[ ]   [ ]   [ ]                        [ ]      [ ]   [ ]

Trump - Red_Dragon - Apr 22, 2025 - 5:45pm
 
Mixtape Culture Club - KurtfromLaQuinta - Apr 22, 2025 - 5:38pm
 
Things You Thought Today - ScottFromWyoming - Apr 22, 2025 - 3:08pm
 
NY Times Strands - rgio - Apr 22, 2025 - 3:07pm
 
Real Time with Bill Maher - R_P - Apr 22, 2025 - 1:51pm
 
260,000 Posts in one thread? - Lazy8 - Apr 22, 2025 - 12:27pm
 
Happy Earth Day - R_P - Apr 22, 2025 - 12:26pm
 
NYTimes Connections - GeneP59 - Apr 22, 2025 - 11:08am
 
Wordle - daily game - GeneP59 - Apr 22, 2025 - 11:02am
 
Radio Paradise Comments - GeneP59 - Apr 22, 2025 - 10:56am
 
Musky Mythology - Proclivities - Apr 22, 2025 - 10:09am
 
Tesla (motors, batteries, etc) - islander - Apr 22, 2025 - 10:03am
 
Republican Party - Red_Dragon - Apr 22, 2025 - 9:30am
 
Today in History - Red_Dragon - Apr 22, 2025 - 5:46am
 
Thimerosal Vaccines linked to neurological disorders - islander - Apr 21, 2025 - 8:48pm
 
DQ (as in 'Daily Quote') - JimTreadwell - Apr 21, 2025 - 4:23pm
 
Israel - R_P - Apr 21, 2025 - 3:46pm
 
Bug Reports & Feature Requests - jarro - Apr 21, 2025 - 2:27pm
 
The Obituary Page - rgio - Apr 21, 2025 - 12:24pm
 
April 2025 Photo Theme - Red - Alchemist - Apr 21, 2025 - 12:21pm
 
M.A.G.A. - Proclivities - Apr 21, 2025 - 12:17pm
 
Cryptic Posts - Leave Them Guessing - GeneP59 - Apr 21, 2025 - 8:40am
 
Freedom of speech? - rgio - Apr 21, 2025 - 4:43am
 
Name My Band - GeneP59 - Apr 20, 2025 - 7:45pm
 
::yesterday:: - Red_Dragon - Apr 20, 2025 - 3:35pm
 
Poetry Forum - oldviolin - Apr 20, 2025 - 8:43am
 
Favourite Scriptures - black321 - Apr 20, 2025 - 8:30am
 
Museum Of Bad Album Covers - Proclivities - Apr 20, 2025 - 7:55am
 
Radio Paradise Staion Break - walterebaugh - Apr 20, 2025 - 7:33am
 
• • • The Once-a-Day • • •  - oldviolin - Apr 19, 2025 - 10:23pm
 
YouTube: Music-Videos - oldviolin - Apr 19, 2025 - 10:14pm
 
Song of the Day - oldviolin - Apr 19, 2025 - 8:53pm
 
I Thought Earth Had Only One Moon - Red_Dragon - Apr 19, 2025 - 5:06pm
 
The war on funk is over! - R_P - Apr 19, 2025 - 4:02pm
 
China - R_P - Apr 19, 2025 - 1:57pm
 
Other Medical Stuff - kurtster - Apr 19, 2025 - 1:43pm
 
Quick! I need a chicken... - Isabeau - Apr 19, 2025 - 1:00pm
 
Pernicious Pious Proclivities Particularized Prodigiously - R_P - Apr 19, 2025 - 12:45pm
 
Best Song Comments. - ScottFromWyoming - Apr 19, 2025 - 11:15am
 
Outstanding Covers - oldviolin - Apr 19, 2025 - 9:59am
 
Mars - oldviolin - Apr 19, 2025 - 9:53am
 
Lyrics That Remind You of Someone - oldviolin - Apr 19, 2025 - 9:32am
 
Live Music - Steely_D - Apr 19, 2025 - 7:30am
 
Immigration - R_P - Apr 18, 2025 - 7:05pm
 
Dialing 1-800-Manbird - oldviolin - Apr 18, 2025 - 6:43pm
 
Need A Thread Killed? - oldviolin - Apr 18, 2025 - 6:25pm
 
• • • BRING OUT YOUR DEAD • • •  - oldviolin - Apr 18, 2025 - 5:55pm
 
Music Videos - oldviolin - Apr 18, 2025 - 5:19pm
 
Commercializing Facebook - R_P - Apr 18, 2025 - 4:49pm
 
Positive Thoughts and Prayer Requests - Antigone - Apr 18, 2025 - 3:04pm
 
Fascism In America - RedTopFireBelow - Apr 18, 2025 - 3:01pm
 
New Music - black321 - Apr 18, 2025 - 1:24pm
 
Comics! - Steely_D - Apr 18, 2025 - 11:04am
 
Upcoming concerts or shows you can't wait to see - Steely_D - Apr 18, 2025 - 10:49am
 
One Partying State - Wyoming News - ScottFromWyoming - Apr 18, 2025 - 8:58am
 
How's the weather? - GeneP59 - Apr 18, 2025 - 8:40am
 
Breaking News - Red_Dragon - Apr 18, 2025 - 6:07am
 
NASA & other news from space - NoEnzLefttoSplit - Apr 18, 2025 - 12:36am
 
Ask an Atheist - Lazy8 - Apr 17, 2025 - 9:12pm
 
USA! USA! USA! - R_P - Apr 17, 2025 - 8:22pm
 
Sorry Bill/Alanna - powdapilot - Apr 17, 2025 - 5:10pm
 
Strips, cartoons, illustrations - Red_Dragon - Apr 17, 2025 - 3:37pm
 
Cinema - R_P - Apr 17, 2025 - 2:53pm
 
Words that should be put on the substitutes bench for a year - Proclivities - Apr 17, 2025 - 1:44pm
 
Ukraine - R_P - Apr 17, 2025 - 12:01pm
 
Things that are just WRONG - GeneP59 - Apr 17, 2025 - 11:08am
 
the Todd Rundgren topic - Steely_D - Apr 17, 2025 - 10:43am
 
Simpler Times???? - folkes.tom - Apr 17, 2025 - 6:46am
 
Little known information... maybe even facts - Coaxial - Apr 17, 2025 - 5:47am
 
Philly - Proclivities - Apr 17, 2025 - 4:47am
 
Flower Pictures - MrDill - Apr 17, 2025 - 4:43am
 
Economix - Lazy8 - Apr 16, 2025 - 8:48pm
 
Bad Poetry - oldviolin - Apr 16, 2025 - 8:46pm
 
Canada - R_P - Apr 16, 2025 - 6:19pm
 
Skeptix - R_P - Apr 16, 2025 - 7:13am
 
Index » Radio Paradise/General » General Discussion » Environment Page: Previous  1, 2, 3, 4 ... 59, 60, 61  Next
Post to this Topic
Red_Dragon

Red_Dragon Avatar

Location: Gilead


Posted: Dec 6, 2021 - 7:14am

A power company is leaching toxic metals into one of the country's most ecologically significant places
Red_Dragon

Red_Dragon Avatar

Location: Gilead


Posted: Dec 1, 2021 - 6:27am

Rain to replace snow in the Arctic as climate heats, study finds
R_P

R_P Avatar

Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 11, 2021 - 12:38pm

A Biography of E.O. Wilson, the Scientist Who Foresaw Our Troubles
Wilson is a scientist who celebrates the wonder of nature. He popularized the term “biophilia,” defining it as the love for the natural world and “‘the rich, natural pleasure that comes from being surrounded by living organisms.” He eventually became an activist, one of the few scientists who dared to leave the comfort and security of the ivory tower. The trigger was, Rhodes explains, a report in the late 1970s, published by the U.S. National Research Council, which stated that the world was losing one species a day, rather than one a year as most biologists had previously believed. Rhodes describes how Wilson made it his mission to create public awareness of this mass extinction and loss of biodiversity. Wilson rallied fellow scientists, wrote articles and books, lectured and tried to convince others of his cause. He also underlined the importance of field biology. How can we hope to save species from extinction, Wilson asked, if we don’t even know them?

Red_Dragon

Red_Dragon Avatar

Location: Gilead


Posted: Nov 10, 2021 - 6:48am

 Ohmsen wrote:
Oxfam study: Climate Collapse Unstoppable Without Social Change

Share of the rich in carbon dioxide emissions increases again significantly. It is not "overpopulation" but excessive consumption by the upper percent that is driving global warming.


That could go in this thread.
black321

black321 Avatar

Location: An earth without maps
Gender: Male


Posted: Oct 11, 2021 - 9:20am

 westslope wrote:

I looked for a list of companies.  Unsuccessfully.

Ecopetrol, the Colombian state-owned, publicly traded (EC.n) oil & gas company exploits a large heavy oil deposit in the Llanos basin named Campo Rubiales.  Much deep ground water is lifted with the oil.  That water is processed and then used to irrigate palm tree plantations in the relatively dry Savannah of the Llanos which lies in a rain shadow east of the Andes. 

Relatively little forest would have been removed for these Palm trees plantations.  The irrigation with deep processed water would likely increase the carbon sink potential of the area.  Social license is key to success in places like Colombia and I do not recall any local opposition to the Palm tree plantations. They would create employment opportunities for some local people.

When these palm oil plantations are carved out of more humid forests  the overall ecological outcomes can be very different.  Or so is my impression.  



you had to download the report, here it is (scroll to bottom)

https://palmoilscorecard.panda...
westslope

westslope Avatar

Location: BC sage brush steppe


Posted: Oct 11, 2021 - 8:43am

 black321 wrote:

Research report on Palm Oil, a very efficiently sourced vegetable oil, that still has significant environmental concerns due to deforestation.
Scroll down to get the full report, including a scorecard on manufacturers and retailers. 

http://palmoilscorecard.panda....


I looked for a list of companies.  Unsuccessfully.

Ecopetrol, the Colombian state-owned, publicly traded (EC.n) oil & gas company exploits a large heavy oil deposit in the Llanos basin named Campo Rubiales.  Much deep ground water is lifted with the oil.  That water is processed and then used to irrigate palm tree plantations in the relatively dry Savannah of the Llanos which lies in a rain shadow east of the Andes. 

Relatively little forest would have been removed for these Palm trees plantations.  The irrigation with deep processed water would likely increase the carbon sink potential of the area.  Social license is key to success in places like Colombia and I do not recall any local opposition to the Palm tree plantations. They would create employment opportunities for some local people.

When these palm oil plantations are carved out of more humid forests  the overall ecological outcomes can be very different.  Or so is my impression.  

black321

black321 Avatar

Location: An earth without maps
Gender: Male


Posted: Oct 11, 2021 - 7:19am

Research report on Palm Oil, a very efficiently sourced vegetable oil, that still has significant environmental concerns due to deforestation.
Scroll down to get the full report, including a scorecard on manufacturers and retailers. 

http://palmoilscorecard.panda....
Red_Dragon

Red_Dragon Avatar

Location: Gilead


Posted: Aug 31, 2021 - 3:07pm

Syrian oil spill spreads across the Mediterranean and could reach Cyprus on Wednesday
miamizsun

miamizsun Avatar

Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP)
Gender: Male


Posted: Aug 19, 2021 - 3:52pm

people doing some good work here...enjoy


Paradise Won't Protect Itself from Corona Extra on Vimeo.


Red_Dragon

Red_Dragon Avatar

Location: Gilead


Posted: Aug 19, 2021 - 3:39pm

For the first time on record, precipitation on Saturday at the summit of Greenland — roughly two miles above sea level — fell as rain and not snow.
Red_Dragon

Red_Dragon Avatar

Location: Gilead


Posted: Aug 13, 2021 - 9:25pm

July Was The Hottest Month In Recorded Human History
Red_Dragon

Red_Dragon Avatar

Location: Gilead


Posted: Aug 12, 2021 - 1:19pm

 black321 wrote:


story from 2015...wonder what it looks like now


Oh, I'm certain that Trump made those awful Chinese clean it up.
black321

black321 Avatar

Location: An earth without maps
Gender: Male


Posted: Aug 12, 2021 - 1:08pm

 Red_Dragon wrote:

story from 2015...wonder what it looks like now
Red_Dragon

Red_Dragon Avatar

Location: Gilead


Posted: Aug 12, 2021 - 12:15pm

The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust
Manbird

Manbird Avatar

Location: La Villa Toscana
Gender: Male


Posted: Aug 11, 2021 - 8:31pm

 whatshisname wrote:

(Cudos to the Designer.)



whatshisname

whatshisname Avatar

Location: West OZ
Gender: Male


Posted: Aug 11, 2021 - 7:15pm

https://www.abc.net.au/news/20...
Red_Dragon

Red_Dragon Avatar

Location: Gilead


Posted: Aug 11, 2021 - 7:20am

Water on Chesapeake Bay military bases contains toxic PFAS ‘forever chemicals’
R_P

R_P Avatar

Gender: Male


Posted: Jul 29, 2021 - 1:40pm

Plants Feel Pain and Might Even See
It’s time to retire the hierarchical classification of living things.
In 2018, a German newspaper asked me if I would be interested in having a conversation with the philosopher Emanuele Coccia, who had just written a book about plants, Die Wurzeln der Welt (published in English as The Life of Plants). I was happy to say yes.

The German title of Coccia’s book translates as “The Roots of the World,” and the book really does cover this. It upends our view of the living world, putting plants at the top of the hierarchy with humans down at the bottom. I had been giving a great deal of thought to this myself. Ranking the natural world and scoring species according to their importance or their superiority seemed to me outdated. It distorts our view of nature and makes all the other species around us seem more primitive and somehow unfinished. For some time now, I have not been comfortable with viewing humans as the crown of creation, separating animals into higher and lower life-forms, and treating plants as something on the side, definitively banished to a lower level. (...)

After our first cup of coffee, we were soon deep into our main topic: trees and plants in general. Coccia argued that our biological classifications are not grounded in science. They are strongly influenced by theology and are dominated by two ideas: the supremacy of the human race and the world as a place humans must bend to their will. And then there is our centuries-old compulsion to categorize everything. When you combine these concepts, you get a ranking system that puts humankind at the top, animals in the middle, and plants way down at the bottom.

I listened, fascinated by what he had to say. Here was a man of my own heart. I would prefer it, I told Coccia, if science categorized species one beside the other. That would still allow an order, a system of sorting, without imposing any kind of a hierarchy. He immediately agreed. He reiterated his belief that the ordering system we have today is not scientific but rather influenced by cultural, historical, and religious values. For Coccia, the hard boundary between the plant and animal world does not exist. He believes plants can experience sensations and even reflect on them. And he is not the only one who thinks this. (...)

Baluška was ready with other quite different discoveries. There’s a vine that grows in South America that adapts to the form of the tree or bush it is climbing on. Its leaves look just like the leaves on the host plant. You might think this is chemically controlled. In that case, the vine might be detecting scent compounds from the bush and changing the shape of its leaves in a way that was genetically predetermined. Three different leaf shapes had been observed. Then a researcher came up with the idea of creating an artificial plant with plastic leaves and relocating our botanical chameleon to its new home. What happened next was amazing. The vine imitated the artificial leaves, just as it had imitated the leaves in nature. For Baluška this is clear proof that the vine can see. How else could it get information about a shape it had never encountered before? In this case, the usual suspects—chemical messages released by the host plant or electric signals between both plants—were absent. He went further. In his opinion, it is conceivable that all plants might be able to see. (...)

black321

black321 Avatar

Location: An earth without maps
Gender: Male


Posted: Jun 24, 2021 - 6:53am

 miamizsun wrote:

for the plastophobes among us?






Funny to think of something that is critical to breaking things down, could be used to protect.
miamizsun

miamizsun Avatar

Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP)
Gender: Male


Posted: Jun 24, 2021 - 6:10am

it was only a matter of time  


Page: Previous  1, 2, 3, 4 ... 59, 60, 61  Next