Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Monday, October 14, 2013
Mexico Bans Transgenic Corn
GEO Watch
Judge rules that GMOs are imminent threat. Monsanto, Pioneer, prohibited from marketing transgenic seed. Full story here.
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Sunday, October 13, 2013
Alberta's Current Carbon Strategy No Match for Keystone's Emissions
inside climate news
The pipeline would increase carbon emissions by 20M tons a year. Despite claims, Alberta's offset schemes would negate just a fraction of those emissions. Details here
Stop a Human Rights Tragedy - Put a Heartless Billionaire in His Place at the Same Time
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Larry,
Warren Buffett is investing in a massive steel company that's planning to force 22,0000 Indian villagers from their homes.
Now, eight of the UN's top human rights officials have called for an
immediate halt to the project -- and we need to make sure Buffett acts.
If
this project goes ahead, thousands of acres of forest will be flattened,
and tens of thousands of poor Indian villagers will lose their homes
and livelihoods. The company behind this disaster is Posco Steel, a
South Korean giant, in which Warren Buffett has invested more than $1
billion.
If Buffett uses his financial might, he can push Posco Steel to address the UN's human rights concerns or stop the project. He claims to uphold the "highest levels" of business ethics -- but still hasn't spoken out.
Unregulated Ammonia, Increasingly From Industrial Farming, Threatens U.S. National Parks
Science Daily
Oct. 10, 2013 — Thirty-eight U.S. national parks are experiencing "accidental fertilization" at or above a critical threshold for ecological damage, according to a study published in…Details here.
A Lake in Washington State Holds a Century of Canadian Pollution
Wenatchee World
People along Lake Roosevelt, a 150-mile-long stretch of the Columbia River, worry that their waterways have become the repository for much of the 10 million tons of slag that a Canadian smelter just north of the border dumped into the river for decades. Full story here.
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Blizzard Ravages South Dakota's Livestock Industry
Los Angeles Times
Tens of thousands of cattle are killed, found huddled and frozen after the surprise storm. The 6,000 ranching operations that were hit have no safety net, thanks to the federal government shutdown. Details here.
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