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September 2

The End of Eden: James Lovelock Says This Time We’ve Pushed the Earth Too Far

“Our global furnace is out of control. By 2020, 2025, you will be able to sail a sailboat to the North Pole. The Amazon will become a desert, and the forests of Siberia will burn and release more methane and plagues will return.”

Source: Washington Post  

EPA hid dangers at ground zero from first responders

A scientist at the EPA has written a letter to Hillary Clinton and other members of the New York congressional delegation blasting the EPA for hiding dangerous toxins from Ground Zero workers in the aftermath of 9/11.

Source: Raw Story  

Environment

July 23

Amazon rainforest ‘could become a desert’

The Amazon rainforest is on the brink of being turned into desert. Studies have concluded that the forest cannot withstand more than two consecutive years of drought without breaking down.

Source: The Independent  

Environment

June 25

Greenland’s Ice Sheet Is Slip-Sliding Away

The massive glaciers are deteriorating twice as fast as they were five years ago. If the ice thaws entirely, sea level would rise 21 feet.

Source: LA Times  

Environment

June 19

Work begins on Arctic seed vault

Norway is starting construction on a “doomsday vault” in the Arctic which is designed to house all known varieties of the world’s crops.

Source: BBC  
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