Extinction and Animal Deaths. Honeybees 'entomb' hives to protect against pesticides, say scientists | Environment. 'Entombed' pollen is identified as having sunken, wax-covered cells amid 'normal', uncapped cells. Photograph: Journal of Invertebrate Pathology Honeybees are taking emergency measures to protect their hives from pesticides, in an extraordinary example of the natural world adapting swiftly to our depredations, according to a prominent bee expert. Scientists have found numerous examples of a new phenomenon – bees "entombing" or sealing up hive cells full of pollen to put them out of use, and protect the rest of the hive from their contents.
The pollen stored in the sealed-up cells has been found to contain dramatically higher levels of pesticides and other potentially harmful chemicals than the pollen stored in neighbouring cells, which is used to feed growing young bees. "This is a novel finding, and very striking. But the bees' last-ditch efforts to save themselves appear to be unsuccessful – the entombing behaviour is found in many hives that subsequently die off, according to Pettis. Canadian Nuclear Plant Leaks Radioactive Water Into Lake Ontario – Planetsave.com: climate change and environmental news. With all the focus placed on the Japanese radiation leak as well as the toxic plume of radioactive particles (possibly containing uranium and plutonium) heading for the United States, another potential disaster is receiving virtually no attention.
Of course, attention should be paid to the Japanese situation. Nevertheless, it seems the continent of North America is being hit from two sides in terms of radiation danger. No doubt this is an attempt to hush concern over another radioactive accident amid anxiety over the catastrophe in Japan. So they can push the “Nuclear is safe” agenda, just like coal, oil and gas companies do. John Luxat, an “expert” on radiation from McMaster University claims the water that found its way into Lake Ontario Monday is actually not radioactive at all. Apparently, the nuclear industry was unable to get its story straight this time around. According to Mr. Read More: CBC News Related Articles: Photo Credit: Eyeline-Imagery via Flickr. Clothianidin: a neonicotinoid pesticide highly toxic to Honeybees and other pollinators. Posted by JT on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 · 16 Comments This is a continuation of the honeybee problem facing the United States and other countries right now: Here is a link that is provided by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The link in PDF format is a fact sheet for a pesticide called Clothianidin which is in a subclass of pesticides known as neonicotinoids. The major US producer of this chemical is the Bayer Corporation which also produces for Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Germany, Hungary, Mexico, New Zealand, and the UK, which uses this pesticide to treat seeds for corn and canola. This is the same company that makes Aleve, Alka Seltzer, and of course Bayer Aspirin. The product name for its Clothianidin use is called Poncho as it will be cited below in the excerpts. Colony Collapse Disorder is also being reported in Canada and in Europe…go figure. Quoted from the Bayer Corporation web site’s News Release in 2003: And now -> Quoted from EPA It's absolutely FREE!
Horizon: Science Under Attack. Bolivia Set to Pass ‘Law of Mother Earth’ // Current. To Our Faithful Current.com Users: Current's run has ended after eight exciting years on air and online. The Current TV staff has appreciated your interest, support, participation and unflagging loyalty over the years. Your contributions helped make Current.com a vibrant place for discussing thousands of interesting stories, and your continued viewership motivated us to keep innovating and find new ways to reflect the voice of the people. We now welcome the on-air and digital presence of Al Jazeera America, a new news network committed to reporting on and investigating real stories affecting the lives of everyday Americans in every corner of the country.
You can keep up with what's new on Al Jazeera America and see this new brand of journalism for yourself at Thank you for inspiring and challenging us. . – The Current TV Staff. Fukushima Daiichi Radioactive Seawater Model - Radiation Spreads Throughout Pacific Ocean! DFO Shilling for Salmon Farmers: Outrageous Briefing Note. Over the years, starting in earnest with the Kemano Completion Project fight in 1993, I’ve been highly critical of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) and its politicization by the Mulroney government of that day. I was hit with a massive lawsuit by former Minister Tom Siddon which my insurers stupidly settled (I made that comment publicly immediately upon the news release).
I had support from many former DFO scientists and I’m satisfied that my statements were accurate. When the KCP was approved in 1986 this was because the politicians told DFO to do as it was told. Now we have proof of DFO working on behalf of salmon farmers via a document filed at the Cohen Commission. To be truthful, it makes me feel ill to read it and report on it. It’s styled as a “BRIEFING NOTE FOR THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF HABITAT MANAGEMENT” It goes on to say, “As lead federal department for aquaculture, DFO has explicitly committed to improving public confidence in aquaculture. Can you believe this? The importance of Trees MAN MADE HAARP = JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE TSUNAMI 11 MARCH 2011 + MULTI FOOTAGE.. The Future of the Light Bulb Ban. Why environmentalists will survive Armageddon.
The case for recycling the stuff in your toilet. A Vancouver-based clean technology start-up called Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies wants to turn what gets flushed down your toilet into fertilizer. Why is this good? Well, obviously recycling anything — even the stuff in our poop — is a good thing. For me, the importance of turning waste water into fertilizer hit home after reading a year-old story, titled “Peak Phosphorus,” in the magazine Foreign Policy. “Our dwindling supply of phosphorus, a primary component underlying the growth of global agricultural production, threatens to disrupt food security across the planet during the coming century,” it read. “This is the gravest natural resource shortage you’ve never heard of.” Great, more doom and gloom to get depressed about. The good news is we can recycle phosphorus, partly by removing it from our waste water.
Phosphorus is a somewhat rare mineral in the Earth’s crust. When the plants we eat grow, they soak up mainly phosphorus, nitrogen and potassium nutrients from the soil. BBC Newsnight: Wikileaks files reveal Arctic 'carve up' 5/12/2011 -- URGENT !! NILU - Norsk Institute = ZARDOZ = radiation @ VERY HIGH levels. Ban on plastic bags at L.A. markets is approved. Los Angeles became the largest city in the nation Wednesday to approve a ban on plastic bags at supermarket checkout lines, handing a major victory to clean-water advocates who sought to reduce the amount of trash clogging landfills, the region’s waterways and the ocean. Egged on by actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus and an array of environmental groups, the City Council voted 13 to 1 to phase out plastic bags over the next 12 months at an estimated 7,500 stores.
Councilman Bernard Parks cast the lone no vote. "Let’s get the message to Sacramento that it’s time to go statewide," said Councilman Ed Reyes, who has focused on efforts to revitalize the Los Angeles River. Council members quietly backed away from a more controversial plan to also ban use of paper grocery bags, which was first proposed by appointees of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Wednesday’s vote kicks off a four-month environmental review of the bag ban, followed by passage of an ordinance putting it into effect. LeafSnap: Identify Plants And Trees With Your iPhone. If you are a nature enthusiast and want to know which types of trees you encounter every day, you will have a tough time doing so. Thankfully however there is a new tool available that will help you easily identify plants and trees.
This tool is called LeafSnap. LeafSnap is a free to use service that catalogues high definition pictures of tree leaves, flowers, and even fruits. Visitors to the site can browse the pictures, learn their common and scientific names, and read about their habitat and bloom time. The site also offers an iOS application that helps recognize plants through their leaves. All you have to do is install the iOS app, shoot a picture of a plant’s leaf, and let LeafSnap do the detecting. Demo video: Features: Check out LeafSnap @ www.leafsnap.com. Urge PETCO to Ditch Rabbit Fur Toys! | Action Alerts | Action | PETA.
Water has Memory. Nuclear collapse looms? Fukushima No. 4 reactor 'leaning' URGENT: Japan now admits Fukushima at 154 trillion Bq's/Day and West coast Radiation forecast,Part1. The Bioplastic Revolution: 9 Crazy, Cool Products Made from Plants Not Plastic. The world's addiction to plastic is filling up landfills, clogging the oceans, and even becoming a food source for birds -- but finding another material that's as durable, heat-resistant, light, and useful hasn't been easy. One alternative: bioplastics, which have similar end properties to the plastics you already know and love (or hate) but which are made from natural sources like corn, potatoes, tapioca, and sugar.
(That's the resin in its pre-product form above.) The bioplastics industry is growing steadily -- here, we've tracked down some of the most useful, most surprising, and most ingenious uses for the biodegradable, compostable plastics. Photo: Cereplast. Newly Discovered Wasp Species Enslaves Spiders. Spiders spend a lot of time crafting their webs in hopes of making a meal out of all manner of winged insect--but a recently discovered species of wasp is found to use the spider's engineering prowess to its own advantage.
Through a not yet understood chemical process, the wasps are able to, quite literally, enslave the unsuspecting spiders to build a nest for their larva, and after all that hard work, become their first meal. Sure, it seems pretty dastardly, but researchers say it's evolution.According to a study published by a Brazilian team in the Journal of Natural History, and reported by Correio Braziliense, the newly discovered wasp species, a member of the Hymenoptera family, is able to control some spiders through a chemical process that remains a mystery. How the Wasp Enslaves the SpiderA female wasp will target a spider and immobilize it with an unknown venom injected into its mouth--at which point the wasp lays its eggs on the spider's abdomen.
An Evolutionary Advantage? Pacific trash vortex showing drift of ocean pollution. Independent news on natural health, nutrition and more. The Plutonium nightmare has just begun! West Coast WAKE UP! Quake hits Mexico, minor damage reported. MEXICO CITY—A magnitude-6.5 earthquake shook a wide area of southern and central Mexico on Thursday, sending people fleeing into the streets, but causing only minor reported damage. The epicentre was located near Las Choapas, a town of about 83,000 residents about 600 kilometres southeast of Mexico City.
It swayed buildings for several seconds in the capital, and in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, people ran from their homes and schoolchildren assembled on playgrounds. Near the epicentre, cracks in walls forced the evacuation of one elementary school, said Bernabe Hernandez Perez, head of civil protection in Las Choapas. Gov. Javier Duarte de Ochoa said earlier that he had no reports of damage in the oil-producing state. “Veracruz is completely quiet without problems,” he told state television. “It was felt all over the state, but nothing major happened.
The U.S. BP gets OK to dump mercury into Lake Michigan. By Bobby Carmichael, USA TODAY A BP (BP) refinery in Indiana will be allowed to continue to dump mercury into Lake Michigan under a permit issued by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. The permit exempts the BP plant at Whiting, Ind., 3 miles southeast of Chicago, from a 1995 federal regulation limiting mercury discharges into the Great Lakes to 1.3 ounces per year.
The BP plant reported releasing 3 pounds of mercury through surface water discharges each year from 2002 to 2005, according to the Toxics Release Inventory, a database on pollution emissions kept by the Environmental Protection Agency that is based on information reported by companies. The permit was issued July 21 in connection with the plant's $3.8 billion expansion, but only late last week began to generate public controversy. It gives the company until at least 2012 to meet the federal standard. The action was denounced by environmental groups and members of Congress. Share this story: Gagging order for scientists probing dolphin deaths. By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 12:39 GMT, 26 March 2011 Scientists probing the deaths of baby dolphins in the area affected by last year's BP oil spill have been ordered by the government not to speak about the project.
Wildlife biologists who have been contracted by the National Marine Fisheries Service to investigate a huge rise in dolphin mortality this year must keep their findings confidential. The gagging order was imposed because the review of the deaths is part of the federal criminal investigation into last year's BP disaster. Death on the sands: Evidence from the spike in deaths in the last three months is being collected for a criminal case, civil litigation and a detailed study of the environmental effects of last year's mammoth oil spill About 90 dolphins died last year, but this year the toll has jumped to 200 already. 'The chain of custody is being closely watched.
Young victims: Up to 200 carcasses have been washed up along the Gulf's shores since mid-January. Sean McGivern Enviro Pig. Solar PV Becoming Cheaper than Gas in California? Levitating nanoparticles may make for better geoengineering. A recent analysis of geoengineering options indicated that, while pumping chemicals into the upper atmosphere would work, the approach comes with significant risks. Since the chemicals would gradually come back out of the atmosphere, these schemes would require constant input to remain effective. A paper released in PNAS this week suggests there might be a lower-effort alternative: nanoparticles that are structured in a way that helps them control their altitude.
Even if CO2 emissions are eventually reduced, we may have put enough in the atmosphere by then to ensure that some form of geoengineering may be needed to lower the global temperature. Aerosols in the upper atmosphere increase the Earth’s albedo (the overall reflectivity of the planet), reducing global temperatures by reflecting more sunlight back into space. The main advantage of the proposed nano-structures over chemical areosols is their ability to control their altitude. Landscapes of Extraction: Industrial Impacts Mar the Planet [Slide Show] Powerplay -NAFTA trying to Privatize Canada Fresh Water in power grab. The problem with salmon farming in BC. BP DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE THIS VIDEO!
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Climate Change. Water Crimes. USDA Research Links Neonicotinoid Pesticides to Bee Deaths. (Beyond Pesticides, January 25, 2011) Research by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Bee Research Laboratory and Penn State University shows that the neonicotinoid insecticide imidacloprid contribute –at extremely low levels– to bee deaths and possibly colony collapse disorder (CCD), the widespread disappearance of honey bees that has killed off more than a third of commercial honey bees in the U.S. While the study has not been published yet, the UK’s The Independent newspaper reports that honeybees exposed to imidacloprid are more susceptible to the fungal pathogen Nosema. This is the first study to show that neonicotinoids impact the survival of bees at levels below the level of detection, meaning that field studies would not have considered the role of the pesticide, because they would not have detected it.
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