Shopping App Let’s You Boycott Monsanto and Others. By Christina Sarich Natural Society May 17, 2013 Have you ever wished you could own a parrot that sat on your shoulder and said, “squak! Don’t buy that’ as you ambled through a grocery store or retail shop, purchasing something like toilet paper or a box of macaroni shells that would add to the financial coffers of companies like Monsanto , or billionaire industrialist David Koch? Deformed fish in Alberta: Scientist thinks he knows why. OTTAWA - A renowned Canadian scientist says there appear to be similarities between fish deformities found downstream from Alberta's oilsands and those observed after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and Florida's Deepwater Horizon disaster.
David Schindler of the University of Alberta has written two federal cabinet ministers pointing out the research similarities. He's proposing that some chemical or suite of chemicals found in crude oil may be causing the malformations, and he'd like to see Canada take the lead in researching the issue. Arctic. Greenhouse gas level nearing 'significant' level - World. The world's air has reached what scientists call a troubling new milestone for carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollutant.— Monitoring stations across the Arctic this spring are measuring more than 400 parts per million of the heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere.
The number isn't quite a surprise, because it's been rising at an accelerating pace. Years ago, it passed the 350 ppm mark that many scientists say is the highest safe level for carbon dioxide.