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News & Articles By Belle Carter
07/26/2022
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By Belle Carter
Craig Idso: High CO2 in summer lessens temperature stress in plants
Environment experts have made it a habit every summer to blame anthropogenic global warming for the rise in temperatures and the occasional heatwaves. Plant scientists say that high carbon dioxide (CO2) levels cause plants to thicken their leaves, making them less efficient in sequestering atmospheric carbon. Craig Idso, founder and CEO of the Center for […]
07/21/2022
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By Belle Carter
Detrimental levels of pharmaceutical pollutants found in 43.5% of world’s rivers
Pollution in the waterways all around the world is not a new problem, but an alarming new study recently revealed that 43.5 percent of the rivers may already contain detrimental levels of pharmaceutical pollutants. Published last week in the Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry journal, the study found that around 461 of 1,052 sites monitored across 104 […]
07/18/2022
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By Belle Carter
Giant swarms of locusts ravage over 80% of crops and livestock feed in region of Russia
Giant swarms of locusts have ravaged over 80 percent of crops and livestock feed in Yakutia, a republic in northeastern Russia. In Krasnodar Krai, a Russian federal subject, the insects have been destroying crops in the Primorsko-Akhtar region near the Black Sea. Russian media reported that “local authorities had no idea how to get rid of the […]
07/18/2022
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By Belle Carter
Energy expert Alex Epstein: Fossil fuels allow humans to deal with natural disasters
Philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein thinks fossil fuels make humans safe from natural disasters. This directly contradicts the mainstream narrative that the world needs to urgently replace fossil fuels with renewable energy to counter global warming. “If you think about it from a rational, pro-human, philosophical perspective, it is actually obvious that we should use […]
07/13/2022
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By Belle Carter
Firefighters battle hard to protect iconic sequoias from massive Washburn fire
Firefighting crews fought an intense battle Monday, July 11, as the massive Washburn fire burned at the edges of Yosemite National Park’s largest grove of ancient sequoia trees. The fire, which was first reported on July 7, more than doubled in size over the weekend. It was near the park’s Mariposa Grove, home to 500 […]
07/13/2022
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By Belle Carter
IPBES report: Billions of people depend on wild species for survival
A new Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report found that billions of people depend on 50,000 wild species for food, medicine, fuel and income from activities like tourism. “Seventy percent of the world’s poor are directly dependent on wild species. One in five people rely on wild plants, algae, and fungi […]
07/05/2022
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By Belle Carter
Job hazard: WHO finally admits that firefighting causes cancer due to chronic exposure to toxins
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the cancer agency of the World Health Organization (WHO), has declared that firefighting is a cancer-causing occupation. The IARC Monographs program convened 25 international experts from eight countries for a meeting in Lyon. The summary of the meeting was published online in the Lancet Oncology. It classified occupational exposure […]
06/21/2022
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By Belle Carter
Peecycling: Key to alleviating fertilizer shortages
French researchers discovered that peecycling, a mashup term for pee or urine and recycling, could be the key to continuous harvest amid the shortage of industrially produced fertilizers. “Urine could be a nutrient-rich alternative to commercial fertilizers considering that pee is filled with nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium,” said Fabien Esculier, engineer and coordinator of the French […]
06/15/2022
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By Belle Carter
Texas electricity use surpasses all-time record amid scorching heat… but the grid is holding together for now
While Texas is experiencing excessive and baking heat wave, the state’s electricity usage shot up to an all-time high. The latest power use has topped levels last seen before the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the organization that operates the state’s electrical grid – the Texas Interconnection, announced that the demand on […]
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