Alex Duval Smith The Observer, Sunday 18 July 2010 https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/18/poachers-kill-last-female-rhino Record levels of poaching are endangering survival of rhinoceros in South Africa The last rhinoceros cow in Krugersdorp park, South Africa, bled to death on Wednesday after poachers hacked off her horn. Photograph: Reuters South African wildlife experts are calling […]
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The Ministry of Truth was how George Orwell described the mechanism used by government to control information in his seminal novel 1984. A recent trip to Europe has convinced me that the governments of the world have been rocked by the power of the internet and are seeking to gain […]
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https://action.greenpeace.org.nz/no-new-oil-petition Say NO to new oil and coal mining in ‘Pure NZ’
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When a branch fell from a tree at the Central Park Zoo in New York City last month, killing a 6-month-old baby and severely injuring her mother, who had been holding the infant, Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared it “an act of God.” But in all likelihood it was the act […]
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/15jul_thermosphere/ July 15, 2010: NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet’s atmosphere. High above Earth’s surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called “the thermosphere” recently collapsed and now is rebounding again. Layers of Earth’s upper atmosphere. Credit: John Emmert/NRL. [larger image] “This […]
In an attempt to be proactive, or seem proactive, governments and scientists are ‘considering‘ changing the climate. Using man made volcano-like smoke stacks, reflective particles in the upper atmosphere, aerosolized particles dispensed from aircraft …and other such dangerous (not to mention expensive) ideas. Whilst I’m in no rush to usher […]
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