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Monsanto

How GE invested in fossil fuels, and missed the opportunity to be a clean energy giant

In late June 2019, General Electric announced it would close a California gas plant 20 years ahead of schedule. The Inland Empire Energy Center in California, the company said, was “uneconomical to support further” in part because of outdated technology. But…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Orangutan

Courting controversy, scientists team with industry to tackle one of the world’s most destructive crops

By Dyna Rochmyaningsih Jul. 11, 2019 , 1:30 PM IN LIBO ON SUMATRA, INDONESIACrickets were chirping one clear morning in April when Anak Agung Aryawan walked under the canopy of a quarter-century-old oil palm plantation here. Suddenly Agung, an agroecologist,…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Water Pollution

‘Outrageous conflicts of interest’: Watchdog groups urge California Gov. Gavin Newsom to fire oil regulators

San Ardo, CA oil drilling (Photo: Drew Bird/Center for Biological Diversity) PALM SPRINGS, Calif. Two consumer groups are calling on California's governor to freeze all new oil drilling permits and to clean house at the agency that issues them after the or…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Belt and Road

Sri Lanka negotiating new military deal with the US: PM

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka is negotiating a fresh military cooperation deal with the United States, its Prime Minister announced in parliament Wednesday, even as the country's president vowed to veto any agreement. Ranil Wickremesinghe said the government was discus…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Little Italy

Condo of the week: 257 Euclid Avenue

This condo is one of only five in the building that was once three separate townhouses and home to First Born Church, a maybe-cult, in the 80s. The modern open loft boasts 10-foot ceilings, big windows and lots of storage. The main floor is a bit on the d…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Yemen Civil War

Yemen Press Reader 554: | Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 554 – Yemen War Mosaic 554

Eingebetteter Medieninhalt Eingebetteter Medieninhalt ... aus Jemen VAE-unterstützte Separatisten gegen die Hadi-Regierung Frauen in Huthi-Gefängnissen Huthi-Gericht verurteilt 30 zum Tod Cholera breitet sich schneller aus USA-Iran-Krise, wachsende Spannun…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Grexit

LETTER FROM LONDON: Brexit has killed even the least-bad option

The British were once the most sober of nations, even if not in the literal sense. But they’re on a run of wild behavior such as the world has rarely seen. First came the 2016 self-immolation in which they voted by a whisker to leave the European Union on mo…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Bees

Avocado, coffee and citrus fruits ‘threaten global food security’

Western appetites for foods like avocados, coffee and citrus fruit are threatening global food security, according to a study that looked at 40 years of data. Global diversity has declined as monocultures of crops including soybean, canola and palm take up …

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Refugees

The Nordic Model May Be the Best Cushion Against Capitalism. Can It Survive Immigration?

From where Johnny Grahn sits, Sweden is already helping too much. A bus driver by profession, he occupies a seat on the Filipstad government council, representing the Sweden Democrats. His face tightens at mention of the refugees. As he describes it, they ha…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Bees

Wildfires disrupt important pollination processes by moths and increase extinction risks

Publishing their findings today (12 July) in the journal Functional Ecology, an international team of experts, studied the impact of a large wildfire in Portugal on flowers, moths and the complex ways in which they interact. Previous studies have shown the f…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

How GE invested in fossil fuels, and missed the opportunity to be a clean energy giant

Courting controversy, scientists team with industry to tackle one of the world’s most destructive crops

‘Outrageous conflicts of interest’: Watchdog groups urge California Gov. Gavin Newsom to fire oil regulators

Sri Lanka negotiating new military deal with the US: PM

Condo of the week: 257 Euclid Avenue

Yemen Press Reader 554: | Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 554 – Yemen War Mosaic 554

LETTER FROM LONDON: Brexit has killed even the least-bad option

Avocado, coffee and citrus fruits ‘threaten global food security’

The Nordic Model May Be the Best Cushion Against Capitalism. Can It Survive Immigration?

Wildfires disrupt important pollination processes by moths and increase extinction risks

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