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This Comic Strip Explains Why We Could See More Disasters Like Toledo’s Toxic Algae Bloom

by Oliab719z Posted on August 4, 2014

Mother Jones

Editor’s note: Over the weekend, officials in Toledo, Ohio, warned 400,000 residents not to drink their tap water after dangerous levels of a toxin called microcystin were detected—possibly the result of an algae bloom in Lake Erie. (Officials lifted the restrictions on Monday.) As this April comic from Years of Living Dangerously and Symbolia Magazine explains, agricultural practices and climate change are helping turn algae into a growing threat in the region.

You can read more comics exploring the impacts of climate change here.

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Watch Stephen Colbert Give Great, And Completely Unironic, Advice to Teen Girls

by BernardoLuna Posted on August 2, 2014

Mother Jones

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Stephen Colbert’s wife of two decades, Evelyn McGee-Colbert, once told Oprah she didn’t like his TV alter-ego—someone she calls “that other guy.” In this video, as he offers advice to teenage girls wearing a plaid button-down and thick-framed hipster glasses, he’s definitely left the other guy behind.

When Loretta, 14, asks why some guys are jerks, he says to confront them (they may just be trying, badly, to get her attention), but also:

For this kind of thing to stop, boys have to be educated. Does our society educate boys to be misogynistic? It probably doesn’t value girls and women as much as it should, and boys probably see that as a signal that they can get away with things like devaluing women.

For Maria, 19, who asks how you can tell when someone likes you, he ends up defining love: when someone thinks “your happiness is more important than their happiness.” And cookies. “Cookies are also a really good sign that somebody likes you.”

The video is part of the girl-positive Rookie Magazine‘s series “Ask a Grown Man.” Earlier last year, Rookie’s fashionista founder, then 16-year-old Tavi Gevinson, was the youngest person ever to appear on The Colbert Report, where she gave the self-proclaimed “pear-shaped” Colbert style suggestions and called him a “Cool Dad” (capitals hers).

At the time, Colbert—a father of three, including 18-year-old Madeleine—wasn’t thinking of dispensing sage advice for Rookie. Instead he proposed a dad-inspired magazine project in which he would veto pictures of teen girls’ skin-baring outfits in a column called “You’re Not Wearing That.”

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Observatory: Shipping Lanes Threaten Pacific Blue Whales

by Myrna Posted on July 28, 2014

Two major feeding grounds for the huge mammals are bisected by the routes of ships near seaports in San Francisco and Santa Barbara, Calif. See original:  Observatory: Shipping Lanes Threaten Pacific Blue Whales ; ;Related ArticlesDot Earth Blog: U.S. Coal Exports Eroding Domestic Greenhouse GainsPeter Marler, Graphic Decoder of Birdsong, Dies at 86Groups Press New York State to Ban Poisons That Kill Wildlife ;

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Dot Earth Blog: New Approach to Being There: ‘Fan-bots’ Will Cheer Korean Baseball Team

by Myrna Posted on July 25, 2014

Cheer on your baseball team through a “fan-bot” set in the stands as you watch and tweet on your phone. Read this article: Dot Earth Blog: New Approach to Being There: ‘Fan-bots’ Will Cheer Korean Baseball Team Related ArticlesDrones on a Different MissionHundreds in Detroit Protest Over Move to Shut Off WaterWhite House Opens Door to Exploring Atlantic for Oil

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An Exaltation of Moths, Much-Maligned Kin of the Butterfly

by Myrna Posted on July 22, 2014

Enthusiasts gathered in the Meadowlands around black-lighted sheets on Monday as part of National Moth Week. Originally from:   An Exaltation of Moths, Much-Maligned Kin of the Butterfly ; ;Related ArticlesDot Earth Blog: Scientists Begin to Demystify Hole Found in Siberian PermafrostHundreds in Detroit Protest Over Move to Shut Off WaterU.S. Raises Threat of Quake but Lowers Risk for Towers ;

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U.S. Military Is Scrutinized Over Trash Burning in Afghanistan

by Myrna Posted on July 22, 2014

The United States military spent millions on garbage incinerators in Afghanistan, but they went unused in favor of open burn pits, a report from a watchdog agency said. Link:  U.S. Military Is Scrutinized Over Trash Burning in Afghanistan ; ;Related ArticlesFrack Quietly, Please: Sage Grouse Is NestingDot Earth Blog: Scientists Begin to Demystify Hole Found in Siberian PermafrostHundreds in Detroit Protest Over Move to Shut Off Water ;

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Washington Mudslide Report Cites Rain, but Doesn’t Give Cause or Assign Blame

by Myrna Posted on July 22, 2014

Scientists said that record-setting rains in the weeks before the landslide that killed 43 people in March in Oso, Wash., had clearly played a role, and, possibly, logging. Continue reading:  Washington Mudslide Report Cites Rain, but Doesn’t Give Cause or Assign Blame ; ;Related ArticlesWashington Landslide Deaths Rise to 33Amid ‘Exploding’ Houses and a Wave of Mud, a Maternal Instinct FlaredSteelhead Drive Is Gone After Mudslide, Along With Many Lives Lived on It ;

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Without Much Straining, Minnesota Reins In Its Utilities’ Carbon Emissions

by Myrna Posted on July 17, 2014

While many have howled about complying with a proposed rule slashing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, Minnesota has been reining in its utilities’ carbon pollution for decades. See the original article here:  Without Much Straining, Minnesota Reins In Its Utilities’ Carbon Emissions ; ;Related ArticlesDot Earth Blog: China Clarifies its Plans on Setting a CO2 Emissions PeakThough Scorned by Colleagues, a Climate-Change Skeptic Is UnbowedSkeptic of Climate Change Finds Himself a Target of Suspicion ;

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For God’s Sake, Stop What You’re Doing and Go Buy Tickets to See Nick Cave

by KristinMHHH Posted on July 9, 2014

Mother Jones

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Nick Cave at San Francisco’s Warfield Theater on July 8 Michael Rosenthal

Most concert reviews are ponderous, so I’ll keep this one short: The quirky, passionate Australian musician Nick Cave, who was profiled in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine if you care to read up on his latest doings, basically just renewed my faith in rock and roll—a concept that this scrawny, sexy, histrionic, 56-year-old love child of David Bowie and Tom Waits and something much darker more or less embodies.

Regardless of whether you’ve kept up with his oeuvre (I certainly haven’t) or can even name any Nick Cave songs, he’s a fabulous performer whom you need to see before you die—or before he does. Last night, during his second sold-out evening at San Francisco’s Warfield Theater, the audience was smitten as Cave bounced around the stage like a gothic scarecrow, styled out in his signature dark suit and black velvet, taking full advantage of his rich voice and theatrical tendencies.

Reaching into the front rows, and occasionally throwing himself halfway down into them, Cave connects intimately and powerfully with his audience, leavening lyrical intensity with dark humor: Within the twisted landscape of “Higgs Boson Blues,” Cave croons: “If I die tonight, bury me / In my favorite yellow patent leather shoes / With a mummified cat and a cone-like hat / That the caliphate forced on the Jews.” On the contemporary track “We Real Cool,” he sings, “Wikipedia is heaven / When you don’t want to remember no more.” And if you’ve never heard Cave’s unique take on “Stack-O-Lee” or “Stagger Lee” (or however you choose to write the name of the old murder ballad), well, yeah. It’s not much like the other hundred versions you might have heard.

Cave’s talented band, the Bad Seeds, is a marvelous cast of characters to boot, especially the guy I’m calling the Mad Fiddler (and flautist, guitar, keyboard, and mandolin player). All wild hair and long, scraggly half-gray beard, he attacks his violin like some deranged fiddler on the roof. Together the Bad Seeds highlight Cave’s quieter moments with subtlety, exploding with their bandleader when the time is right into mad catharsis. Rock and fucking roll at its finest. Tour dates are here.

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Tell the EPA what you think of its climate rules

by BrittnyMacaluso Posted on June 19, 2014

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Tell the EPA what you think of its climate rulesBy Shutterstock

You know those proposed EPA power-plant rules that we’ve been going on and on and on about? Now you can go on and on and on about them yourself.

The Obama administration has opened up the official 120-day public comment period, after the proposal was published in the Federal Register. The EPA will accept feedback through Oct. 16, so now’s the time to speak your mind.

Here’s how to comment.

The big enviro groups are going to be pushing to make the rules stronger, while industry and Republicans are trying to undermine them.

The EPA will consider all the feedback and finalize the rules by June 2015 — but the fighting and litigation will continue indefinitely.


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