GoGardenNews - Items of gardening and ecological interest

A report in Phys.org says, "Excess mercury in atmosphere found to be coming from the world's oceans."

An article appearing in The Hill reports, "Number of monarch butterflies migrating to Mexico for winter is on the decline."

The Corbett Report asks the question. "If "you are what you eat," as the old adage has it, then what does that make us?

"As consumers of heavily processed, chemically treated, GMO-infested gunk, we in the modern, developed world have "solved" the problem of hunger that plagued our forebears since time immemorial by handing our food sovereignty over to a handful of corporate conglomerates."

ZeroHedge reports, "According to New York City officials, a supermarket and apartment building were destroyed on Sunday due to a fire caused by an electric bike. The rise in reports of lithium-ion battery fires across the metro area is an unintended consequence of the 'green' mobility trend."

Governo do Estado de São Paulo, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Smithsonian Magazine reports, "Newly discovered bacterial compounds are so good at killing fungi that scientists named them after movie star Keanu Reeves, who’s known for efficiently defeating villains in action films like The Matrix and John Wick."