Has ‘organic’ been over-sized? - organic food has become a wildly lucrative business for big food and a
premium-price-means-premium-profit section of the grocery store. the
industry’s image — contented cows grazing on the green hills of
family-owned farms — is mostly pure fantasy. or rather, pure marketing.
Big Food, it turns out, has spawned what might be called big organic
Toxic health dumping scandal. - the dangerous disposal of hazardous substances including liquid uranium
and contaminated objects, the dumping of the confidential records of
patients and the mishandling of asbestos have exposed a culture of
mismanagement in Sydney hospitals
Texas seeks new water supplies amid drought. - the punishing seven-year drought of the 1950s in texas brought about the
modern era of water planning. but the drought of 2011 was the hottest,
driest 12 months on record there.
Showing vultures a little love. - think of a giraffe lying on the serengeti plain. he has just died, maybe
of disease, maybe he was killed by a pride of lions, but now he's a
19-foot-long, 4,000-pound mound of meat, which very soon is going to
stink and rot and muck up the neighborhood.
Rising temperatures and drought create fears of a new dust bowl. - triple-digit days. weeks with little to no rain. soil crumbling away.
stunted corn stalks. right now the fertile fields of the u.s. midwest
are experiencing corn-killing weather, with parts of five corn-growing
states in the region experiencing severe or extreme drought
Torrential rain wreaks havoc across Britain.
- more than 200 flood warnings and alerts were issued by the
environment agency on Saturday as torrential rain swept the country,
causing havoc
in many areas - the guardian
Scores killed in Russia floods. - severe flash floods in Russia's southern Krasnodar region have killed at
least 99 people and affected nearly 13,000 in the area's worst natural
disaster in decades, officials say.
U.S. drought sets record. - more of the nation is in the grip of drought than at any time in the
past 12 years, including over half of the contiguous united states,
according to the u.s. drought monitor. - orange county register
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