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Behemoth Seagrass Clones Among Earth's Oldest Organisms

By Charles Choi | LiveScience.com – Wed, Feb 1, 2012   Seagrass meadows can be composed of ancient giant clones, organisms stretching up to nearly 10 miles wide that may be up to tens of thousands of years old, scientists find. The ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2012-02-07 08:29 - 0 comments

Dying Honeybees: It Was the Insecticides All Along

By Jeanne Roberts, Celsias 28 January 12 With news that the U.S. honeybee population has been so devastated that some beekeepers will qualify for disaster relief dollars, comes a report from Purdue University that one of the causes of ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2012-01-30 15:49 - 0 comments

Why You Absolutely Must Personally Treat Your Own Water

Mike Barrett Why do we need to worry about the water we are consuming each and every day? When referring to a group of people or someone acting different, the phrase “it must be in the water” is often used as a response. While this ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2012-01-27 13:43 - 0 comments

Monsanto’s Infertility-Linked Roundup Found in All Urine Samples Tested

Mike Barrett NaturalSociety January 26, 2012 A recent study conducted by a German university found very high concentrations of Glyphosate, a carcinogenic chemical found in herbicides like Monsanto’s Roundup, in all urine samples ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2012-01-26 14:01 - 0 comments

Clean Water Safeguards Headed Down the Drain?

By Robert F. Kennedy Jr., EcoWatch 24 January 12 Thirty-nine years ago, Congress signed into law a historic piece of legislation that would, for more than three decades, turn the tide of our polluted waterways and hold bid polluters ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2012-01-24 15:02 - 0 comments

Radioactive iodine in rainwater: Public was in the dark

By ALEX ROSLIN, The Gazette January 14, 2012   After the Fukushima nuclear accident, Canadian health officials assured a nervous public that virtually no radioactive fallout had drifted to Canada. But last March, a Health Canada ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2012-01-17 15:54 - 0 comments

EPA drops jackboot on necks of couple for daring to build on their own land

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 by: J. D. Heyes  (NaturalNews) Stories about overreach from Washington, D.C. abound, but just when you think you've heard them all comes yet another that makes you shake your head in disbelief and wonder just whom is ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2012-01-17 15:27 - 0 comments

Warming Up for 2012

Posted by Mark Sircus - Director on 09 January 2012 | We might as well get used to it; we are now living in a year of prophecy—that is, if you are attuned to such things. Where I built my Sanctuary in Brazil they have been talking about ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2012-01-11 10:50 - 0 comments

The Gulf Smells

Something Stinks!!! 1. 4 weeks before the BP blowout, Obama builds an alibi ---"I am opening offshore drilling in all the Coastal U.S." Goldman Sachs dumps nearly all of its stock (40%+) in BP, a profitable winner. Days before, ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2012-01-10 16:11 - 0 comments

Why Warmer Water Leads to Male Offspring — if You're a Fish

By Lisa Abend Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011   To a list that includes extreme weather patterns and disappearing polar bears, you can add another dispiriting effect of climate change: too many males. Three years ago, Francesc Piferrer and ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-12-30 13:01 - 0 comments

Tide of plastic bags that started wave of revulsion

bagtrash.jpg Juliette Jowit guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 December 2011   Photograph: Joshua Mark Dalupang/EPA Plastic bags became almost a ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-12-30 12:31 - 0 comments

Utterly unreasonable behavior of the atmosphere in 2011

By Anthony R. Wood Inquirer Staff Writer TOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer The Bridgetown Mill House B&B in Langhorne was flooded in September. The region ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-12-26 12:38 - 0 comments

Trees In Trouble: Grim Future For Frankincense

December 25, 2011 The original Christmas presents were gold, frankincense and myrrh. That's what wise men brought to the baby Jesus, according to the Gospel of Matthew. Frankincense is still used today — for perfumes, incense and traditional ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-12-26 11:28 - 0 comments

The Great Oasis

ABSTRACT: A REPORTER AT LARGE about reforestation projects in desert lands. In the Al Hajar Mountains of northern Oman, at the eastern edge of the Arabian Desert, rain comes rarely and then in floods. “It used to be much wetter here when I was a ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-12-26 11:23 - 0 comments

Giant shrimp raises big concern as it invades the Gulf

A truly jumbo shrimp is causing big worries about the future of the Gulf of Mexico's ecosystem. The Asian tiger prawn, a foot-long crustacean with a voracious appetite and a proclivity for disease, has invaded the northern Gulf, threatening ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-12-26 10:47 - 0 comments

Will frankincense be wafting away for ever? Number of trees that produce fragrant oil could halve in 15 years

By Katie Silver 21st December 2011   It is a precious part of the Christmas story. But supplies of frankincense could be wafting away for good. Ecologists warn that boswellia trees, which produce the fragrant oil, could halve in ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-12-23 10:04 - 0 comments

Climate Depot's Exclusive Round Up of Climategate 2.0 --

By  Marc Morano   –   Climate Depot For latest, go to  www.ClimateDepot.com  (Morano's statement  here . & continuous updates on Climategate 2.0  here .) BREAKING NEWS: Climategate 2.0: Thousands of new ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-12-16 12:42 - 0 comments

Seeds of destruction: It's NOT just about food

By j dial When first introduced to the notion of modifying food by inserting foreign genetic material, I inclined in favor of it. After all, changing the genes of a plant to cause it to yield more, resist pests, and altogether ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-12-13 14:11 - 0 comments

Landowners left out of the loop on 'fracking' risks

By Neela Banerjee, Washington Bureau December 12, 2011 Reporting from Washington— Natural gas companies that regularly use hydraulic fracturing to drill disclose the risks to shareholders, but not to landowners, according to a report ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-12-12 12:51 - 0 comments

Acidic oceans threaten fish

Hannah Hoag 11 December 2011   Ocean acidification — caused by climate change — looks likely to damage crucial fish stocks. Two studies published today in Nature Climate Change reveal that high carbon dioxide concentrations can ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-12-12 12:19 - 0 comments

Could the desert sun power the world?

Leo Hickman guardian.co.uk, Sunday 11 December 2011   During the summer of 1913, in a field just south of Cairo on the eastern bank of the Nile, an American engineer called Frank ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-12-12 11:30 - 0 comments

Fukushima fallout: Japanese company recalls powdered baby milk after detecting high levels of radioactive cesium

Thursday, December 08, 2011 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) The disastrous effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe are still emerging nearly a year after the fact, as a popular Japanese baby formula company has now ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-12-08 15:01 - 0 comments

Cities, the new hydrofracking victims

BY   DAVID SIROTA TUESDAY, NOV 22, 2011   On the relatively rare occasions that city folk and suburbanites previously had to think about oil and gas drilling, many probably conjured images of ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-11-22 12:57 - 0 comments

Massive oyster die-offs in Chesapeake Bay leave watermen jobless, local economy in shambles

Friday, November 11, 2011 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer  (NaturalNews) Tack it on to the growing list of mysterious animal die-offs. Watermen working the oyster fishing business in the Maryland portion of Chesapeake Bay say the massive ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-11-11 09:49 - 0 comments

How to Hide Dead Trees...Beautiful!

All the old cottonwood trees in the area of Craig, Colorado, were beautiful with fall colors until they died. They had a disease and needed to be removed. So the city council approved a chainsaw competition in the park and offered a ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-11-10 11:30 - 0 comments

Coal-Ash Spill Scars Tennessee as Rules Fight Rages

Holly Schean didn’t know what was on the other side of the hill near her parents’ home in Kingston, Tennessee. At 1 a.m. on Dec. 22, 2008, she found out. The earth split and toxic coal ash surged across a finger of the Emory River. By ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-11-10 11:15 - 0 comments

Eruptions & Earthquakes in October 2011

Posted by Mark Sircus - Director on 07 November 2011 The volcanic eruptions of 2011 have been notable. Not only are more volcanoes awakening from dormancy, it also appears the eruptions have become more kinetic and the ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-11-08 15:26 - 0 comments

Japan's radioactive cars selling at auctions without notice

Tuesday, November 08, 2011 by: S. D. Wells (NaturalNews) Having up to 20 times the permissible level of radiation, more than 600 cars from plants near the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan have been retained from export. However, many ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-11-08 13:41 - 0 comments

First Germany, now Belgium: Nuclear energy to be phased out by 2015

Friday, November 04, 2011 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer  (NaturalNews) In the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, some countries have decided to rethink their energy policies and initiate moves towards safer energy ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-11-04 08:48 - 0 comments

The Silence Is Deafening

Posted by Mark Sircus - Director on 28 October 2011 | Filed under World Affairs The municipality of Fukushima has created a plan to bring radiation exposure in all inhabited areas of the city to below a ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2011-10-31 12:47 - 0 comments

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