Dr. Nicole Morgan, CACOR Board of Directors, states: There are many types of genocides. I tentatively named this one inside- genocide , the silent one all the more lethal that is brought by good intentions. The most striking example can be found among the the inhabitants of the Pacific Islands, with some of the highest […]
Archives for September 2018
Fish Dinner pre-Wrapped, Sewage Surfing New Sport
Eight Million Tons of Plastic Dumped in Ocean Every Year. It’s equal to five grocery bags per every foot of coastline around the globe, says new study. Ocean Plastic Major Threat A plastic bag floats in the sea off the Philippines. Ocean plastic has turned up literally everywhere. It has been found in the deep […]
Report: World’s highest carbon footprints in Seoul, Guangzhou, NYC
Seoul, South Korea; Guangzhou, China; and New York City have the three highest carbon footprints of cities worldwide, according to a new report from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Los Angeles (5) and Chicago (8) were also listed in the top 10 highest emitting cities. The study, which measured the carbon footprints of 13,000 cities, found that […]
This Animation of Temperature Trends Across 191 Countries Is Almost Painful to Watch
In presentations of global warming, sometimes watching maps morph from blue (cold) to red (hot) grows tiresome. Talented data visualizers are finding new and creative ways to illustrate the warming of the planet. The latest visualization of Earth heating up was built by Antti Lipponen, a research scientist at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, and it has […]
The Coming Crime Wars
Future conflicts will mostly be waged by drug cartels, mafia groups, gangs, and terrorists. It is time to rethink our rules of engagement. Wars are on the rebound. There are twice as many civil conflicts today, for example, as there were in 2001. And the number of nonstate armed groups participating in the bloodshed is multiplying. According to the International […]