A sobering satellite study shows it was warm enough for a week or two in January 2005 for Western Antarctica ice to melt over an area as big as California. Such a huge ice melt in western Antarctica is unprecedented and could mean that global warming is even getting to the thick ice of…
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Part One: Spreading Honey Bee Disappearances Part Two: Ebola-like Virus Killing Great Lakes Fish There are at least two environmental emergencies now in America that directly impact our food supplies: Honey bees that are massively disappearing and not pollinating crops. An Ebola-like virus killed millions of Great Lakes fresh water fish in 2005 and 2006.…
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Pesticides, sprayed and genetically engineered – Are they linked to honey bee disappearances and decline of all pollinators in North America? The National Academy of Sciences is now concerned about the general decline in all North American pollinators and the U. S. government is concerned about the national security challenge of this nation becoming…
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Recently scientists from around the world met in Atlanta, Georgia, to launch a global “Amphibian Ark” project in an effort to save thousands of frogs, toads and salamander species threatened by fungi, pathogens, increasing UV radiation, rapidly changing habitats in the face of global warming – and the unknown. Nearly half of the worldwide…
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Part One: Alarming Disappearance of Honey Bees Part Two: “Noah’s Ark” for World’s Seeds It’s estimated that one-third of the world’s food supply is dependent upon honey bee pollination. But millions of honey bee pollinators in 22 American states, Spain and Poland have been disappearing at an alarming rate with no explanation to date. While…
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The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change, known as the IPCC, has been working on another report since its last one in 2001. This is supposed to be a consensus of scientists and computer labs around the world about where global climate change is headed. This report says it is “very likely” that…
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