Disturbing Footage! The US Army Doesn't Want You To See THIS! The True Reason Pot is Illegal. 7 Chilling Reasons Why You Shouldn't Smoke Marijuana. UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE SIXTH SUN - english subtitles. Desertification: How to stop the shifting sands. (CNN) -- When a 'Yellow Dragon' roars, Beijing listens. The Forbidden City in Beijing was enveloped by floating sand and dust on March 18, 2008. These huge, sky-blackening dust storms sweep across Asia in March and April, bringing with them millions of tons of sand from inner Mongolia and depositing it in China and on across the Korean peninsula to Japan. During the past few years the storms have grown in ferocity and scale, and they are at the vanguard of an advancing Gobi desert that threatens more than 400 million people in the Chinese provinces of Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia and Shaanxi.
The economic toll has been estimated to cost the Chinese economy $6.5 billion per year. But desertification is not limited to China and it is fast becoming a serious global problem that will only be exacerbated by climate change. In Africa demand for water has shrunk Lake Chad by 95 percent since the 1960s, leaving only sand and scrub. But this is only expected to get worse. Fact Box. MONO1.jpg (JPEG Image, 1226x903 pixels) - Scaled (58. Monoculture and the Irish Potato Famine: cases of missing genetic variation. Monoculture and the Irish Potato Famine: cases of missing genetic variation Lack of genetic variation in Irish potatoes contributed to the severity of the Irish potato famine, which devastated Ireland's population and economy. Today, evolutionary theory tells us that relying on crops with low genetic variation can lead to disaster.
Heeding the warnings of scientists and history may help us prevent wide-scale crop devastation due to changing environmental conditions. Lumpers In the 1800s, the Irish solved their problem of feeding a growing population by planting potatoes. The lumper fed Ireland for a time, but it also set the stage for human and economic ruin. The importance of diversity The genetically identical lumpers were all susceptible to a rot caused by Phytophthora infestans, which turns non-resistant potatoes to inedible slime. Although the famine ultimately had many causes, the disaster would likely not have been so terrible had more genetically variable potatoes been planted.
Bananas Are Dying, Killed by Corporate Monoculture. (NaturalNews) Prepare to say goodbye to bananas. Do you remember back in the sixties when there was a change in bananas? It wasn't announced, but those of us who love the fruit did. They became less sweet and creamy -- just not as good. There was no information about it. The change seemed to slip under the radar and most of us forgot about it. That change foretold what's now coming -- the complete death of bananas.
We tend to think of bananas as a single species with no more than one or two variations on the theme --something like oranges, lemons, limes, and grapefruits that are all variations of a single species. Chiquita's History During the 1870's, Minor Keith was a young man from a wealthy railroad company who went to Costa Rica to help build a national railroad.
Yes, it's just amazing what can be accomplished through birth into wealth combined with an utterly unscrupulous nature. Panama Disease Of course, United Fruit did what any giant of monoculture would do. Sigatoka Disease Bribes. WebFaction - Coming soon: Another fine website hosted by WebFaction. Indigenous Brazilians fight Amazon dam project (big photo gallery) Native Brazilians from the Amazon basin demonstrate against the construction of the planned Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, in Brasilia February 8, 2011. Proposed to be built along the Xingu River in the state of Para, the dam would be the world's third largest at planned capacity, though environmentalists and native Brazilians have raised concerns that the project may displace indigenous tribes and damage the environment. Here is a recap of the issue on Global Voices, and below, more photographs from the protest this week.
(photos: REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino) Above, a protester eats ice cream. The sign with a portrait of President Dilma Rousseff reads, "Stop Belo Monte. " The sign above reads, "No Belo Monte dam on the Xingu. " Brazilian indigenous people protest outside Brazil's electric energy agency Aneel in Brasilia April 20, 2010, against the construction of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric power plant in the Xingu River. Food Inc. part 1. Man punches teenage girl at McDonald's for line jumping arguement. Contraversial Oscar Grant killing by BART police officer caught on camera. Insane Cop Arrests ABC News Reporter For Filming Traffic Accident. Full Dash Cam Video of Oklahoma Highway Patrol vs EMT. Denver Cops Beat up a Witness to Police Misconduct. Cop Arrests Fire Fighter for Helping Injured Person. Are You A Jedi Sir? - cop gets owned. G20 Cops Get Owned By G20 Protestor. Obama Assassinates American SUSPECTS Without Evidence OR A Trial - Wayne Madsen Reports.
Student Shot by Cops for Smoking Marijuana. Raw Video) 32yo Drunk cop goes on killing spree. Police Assault: NYC Cops Hit and Run Bicyclist! Police Brutality: Cop points gun in girls face for being rear ended by his son. Philly July 09. Cerebral Palsy Girl Punched For Brushing Cop. 17-Year Old Girl Arrested For Swearing Whilst Talking With A 911 Operator To Help Dying Father. Police Officers Plant Drugs On Suspect Police Dog Attacks. Exposed! Cops & Judges Secret Code Of Corruption. Judge William Adams beats daughter for using the internet. New improved technology to cleanup oil spill! New improved technology to cleanup oil spill! Innumerable birds and animals die each year due to catastrophic oil spills – especially when contaminating river or ocean water. So, for cleaning these devastating oil spills on oceans, lakes and other waterways, U.S. scientists have developed a new efficient and effective technology.
Two University of California-Santa Barbara researchers have constructed an improved version of the mechanical skimmer. Mechanical skimmer is the mainstay device used to recover oil spilled on water. Unlike the typical skimmer — consisting of a revolving steamroller-like drum for picking up a film of oil on the drum’s surface — the new mechanical skimmer uses a grooved surface! The grooves have a larger surface area, enabling it to scoop up more oil than the smooth-surfaced traditional skimmer.
Enjoyed this post? Categories: Uncategorized Tags: Death in the Amazon. Death in the Amazon: Brazil accused of protecting trees but not its people | Environment. Even here, Tuesday is an unusual day to die. At the weekend there is no shortage of bloodletting in this corner of the Amazon. Bar brawls, knife fights, lovers' tiffs, alcohol-soaked arguments, all with the same predictable coda: a slit throat, a shot to the head, a visit from Maraba's over-worked head of forensic science, José Augusto Andrade, and a gory crime-scene photograph splashed across the pages of a tabloid.
Tuesdays, though, are normally quiet. But 24 May this year was an exception. The call came at about 10.30am, and Andrade was soon racing out of town towards the Praia Alta Piranheira settlement, a rural area about 55 miles from his antiseptic-scented morgue. At the crime scene two bodies lay beside an earth track. If Tuesday was an unusual day for a double homicide, what Andrade saw was stranger still: Da Silva's ear had been hacked off, perhaps a trophy taken by the killers as proof their mission had been accomplished.
Few people believe such deaths will be the last. They Killed Sister Dorothy. HAARP CBC Broadcast Weather control part 1.