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Generally, satellite observations of plant growth across the high latitudes of North America — in Canada and Alaska — indicate that tundra vegetation experienced an increase in both peak photosynthesis and growing season length, whereas forests experienced a decline in photosynthetic activity between 1981 and 2003. Climatic warming occurred across the entire region, but the [...]

by Greg D Nature took control in an over-engineered city that had little chance against a powerful hurricane. In a city with a 30% poverty rate, where people were unable to leave due to lack of a proper public transport infrastructure, people “loot” in order to get food and water they need. The U.S. Government [...]

statistics show the planet to be increasingly unsafe. More than 2.5 billion people were affected by floods, earthquakes, hurricanes and other natural disasters between 1994 and 2003, a 60 percent increase over the previous two 10-year periods, U.N. officials reported at a conference on disaster prevention in January. Those numbers don’t include millions displaced by [...]

Is the corporation inherently, unavoidably psychotic? Does it’s desire for profit always lead the corporation quickly beyond moral, environmental restraints to the quickest buck? And if so, how to fight this tendancy? Centralized regulation might be one response, but is, generally speaking, an equally dangerous formation of power- one just as prone to bias and [...]

I’m glad some scientists have noticed that burning peat releases serious carbon dioxide and are drawing our attention to the unfolding strategic importance of our thinking about forests and other natural resources: Tropical peatlands are spread across numerous islands in South-East Asia, including Borneo, Sumatra and Papua. The peat is found in lowland areas, can [...]

“One of the most famous international labor solidarity campaigns focused on Coca Cola in Guatemala in the 1980s when U.S. and European groups pressured Coca-Cola to take responsibility for ending violence against trade union leaders at a bottling plant. Several of the union’s executive committee members were murdered during a violent labor conflict that included [...]