Eric Jumper News Today

Written by rjs, MarketWatch 666This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at GEI (but can be posted at other times).

by Tyler Durden Saturday, May 22, 2021 - 08:00 PM Some of the worlds rarest cacti are found in the deserts of South America. A recent raid in Italy uncovered a smuggling network of thorny succulents, according to NYTimes.  The years long operation, dubbed  "Operation Atacama," was a collaborative effort that began in February 2020 by Italian and Chilean authorities to return some of the rarest cacti to Chile.  Andrea Cattabriga, a cactus expert and president of the Association for Biodiver...

updated: May 21 2021, 14:34 ist Andrea Cattabriga has seen a lot of cactuses where they didn’t belong. But he’d never seen anything like Operation Atacama, a bust carried out last year in Italy. A cactus expert and president of the Association for Biodiversity and Conservation, Cattabriga often helps the police identify the odd specimen seized from tourists or intercepted in the post. This time, however, Cattabriga was confronted by a stunning display: more than 1,000 of some of the world�...

By Gerard Verschuuren, Sophia Institute Press, 2021, 240 pages People who read the title of this book will probably divide into two camps: those who already believe the piece of cloth known as the Holy Shroud and preserved in Turin cathedral to be the actual winding sheet of the crucified Christ; and those who think the author has allowed his objective scientific judgement to be overborne by his subjective faith. However, in this study Verschuuren remains faithful to his twin vocations, both a...