Carl Safina’s voice breaks as he recounts the story of a bottlenose dolphin in the Gulf that tried to get rescued by a passing fishing boat. The dolphin was splattering oil out its blowhole. The fisherman at first moved his boat away from the dolphin, because they scare off fish. Within a minute the…
A new report, produced jointly by Lloyd’s of London and the Royal Institute of International Affairs (aka Chatham House), concludes that “we are heading towards a global oil supply crunch and price spike … companies which are able to plan for and take advantage of this new energy reality will increase both their resilience and…
” … even though artificial human milk is regulated by the FDA, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found last year that a thyroid-affecting chemical used in rocket fuel contaminates 15 brands of powdered infant formula, including two that accounted for 87 percent of market share in 2000. The CDC study omits the…
What’s happening to language? It’s changing, of course. We had breakfast a couple of days ago in one of our fine local restaurants. The young waitress asked us what we’d like to drink, and when I said “water,” she said “awesome!” It’s interesting how such reflexive overuse of words eventually empties them of meaning….
The consequences of global climate change are so varied and so dire that it’s almost impossible to find a suitable headline to convey the news. The headline above was chosen at random from among many such comments in this Laura Flanders interview with Heather Rogers, author of Green Gone Wrong and Gwynne Dyer, author of Climate…