The now extinct Dodo
Credit: www.oum.ox.ac.uk
One in six of the Earth’s species will likely go extinct if we don’t take immediate action on climate change, warns new research.
The study, published Friday in Science, also says amphibians and reptiles face at greatest risk, and chances of extinction are the highest in New Zealand, Australia and South America.
It is the most comprehensive look yet at the effect of climate change on biodiversity, analyzing 131 existing studies on this subject.
“One in six species would be a dramatic change to our environment,” said study author Mark Urban, as rising temperatures alter weather and vegetation patterns, forcing species to migrate to cooler areas to survive.
Urban, an ecologist at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, says in his analysis that if the average global temperature rises 2 C above the pre-industrial average and holds there, then 5.2 per cent of species might eventually […]
A lone women stands off police durring recent Baltimore demonstrations.
Credit: Telegraph (U.K.)
If what is happening in Baltimore happened in a foreign country, here is how Western media would cover it:
International leaders expressed concern over the rising tide of racism and state violence in America, especially concerning the treatment of ethnic minorities in the country and the corruption in state security forces around the country when handling cases of police brutality. The latest crisis is taking place in Baltimore, Maryland, a once-bustling city on the country’s Eastern Seaboard, where an unarmed man named Freddie Gray died from a severed spine while in police custody.
Black Americans, a minority ethnic group, are killed by state security forces at a rate higher than the white majority population. Young, black American males are 21 times more likely to be shot by police than white American males.
The United Kingdom expressed concern over the troubling turn of events in America in the last several months. The country’s […]
SolarCity/Tesla powered house
Credit: SolarCity
Apparently it wasn’t just empty talk when Elon Musk and his cousin Lyndon Rive, CEO of SolarCity, said that “within 10 years, every SolarCity system will come with batteries from Tesla’s Gigafactory“. Tesla’s new Powerwall home battery has barely been announced that SolarCity is already saying that it will offer it as part of its ‘turnkey’ system, along with solar panels and control systems.
In a blog post, Peter Rive, SolarCity’s CTO, reiterated the vision that storage would soon become a default component of his systems: “Using Tesla’s suite of batteries for homes and businesses, SolarCity’s fully-installed battery and solar system costs are one-third of what they were a year ago. We expect costs to continue to decline as manufacturing scales, and over the next 5-10 years, these cost reductions will make it feasible to deploy a battery by default with all of our solar power systems.”
The Mayday Co-op bookstore
In this interview, Shareable publisher and editor Neal Gorenflo and P2P Foundation’s Michel Bauwens chat with Gar Alperovitz, the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative. Among his most recent books are America Beyond Capitalism and (with Lew Daly) Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back.
NG: In your book, America Beyond Capitalism, you say that 120 million Americans are involved in citizen-controlled cooperatives and credit unions, and that there are 11,000 worker owned companies in the United States. This paints a totally different picture of Americans today than seems to be popularly understood – that ordinary Americans are helpless in the face of corporate and government power. Why are Americans so blind to their own economic power? But on the other hand, are you sure that this actually the case, have some of these […]
In the science study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, scientists mulled over data of 1,636 women with breast cancer through scientific analytical questionnaire about breastfeeding.
In this new study, scientists acknowledged the women polled with breast cancer who breastfed their babies are significantly less at risk of the disease recurring, which is a big discovery. (emphasis added)
Researchers found that breastfeeding a strong protective effect, especially in relation to particular types of tumors including the most common hormone sensitive strain. The protection was strongest in women who had a history of breastfeeding for six months or longer.
Lead researcher Marilyn Kwan, from US health care provider Kaiser Permanente, said, “This is the first study we’re aware of that examined the role of breastfeeding history in cancer recurrence, and by tumor subtype. Women who breastfeed are more likely to get the Luminal A subtype of breast cancer, which is less aggressive, and breastfeeding may set up a molecular environment that makes the tumor more responsive to anti-estrogen therapy.”
“Breastfeeding may increase the maturation of ductal cells in the breast, making them less susceptible to carcinogens or facilitate the excretion […]
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