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Pope Francis Slams GMOs and Pesticides for Destroying the Earth’s ‘Complex Web of Ecosystems’
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on June 26th, 2015
EcoWatch: Pope Francis’s encyclical didn’t just cover climate change, he also denounced pesticides and genetically engineered (GE) crops, declaring “the spread of these crops destroys the complex web of ecosystems, decreases diversity in production and affects the present and the future of regional economies.”
Biotech companies claim their products are key to solving hunger, but the Pope knows this isn’t true. No commercial GE crops are engineered for increased yield. Five of every six acres of GE crops...
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Comments Off on Pope Francis Slams GMOs and Pesticides for Destroying the Earth’s ‘Complex Web of Ecosystems’Death Toll Soars in Climate Change-Related Pakistan Heat Wave
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on June 24th, 2015
EcoWatch: A deadly heat wave spreading through southern Pakistan has killed nearly 800 people in just a few days--a number that threatens to rise as temperatures remain unusually high this week.
More than 600 people have died in Pakistan`s heatwave http://t.co/bsc8q7NZ2H pic.twitter.com/gtEBFxqR5P
-- Sky News (@SkyNews) June 24, 2015
At least 740 people have died of dehydration, heat stroke and other heat-related illnesses in Karachi, the country`s largest city, since Saturday, with various sources...
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Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on June 23rd, 2015
EcoWatch: Need proof that we`re having the hottest year on record? Scorching heat is searing parts of the world, sparking wildfires and claiming lives due to heat stroke and dehydration.
1. India. The relentless heat since mid-April has claimed about 2,330 lives, overwhelming hospitals and devastating the country. As we previously reported, officials have blamed the heat on global warming.
“It’s not just another unusually hot summer--it is climate change," said Dr. Harsh Vardhan, India’s Minister of...
Rolling Stone: ‘What’s Killing the Babies of Vernal, Utah?’
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on June 23rd, 2015
EcoWatch: In January, the Los Angeles Times ran a story on the fracking boomtown of Vernal, Utah. It described how a midwife named Donna Young was attacked and demonized for drawing attention to an increase in stillbirths in the town and its resistance to the idea that the industry that provides half its annual budget could be responsible. Now Rolling Stone Magazine has done a deeper dive into Vernal’s story, as well as the political story behind its story, exploring how formerly rural areas came to be fracking...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Rolling Stone: ‘What’s Killing the Babies of Vernal, Utah?’This Land Was Made for You and Me … And Fracking?
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on June 19th, 2015
EcoWatch: This week in Colorado, the BLM launched a scoping process—a “big picture” project evaluation designed to inform the public and solicit feedback before the agency drafts the RMP for Colorado’s Front Range. Sadly, BLM’s public process seems fatally flawed from the start. The seven scheduled hearings are far removed from the majority of Coloradans who will be affected by the new plans. For example, the BLM failed to schedule a scoping hearing in Denver, the state’s most populous city, which gets 40...
Alaska’s Heat Wave Ignites Fires as Glaciers Rapidly Melt
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on June 19th, 2015
EcoWatch: Climate change has caused Alaska’s glaciers to melt so quickly that a one-foot thick layer of water could completely cover the entire state of Alaska every seven years, according to a new study. Alaskan glaciers have lost 75 billion metric tons of ice every year from 1994 through 2013, The Washington Post's Chris Mooney reported from the study, which was recently accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. Mooney also reported...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Alaska’s Heat Wave Ignites Fires as Glaciers Rapidly MeltDon’t Be Fooled by Yesterday’s Headlines, EPA Finds Fracking Contaminates Drinking Water
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on June 5th, 2015
EcoWatch: Don’t be fooled. Headlines in the New York Times and other news media about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) long-awaited study on the impacts of fracking on drinking water are another tragic case of not looking beyond the timid agency’s spin. Despite the lack of new substantive data and the limited scope of the study, the EPA did find instances of water contamination and outlined the areas where this could happen in the fracking process.
Rather than seriously undertaking its mission,...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Don’t Be Fooled by Yesterday’s Headlines, EPA Finds Fracking Contaminates Drinking WaterInsane Heat Wave in Alaska Put Temperatures Higher Than in Arizona
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on June 5th, 2015
EcoWatch: Alaska, along with the rest of the Arctic, has been warming even faster than other regions of the world due to climate change. That was the findings of a report this spring from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which found that the rate of warming will only continue to increase in the coming decades.
Insane heat in Alaska--90 deg temps near Fairbanks, records toppling like, um, snowmen in May http://t.co/mo6xgGKqoR pic.twitter.com/3yqhV0Sbt6
-- Bill McKibben...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Insane Heat Wave in Alaska Put Temperatures Higher Than in ArizonaTed Cruz Continues ‘Coddle’ His Fossil Fuel Funders in Wake of Deadly Texas Floods
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on June 1st, 2015
EcoWatch: On paper at least, Texas Senator and declared 2016 presidential candidate Ted Cruz is an intelligent man. He graduated cum laude from Princeton University where he was a debate champion. He went onto Harvard Law School where he graduated magna cum laude and was primary editor of the Harvard Law Review.
But when Cruz talks about the climate, many people feel he sounds like the most ignorant and fact-challenged of his far-right followers.
Last week, as destructive floods swept his home state,...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Ted Cruz Continues ‘Coddle’ His Fossil Fuel Funders in Wake of Deadly Texas FloodsNever Say Never: Maryland Fracking Moratorium Becomes Law
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on May 29th, 2015
EcoWatch: “You’ll never get a fracking moratorium through the Maryland Legislature” was the common refrain I heard as we at Food & Water Watch joined with more than 100 groups from throughout the state to work on preventing fracking in Maryland. But we didn’t let that stop us. And today, thanks to the tireless efforts of business owners, health professionals, activists and countless concerned Maryland residents, we proved those naysayers wrong.
Today, a two and a half year fracking moratorium became law...
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