Environment

Celiac Disease Linked To Common Chemical Pollutants | NYU Langone Health

Credit: Your Best Digs Flickr (CC BY 2.0)May 12, 2020 (MedicalXpress) -- Elevated blood levels of toxic chemicals found in pesticides, nonstick cookware, and fire retardants have been tied to an increased risk for celiac disease in young people, new research shows. According to NYU Grossman School of Medicine researchers who led the study, people with the immune disorder have severe gut reactions ...

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Climb Every Mountain (Well, Maybe Not) | Mickey Z.

Gangkhar Puensum seen from Gophu La Pass; it is Bhutan's highest mountain at an elevation of 7,570 m (24,836 ft) and most likely the highest unclimbed mountain in the world. Image: Photo by Gradytheb ...

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Heating Up The Political Climate | John Michael Greer

Oct. 16, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Yes, we need to talk about climate change again, and it’s probably necessary to start with a point I’ve made on this blog several times already: anthropogenic climate ...

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The Next Twilight of Environmentalism | John Michael Greer

Aug. 7, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Well, it’s about to happen all over again. I’ve been wondering how soon a certain marriage of convenience in contemporary cultural politics would come messily apart, a ...

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The geoengineering of consent: How conspiracists dominate YouTube climate science content | Frontiers

Credit: CC0 Public DomainJuly 25, 2019 (TechXplore) -- Using YouTube to learn about climate-change-related topics will expose you to video content that mostly opposes worldwide scientific consensus. ...

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Methane in the atmosphere is surging, and that's got scientists worried | Julia Rosen

Photo of landfill burnoff flare. Credit: Eddie Hagler/Public Domain March 4, 2019 (Phys.org) -- Scientists love a good mystery. But it's more fun when the future of humanity isn't at stake. This enig ...

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Due to humans, extinction risk for 1,700 animal species to increase by 2070 | Yale University

Azores. Credit: CC0 Public Domain March 4, 2019 (Phys.org) -- As humans continue to expand our use of land across the planet, we leave other species little ground to stand on. By 2070, increased huma ...

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Climate change may affect ecological interactions among species | Peter Moon

Predator-prey equilibria are being disrupted by climate change, according to a study led by Brazilian researchers and published in Nature Climate Change. Credit: Mythilibadam/ Wikimedia Commons Feb. ...

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A Conversation with Nature | John Michael Greer

Feb. 20, 2019 (EcoSophia) -- There are many ways we can talk about the deeper roots of the crisis of our time, setting out from many different vantage points; as Charles Fort pointed out, one measure ...

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The Flight from Nature | John Michael Greer

Dec. 19, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- A couple of weeks ago one of my readers pointed me to an op-ed piece on climate change by Canadian journalist David Moscrop, titled “It’s time for climate change defe ...

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From Central America to Syria: The Conspiracy against Refugees | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 4, 2018 Watching the ongoing debate between U.S. liberal and right-wing pundits on U.S. mainstream media, one rarely gets the impression that Was ...

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