By Neenah Payne The concept of “keystone species” was introduced by ecologist Robert Paine in 1969. A keystone species has a large effect on the community it supports. Keystone species increase the species biodiversity of a community and enhance stability of the environement. Without them,…
By Tyler Durden Europe is plagued with an energy crisis, and the cold season is coming ahead of schedule. The stability of the EU’s natural gas reserves now depends on a mild winter. But new weather forecasts for next week indicate that “Arctic chill will…
By Tyler Durden How much are consumers willing to pay for a cup of coffee? That’s a great question, considering the world’s top arabica producer, Brazil, is headed for record-low inventory. Tighter global supplies plus robust demand should continue boosting prices. Bloomberg quoted Silas Brasileiro,…
By Tyler Durden The weather phenomenon known as La Nina has a 91% chance in September through November, dropping to about a 54% chance in January to March. This would make it the third consecutive Northern Hemisphere winter La Nina has occurred, setting off meteorological…
By Study Finds Air pollution hits women harder than men, according to a new study. Researchers say diesel exhaust fumes change components of blood affected by inflammation and infection — but these changes were greater among women. Scientists at the University of Manitoba say levels of…
By Tyler Durden New satellite imagery shows a large swath of California’s rice fields has been left barren without harvest as fears of a “mini dust bowl” emerge due to diminishing water supplies. Kurt Richter, a third-generation rice farmer in Colusa, the rice capital of…
By Patricia Burke, featuring Paul Harding Part 1 considered the historical record regarding the Moscow Signal, and the assessment by an advisory committee to the U.S. military that sounds most recently heard and recorded by injured diplomats (Havana Syndrome) were crickets. Part 2 features Lyn McLean of EMR Australia,…
By Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International (with Don Maisch) September 2021 marked the release of a report, one year ago, by an advisory group for the U.S. State Department. As reported by the Independent, “The ‘most likely source’ of the mysterious ‘Havana syndrome’ is…
By Tyler Durden The city of Las Vegas, New Mexico, has 20 days of fresh water left, and officials are searching for alternative sources to prevent contaminated water from flowing to households and businesses, according to CNN. Not to be confused with Las Vegas, Nevada, the…
By Paul Joseph Watson Even as the people of Germany struggle with a serious cost-of-living crisis, they are being told by a Green Party minister that there should be a new tax on meat. Yes, really. With Germans already facing soaring food inflation and energy…
By Amy Mek Billionaire Bill Gates, who is funding the project, “assures” us it’s not a scene from a horror movie. Inside a two-story brick building in Medellín, Colombia, scientists work in muggy labs breeding 30 million genetically modified mosquitoes weekly in labs. They tend to…
By Neenah Payne Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, former chairman of the Nestle Group, said in 2005 that access to water is not a human right! Coca Cola, Poland Spring, and other bottlers are threatening the water supply. California and the Southwest face record life-changing droughts. China has…
By Thomas Lambert British Environment Agency CEO James Bevan says that Brits should get used to the idea of having to drink recycled sewage in times of water uncertainty. “We need to treat water as a precious resource, not a free good,” writes Bevan in The Sunday…
By Tyler Durden With China’s water supply rapidly deteriorating to catastrophic levels – something which could have profound effects on the global food, energy and materials markets – officials in the southwestern province of Sichuan have deployed two giant cloud-seeding drones in the hopes of…
By Nikolay Atanasova Intelsat, a multinational company that provides satellite services, reports that it has lost control of one of its satellites, which is believed to have been rendered inoperable by space weather when it was struck by a geomagnetic solar storm. Since Friday (August…
By Sara Tipton This summer has been unusually warm, and since the temperatures continue to break records across the country and worldwide, it is time to get familiar with signs of heat illnesses and how to assist if you do overheat. Heat exhaustion and heat…
By Study Finds Modern pesticides are leaving bees’ brains “buzzed” warns new research. They damage the vital pollinators’ brains so that they can’t walk in a straight line, say scientists. Exposure to neonicotinoids, the worlds’ most commonly used insecticide, and new generation sulfoximine harms coordination. It’s similar…
By Fay Clark, Anglia Ruskin University and Jacob Dunn, Anglia Ruskin University From construction projects to busy roads, aeroplanes and railways, human noise is everywhere. It is an invisible cause of stress, posing serious risks to human health and wellbeing. However, noise also harms animals…
By Keean Bexte Saskatchewan Minister Jeremy Cockrill has sent a warning to the Trudeau government that officers sent by Ottawa will be arrested if they continue to trespass on farmland to test nitrogen levels. According to Cockrill, Trudeau’s government has been unlawfully sending federal employees…
By Tyler Durden Days ago, we said the next food insecurity problem that may impact Americans’ eating habits could be an emerging potato shortage. Now there appears to be another issue: Tomatoes are getting squeezed, and risks of a ketchup shortage rise as a severe drought…
