Chapter 5. Eroding Soils Darkening Our Future Lester R. Brown www.earth-policy.org/books/fpep/fpepch5 Over the next several weeks, we will be releasing Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity by Lester R. Brown in installments. Look for a new chapter about every other week. Supporting data, videos, and …
E – The Environmental Magazine – Joining Hands for Beaches
May 19, 2013 WHAT WE’RE FOLLOWING Joining Hands for Beaches This past Saturday, Hands Across the Sand participants joined hands at beaches across the world to protest offshore drilling, deepwater drilling and offshore seismic testing. Hands Across the Sand’s mission is to ensure “the protection of our coastal economies, oceans,… Continue Reading …
Expanding Dust Bowls Worsening Food Prospects in China and Africa
Janet Larsen http://www.earth-policy.org/plan_b_updates/2012/update110 Earth Policy Release Plan B Update December 20, 2012 When most people hear the term “dust bowl,” they think of the American heartland in the 1930s, when a homesteading wheat bonanza led to the plowing up of the Great Plains’ native grassland, culminating in the greatest environmental …
Risks Rise for Fracking
WHAT WE’RE FOLLOWING A Toxin Blooms In a 2004 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Harvard-educated biologist and Institute for Ethnomedicine Director Paul Alan Cox, Ph.D. and colleagues found the neurotoxin B-methylamino-l-alanine (BMAA) in nine deceased Canadian… Continue Reading » Risks Rise for Fracking …