You and I May Never Summit Everest But Microplastics Already Have
Microsplastics have been found on the summit of Mount Everest; Seems no place, even earth’s most remote locations, is witout this scourge.
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Fear of Flying Is a COVID-Era Conundrum
Airlines say it’s safe to fly during the Covid pandemic. Is it?
Read more...Links 11/20/2020
To Save the Economy, Save People First: Targeted Measures and Subsidies for Cost Effective COVID-19 Abatement
Evidence on what it would take to beat Covid: lockdowns, mask mandates with teeth, tons of testing and lots of economic support.
Read more...Investigation: How Pesticide Companies Are Marketing Themselves as a Solution to Climate Change
After decades of denial and delay by big agribusiness, the pesticides industry now appears to have become a climate champion.
Read more...Loneliness, Happiness, and Love in Times of Covid-19
The altered constraints on whom we spend time with imposed by the Covid-19 crisis might have affected human happiness.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 11/19/2020
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Read more...‘The Real Looting in America Is the Walton Family’: GAO Report Details How Taxpayers Subsidize Cruel Low Wages of Corporate Giants
Taxpayer money subsidizes the looting of the Walton family. Why should one family reap billions while its workers can barely survive?
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Read more...Links 11/19/2020
Wolf Richter: No Payment, No Problem: In Rosy World of Forbearance, Official Delinquencies Plunge, Credit Scores of Delinquent Borrowers Jump
Forbearance granted as a result of the panedemic is confusing credit scoring algos, so the scores of borrowers are all over the place.
Read more...Peat: Superhero of the Biosphere, in Need of Global Protection (and Yours)
Drained peatlands and peat fires emit around 10% of our greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, land-use change and forestry, yet there seems to be little effort to prevent this.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 11/18/2020
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Read more...Boeing 737 MAX Cleared to Fly Again, Amidst Plummeting Demand for Air Travel and Aircraft as a Result of COVID-19
FAA clears Boeing 737 MAX to fly again today, but the COVID-19 pandemic has decimated air travel and the demand for new aircraft.
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