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Some studies of people living near cell towers have also confirmed an array of health complaints, including dizziness, nausea, headaches, tinnitus and insomnia, from people identified as having “electromagnetic hypersensitivity.”
Based on quarter-century-old standards, the federal government denies that cellphones pose any risks. But questions remain.
If a third of the world’s city lawns were planted with trees, more than a gigaton [one billion tons] of carbon could be removed from the atmosphere over two decades.
Traditional lawn has been under fire for years because of its lack of biodiversity and voracious appetite for fertiliser, herbicides and mow
In countries such as Australia, New Zealand and the US, the lawn represented a throwback to the colonial era, Gillman said, when lawns were strongly associated with affluence and nostalgia for English landscapes. Now, “a lot of lawns almost happen by mistake, as a default setting,” he said.
“We now have the smoking gun showing that they accurately predicted warming years before they started attacking the science. These graphs confirm the complicity of what Exxon knew and how they misled are murdering the planet for sick profit.”
Oil company drove some of the leading science of the era only to publicly dismiss global heating
The dismal reality is that green energy will save not the complex web of life on Earth but the particular way of life of one domineering spe
The crux of the problem is that mainstream environmentalists have siloed climate change as a phenomenon apart from the broad human ecological footprint, separate from deforestation, overgrazing of livestock, megafauna kill-off, collapsing fisheries, desertification, depleted freshwater, soil degradation, oceanic garbage gyres, toxification of rainfall with microplastics, and on and on — the myriad biospheric effects of breakneck growth. Climate change is “but one symptom of an environmentally dysfunctional system of constant growth of economies and populations,” ecologist William Rees, professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia, told me.
“The meta-problem that we need to keep our eyes on,” Rees said, is ecological overshoot. Modern techno-industrial culture, he writes, “is systematically — even enthusiastically — consuming the biophysical basis of its own existence.” Rees describes this as a malignant process, humanity as cancer.
The team have labelled the newly discovered animal Janavis finalidens in reference to the Roman god that looked both backwards and forwards, and a nod to the animal’s place on the bird family tree. The portmanteau of the Latin words for “final” and “teeth” reflects the existence of Janavis shortly before toothed birds were wiped out in the subsequent mass extinction.
The site of its discovery means it lived around the same time and place as the toothless “wonderchicken”, the oldest known modern bird, although at 1.5kg (3.3lb), Janavis would have have weighed almost four times as much.
While the palate bones of wonderchicken have not been preserved, Field said he was confident they would have been similar to those of Janavis. However, he added that the size difference of the creatures could explain why relatives of wonderchicken survived the catastrophe 66m years ago, but those of Janavis did not.
“We think that this mass extinction event was highly size selective,” he said. “Large bodied animals in terrestrial environments did terribly across this mass extinction event.”
Dating back more than 65m years, specimen’s mobile palate challenges understanding of avian evolution
Parking minimums are coming under increasing fire from the planning community, who fear that they will maintain American cities’ auto-centricity, which prioritizes automobiles over people, housing, and high-quality architecture. Parking minimums, according to transportation planners, make cities and towns less walkable, resulting in longer travel times, a greater need for driving, and ultimately, more parking.
What is the history of parking minimums? Columbus, Ohio set the precedent for the first minimal parking requirement in 1923. Parking require
The fast-growing plant is believed to be twice as effective as trees at absorbing and locking up carbon
“In fact, some people argue that plant-eating dinosaurs like these belched out so much methane they contributed to the greenhouse heating that then had the planet in its grip.”
One of the largest creatures to have walked the Earth is to become the Natural History Museum’s new star attraction
