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Fixing Global Warming is Bigger Than Paris ‘15

by Robert Hunziker The worldwide effort to harness, slow down, lessen, reduce, remove the threat of global warming is epitomized by the Paris ’15 climate accord. This agreement calls for nations of the...

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Is the Environmental Protection Agency Hazardous?

by Robert Hunziker In an economically/socially-advanced pluralistic society, like the United States, the integrity of the EPA should never need to be questioned. However, simply posing the thought...

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Here’s One Issue Blue and Red States Agree On: Preventing Deaths of Expectant...

From Indiana to Oregon, lawmakers are passing bills to increase scrutiny of maternal deaths. Often, they’re citing our “Lost Mothers” series. by Nina Martin and Robin Fields Alarmed that the U.S. is...

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Insect Decimation Upstages Global Warming

by Robert Hunziker Everybody’s heard about global warming. It is one of the most advertised existential events of all time. Who isn’t aware? However, there’s a new kid on the block. An alarming loss...

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Fukushima Jitters

by Robert Hunziker Fukushima is full of nasty surprises, similar to John Carpenter’s classic film The Thing (1982), which held audiences to the edge of their seats in anticipation of creepy monsters...

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Plastic Kills Six-Ton Whale

by Robert Hunziker In the annals of human history, modern day society is already setting records never before dreamed possible, as human-trashed plastic officially kills a six-ton six-year-old sperm...

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Plans for Welsh nuclear power plant delayed by concerns over seabirds |...

Plans for a #nuclear power station on the Welsh island of Anglesey have been delayed by concerns over the plant’s impact on colonies of protected seabirds. The proposed twin reactors at Wylfa were...

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Scott Pruitt has four different EPA email addresses. Lawmakers want to know...

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has used four separate agency email addresses since taking office, according to Senate Democrats and an EPA official, prompting concerns among...

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Harsher winters and rising seas: Study finds slowing ocean could mean climate...

In the 2004 blockbuster “The Day After Tomorrow,” the world faced a doomsday scenario: Global warming was causing the Earth’s mighty ocean currents to shut down, bringing about a new ice age. The...

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Chemical Madness!

by Robert Hunziker All of humanity currently risks exposure to toxic chemicals all over creation in a similar vein to the Mad Hatter of Alice in Wonderland fame.  And, maybe, as a result, goin’...

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Nature’s Breaking Point

by Robert Hunziker Ever wonder how the classical philosophers/economists like Adam Smith and David Ricardo would view today’s credo of infinite economic growth, forever more, above and beyond...

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‘My whole life has been a lie’: Sweden admits meatballs are Turkish

Turks have reacted with undisguised glee to what many have described as an official – and certainly long overdue – confession from Stockholm that Sweden’s signature national dish is, in fact, Turkish....

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Climate Change 10-Yr Check-Up

by Robert Hunziker Ten years ago Kevin J. Surace delivered a fascinating TED talk entitled “Worst Case Climate Change.” Based upon credits at the end of his speech, data for his talk came from the......

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Ecological Civilization – Xi vs. Trump

by Robert Hunziker Imagine a society that is exactly opposite Trump’s vision for America. Just feast your mindset on that for a few moments and guaranteed, you’ll smile! And, maybe even chuckle in...

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Airbus space contract will move from UK to continent due to Brexit

A potential €200m contract between the European Space Agency and Airbus in Portsmouth will be moved to the continent because of Brexit, the managing director of Airbus said on Wednesday. Airbus will...

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Climate Crisis Clobbers Trump Denials

by Robert Hunziker Harken!  A Trump appointee agrees that climate change is not a hoax. Granted, that is unimaginable, but it is the real thing. An ongoing climate crisis in America’s Southwest brings...

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Mysterious rise in banned ozone-destroying chemical shocks scientists

A sharp and mysterious rise in emissions of a key ozone-destroying chemical has been detected by scientists, despite its production being banned around the world. Unless the culprit is found and...

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EU split over exclusion of UK from Galileo after Brexit

Divisions are emerging within the EU over the European commission’s decision to exclude the UK from the bloc’s new satellite navigation system, Galileo. A number of member states are said by sources in...

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Why scientists created the world’s smallest house

It’s the tiny house movement taken to extremes: Scientists in France have fabricated a single-story home that measures only 20 microns (millionths of a meter) across. That’s about one-fifth the width...

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Toxic Chemicals – PR Nightmare

by Robert Hunziker A recent unidentified White House staff email referred to a still-pending federal study on chemicals as “a public relations nightmare.” (Source: Annie Snider, EPA Move On Chemical...

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