HELL ON EARTH: AUSTRALIA FACES UNPRECEDENTED WILDFIRE “CATASTROPHE” Proving that the in-your-face reality of unfettered climate change is not about to recede in the new year, a national disaster is unfolding only days into 2013 in Australia, where rampaging wildfires are burning huge swaths of the country. Australians are used to the annual “bushfire [...]
NOW YOU SEE IT… : SCIENTISTS DISCOVER “UNPRECEDENTED” MELTING OF THE GREENLAND ICE SHEET. (The Guardian) Holding more than 10 percent of the world’s fresh water and potentially accounting for a 23-foot world sea level rise if melted completely, the fate of the massive ice sheet that normally covers almost all of Greenland is [...]
Some of the most dire warnings yet about the future of our planet and the consequences of ignoring the forces and causes of climate change are being delivered by some of the most knowledgeable scientists in their fields. Predictions of irreversible and unprecedented ramifications driven by climate change and other man-made impacts on the natural [...]
ORPHANED BY DEPORTATION: IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT IS DESTROYING IMMIGRANT FAMILIES IN THE UNITED STATES. (Huffington Post) As repeatedly touted by the Obama administration, 2011 was a record year for deportations carried out by the federal government, with nearly 400,000 immigrants — most of them with clean criminal records and with lives already established in the US — [...]
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