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Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- Ramzy Baroud Oct. 19, 2020 The outdated notion that China "just wants to do business" should be completely erased from our understanding of the rising global power’s political outlook. Simply put, Beijing has long realized that, in order for it to sustain its economic growth unhindered, it has to develop the necessary tools to protect itself, its allies and their c ...
Gangkhar Puensum seen from Gophu La Pass; it is Bhutan's highest mountain at an elevation of 7,570 m (24,836 ft) and most likely the highest unclimbed mountain in the world. Image: Photo by Gradythebadger: Creative Commons Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 1, 2020 Every time YouTube suggests a video about something like the Marianas Trench, I get an authentic kick out of how little we humans know ...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aug. 27, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Ahead of a full ban, fishing increased 130 percent in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in the South Pacific, setting back projected efforts to let nature rebuild fish stocks by 18 months, researchers say. "Extrapolating this behavior globally, we estimate that if other marine reserve announcements were to trigger similar preemptive fishing, ...
California has more than $700 billion parked in private banks earning minimal interest, private equity funds that contributed to the affordable housing crisis, or shadow banks of the sort that caused the banking collapse of 2008. These funds, or some of them, could be transferred to an infrastructure bank that generated credit for the state -- while the funds remained safely on deposit in the ban ...
Credit: Oliver Plümper, Utrecht University April 11, 2017 (Phys.org) -- An international team of researchers has found possible evidence of life ten kilometers below the sea floor in the Mariana Trench. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team describes samples of serpentine they collected from hydrothermal vents and the material they found in it that ...
New study shows oceans in peril as acidification is happening at rate perhaps never seen in planet's history (Photo: 'Rough Ocean'/Flickr/Jacqueline Fasser) Aug. 26, 2013 (Common Dreams) -- In both a new study published Monday and in a newspaper interview over the weekend, German marine biologist Hans Poertner warns the world that the crisis of ocean acidification -- an intricately woven aspect o ...
Regulators acknowledge that crisis is worsening amid constant flow of bad news at crippled nuclear plant Water woes: Workers stand atop a tank for highly radioactive water at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power complex Tuesday, where one container was found to have leaked 300 tons of water the same day. (Photo: KYODO) Aug. 21, 2013 (Common Dreams) -- In the most serious action since the nuclear pla ...
May 29, 2012 (Common Dreams) -- Detectable amounts of cesium-137 and cesium-134 were found in bluefin tuna caught off the coast of California about four months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, U.S. scientists reported on Monday. The timing is important because it shows that migrating fish carried radiation much further and faster than either wind or ocean currents. In addition, of c ...
South China Sea. Source: Demis Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 22, 2012 -- On two occasions in my life I found myself living close to the South China Sea. The sea became my escape from life’s pressing responsibilities. But there is no escaping the fact that the deceptively serene waters are now also grounds for a nascent but real new cold war. China takes the name of the sea very seriously. ...
Fred Reed Nov. 2, 2011 (Fred On Everything) -- I read frequently among the lesserly neuronal of the supposed honor of soldiers, of the military virtues of courage, loyalty, and uprightness -- that in an age of moral decomposition only the military adhere to principles, and that our troops in places like Afghanistan nobly make sacrifices to preserve our freedoms and democracy. Is not all of this n ...
Sept. 27, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Beyond the police roadblocks that mark the no-go zone around Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, six-foot tall weeds invade rice paddies and vines gone wild strangle road signs along empty streets. Takako Harada, 80, returned to an evacuated area of Iitate village to retrieve her car. Beside her house is an empty cattle pen, the 100 cows slaughtered on governmen ...
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