Cartoon – The Reagan Way
Author: Antarctica Journal
China’s Ecological Mess
Thousands of pigs were found dead in rivers supplying Shanghai’s water, a grisly discovery that has drawn attention again to China’s toxic pollution, which contributes to some 700,000 deaths each year. Here are some points of concern: WASTE Tai Lake—a massive basin that holds China’s third largest body of freshwater, providing water for 30 million people—has been classified as a […]
Read morePoem – AFTER PARTY (By John Biscello)
AFTER PARTY (By John Biscello) She, Lazarus, back from the dead, with a musical vengeance— A beat, Christ, please, she asks of her martyred D.J., half-light, half-man, and out climbs her voice, grinding through rubble, a dark velvet toy wound up for centuries, released, on behalf of every last blue girl, unannounced, notes from underground unfurling a cortege of […]
Read moreCartoon – You’re Not A Failure
Cartoon – The honeymoon phase
Fortney H. “Pete” Stark Quote – Drastic Prison Reforms
“Throw a few chairmen of the board in jail for polluting the air and water, and you’ll see pollution disappear quite rapidly…. You would also probably see some pretty drastic prison reforms.” – Fortney H. “Pete” Stark
Read moreOh, That Smell
A specimen of the world’s largest flower, the titan arum, is about to bloom at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. To attract carrion insects, the flower emits a stench botanists likened to “a very dead elephant.”
Read moreIndia’s Air Quality Index
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched India’s first air-quality index in April, but pollution will keep growing unless India stems coal production, which Modi has pledged to double by 2020.
Read moreWake Up and Go To Work
“No dreams come true until you wake up and go to work.”
Read moreThe Missing Heat – Global warming hits plateau
Global warming hits plateau. . . What does that mean for the threat of catastrophic climate change? Why has the warming trend slowed? Climatologists aren’t sure. What they do know is that the average air temperatures at the earth’s surface have risen only about 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit since 1998—the hottest year of the 20th century—even as humanity has continued to […]
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