The End of Oil van Edward Burtynsky. 

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kateoplis:

Are foreign investors colonizing Africa [again]? | Al Jazeera

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climateadaptation:

More tangible examples of climate impacts.

laboratoryequipment:

Western Fires Kill Thousands of Cattle

Across the West, major wildfires are wreaking havoc this summer on the region’s economically fragile livestock industry. In areas such as remote Powder River County, Mont., ranchers says they could be grappling with the devastation for years to come.

Hay is in short supply. Hundreds of miles of fence and numerous corrals and water tanks must be rebuilt. Thousands of head of displaced livestock are being shipped to temporary pastures. Similar scenes are playing out in Oregon, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Idaho. Including Montana, the value of the six states’ cattle industries approaches $9 billion annually.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Western-Fires-Kill-Hundreds-of-Cattle-072712.aspx

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climateadaptation:

Expect food prices to go up at the end of the summer. But, are there long term impacts from this year’s droughts??

theweekmagazine:

The National Climatic Data Center said this week that more than half of the U.S. spent June in a moderate or extreme drought, the widest incidence of drought in half a century. Some numbers to put things into perspective:

26 — States that have been declared natural disaster areas due to the weather this summer

3,215 — Daily U.S. heat records broken in June

46 — Days without rain in Indianapolis, In., from June 1 through July 16, breaking a record set in 1908

38 — Percent of U.S. corn crops in poor or very poor shape, according to the USDA

More numbers

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crookedindifference:

NASA’s budget 1962-2014 (fiscal year) as percentage of Federal budget

ecocides:

Uncanny. 

(via rorschachx)

Farewell to the Canadian penny

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fotojournalismus:

A worker sorted chilies near Ahmedabad, India, Wednesday, Feb. 15.

[Credit : Ajit Solanki/Associated Press]

ouch

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cartoonpolitics:

references news that 1 in 2 new graduates will be either unemployed or underemployed

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Somehow, firing people with jobs became the Republican strategy for job creation. People who taught our children; policed our streets; picked up our garbage; put out our fires; built and maintained our parks, libraries, and roads for a living wage became the scapegoat for the impoverishment the private sector imposed on workers. Instead of organizing to win back their own living wages and lost benefits, people were convinced that taking away those of government workers would somehow make them better off. Divide and conquer politics. The politics of fear, hate, greed, envy and spite. The race to the bottom. Orchestrated by plutocrats, executed by conservatives, allowed by Democrats.