Picture a landscape buried beneath a sky-high heap of dead plants and animal corpses. This is what Earth’s surface would look like if it weren’t for fungi. Fungi are the biosphere’s recyclers. Human society depends on them absolutely.
All posts by Green Planet Monitor
Mention Rwanda to someone, what comes first to their mind? Bloody genocide, most likely; certainly not swank men’s fashion. Think again.
7
So-called “industrial economies” on Earth value money above all else, while squandering finite resources and poisoning their little blue-green planet.
7
First in a series of fragmentary voice transmissions from a planet in crisis. Earthlings speak about the place they call home.
Twenty-four hours in Zanzibar. What’s a person to do? Following up on a contact, I go visit the Dhow Countries Music Academy … and am amazed.
Human beings are coming up with all sorts of ingenious ways to walk gently on planet Earth.
There’s a quiet killer living in the walls of traditional adobe houses in Central and South America. You can’t see it; you can’t hear it. It sneaks out at night, crawling or tumbling into your bed.
AfricaAgricultureBiodiversityClimate changeEconomic developmentFoodFood ProductionGenomicsPodcastsWomen & Girls
Plants that grow from seeds are the foundation of humanity’s food supply. Wheat, barley, oats, corn, potatoes and a dizzying variety of beans and legumes … Conserving these seeds of survival is one of humanity’s greatest challenges.
Earth is a dynamic planet — continually twisting and turning — as this fragmentary recording testifies.
Activism & SolidarityAir & Water QualityAir QualityEnergyEnvironmental healthHealthHuman habitatIndustryMiningToxics
In the rolling foothills of the Canadian Rockies, where cattle peacefully graze and ranchers retire to handsome chalets, a purple haze hovers. Fracking is being blamed not only for air pollution, but for a litany of health complaints.
For those in need of a Johnny Cash fix, Winnipeg-native Marcel Soulodre is a guy to listen to. But you’ll need to hop on a plane. Marcel is currently paying homage to the late-great American country singer in bistros across Europe.
Activism & SolidarityConflictHuman & Civil RightsInternational Criminal LawMiddle EastPalestine & IsraelPalestinians & IsraelisPeace & ConflictVoices
Palestine has filed action against Israel at the International Criminal Court — a move Washington and its ally have denounced. Do Israel’s occupation, its settlement enterprise and assault on Gaza violate international law?
Activism & SolidarityCivil & Political RightsConflictInternational Criminal LawMiddle EastPalestine & IsraelPalestinians & IsraelisPeace & Conflict
The universal point of view from Washington and European capitals is that Israel has the right to defend itself against rockets fired from Gaza. Eric David, an eminent Belgian expert in international law, takes a different position.
7
Of all the medical afflictions a person or family can suffer from, none is as burdensome as a rare genetic condition that hasn’t even been named. Winnipeg physician-geneticist Cheryl Greenberg advocates for patients.
This coming spring will mark the twenty-second anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. An estimated eight hundred thousand were killed by ethnic Hutu extremists armed with knives, hoes and machetes. Over the radio, venom flowed.
Activism & SolidarityCivil & Political RightsHuman & Civil RightsHuman habitatHuman settlementsInternational Criminal LawMiddle EastPalestine & IsraelPalestinians & IsraelisPodcastsTourism & Travel
The Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions (ICAHD) runs tours of Palestinian East Jerusalem. Visitors from around the world learn the ins and outs of Israel’s occupation.
Rosie Redfield spat in a tube and mailed it to a Mountain View, California outfit called 23andMe. A month later, the University of British Columbia geneticist and MOOC instructor received the results by email.
Activism & SolidarityCivil & Political RightsConsumerismHuman & Civil RightsHuman habitatMiddle EastPalestinians & Israelis
On the occasion of Winnipeg’s annual “Negev Gala,” organized by the Canadian chapter of the Jewish National Fund, a couple of dozen local activists (quite a few of them Jewish) gathered in humorous protest.
Debron, Luke and Paula huddle around a laptop in a McGill University cafeteria, absorbed in an online game. No dreadful monsters, zombies or bloody explosions here. Phylo is much more serious than that.
Tom Hudson is a busy guy. Few have contributed more to our understanding of how the human genome works — and how to map it, using ‘haplotypes’ — than this congenial native of Arvida, Quebec. .
Latest Comments
[…] US military nuclear testing site. At the time, residents were relocated to nearby Rongerik and Kwajalein atolls before arriving at Kili Island in […]