 patrons left in the bar
by the time the Muslim
terrorist showed up and
opened fire. That means the
culprit managed to kill or
cause serious injury to a
full third of the people in
the building before police
finally took him down. When
all was said and done, he
had perpetrated the worst
mass shooting in American
history, and the worst
terrorist attack on our soil
since 9/11. It is an
unspeakable tragedy and a
travesty. I pray for the
souls of the victims, and
for the families, that they
might feel God’s comfort in
this time of
incredible grief.
Bill Gross, the manager
of the $1.4 billion Janus
Global Unconstrained Bond
Fund, warned central bank
policies that pushed
trillions of dollars into
bonds with negative interest
rates will eventually
backfire violently.
“Global yields lowest in
500 years of recorded
history,” Gross, 72, wrote
Thursday on the Janus
Capital Group Inc. Twitter
site. “$10 trillion of neg.
rate bonds. This is a
supernova that will explode
one day.
Investors outside the
country dumped $128 billion
in U.S. stocks in the past
year, data from the Treasury
International Capital System
show.
Despite the
higher quality of companies
in the U.S., long-term
investors may be drawn to
the faster pace of growth in
other economies, Stewart
Warther, an equity
strategist at BNP Paribas
SA, told Bloomberg News.
Brazil's federal police
accused on Thursday mining
company Samarco, a joint
venture between Vale SA and
BHP Billiton, of willful
misconduct in relation to a
deadly dam burst last
November, saying the company
had ignored clear signs the
dam was at risk of
collapsing.
Police said Samarco had
skimmed on safety spending,
focusing instead on
increasing production
despite obvious indications,
such as cracks, that the dam
was in danger of a breach.
Working to soften his
partisan image, conservative
billionaire
Charles Koch's industrial
conglomerate this week will
launch a television and
digital advertising campaign
that calls for Americans of
all political stripes to
“end the divide” as he
seeks broader support for
his free-market ideas and
defends his corporate brand.
The advertising, which
starts Friday, aims to “get
a national conversation
going,” Koch told USA TODAY.
“Let’s stop attacking people
we disagree with and trying
to silence them. Let’s
instead try to find common
ground and learn from each
other so we can innovate.”
CIA Director John Brennan
said there is no evidence
that the Saudi government or
senior Saudi officials
supported the Sept. 11
attacks.
Brennan’s remarks, in a
weekend interview with
al-Arabiya, addressed the
still-secret 28 pages of a
congressional inquiry into
the 2001 attacks, in which
15 of the 19 hijackers were
citizens of Saudi Arabia.
President Barack Obama has
promised to publicly release
all or part of the 28 pages
of the report, which could
happen as early as this
month. The rest of the
report was released in
December 2002.
Utilities are maturing in
their approach to
demand-side management and
their efforts using data
analytics to impact how they
and their customers engage
with energy.
The federal government
has steadily backed away
from its role in funding
water infrastructure, but
policymakers are considering
a variety of innovative ways
to make federal money
available for local water
projects without the need
for direct federal spending.
“The past 38 years have
actually been marked by a
huge federal retreat from
helping cities fund water
projects,” Politico
reported in a lengthy piece
on the role of the federal
government in funding water
infrastructure.
A new report by the United
Nations Environment Program
(UNEP) and Interpol
has highlighted the
sophistication and growth of
environmental crimes across
the world. These crimes
range from the illegal trade
of wildlife, illegal mining,
illegal forestry and
fishing. And despite our
growing global attention
towards conservation, these
crimes have jumped 26
percent in the past two
years alone.
But there’s a modern
problem plaguing Mesa Verde
and dozens of other national
parks: air pollution. Mesa
Verde lies downwind of
several coal-fired power
plants, which release
nitrogen, mercury and sulfur
into the air. Huge natural
gas fields lurk to the
south, belching methane
June’s European Parliament
plenary saw five different
votes related to GMOs.
Altogether they give a good
idea of the European
Parliament’s very coherent
opinion on GMOs, which can
be summarized as being a
resounding no. The
Authorization Process for
Imports is Not Democratic
Oil investors are buying
contracts that will only pay
out if crude rises well
above $100 a barrel over the
next four years -- a clear
sign some believe today’s
bust is sowing the seeds of
the next boom.
The White House
recommends $1.9 billion
be directed to fight the
Zika virus
The idea that
Zika-carrying mosquitoes
are solely responsible
for an increase in
microcephaly cases in
Brazil remains
theoretical, and there
is no Zika-triggered
microcephaly epidemic in
the U.S.
At least 18 companies
are racing to develop a
vaccine against Zika,
but there are concerns
it could increase cases
of Guillain-Barré
syndrome
Though this injustice is
affecting everyone — men,
women, and children alike —
mothers not only feel its
burden more than most, but
we also feel
disproportionately
responsible for alleviating
its pervasive and deeply
damaging symptoms, which is
adding hugely to the
weight of the world we’re
already wired to carry.
The injustice is this: It
takes a village, but there
are no villages.
The Iowa caucuses revealed
more than who the front
runners might be in the
upcoming presidential race.
In a meeting of Iowa’s
Tri-County Democrats, there
existed a rather large block
of women who had expressed
strong and vocal support for
Hillary Clinton. When these
women discovered, however,
that Mrs. Clinton is a
visible supporter of
genetically modified
organisms and the biotech
industry that’s pushing for
their introduction across
the globe they immediately
switched their allegiance to
Bernie Sanders.
Three major social networks
have quietly fallen victim
to data breaches, but
despite some high-profile
success, patience and trust
is now beginning to fade...
How did we get here? For
Silicon Valley, the outbreak
of recent confirmed data
breaches served up a brutal
reminder: security really
matters. The hacks took over
like a fever, fueled by the
reasonable expectation --
given the hackers'
apparently high level of
access -- that more breaches
would emerge.
Vaccines are a very
lucrative business. Pfizer’s
vaccine Prevnar, which
targets 13 strains of
pneumococcus bacteria,
generated $6.25 billion
in revenue last year. And
that’s just one vaccine.
Seven working days, before
the House adjourns for the
July 4 holiday recess on
June 24. (Any bill passed by
the Senate would have to go
back to the House, before it
goes to a full vote in
Congress, so it doesn’t
matter if the Senate is in
session for 15 days. Without
the House, the Senate’s
hands are tied).
Outdoor air pollution
could cause 6 to 9 million
premature deaths and
represent an economic cost
of around $2.6 trillion a
year by 2060 unless action
is taken, the Organisation
for Economic Co-operation
and Development (OECD) said
in a report released on
Thursday.
The OECD examined the
economic consequences of air
pollution and found that it
could cost 1 percent of
gross domestic product - or
$2.6 trillion a year - by
2060.
Over 50 people have been
killed at a gay bar in
Orlando as a gunman being
invested for “ties to
Islamic terrorism” opened
fire late last night. News
of the slaughter is
exploding across the media
today, but here’s what they
won’t dare report.
C3 event observed . Solar
activity is expected to be
very low with a chance for a
C-class flares on days one,
two, and three (14 Jun, 15
Jun, 16 Jun). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet
levels on day one (14 Jun)
and quiet to active levels
on days two and three (15
Jun, 16 Jun).
OPEC said Monday the current
oversupply on world oil
markets will ease over the
coming quarters due to the
"slowing pace" of US crude
inventory builds but it
maintained both its both
global oil demand growth and
supply growth estimates for
2016.
In the mysterious
microscopic realm where the
electromagnetic fields of
light and matter intimately
intermingle as they exchange
energy, plasmons, excitons,
and other particles with
unexpected and usual
properties abound. Now
physicists have created a
new set of energy-carrying
particles to add to this
range. Dubbed "topological
plexcitons," these new
particles show promise in
greatly enhancing energy
flows for solar cells and
nanoscale photonic
circuitry.
Entergy says its Pilgrim
Nuclear Power Station will
shut down May 31, 2019. The
next three years may be the
most dangerous. Pilgrim has
“earned” its Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC)
rating as one of the three
worst nuclear reactors in
the country (the others also
owned by Entergy). There is
no evidence that Entergy
will make the investments
necessary to stop Pilgrim’s
downward trajectory.
It seems that there is a
lot of confusion as to the
difference between military
rifles and those designed
for civilian ownership,
especially because of the
language often used to
describe the latter.
But why? Is an AR-15 not
an assault rifle? Does the
“AR” in AR-15 not stand for
“assault rifle”?
An extreme new treatment for
multiple sclerosis (MS) has
been shown to stop the
disease in its tracks,
hinting at the possibility
of a cure.
In a 24-person clinical
trial based in Canada, one
person who was previously
confined to a wheelchair was
able to live a normal life
again after receiving the
treatment.
Unless you are an
astrophysicist, you'd likely
think that a black hole
isn't too fussy about the
kind of material it devours.
Light? Check. Hydrogen? Yum!
But for years researchers
have believed that
supermassive black holes
only subsisted on a diet of
hot gas. New observations of
a galaxy about a billion
light years away though,
show that cold, clumpy
cosmic rain will do just
fine to fill a black hole's
gaping maw.
It seems fairly obvious
that if our diet is
comprised of crappy
processed, chemically laden
food our health will
ultimately suffer; while if
we consume fresh, high
quality wholefoods our state
of health surely must
improve.
But what about those people
who counter all intuitive
logic and seem to thrive on
a diet that should be a
recipe for disease and early
death?
Every minute of every day we
breathe, what a joy to feel
our breath, to feel our
aliveness and vitality. It
is the manna or life source
that enables us to exist and
is essential for our
survival.
Conscious breathing is said
to be one of the best
antidotes to stress, anxiety
and depression. For many
years I have given much
consideration to the food
and drink that I consume,
yet paid little attention to
my breath.
The Iraqi army said on
Sunday it had secured the
first safe exit route for
civilians to leave Islamic
State's besieged stronghold
Falluja, and a Norwegian aid
group said thousands of
people had already used it
to flee in the first day it
was open.
While it pressed on with
its offensive in Falluja,
the army also launched a
fresh advance in the
direction of the northern
city of Mosul, Islamic
State's de facto Iraqi
capital, under cover of
airstrikes from a U.S.-led
coalition.
In February of 2001, then
California Governor Gray
Davis stood at the site of
Calpine Corp's new Sutter
natural gas power plant and
unveiled his plan to
fast-track construction of
similar stations to add
20,000 megawatts of modern,
efficient generation to the
state in three years.
Natural gas, Davis said,
was "the most
environmentally friendly,
clean, appropriate fuel" to
help the state move beyond
the energy crisis it had
just endured and enable its
34 million residents "to
enjoy the good life that
California represents."
Following months of
internal wrangling, the U.S.
House of Representatives, on
Thursday passed legislation
creating a federal control
board to help Puerto Rico
cope with crippling debt
that is wreaking havoc
throughout the island's
economy.
By a vote of 297-127, the
House approved the bill,
sending it to the Senate for
consideration.
Oil output in the biggest
producing shale areas in the
US is forecast to decrease
118,000 b/d in July from
June to 4.723 million b/d,
according US Energy
Information Administration
estimates released Monday.
The decrease was in line
with the precipitous fall in
oils rigs operating in US
shale. The rig count peaked
in October 2014 at 1,609 and
finished last week at 328,
according to Baker Hughes
data.
As unloaded nuclear carriers
left Charleston on Monday,
leaving behind about 331
kilograms of plutonium at
Savannah River Site, South
Carolina leaders had a
message for the U.S.
Department of Energy -- this
state is not a nuclear
dumping ground.
Beta-amyloid plaques
associated with
Alzheimer’s disease may
not be intrinsically
abnormal, and instead,
may act as a natural
antibiotic that protects
your brain from
infection
Researchers believe
beta-amyloid traps
infectious agents in
your brain and imprisons
them in a beta-amyloid
“cage,” where they
ultimately die
The “cages” left behind
form the plaque buildup
seen in Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s disease
then, might be a
byproduct of your
brain’s attempts to
fight off infections
America's fleet of nuclear
power plants is facing an
existential crisis: Despite
producing about 60 percent
of the nation's carbon-free
electricity, nuclear
reactors increasingly
struggle to compete with
power produced from cheap
natural gas.
A ruling with the potential
to vastly expand the number
of California residents
permitted to carry concealed
weapons in public was
overturned by a federal
appeals court.
Army Chaplain Christopher
John Antal told ABC News he
can't remember a time he
performed a ceremony while
receiving a fallen troop
that he didn't hear drones
humming overhead.
Canada's Supreme Court last
year struck down laws that
bar doctors from helping
someone critically ill die,
but put the ruling on hold
until midnight Monday to
give the government time to
come up with a new law. The
House of Commons passed a
law last week but it
requires Senate approval and
that could take days or
weeks.
Knock on any door and inside
will be found those
responsible for the stolen
lives of children. Instead
of being protective of the
child’s destiny, those
caretakers are following the
same protocol that was done
to them as children. They
are training up the child so
that it will forever reflect
the civility of the present
culture. Used here, civility
means psychological clones.
A reliable blood test
for Alzheimer’s may one day
become a vital tool for
early diagnosis.
Alzheimer's can be quite a
stealthy foe, at times
causing damage in a sufferer
long before any symptoms
start to show. Naturally,
this makes it tricky to
detect early on, which is
problematic because
treatment options only
narrow as the disease
progresses. But researchers
may have now uncovered what
could become a hugely
valuable diagnostics tool,
developing a blood test
capable of picking up early
stage Alzheimer's with
"unparalleled accuracy."
The aim of the Ocean Cleanup
project is to have the
ocean's natural rotating
currents usher plastic waste
into long floating arms, and
then onwards to a central
collection point. The
mounting trash in the sea is
a big problem that will take
a large-scale solution.
A public meeting this month
on plans to adjust the
manner in which federal coal
mining leases are managed
drew protests from miners
and others who say the
government has an agenda to
destroy the coal industry.
The same week, state
officials detailed an
explosion in the growth of
solar energy generation in
Utah. The juxtaposition of
the two incidents
illustrates the crossroads
at which the nation's energy
policy now sits. Government
policy will influence but
not determine where it goes
from here, which is becoming
manifestly clear.
By unanimous consent, the
U.S. Senate passed a bill
Tuesday that would update
federal chemical safety
protections for the first
time in four decades. The
measure gives the
Environmental Protection
Agency new power to require
safety assessments of
chemicals found in ordinary
products from toys and
clothing to household
cleansers.
DTE Energy Co. plans to
shut down eight coal-fired
units at three power plants
in Michigan within the next
seven years.
The Detroit-based utility
announced Wednesday the
units being retired between
2020 and 2023 are at the
River Rouge facility in the
Detroit area, the St. Clair
facility in St. Clair
County's East China Township
and the Trenton facility in
suburban Detroit.
Norway’s top political
parties have reportedly
reached a tentative deal
that would ban the sale of
new gasoline- and
diesel-powered cars within
the next decade—prompting a
nod of approval from Tesla
Motors founder Elon Musk.
Mosquito experts are
questioning the extent
of emergency that
actually exists in
regard to Zika virus
Chris Barker, Ph.D. a
mosquito-borne virus
researcher at the
University of
California, Davis School
of Veterinary Medicine,
said the risk of Zika in
the continental U.S. is
“near zero”
Experts suggest there
may be small clusters of
Zika outbreaks in
certain southern states
and little risk
elsewhere in the
continental U.S.
The debate over the
unintentional killing or
injuring of golden and bald
eagles in wind turbines is
set to intensify, as the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service seeks comment over
the next few weeks on a new
rule that would increase by
nearly fourfold the number
of bald eagles allowed to
die or be injured at the
hands—or blades—of
alternative energy.
Researchers have
found the archerfish
is able to recognize
human faces.
The old myth about
goldfish having a
three-second memory has
already been thoroughly
busted, but now
researchers have
provided more evidence
of fish's recall
abilities. They have
discovered a species of
tropical fish can
distinguish one human
face from another, which
is something believed to
require a more
sophisticated brain than
many animals, including
fish, are thought to
possess.
Flooding in Tasmania -
Australia's southernmost
state - will peak on
Wednesday, the country's
Bureau of Meteorology said,
threatening one of the
country's oldest cities.
Australia's east coast
was battered this week by
heavy rains, bringing giant
waves and cyclone-strength
winds.
Beyond simply being a rare
commodity, scientists are
proving what we already know
on an intuitive level —
periods of silence are good
for the body, mind and soul.
But it’s only recently been
discovered how crucial peace
and quiet really is for our
well-being.
Cities today host more
than half of the Earth’s
human beings and account for
about 70 percent of global
energy consumption and
greenhouse gas emissions.
Now, 228 cities around
the world are taking the
lead on climate action,
setting greenhouse gas
reduction goals or targets.
ISIS is targeting civilians
attempting to leave the
militant-held city of
Falluja, as Iraqi forces and
militia attempt to wrest
back control of the city, a
European non-profit
operating in Iraq says.
ENSO-neutral conditions are
present and La Niña is
favored to develop during
the Northern Hemisphere
summer 2016, with about a
75% chance of La Niña during
the fall and winter 2016-17.
Operators on Monday
disconnected the Unit 1
reactor at Talen Energy
Corp.'s Susquehanna nuclear
power plant from the
regional power grid to
address a water leak.
The shutdown was prompted
by a leakage from the seal
on a reactor recirculation
pump, according to the U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
Physical violence in
modern times still infects
reservation border towns and
Indians are subjected to the
same differential policing
as Hispanics and
African-Americans. Even when
not being brown in a
no-brown zone, Indians still
are reminded in subtle ways
they are not white people.
Our children are still
confronted with all
stereotypes all the time.
Using a new satellite-based
method, scientists at NASA,
Environment and Climate
Change Canada, and two
universities have located 39
unreported and major
human-made sources of toxic
sulfur dioxide emissions.
“The notion it was
founded under was the
‘benefit and enjoyment of
the people,’” he said.
“That’s not inclusive. They
were talking about white
people, not the Native
population of the
Yellowstone ecosystem at the
time.”...But the Native
connection to Yellowstone
runs much deeper than
hunting,
A New York City municipal
pool that maintains
female-only hours so that
Hasidic Jewish women can
swim with no men present has
raised alarms among critics
who say the accommodation to
a particular religious group
violates the constitutional
separation of church and
state.
The General Assembly of
North Carolina on Wednesday
ratified a bill to protect
drinking water for residents
in close proximity to coal
ash impoundments.
Senate Bill 71 enjoyed
strong bipartisan support
from lawmakers and
strengthens North Carolina’s
2014 Coal Ash Management
Act. The bill also
reconstitutes the state’s
Coal Ash Management
Commission, intended to
oversee future impoundment
closures and their effects
on customers’ utility bills.
The UN nuclear watchdog
expressed concern as
Pyongyang’s isolated regime
escalates what many claim to
be preparations for a
full-scale nuclear war,
Sputnik reported.
Surveillance imagery
suggests that North Korea
has reactivated a plutonium
processing plant used for
developing nuclear weapons,
reported the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
on Monday, echoing recent
claims by US-based think
tanks.
The Diablo Canyon nuclear
facility near San Luis
Obispo is the only nuclear
energy plant left in
California...its fate is
uncertain. The license for
the plant's first unit
expires in 2024 and the
second unit's license comes
up in 2025. And while PG&E
can apply for a 20-year
extension through the
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, the utility's
officials have been coy
about whether it will look
for extensions.
Can federal energy
officials be trusted to put
together an interim storage
plan for nuclear waste that
provides adequate protection
for the population and the
environment?
That question was
repeatedly asked by those
who attended last week's
Boston forum organized by
the Department of Energy to
get public input on its plan
for "consent-based siting"
of facilities to temporarily
store the 75,000 metric tons
of spent fuel from
commercial nuclear reactors
until a permanent repository
is built.
Outdoor air pollution could
cause 6 to 9 million
premature deaths and
represent an economic cost
of around $2.6 trillion a
year by 2060 unless action
is taken, the Organisation
for Economic Co-operation
and Development (OECD) said
in a report released on
Thursday.
Oil prices continued
their steady uptick
Wednesday, rising above $51
per barrel amid turmoil in
Nigeria, early signs of a
reawakening U.S. market,
encouraging reports on
China's growth
and diminishing crude
supplies.
U.S. crude oil
inventories fell by 3.2
million barrels in the week
ended June 3, according to a
U.S. Energy Information
Administration report
released Wednesday morning.
A Pakistani woman was
arrested Wednesday after
dousing her daughter with
kerosene and burning her
alive, allegedly because the
girl had defied her family
to marry a man she was in
love with, police said.
According to the Denton
County Immunization
Partnership, vaccine
exemption rates have
increased by 78%, parents
are making other choices.
And in neighboring Tarrant
County, there have been more
than 4,000 exemptions filed
in the past year and a half.
All this, as you can
imagine, is making the
Immunization Partnership of
DFW (Dallas/Fort Worth)
nervous enough to call an
emergency meeting in the
hopes of preventing the
vaccination rates from
further dropping.
The Philippine
president-elect has
encouraged the public to
help him in his war against
crime, urging citizens with
guns to shoot and kill drug
dealers who resist arrest
and fight back in their
neighborhoods.
In a nationally televised
speech late Saturday,
Rodrigo Duterte told a huge
crowd in the southern city
of Davao celebrating last
month's presidential victory
that Filipinos who help him
battle crime will be
rewarded.
C1 event observed.
Solar activity is likely to
be low with a slight chance
for an M-class flare on days
one, two, and three (10 Jun,
11 Jun, 12 Jun). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on day one
(10 Jun), quiet to active
levels on day two (11 Jun)
and unsettled to active
levels on day three (12
Jun).
Carbon dioxide emissions
from energy consumption grew
by 0.1 percent last year in
their smallest advance since
2009 due to lower coal use
and sluggish growth, BP said
on Wednesday in its annual
energy review.
Last year's rise, which
slowed from 0.5 percent in
2014, took global CO2
emissions from energy use to
around 33.508 billion
tonnes, BP said in its
annual Statistical Review of
World Energy.
Everything that makes you
you is in your DNA, but
a long-time hypothesis
suggests that you're not
just a product of the
genetic code itself, but
also the mechanical cues
that determine how that
information folds up inside
your cells. Now, theoretical
physicists in the
Netherlands have confirmed
that this second layer of
information does indeed
exist.
A new study suggests that
trying to return habitats to
a non human-impacted
environment might not be
realistic
“Humans are very much
a part of nature,” Zeder
says. “The ways in which we
modify nature are part of a
package of behaviors that we
inherited from other
species. Look at what
beavers do, or what ants do.
Manipulating the environment
in a way that is favorable.
Humans are the ultimate
niche constructors.”
While there isn't a flood of
data, it's clear there was
more than just one email.
For the longest time, US
officials denied that Edward
Snowden made serious
attempts to raise concerns
about NSA surveillance
activities before he took
off with classified data.
There was only evidence of
one not-so-worrisome email,
they said. However, it's now
clear that this isn't the
whole story.
The head of Customs and
Border Protection, Gil
Kerlikowske, told a
congressional committee that
CBP agents who object to
President Barack Obama’s
deportation amnesty program
should quit their jobs.
After Fukushima, German
Chancellor Angela Merkel
spearheaded legislation to
essentially shut down
nuclear power, which
provided 26 percent of
country's electricity.
Germany's "Energiewende"
program has focused on
cranking up renewable
sources such as solar and
wind.
A team of researchers from
around the world have come
across an early sign of hope
for patients diagnosed with
schizophrenia using Magnetic
Resonance Imaging. The team,
from the United Kingdom and
China have shown proof
brains may have the ability
to repair themselves and
fight off the mental
illness.
New measurements carried out
using the Hubble Space
Telescope suggest that the
Universe may be expanding up
to 9 percent faster than
previously believed. The
team behind the study, which
is the most accurate of its
kind ever undertaken,
believe that the culprit for
the unexpected acceleration
could be one of the
invisible phenomena thought
to comprise roughly 95
percent of the Universe.
Toxic chemicals are
allowed on the market
without any evidence of
safety
Chemical bans are
ineffective because the
banned chemicals are
inevitably replaced with
new, sometimes more
toxic, chemicals
It is virtually
impossible to accurately
study a chemical’s
potential for harm,
because there are often
gross errors and
omissions in estimating
what really happens when
the chemicals are
applied in the real
world
The need for cheaper
alternatives to remove heavy
metal ions from water has
led to a biological method
utilizing the perennial
Jatropha curcas plant.
The treatment method known
as “biosorption” appears to
act commonly to other
commercial adsorbents.
An unexpected combination of
oversupply of natural gas
and a boom in solar and
other renewable energy has
depressed power prices and
threatened the viability of
natural gas plants that sell
power into the Golden
State's electricity market.
These developments are good
for consumers and the
environment, but tough on
power producers who placed
huge bets on natural gas.
This June 2, 2016 photo
shows a pregnant woman who
did not want to be named,
holding a pineapple in one
hand as she continues to
pick through garbage bags
outside a supermarket in
downtown Caracas, Venezuela.
Unemployed people converge
every dusk at the trash heap
to pick through rotten fruit
and vegetables tossed out by
nearby shops.
Computer simulations carried
out by researchers from the
Georgia Institute of
Technology may have
discovered why older stars
are suspiciously absent from
the central region of our
galaxy. Present day
observations of the galactic
center show it to be
populated almost entirely by
bright, young stars that are
estimated to be only a few
million years old,
highlighting a startling
lack of stellar diversity
near the core of the Milky
Way.
The United States deployed
18.3 megawatts (21.2
megawatt-hours) of energy
storage in the first quarter
of 2016 with deployments up
127 percent year-over-year
but down 84 percent from
2015's historic fourth
quarter, according to GTM
Research and the Energy
Storage Association's (ESA)
most recent U.S. Energy
Storage Monitor.
Though it took the
Washington Post nearly four
months to poll 504
self-proclaimed Native
American people, I was able
to obtain 1,299 votes in
seven days. Of those 1,299
votes, 79% said they were
offended by the Washington
Redskins team name. 21% said
they were not offended.
Close to 80 percent of
public pools, hot tubs
and water playgrounds
tested by the U.S.
Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
(CDC) had at least one
safety or hygiene
violation
One in 8 of the pools
was so dirty that it had
to be closed immediately
after inspection
Pools meant for young
children and infants
were especially risky,
with 1 in 5 being closed
right after inspection
Bernie Sanders' push to win
California is growing as
Tuesday's primary election
nears, with the Vermont
senator within inches of
pulling off an upset victory
over former secretary of
state Hillary Clinton that
could have ramifications for
both parties heading into
their upcoming conventions.
A Somali national accused of
leading mass executions and
torturing people during his
country’s bloody civil war
in the 1980s has been
working as a security guard
at the Dulles International
Airport in Washington, D.C,
passing through all TSA and
FBI checks for the past six
years.
Since a power company began
digging up coal ash from a
leaking waste pond west of
Myrtle Beach, arsenic levels
have dropped dramatically in
groundwater, according to an
environmental group that
pushed to have the ash
removed.
Deriving energy from
nuclear power is expensive,
produces the most toxic
waste imaginable and is
extremely dangerous, as the
Fukushima catastrophe and
other disasters demonstrate.
Despite this, the Middle
East finds itself at a
nuclear crossroads , with
governments across the
region launching or reviving
plans to construct nuclear
reactors.
As the electrical grid is
modernized and more
renewable energy sources
come online, the next wave
is energy storage, which
will allow residential and
commercial consumers to
stabilize utility costs,
while providing consistent
power, even during outages
or brownouts.
-Exelon said Thursday it
will move ahead with plans
to shutter the Clinton and
Quad Cities nuclear plants,
blaming the lack of progress
on Illinois energy
legislation.
At least five people have
been killed in floods caused
by prolonged heavy rain in
southern Germany's Bavaria
state and thousands of
households were cut off from
electricity, officials said
on Thursday.
The great unraveling is
gaining momentum by the day,
and even now, the majority
of the masses are fast
asleep at the wheel. Our
skies look like something
from an apocalyptic future,
our trees are dying, our
oceans are dying, our planet
is dying, and still the
majority remain unaware.
Those in power are utilizing
every option at their
disposal to keep populations
from waking until the last
possible moment. Is there
still time to change course
and keep any part of the
ship floating? That remains
to be seen, but if there is
yet a chance, it will
require the concerted,
focused, effective,
prioritized, and completely
dedicated efforts of all
those that are already
awake.
Saturated fat and
cholesterol have little
to do with the
development of heart
disease. Data shows
two-thirds of people
admitted to hospitals
with acute myocardial
infarction have
completely normal
cholesterol levels
Fats can be harmful, but
it’s important to be
specific. Fats that
contribute to heart
disease are primarily
trans fats and highly
refined and/or heated
polyunsaturated
vegetable oils (PUFAs),
which are high in
damaged omega-6
For optimal health, seek
to get 75 to 85 percent
of your total calories
as healthy fat,
primarily monosaturated
and saturated. Limit
PUFAs to 10 percent and
omega-6 fats to 5
percent
Residents of San Diego and
Orange counties concerned
about the longterm storage
of radioactive waste on the
coast between Oceanside and
San Clemente have organized
a new coalition aimed at
forcing the removal of tons
of spent nuclear fuel.
More than 450 groups on
Monday called on Congress to
reject the Trans-Pacific
Partnership if it comes up
for a vote this fall, saying
the trade deal would allow
fossil fuel companies to
contest U.S. environmental
rules in extrajudicial
tribunals.
A French company known for
designing drones for
specific uses, like shooting
360-degree video for virtual
reality, is now taking on a
specific invasive species.
Drone Volt has introduced
the Drone Spray Hornet to
locate and destroy the nests
of Asian hornets that are
becoming a nuisance in parts
of Europe.
The agency released the
names of 426 organizations
it targeted in the probe.
The names of an additional
40 organizations were
withheld because they have
opted out of being part of
the class-action suit
against the IRS.
Side effects include
loss of appetite, insomnia,
abdominal pain, emotional
lability, vomiting,
nervousness, nausea,
fever and stunted growth.
For those who have cardiac
abnormalities, taking this
class of pharmaceutical drug
can cause sudden death. May
cause psychotic or manic
symptoms in patients with no
prior history, or
exacerbation of symptoms in
patients with pre-existing
psychosis. The drugs are
addictive and have a high
potential for abuse.
Yet despite these dire
warnings, the FDA has
moved forward with making
these pharmaceuticals more
attractive to children
Researchers at
Harvard have
developed a more
efficient version of
the bionic leaf,
which can turn
sunlight and water
into electricity
and liquid fuels.
Over the last few
years, great strides
have been made in
creating artificial
leaves that mimic the
ability of their natural
counterparts to produce
energy from water and
sunlight. In 2011, the
first cost-effective,
stable artificial leaves
were created, and in
2013, the devices were
improved to self-heal
and work with impure
water.
Across the political
spectrum, Nevada voters
generally support renewable
energy, taxing mining
companies, and the
preservation of public
lands, preferring a
collaborative approach with
the federal government on
land issues, according to a
poll released Wednesday.
The most affordable water
systems in the U.S. are
publicly owned and operated
by the government, an
exhaustive study reveals. At
the same time, for-profit
private water companies
charge 58 percent more than
publicly owned ones.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on days one, two, and three
(07 Jun, 08 Jun, 09 Jun).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on day one
(07 Jun) and quiet levels on
days two and three (08 Jun,
09 Jun).
Researchers around the world
are integrating research on
how energetic and emotional
states cause health or
disease.
Advances in health,
education, disease
prevention and treatments
are high on the list of
things that have allowed
people to extend their
lives, especially since
chronic medical conditions
and engaging in unhealthy
behaviors are known risk
factors for early death,
however findings from a
longitudinal study of over
6,000 adults suggests that
certain psychological
factors may be the strongest
predictors of how long we’ll
live.
Russia will supply
nuclear fuel to the USA for
operation of American
nuclear power plants'
reactors.
TVEL, a fuel division of
Russian nuclear corporation
Rosatom, and Global Nuclear
Fuel-Americas (GNF-A), a
subsidiary of the US
based-GE Hitachi, signed an
agreement to work together
towards the licensing,
marketing and fabrication of
fuel for the US customers
operating Pressurized Water
Reactors (PWRs), said the
Russian nuclear agency in a
recent statement.
Sometimes it really is the
thinking that makes it so.
Spend your days focusing on
your vibrant health and you will be
vibrantly healthy. In
contrast you could make it
known that you lack a
healthy lifestyle, and as a
result you will continue to
live an unhealthy lifestyle.
While this belief is held by
many, a recent study
has come out with even
mainstream scientists
proclaiming the very real
power of thought.
The Seattle City Council
this week told its utility
to move away from getting
electricity from fossil
fuels and nuclear energy.
The resolution also
directs Seattle City Light
Department to use its
position on the Energy
Northwest board to consider
replacing its electricity
with carbon-neutral
alternatives.
Even as controversy
regarding the revelation
that portions of a 2013
State Department press
briefing were erased
continues to dominate
headlines, the agency has
announced it will not reopen
a probe into the issue.
While the
public at large is rapidly
increasing the discussion
around vaccine injury and
health freedom, the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC)
continues to ignore
individual rights
and medical reality when
discussing the flu vaccine.
“Safe and effective” is the
hollow echo repeated by CDC
mouthpieces and
pharmaceutical company
funded agencies, coalitions
and organizations.
In a country where the
biggest headlines about food
are about the prickly issues
of overconsumption and
weight loss, prolonged
hunger is difficult for most
people to relate to.
And yet, just as studies
have shown how poverty
affects brain development
and hinders children even
before they start school, so
are researchers uncovering
the very long-term effects
of food insufficiency on
children.
According to Mayan history,
as told by the Mayan
timekeepers and shamans, and
recorded in books such as
the Polpol Vuh and the
Chilam Balam, there have
been 4 previous forms of our
Earth, the Sun, and
humanity. We are presently
shifting from the 5th world,
into the 6th.
Scientists are
increasingly turning to
genetic engineering to
affect environmental
change, and population
scale ecosystem
engineering is taking
place without proper
regulatory oversight or
public discussion
"Self-limiting"
transgenic mosquitoes
are slated to be
released in the Florida
Keys to combat the Aedes
aegypti mosquito, a
carrier of dengue, Zika,
yellow fever, and
chikungunya virus
Other GE insects
undergoing field testing
include pink bollworm
moth, diamondback moth,
and fruit fly. All are
engineered to make the
entire species go
extinct from lack of
reproduction
Saint Thomas Aquinas
preached that simplicity
brings one closer to God.
Isaac Newton believed it
leads to truth. The process
of simplification, we’re
told, can illuminate beauty,
strip away needless clutter
and stress, and help us
focus on what really
matters.
Torrential rain forced
thousands of people from
their homes south of Paris
while the River Seine surged
to its highest level for
over 30 years in the French
capital, shutting down the
famed Louvre and Orsay
museums and a metro line.
As our nation continues to
expand in population, and if
we come out of this current
recession quickly, so will
demand for electricity
increase, yet there is a
severe shortage of
generating plant available
to satisfy demand as old
polluting coal-fired
stations are closed down.
While America’s southern
border has been a hot-button
issue in Washington, D.C.,
for years, the people who
live along that border say
they’re not sure whether
most politicians actually
care about it — or them.
Your risk of some health
conditions may be based
on your chronological
age, but you can change
your potential risk when
you impact your
biological age
Your health is linked to
a number of different
factors, including your
ability to see contrast
in similar color
backgrounds,
psychological well-being
and mobility
You make choices each
day affecting the length
of your telomeres,
another factor in
biological aging. Making
the right lifestyle
choices may increase
your potential for a
long and healthy life
Part of a U.S. State
Department briefing video
about secret U.S.-Iran
nuclear talks was
deliberately deleted at the
request of an unknown
official before it was
posted to an online archive,
the department said on
Wednesday.
The excised portion of
the Dec. 2, 2013, briefing
included a question about
whether an earlier
spokeswoman for the
department had misled
reporters about whether the
United States was holding
secret direct nuclear talks
with Iran.
More than 1 million
gallons of raw sewage went
into a canal that leads to
Central Florida’s Banana
River, after an old sewer
pipe broke last week near
the border of Satellite
Beach and Indian Harbour
Beach.
"It's 20-year-old pipe,"
Don Walker, spokesman for
Brevard County told
Florida Today. "It's
kind of a problem we've got
all over the county."
Canada and the United
States have identified eight
substances in the water of
the Great Lakes as chemicals
of mutual concern under the
Canada-U.S. Great Lakes
Water Quality Agreement.
These chemicals are
potentially harmful to human
health or the environment or
both.
Canada and the United
States work together under
the agreement to identify
chemicals that are in the
Great Lakes because of human
activities and that cause
mutual concerns.
Patchiness and clumping of
energy in infrared and x-ray
telescope observations
support a theory that all of
the dark matter seemingly
missing in the universe is
contained in black holes
created at the very
beginning of time
Pagliano was scheduled to
give a recorded deposition
and answer questions within
the next week about the
unique setup that Clinton
used as secretary of state.
However, Pagliano’s lawyers
now say he will refuse to
answer any questions, and
instead provide a written
deposition.
As the United States has
gradually shifted away from
coal and toward natural gas
and renewable energy sources
for electric power
generation, carbon dioxide
emissions from electricity
generation have been on the
decline.
C02 emissions from
electricity generation
totaled 1,925 million metric
tons in 2015, the lowest
since 1993, the U.S. Energy
Information Administration
reported.
This shift within the
electricity mix even drove
down C02 emissions during
the last decade or so, when
electricity demand remained
relatively flat. In 2013 and
2014, however, both total
electricity sales and
electricity-related C02
emissions increased.
While the massive and sudden
colony collapses that
occurred a decade ago have
abated, honey bees are still
dying at troubling rates...
Scientists now agree that
CCD was likely caused by a
combination of environmental
and biological factors, but
nothing specific has been
confirmed or proven
Elon Musk, the well-known
entrepreneur behind Tesla
and SpaceX, believes there’s
a “one-in-billions” chance
humanity is not living in a
computer simulation.
One local property owner
recently took advantage of
the High Desert's abundant
sunshine and a unique
program offered by a
nonprofit that has
education, job training and
renewable energy in mind.
There's nowhere to hide
across the web, especially
from the marketing and
advertising companies.
If you are paranoid
about your privacy, you may
get upset to know that
Facebook will now track and
deliver targeted Ads on
other apps and websites for
everyone, even if you do not
have Facebook accounts.
Until now, Facebook was
showing targeted ads only to
its users, but now the
social networking giant says
it needs extra data to make
its ads better.
Civil liberties groups
are criticizing an FBI
proposal that they say would
make it harder for people to
know if personal information
about them such as
fingerprints and iris scans
is on file.
The FBI is proposing to
exempt a large
identification database from
certain provisions of the
federal Privacy Act, a law
that, among other things,
lets individuals sue to see
what information the
government keeps on them.
The government wants to see
less sodium in just about
everything Americans eat.
The Obama administration is
pressuring the food industry
to make foods from breads to
sliced turkey less salty,
proposing long-awaited
sodium guidelines in an
effort to prevent thousands
of deaths each year from
heart disease and stroke.
After decades of pressure
from the nuclear industry
and host communities, the
U.S. Department of Energy
has set a meeting to discuss
a plan to allow commercial
reactors to get rid of the
70,000 metric tons of
nuclear spent fuel now on
their sites.
Brothers Arun and Anoop
George from Kerala, south
west India, are hoping to
revolutionise the renewable
energy market with a small
wind turbine that costs
around $750 USD
Monsanto is facing
multiple lawsuits from
people who developed
non-Hodgkin lymphoma
after using Roundup
The suits allege that
glyphosate, along with
the product’s inert
ingredients are to
blame, and in fact that
the mixture of chemicals
is far more dangerous
than glyphosate alone
Research found one
“inactive” Roundup
ingredient, POEA, was
toxic to living cells
and up to 2,000 times
more toxic than
glyphosate alone
A Purdue University study
shows that honeybees collect
the vast majority of their
pollen from plants other
than crops, even in areas
dominated by corn and
soybeans, and that pollen is
consistently contaminated
with a host of agricultural
and urban pesticides
throughout the growing
season.
The latest front in an
ongoing war over Obamacare
between the White House and
House Republicans is
centering on subpoenas for
documents relating to the
healthcare law's
cost-sharing reduction
program — and the
administration's refusal to
hand them over.
Alkaline vs acidic levels
can be confusing because
some think it refers to the
actual PH level in the food
itself. Some foods such
as lemons and limes, are
highly acid in their natural
state but have an alkaline
affect on the body. Alkaline
diets involve eating minimal
amounts of meat, dairy,
white flour and white sugar
due to their acidic affect
on the body. Instead,
focusing on fresh fruit and
vegetables, nuts and soy
products due to their
alkaline affect on the body.
A U.S.-backed force of
Kurds and Arabs advanced
toward an important Islamic
State transit town in Syria
on Wednesday, brushing aside
Turkish opposition to the
involvement of Kurds in
operations to recapture the
strategically vital area.
U.S. commandos are
accompanying the Kurdish-led
Syrian Democratic Forces
(SDF) as they push north
toward Manbij, backed by
intense U.S. airstrikes...
Fracking wastewater causes
cancer, according to new
research from Toxicology
and Applied Pharmacology.
It is the first study
of its kind to confirm the
many suspicions that
fracking wastewater could be
carcinogenic.
When archaeologists
discovered Tutankhamun’s
tomb, they were stunned by
the riches contained within.
One of the weirder artifacts
of the tomb was a dagger
that confused scientists,
sporting a blade seemingly
impervious to rust and age.
Now, reports The Guardian’s
Alan Yuhas, the secret of
the blade’s timelessness has
been uncovered: It was made
from a meteorite.
Lawyers for
Hildale, Utah, and Colorado
City contend case law
doesn’t support prosecutors’
call for federal intrusion.
Problems in the polygamous
community along the
Utah-Arizona line are not so
egregious that the towns
should lose their police
force or have a monitor
oversee the municipal
governments, lawyers for the
towns argued in court
filings late Tuesday.
We know that we need to keep
the vast majority of fossil
fuels in the ground in order
to limit global warming to
1.5 degrees Celsius. Now, a
new project from the
University of Arizona shows
us exactly where we need to
keep these fuels in the
ground.
Lake Erie, the drinking
water source for over 11
million people, appears to
be struggling with toxic
sediment.
The Ohio EPA is warning
that a toxic blob, about two
miles by two miles, is
getting dangerously close to
the drinking water supply in
the lake. They say material
dredged from the Cuyahoga
River, and dumped in Lake
Erie decades ago, left the
toxic substance.
The northern reaches of
North America are getting
greener, according to a NASA
study that provides the most
detailed look yet at plant
life across Alaska and
Canada. In a changing
climate, almost a third of
the land cover - much of it
Arctic tundra - is looking
more like landscapes found
in warmer ecosystems
One-third of the corals in
the northern and central
parts of the Great Barrier
Reef are bleached out and
dying due to climate change,
according to Australian
researchers. The scientists
have just finished months of
intensive aerial and
underwater surveys that
documented the worst-ever
bleaching event in the
reef’s history.
Jordan Thiering is preparing
to give birth to her first
born and use her placenta
for the health benefits. A
Mississippi law said she
needed a court order to keep
her placenta...
Thiering was told it was an
issue with the Mississippi
Department of Health and she
was considered a "third
party" to her placenta.
The federal government is
suing to stop the family of
San Bernardino shooter Syed
Rizwan Farook from
collecting more than
$250,000 in life insurance
payments from his death.
In a complaint seeking
the seizure of the money
Tuesday, the government
alleges that the proceeds
from Farook’s two policies
are derived from a terrorist
act.
Rob Krentz, a rancher from
Cochise County, Arizona, was
shot and killed while
working on his property in
2010. His killer was never
caught, but evidence left
behind at the scene
led investigators to believe
an illegal alien was
responsible.
New solar, wind and
hydropower sources were
added in 2015 at the fastest
rate the world has yet seen.
Investments in renewables
during the year were more
than double the amount spent
on new coal and gas-fired
power plants, according to
the Renewables Global Status
Report.
A record 147 GW of renewable
generating capacity was
installed worldwide in 2015,
according to REN21's
Renewables Global Status
Report published Wednesday.
Renewable heat capacity
increased by 38 GW
(thermal).
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on days one, two, and three
(03 Jun, 04 Jun, 05 Jun).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on day one
(03 Jun) and unsettled to
major storm levels on days
two and three (04 Jun, 05
Jun).
The sewer system is not
where the mail goes. But
letters, bills, and checks
wound up there this month
when a postal worker in
Washington, D.C., decided to
throw a load of mail into
the underbelly of the city’s
infrastructure.
It was truly a “First
Salmon” ceremony, not only
celebrating the annual
return of salmon to the
river but also, in this
case, the first salmon to
return to the Chief Joseph
Hatchery, a glorious event.
The ceremony took place on
May 13. The day was
beautiful, salmon were in
the fish ladder, and a
sizable crowd was on hand,
from both sides of the 49th
Parallel.
Saudi Arabia faced
resistance from Iran to
proposals to restore a
production target scrapped
at OPEC’s last meeting in
December as persistent
divisions within the
producer group undermined
efforts to build unity.
Still, OPEC’s arch rivals
adopted a more conciliatory
tone in Vienna than in the
past, with Riyadh promising
not to flood the market and
Tehran saying it was ready
to listen to its
counterpart.
The Senate’s annual
intelligence authorization
bill reportedly contains a
provision that would allow
the FBI to obtain U.S.
citizens’ email records
without oversight.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)
was the only lawmaker who
voted against the
still-classified bill in the
Intelligence Committee,
saying that its current
wording infringes upon
American citizens’ rights.
Like the four-minute mile
and the two-hour marathon,
barriers are there to be
broken. Solar power is now
setting new standards for
energy costs in corporate
Kenya.
The standard cost of
energy in Kenya is high. The
majority of corporate Kenya
buys electricity at a unit
price, or kilowatt hour,
(KwH) of between $0.12-15.
This commonly accounts for
20 per cent of commercial
operating costs.
The $12-billion, 56-km.
project will give the EU
railway network a major
boost in the form of a
shortcut through the Alps,
notably for the route from
Germany to Italy.
The Brazos River in Texas
surged to its highest level
in more than a century in an
area outside of Houston on
Wednesday after floods
killed at least six people,
damaged hundreds of
buildings and turned roads
into lakes over the past
week.
In the 1970s, the FDA
ruled drug manufacturers
had to prove their
antibiotics did not
contribute to resistance
or lose their drug
approval. Industry
research proved
antibiotics in animal
feed led to rapid
resistance — findings
the industry rebuffed,
and the FDA has ignored
ever since
Inappropriate use of
antibiotics in farming
bears the heaviest
responsibility for
creating the
antibiotic-resistant
superbug crisis of
today. An estimated 80
percent of total
antibiotic sales in the
U.S. end up in livestock
Commercial chicken
producers typically
treat each egg with
gentamicin, an
antibiotic listed as
"essential" to human
medicine. Perdue Farms
recently abandoned this
risky practice.
Encourage Sanderson
Farms and KFC to follow
suit
n an era when entire
battles of presidential
campaigns play out on
Twitter, perhaps it’s
appropriate that the liberal
agenda can increasingly be
reduced to a single hashtag:
#FirstWorldProblems.
First World Problems, for
those untutored in the lingo
of social media, is the term
for those times when the
airport’s internet
connection is too slow, when
your satellite television is
out, or when the fancy
restaurant you’re eating at
forgets to hold the olives
on your salad.
Anammox, also known as
anaerobic ammonium
oxidation, is an emerging
alternative to conventional
nitrogen removal in
wastewater treatment. The
microorganisms that perform
it live in a reactor where
they convert water’s
ammonium and nitrite into
nitrogen gas anaerobically,
without the energy-consuming
aeration required by
conventional methods.
A baby born with Zika-linked
microcephaly remained
hospitalized in northern New
Jersey on Wednesday with
the first such birth defect
case in the Northeast and
the third in the nation,
officials at Hackensack
University Medical Center
confirmed.
The World Health
Organization says there is
“no public health
justification” for
postponing or canceling the
Rio Summer Olympics because
of the Zika outbreak in
Brazil.
By all measures, 2016 is
turning out to be a monster
year for the solar industry,
and by extension, for solar
panel makers such as First
Solar Inc.
The U.S. solar market is
expected by year's end to
have grown 119 percent over
2015 numbers, with the
number of panels installed
providing a whopping 16
gigawatts of power, more
than doubling last year's
previous record-breaking 7.3
gigawatts, according to
Boston-based GTM Research
A team of researchers from
Lund University, Sweden, has
run a series of computer
simulations to test the
likelihood that the
as-of-yet undiscovered
Planet 9 formed in the orbit
of an alien star. Whilst the
planet has not yet been
directly observed, evidence
of its gravitational
influence may have been
observed perturbing the
orbits of six Kuiper Belt
objects, leading some to
assert that Planet 9 boasts
a mass around 10 times that
of Earth.
AMERICA's wind power sector
is on track to provide 10%
of the country's electricity
by 2020, according to the
American Wind Energy
Association. According to
wind energy executives
attending the American Wind
Energy Association's (AWEA)
WINDPOWER 2016 Conference
and Exhibition, being held
in New Orleans, if
technology development
continues to lower costs,
wind power will stay on pace
to supply 10% of the
country's electricity needs
by 2020.
MWRD’s new nutrient recovery
facility is an example of
how progressive technology
can be implemented to
transform a wastewater
treatment facility into a
resource recovery center,
providing significant
environmental benefits...