Too much water in your wash cycle is damaging your clothes. Here’s why…
Most of the plastic that is in the ocean is not in the form of cups or straws, but broken-down shreds of plastic.
Insectageddon – why cleaning your windshield has become optional!
I do a lot of driving in rural and isolated areas. I always have. Certainly not as much as a truckie but a lot more than the average driver. Here in Australia, I constantly mourn the roadkill that I drive past on the roadside. Roos, wallabies, possums, wombats, snakes, goannas and anything else foolish enough […]
Lower Back Pain: The Myths vs The Facts
If you’ve ever slept in an awkward position or lifted something the wrong way, then you are familiar with that roaring pain in the lower back. Around two-thirds of all Americans will experience significant lower back pain at least once during their lives. The Australian Bureau of Statistics meanwhile, estimates that about four million Australians […]
7 Basic Home Security Tips
In fiction and in Hollywood, the notion of the cat burglar is one to romanticize. Thieves look like Cary Grant, George Clooney, or Brad Pitt. From “To Catch a Thief” to “Point Break,” burglars are either sexy thieves or charming – if not heroic – criminals. In reality, of course, burglaries are invasive, distressing, and […]
Climate Change, Money, and the Politics of Denial
In the mode of public disclosure that governs the Trump administration these days, few official statements contain anything resembling the simple truth. That is, unless you consider the ungovernable warp of President Donald Trump’s ego and ambition as a genuine statement in itself. If that is the case, then truth becomes utterly subjective, and there […]
Climigration: Accepting a New Reality
“Hungry people get mean!” Why climigration is going to effect you and your family.
Is Climate Change Pushing Us to a New Eve of Destruction?
Of all the many frightening things on earth, none compares to the devastation brought on by escalating climate catastrophe. Record heatwaves, epic cyclones, rising seas, and declining biodiversity bring to mind the most terrible prophecies of religious text. The earth is writhing in torment — around us and within our minds. Grist for the Feed […]
Why Coal Energy Is Doomed in the US
The laws of economics are slowly revealing the crushing reality behind Donald Trump’s lavish promises to the US coal industry. “If I win, we’re going to bring those miners back,” candidate Trump told a roaring crowd in a 2016 campaign rally in Charleston, West Virginia. “For those miners, get ready, because you’re going to be […]
Giant Clam Poachers in South China Sea Signal Beijing’s Real Policies
The clam poaching fleets, dozens of small fishing vessels accompanied by a handful of larger “motherships,” ransack massive tracts of coral reef that were millennia in the making.
Climate Change Is Making Spiders More Aggressive, Say Scientists
The trend was consistent across multiple storms that varied in size, duration, and intensity. This suggests that the effects on the colonies are part of a robust evolutionary response, says Pruitt.
