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Monday Reads: The Hybridizing Shark Edition
Climate change has been accused of being many things, from Imposter to Glacier National Park Name-killer. And now to the list we can add…Interspecies Dating Matchmaker? A study published last month in Conservation Genetics documented no fewer than 57 instances of hybrid common black-tip (Carcharhinus limbatus) and Australian black-tip (Carcharhinus tilstoni) sharks off the eastern…
Read MoreFriday Finds: The FDA’s Drug Addiction
FDA gives “okay” to continue drugging livestock Farmers can continue giving healthy cows, pigs and other livestock routine doses of penicillin and tetracyclines—two commonly used antibiotics—even though the practice threatens public health, reports Forbes. The Food and Drug Administration’s decision to no longer consider withdrawing approval of the common practice comes after years of meat and produce…
Read MoreSix Environmental Imperatives for Obama in 2012
President Obama won the White House on a platform of hope and change – promising an end to dirty corporate influence over our political system and a beginning to an era in which our energy choices lead us to a clean, sustainable future, or at least don’t kill us or make us sick. So far,…
Read MoreFor Insurers, Climate Change is Very Real
Insurance claim data shows climate disasters on the increase
Read MorePikas Can Run But Not Hide From Climate Change
You’re adorable but you will die if the temperature rises much above 80°F. So climate change is a big deal in your world, which just happens to be high mountain peaks. Who are you? You are the American pika, a small member of the rabbit family that the California Dept. of Fish and Game has…
Read MoreU.S. Lags As Europe Adopts Airline Pollution Rule
Emissions from aircraft are a substantial contributor to global warming. Taking into account greenhouse gas emissions, the warming effect of contrails and aviation-induced cirrus clouds, and anticipated growth in air traffic, scientists estimate that aircraft could be responsible for as much as 10 percent of human-caused global warming by 2050. So, of course the airlines…
Read MoreMost Popular unEarthed Reads Of 2011
A Top 10 Countdown of the most read blogs from Unearthed.
Read MoreVIDEO: In the Shadow of the Stacks
The historic victory for clean air announced a few days ago—limits on the mercury, arsenic and other toxic emissions from coal plants—has been a long time coming. Congress called for these limits in 1990, but the coal power industry got to work undermining them straight away. As a result, instead of getting the breath of…
Read MoreTr-Ash Talk: Not a Day to Celebrate
So much has happened since that terrible day three years ago when more than 1 billion gallons of toxic coal ash sludge burst through a dam at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant in Harriman, about 150 miles from Nashville. For starters, the Environmental Protection Agency, which had promised to move swiftly to protect…
Read MoreFriday Finds: Monsanto’s Ministry of Truth
Pesticide-resistant bugs eat Monsanto’s crops, lies & profits Monsanto is taking a page from George Orwell’s 1984 with the recent release of an EPA report that chides the biotech company for not adequately monitoring its pesticide-resistant crops, reports Mother Jones. According to the agency’s report, a pesky bug known as corn rootworm is rising up…
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