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Klimatpolitiska protester i Washington D.C. 28 juni 2021. Foto: Stäng fullskärmsläge I västra Nordamerika har värmerekord efter värmerekord slagits sedan i lördags. Temperaturen har legat på över 49 grader.  För dem som anser att de pågående klimatförändringar är ett högst verkligt problem framstår klimatförnekelse som obegripligt. Men också den teknikoptimistiska miljöörelsen har svårt att acceptera vissa obekväma sanningar.  Helena Granström ser ett grundläggande problem i de hoppfulla förslagen om koldioxidskatt, solpaneler och elbilar.  Dela

COVID-19, Nipah virus, SARS, MERS are some of the zoonotic diseases The outbreak of diseases is linked to environmental destruction: Experts New Delhi: Around nine years ago, David Quammen, Author, Spillover: Animal Infections & The Next Human Pandemic had predicted a zoonotic in his book. Zoonotic diseases or zoonosis refers to any infection or disease that jumps from a non-human/ animal to humans. In 2019, the world witnessed the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 disease. However, COVID-19 is not the first zoonotic disease outbreak; from Ebola, Severe acute respiratory syndrome (S...

174-year-old geoducks and other mysteries of Puget Sound history April 21, 2021 at 9:24 am Author David B. Williams' at Richmond Beach in Shoreline; his new book is called "Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound." (Feliks Banel/KIRO Radio) It’s been a transportation system and a source of food, and it’s a body of water that underpins thousands of years of history and culture in this area. And now, Puget Sound is the focus of an ambitious new history book. The book from is from UW Press and is called What’s now called Puget Sound – known as “Whulg...

The KGB Was More Messed Up Than You Thought Shutterstock By Gina Scanlon/March 8, 2021 1:45 pm EDT/Updated: March 22, 2021 10:08 am EDT The KGB is a three-letter acronym most people associate with dark alley espionage, heavy Russian accents, and Vladimir Putin. But do all those scary and downright ominous spy stories have any merit?  Considering the KGB spawned from the brainchild of one Joseph Stalin, a genocidal dictator, the organization's potential for destruction was imminent. Though it's hard to confirm many of the KGB's tactics due to the illusive nature of its exist...

Author David A. Fiensy has announced the release of his new book, The Archaeology of Daily Life: Ordinary Persons in Late Second Temple Israel, published by Cascade Books in December 2020. This book covers the first century Jewish people of Israel, the time of Jesus and the early New Testament.