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Residents: Rubio Hasn’t “Done Shit” In “Florida’s Flint”
Posted by Daily Beast: None Given on March 14th, 2016
Daily Beast: Residents in coastal communities in Florida, say they have appealed to Rubio to help them with a growing ecological disaster in their community and have been largely ignored. If Sen. Marco Rubio loses the Florida primary next Tuesday, it won’t be because of the number of campaign offices he opened or the TV ads he didn’t buy. Instead, it likely will be because of the kind of senator Rubio’s Florida constituents believe he has been. Frustrated residents of several coastal Florida communities say...
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William Mulholland Gave Water to LA and Inspired ‘Chinatown’
Posted by Daily Beast: None Given on February 27th, 2016
Daily Beast: Irish immigrant William Mulholland brought LA the water it needed to grow, even when he was accused of stealing it, and even when it cost the lives of almost 500 innocent people.
Mulholland? Sure, you say. I know that name. Isn’t it a twisty street somewhere in Los Angeles, and wasn’t Mulholland Drive the title of an eerie film by David Lynch? And didn’t Roman Polanski and Robert Towne’s movie Chinatown have a character with the sound-alike name of Hollis Mulwray, the L.A. city water engineer...
How ISIS & Boko Haram Profit From Climate Change
Posted by Daily Beast: None Given on December 1st, 2015
Daily Beast: In the dark early hours of this Monday morning, the presidents of the United States and France stood together with the mayor of Paris on a mostly empty Paris boulevard.
Barack Obama, François Hollande and Mayor Anne Hidalgo each placed a single, simple white rose among the wreaths and flowers and French flags, the photos of victims and the votive candles at the makeshift shrine before the Bataclan concert hall where terrorists murdered 90 of the 130 people they slaughtered in coordinated attacks...
Anti-Fracking Filmmaker Josh Fox Arrested in Finger Lakes Protest
Posted by Daily Beast: None Given on May 15th, 2015
Daily Beast: Award-winning documentary filmmaker Josh Fox, who wrote and directed the acclaimed fracking film Gasland, was arrested this afternoon while engaging in a human barricade at a natural-gas storage facility in the Finger Lakes.
“People need to see what’s happening at Seneca Lake, and also understand that this isn’t isolated, it is happening everywhere,” Fox told The Daily Beast before the protest. “We need to educate people that our dependency on fossil fuels has got to change, and it has to change...
Hurricane Sandy and Climate Change Drive Up the Pollen Count
Posted by Daily Beast: None Given on June 5th, 2013
Daily Beast: FIRST THE heat. Then the storms. Now the ... pollen? Massive quantities of pollen are floating through the air, causing people to sniff, sneeze, and itch. And it turns out a changing climate could be to blame.
In the Northeast, tree pollen is at the highest level in the 25 years that Leonard Bielory, an allergy and immunology expert at Rutgers University’s Center for Environmental Prediction, has been tracking it. He says it’s a continuation of a trend he’s been seeing for years, and he expects...
Climate Change Kills 400000 a Year, New Report Reveals
Posted by Daily Beast: None Given on September 27th, 2012
Daily Beast: The Earth’s changing climate is costing the global economy $1.2 trillion a year and killing 1,000 children a day, according to a new study--and the U.N. warns the summer’s record heat and drought could trigger a catastrophe. Nearly 1,000 children a day are now dying because of climate change, according to a path-breaking study published Wednesday (PDF), and the annual death toll stands at 400,000 people worldwide. Climate change also is costing the world economy $1.2 trillion a year, the equivalent...