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Gangkhar Puensum seen from Gophu La Pass; it is Bhutan's highest mountain at an elevation of 7,570 m (24,836 ft) and most likely the highest unclimbed mountain in the world. Image: Photo by Gradythebadger: Creative Commons Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 1, 2020 Every time YouTube suggests a video about something like the Marianas Trench, I get an authentic kick out of how little we humans know ...

California has more than $700 billion parked in private banks earning minimal interest, private equity funds that contributed to the affordable housing crisis, or shadow banks of the sort that caused the banking collapse of 2008. These funds, or some of them, could be transferred to an infrastructure bank that generated credit for the state -- while the funds remained safely on deposit in the ban ...

New study shows oceans in peril as acidification is happening at rate perhaps never seen in planet's history (Photo: 'Rough Ocean'/Flickr/Jacqueline Fasser) Aug. 26, 2013 (Common Dreams) -- In both a new study published Monday and in a newspaper interview over the weekend, German marine biologist Hans Poertner warns the world that the crisis of ocean acidification -- an intricately woven aspect o ...

May 29, 2012 (Common Dreams) -- Detectable amounts of cesium-137 and cesium-134 were found in bluefin tuna caught off the coast of California about four months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, U.S. scientists reported on Monday. The timing is important because it shows that migrating fish carried radiation much further and faster than either wind or ocean currents. In addition, of c ...

Fred Reed Nov. 2, 2011 (Fred On Everything) -- I read frequently among the lesserly neuronal of the supposed honor of soldiers, of the military virtues of courage, loyalty, and uprightness -- that in an age of moral decomposition only the military adhere to principles, and that our troops in places like Afghanistan nobly make sacrifices to preserve our freedoms and democracy. Is not all of this n ...