http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/03/30/deepwater-horizon-dolphin-deaths-gulf-mexico?cmpid=tpenviro-eml-2015-04-04-pot

Dolphins, sea turtles, coral, pelicans, and even whales continue to suffer ( Read more... )

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What if the solutions to cleaning up the most daunting 21st century disasters - such as oil spills and radioactivity from nuclear reactors - involved mushrooms? What if an unorthodox fungi ( Read more... )

http://www.pccnaturalmarkets.com/sc/1109/organic_seed.html

While we may not think about seed when eating breakfast or helping our children into their cotton pajamas at night, seed is the foundational step in feeding and clothing ourselves.

In an earlier post, I asked how it is that any sort of complex life still exists on Earth now, given the horrendous mass extinctions and their causes that have plagued the Earth down the ages. Okay, I've got another one for you: how is it that I'm still alive and kicking, after 66 years that have included some godawful personal medical disasters ( Read more... )

One possible reason for most -- not all, but most -- of the recent spate of mass deaths of birds and fish is that many birds and fish in the regions where these mass deaths have occurred have been weakened, physiologically speaking, by pesticides, other chemicals, and various non-chemical insults in their environment due to human activities. Up ( Read more... )

What they're not mentioning here is that the reason that BP was drilling in deep Gulf waters was that that location was in international waters -- where cap-and-trade doesn't apply, and their profit margins are much higher than close to shore, in US territorial waters. For just that reason, there's been way too much drilling in the Gulf's ( Read more... )

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There is a frightening environmental trend underway that isn't being talked about nearly as much as issues surrounding global warming, but in the long run will be far more important, having to do with the vast, rapidly increasing burden of exotic chemicals in our environment, our water, and our air that never even existed prior to the 20th century ( Read more... )

Mercury Contamination in Invasive Pythons Discovered | Florida Everglades Pythons | LiveScience

Not only are the damned pythons eating up everything in the everglades, including other snakes, but they're so contaminated with mercury that they're unsafe to eat.