Coffee production has taken a major turn for the worse due to global warming resulting in climate changes in growing regions. If the trend continues, the coffee available to feed the world's increasing coffee fix will not meet the demand, including for coffee gluttons in the U.S.. Damaging climate changes in Brazil have resulted in...

Corn, the most common U.S. grain has historically seen production in the midwest from the Oho river valley to Nebraska.  That is changing in a big way and quickly. The corn belt is now being pushed north into Canada as the growing season in the Canadian prairie has lengthened due to global warming. Farmers sowed...

There is a fascinating article written by David Karp in the Sunday review section of the New York Times talking about how a variety of factors has resulted in skyrocketing prices on limes and avacados. One of those factors is the skyrocketing lawlessness in Mexico in which criminals linked to drug cartels are plundering...

Seamen working long arduous jobs on ships at sea are becoming whistleblowers reporting massive oil spills resultingΠin large bounties to them under environmental whistleblower laws. A lot of the cases involve illegal dumping of sludge and oily bilge water, from the ship engines. International laws require that ships separate out the oil and...

John Munsell is a former meat plant owner in Montana who was forced out of business when the USDA Inspection Service (FSIS) refused to acknowledge that E. Coli tainted beef, which was discovered in his facility, actually originated from the meat packing giant ConAgra. He says that employees of FSIS were afraid ConAgra would...

Japanese agricultural officials have just announced that meat from more than 500 cattle, contaminated with radioactive cesium has entered the stream of commerce and are in supermarkets and restaurantss across the country. The cattle ate hay stored outside and exposed to the radition. In addition, according to a report in today's Newe York Times,...

Resco (Wheelabrator) incinerator has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuitΠfiled by former employees of the company. The company was alleged to fail to treat ash prior to disposal and emitted ash from a hole in the roof of a building. In addition the company used municipal water to clean...

Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope which spread through the atmosphere from Japan, has been found for the first time in milk, in Montpelier Vermont. Milk samples from Phoenix Arizona and Los Angeles contained iodine-131 ar levels roughly equal to the maximum contaminent levels permitted by the EPA the Los Angeles sample contained 2.9 picCuries per...

The water being used to try to cool the damaged nuclear power plants is now leaking through expanding cracks within the walls of the containment pit in the Fukushima nuclear plants in Japan and there is no way it can be stopped by using the present model of controlling the disaster. Experts say that...

Mitsuhiko Tanaka, a former Japanese reactor engineer says that he assisted in covering up critical design flaws, known to him and others, when working on the nuclear plants in Fukushima, in 1974. Many engineersΠwere aware that reactor No 1's diesel powered back up power generators had sustained over 33 stress cracks leaving them...