FEMA Has Yet To Authorize Full Disaster Help For Puerto Rico-Drone Deliveries...
Day after horror filled day, Puerto Rican’s continue to suffer and die in a humanitarian crisis brought about by Hurricane Maria’s 155 mph winds. Along with her other weapons, such as rainfall and...
View ArticlePlanetary Crisis: We are not all in this together - GOP On the Cusp Of Ending...
“Members of Congress should not underestimate the quandary they will find themselves in if NASA does not continue these critical Earth science research activities. The products of these endeavors form...
View ArticleWarm waters melting Antarctic ice shelves have appeared for the first time in...
If Antarctica's ice sheets melted, the worlds oceans would rise by 200 - 210 feet, everywhere. Antarctica holds 6,957,470 cubic miles of ice. That represents over 90% of all the ice on the planet and...
View ArticlePuerto Rico a month later described as 'post-apocalyptic'
“It has upended the lives of 3.4 million people. It has cut off entire towns from each other. It has left residents without water to drink or bathe in. Enough aid has not come for many. The gravity of...
View Article'People think we’re the lowest:’ Puerto Rico drug users get less help. HIV...
The below clip is jaw dropping. HT to Grist for finding it. It shows damaged wind turbines as well as island wide destruction. EOS had reported, prior to the storm, that wind turbines are unable to...
View ArticleW Antarctica: "rapid and sustained retreat" could soon trigger runaway ice...
Phys.org reports that West Antarctica ice streams, particularly Pine Island and Twaites glaciers, are at risk of rapid retreat. Thousands of marks on the Antarctic seafloor, caused by icebergs which...
View ArticleFEMA Had a Plan for Responding to a Hurricane in Puerto Rico — But It Doesn’t...
ProPublica reports that FEMA had a plan on the books on how to respond in the case a major hurricane hits the Caribbean island of PR. This plan was drafted under the Obama administration, several years...
View ArticleMy Fellow Americans: a Coffee-Fueled Rant of a Pissed-Off Puerto Rican
While sitting in front of my computer this morning with MSNBC on in the back ground just in case they announce the sealed indictments and arrests of members of the corrupt and treasonous Trump regime...
View ArticleMold is blanketing Puerto Rico making it difficult for many to breathe.
The unfolding humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria barreled over the island is only getting worse. Alarm bells are being rung from humanitarian organizations on the ground that the...
View ArticleWarning of 'ecological Armageddon' after dramatic plunge in insect numbers.
“If you like to eat nutritious fruits and vegetables, you should thank an insect. If you like salmon, you can thank a tiny fly that the salmon eat when they're young. The whole fabric of our planet is...
View ArticleAs hurricane debris rots in Puerto Rico, experts fear a health crisis....
The 2017 Hurricane season that roiled the Caribbean and the SE United States has created unfathomable suffering for many Americans, particularly for those on the island of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin...
View ArticleWest Antarctica's Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers Accelerate Toward the Sea.
The polar regions play a critical role in the global environment. Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers, located in West Antarctica, are two of Antarctica’s fastest glaciers Both flow into the Amundsen...
View ArticleThere is a colossal mass of plastic waste blanketing the Caribbean-Corals...
Fish and other marine life are a significant source of protein for up to a billion people worldwide. The Caribbean is no different in that the ocean provides for your food and the turquoise waters...
View ArticlePuerto Rico is "still in emergency mode". Hope of improvement is fading.
60 Minutes sent a team to Puerto Rico 46 days after Hurricane Maria barreled over the island. It’s not a surprise that things have not improved. It is incredibly sad that people are leaving the island...
View ArticleLocal conditions are ideal for disease in Puerto Rico. Mosquitoes spreading...
Governments will have little to no resources to rebuild and then strengthen vector control programs in the near future, leaving both vector control recovery efforts and the requirements for advancing...
View ArticleFEMA To Fly Puerto Ricans Out Of Shelters and Into NY And FL.; Power Line...
Buzz Feed reports that FEMA plans to fly 3,000 people out of the shelters in PR and fly them to New York and Florida. Nidhi Prakash writes:"Based on states selected by the governor, FEMA is working to...
View ArticleIn Florida, all eyes on Puerto Rican voters after Maria
.After Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful storms to have ever formed in the Atlantic, devastated the American islands of Saint Thomas and Saint John as well as parts of Florida, Donald Trump flew...
View ArticleThe GOP's dream of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...
Since taking office 10 horrifying months ago, Donald Trump has been able to assemble a team filled with fossil fuel interests that is determined to destroy the livability of the planet and all for a...
View ArticleI've got some outrage for you right here - What they don’t tell you about...
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar WildeThere is a lot of outrage privilege on this site recently. There I said it; finally got it off my chest. Some of the outrage I get and I can...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blog V 13.46 ~ Gardening with Bromeliads
Good Morning Gardeners,I live in S. Florida (Zone 10B) and gardening is a year round activity for me. I have a lot of specimen plants, mainly palm trees and a couple of flowering trees, one of which...
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