Environment News and Opinion
Here at Gaia Health, we know that our health is intimately linked with our environment's health. So, we offer no apologies for reporting on the sad state of Gaia's health. Here is where you'll find the stories that most mainstream media won't touch.
Some of these articles are painful to read—but they contain information that you need to provide yourself and your family with the best possible health.
Recent Environment Articles:
 Fukushima Is the China Syndrome.—Fukushima won't die. How many people will? The meltdown has reached the water table, and the potential of a nuclear explosion now exists. (video) |
 Monsanto Corn Crop Failures Prove You Can't Fool Mother Nature—Corn crops are falling over dead, succombing to stronger versions of the pests they were designed to resist. They're grown from the seeds of their own destruction. |
 Giant Plastic Bag Makers Sue Reusable Bag Company for Telling the Truth about Disposables—More and more, the courts are being used to drive smaller eco-friendly and humane companies out of business. At risk is our access to humane and eco-friendly products. |
 Monsanto's Roundup May End Bananas - And They're Merely the Canary in the Mine—Bananas are dying. They're killed by a fungus, one known to be caused by glyphosate, which is used on bananas. But the loss of bananas may be only the tip of the disaster. |
 Mild Hurricane Has Politicos Ranting—While Oil and Nuclear Disasters Are Ignored.—Lab tests confirm that BP's Macondo Well is again gushing. The area around Fukushima is uninhabitable—a no-go zone. And politicians foam at the mouth about a mild hurricane? |
 BP's Unstoppable Gusher Is Gushing Again: BP's Prevarication Points Finger at Self—BP gives up on outright denial. Now they hide behind lack of 'scientific evidence'. BP walks like a duck and quacks like a well-oiled duck. BP points finger back at self. |
 No Return to Fukushima Exclusion Zone: Officially Uninhabitable. Radiation Greater Than 29 Hiroshimas, So Far.—The Japanese government will finally admit that radiation is making the area around Fukushima uninhabitable—but it's just one piece of a much more disastrous picture. |
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BP's Gusher May Be Gushing Again. If So, It Cannot Be Stopped.—As they say, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck—a well-oiled one, as in Hunziker's redesigned BP logo. |
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Fukushima Radiation So High, Geiger Counter Can't Register It!—Fukushima radiation is six times more than the previous high, more than Geiger counters can register. News media and governments cover it up—and radioactive waste to be used as garden soil! |
 Attack of the Killer Seaweed: Nature Strikes Back—Killer seaweed is supplanting normal seaweed in the oceans. Now it's returning to the shores that spawned it, spreading death on land. |
 Cancer Doubles in Mountaintop Coal Mining Country—Mountaintop coal mining is killing Americans at an unprecedented rate, as documented by ground-breaking study. |
 Our Gaia: Alive, Hurting, Worth Dying For (video) |
 Bolivia Leads: Recognizes the Earth's Status Is Equal to Humans—Bolivia recognizes the Earth's right to life, to balance, to be unpolluted, to not be genetically altered. Nature is recognized as having the rights of existence, of being Gaia, the Mother of us all. |
 This Land Is Your Land (video)—Starting with a resounding version of "This Land Is Your Land", this little video sounds the alarm of Agribusiness's profligate destruction of our land. When it's gone, what will become of us? |
 Nuclear Disaster: Don't Believe Their Lies—We have not been told the truth about the nuclear disaster unfolding in Japan. My personal experience includes working in a nuclear power plant that came close to meltdown, and it wasn't one you've heard about, but the experience turned me into an anti-nuclear advocate. |
 Men's Sperm Counts Drop Over 27% in 8 Years: How to Improve Your Fertility—Environmental pollution has caused men's sperm counts to drop dramatically and to increase testicular cancer. You may, though, be able to improve your health, possibly prevent cancer, and increase chances of fathering children. |
 To End World Hunger, End Factory Farms: Worldwatch Report—The Agribusiness Green Revolution has failed. Worldwatch shows us the way to a sustainable future without hunger. |
 Holy Shit: The Secret Behind Creating Truly Sustainable Food—When it comes to growing food, the bottom line is...well, the 'bottom' line. This interview with Gene Logsdon gets down to the real dirt...or rather, where the good dirt comes from. |
 Fake Dairy Presents Fake Plan to Create Fake Milk on Factory Farm—Nocton Dairy is at it again with "new" plans—but that's just to get in the door. The goal is the same as ever, inhumane treatment of cattle to produce inferior milk in assembly-line production style. Please, sign the petition to stop them. |
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The Poop on Poop: Transformation from Crop Food to Poison—Any real gardener will tell you that the very best fertilizer is poop: rich natural excrement from all sorts of animals that's been aged into the best plant food ever created. Now, though, we live in a world in which poop is villified. Horror of horrors, it's found near food crops! It causes disease! We have to eliminate it! |
A Silent Forest: The Horrifying Dangers of GMOs (video)—A Silent Forest is a compelling video about the horrific dangers of genetically modified trees. The entire chain of life is distorted. Beneficial insects are destroyed, along with those considered pests. Bt toxin, bred into trees and other plants, is now found contaminating water supplies. We are being subjected to a vast experiment without having any say in the matter. |
U.S. Doesn't Control BP's Gulf Gusher Cleanup: Here's Why.—Surely you must wonder why the US is so hamstrung in dealing with BP's Gulf Gusher, a slow-motion wreck of the Gulf of Mexico coast. The US government is helpless to even keep tabs on what's happening. The reason is in a political system that has handed over control to an economic system. We must rely on news media outside the country to bring us the truth. |
Humane Claims of Plan for Huge UK Dairy Factory Farm Don't Add Up—A proposal for England's first American-style factory farmed milk paints a pretty picture of contented cows living in spacious quarters and treated humanely. However, the claims literally don't add up. Nocton Dairies' plans provide minimal space for the cows, crowding them obscenely and feeding an unnatural diet that will make them ill. |
Kangaroos Dying of Fluoride Poisoning, But Are Levels Safe For Humans?—Kangaroos are starving and dying from tooth and skeletal deformities caused by fluoride poisoning. In a claim that appears to have been pulled from thin and polluted air, Australia's EPA says that the emissions are safe for humans, though apparently some animals are more sensitive to fluoride. |
Coal Ash Industry Virtually Ghost Writes EPA Reports—The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been having a hard time deciding whether coal sludge is toxic, in spite of it being loaded with mercury, lead, arsenic, cadmium, and radioactive materials. Joshua Frank of Truthout explains how the coal industry has been able to control and manipulate information inside the agency. |
One Man, One Cow, One Planet—'When corporations dictate what farmers must grow, they're controlling what all of us eat. The outcome of the battle for agricultural control of India may dictate the future of the earth.' Peter Coyote narrates this fascinating documentary of organic farming in India, contrasting it with Monsanto's earth-destroying genetically-modified seeds. |
Government Tells Farmers to Use Poisonous Coal Waste on Food Crops—The misnamed Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) is telling farmers to fertilize with coal waste. It's full of mercury, lead, fluoride, arsenic, and other poisons. The current administration is carrying forward a policy first begun in 2001. |
Dirty Tricks by Powerful Industries Suppress the Truth About EMR Health Risks—Telecommunications—The risks of mobile phone safety first came to the public's attention in 1993...the tumor was in the shape of the mobile phone's antenna. Dr. George Carlo first blew the whistle on risks inherent in mobile phones. Threats were made on his career. Then, his house was burned down intentionally. |
Dirty Tricks by Powerful Industries Suppress the Truth About EMR Health Risks—Electricity Production—The telecommunications and electricity production industries use Big Tobacco's techniques to suppress information about health damage from EMR. Suppression. False claims. Stonewalling. Attacking the whistleblowers. There seem to be no limits to the games played to protect profits. |
Wireless Phone Emissions Double Heartrate In Sensitive People—Wireless phones double the heartrate in sensitive people...the subjects were blinded—that is, they were unaware of when phones were turned on or off. The heartbeat rate of one of the 25 people in the study doubled when near a wireless phone that was switched on. The rate dropped back to normal when the phone was turned off. |
 EPA's Warning to Children About Mercury Dangers—This brief video was produced by the EPA to warn children not to play with mercury. And somehow, we're supposed to accept that mercury injected in vaccinations is safe? |
Bill Gates Foundation Helped Pay for GMO Trial That Used Children As Guinea Pigs—Golden rice is a GM food intended to reduce vitamin A deficiencies in nutrition-deprived children...contrary to the Nuremburg Code...tested on children under age 10. The Bill Gates Foundation has heavily financed development and testing...with the Rockefeller Found. & biotech firm, Syngenta, which owns the rights to profit from the rice. |
Taiji Dolphin Slaughter—Please Sign Petition to Stop It.—This secretly-shot video graphically shows the wholesale slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan. It's merciless. The dolphins are herded into a cove and exit is stopped by nets. The nets are drawn in, tighter and tighter, as the men kill them, one by one, with knives. |
People in India Devastated by Industry-Induced High Fluoride Levels—In the United States, fluoride is added to water and toothpaste. It's a major component of many drugs, fertilizers, and pesticides. Fluoride's toll on people in India, where corporations are relatively uncontrolled, is evident in horribly deformed bodies wracked with pain. Is it possible that it's taking a toll in the US, too? |
 The Yes Men Parody the New York Post—The Yes Men do another one of their brilliant satires, but this one with a twist. They put out a New York Post, a notoriously right wing climate change denying paper, but it tells the truth about climate change. |
A Pinch of Fluoride in Salt?—Are you adding fluoride to your toxic intake when you use salt? In several major European countries, India, and Japan, salt fluoridation is routine. Of course, the usual excuse is that it's good for teeth, but that claim is highly questionable. While topical treatment may be beneficial, ingestion offers no benefit, and fluoride is highly toxic. |
Ozone Hole Fix Worsens Global Warming—When things are done on a large scale, the law of unintentional consequences often applies. We invented air conditioning—and what a blessing it is—but it led to a life-threatening hole in the ozone layer. So, we figured out how to fix it by banning CFCs and other ozone-depleting chemicals, and requiring a switch to HFCs. But they've turned out to be one of the very worst greenhouse gases. |
Sterilizing the World Will Not Make Us Safe—Agribusiness is trying to sterilize the world. This is, of course, a business decision. If the goal were to improve health, then they would long ago have focused on growing healthier foods—but they don't. It's all about profits. When their bottom line was hurt by food poisoning outbreaks, they had to find a way to capitalize on it. |
Was Virulent E. Coli Caused By Agribusiness?—E. coli is a common bacterium...a type of probacteria. You have it in your system right now, and would die if it weren't there...Why are we experiencing these disease outbreaks? Could it be that Big Agribusiness has created this scourge? |
Food Irradiation Supports Agribusiness, Not Health—Food irradiation exists only because agribusiness exists. It isn't to support your health. As we've seen recently with outbreaks of food-borne disease, modern food production is innately unhealthy. It utilizes monoculture, long term storage, and chemicals. None of these are good for us, but all create enormous profits for a money-hungry industry. The need to sterilize foods on a mass scale simply did not exist until agribusiness changed the nature of what we eat. |
Fish Contaminated by Dow's Dioxin Are Focus of Michigan Festival (Including photo gallery of dioxin's effects.)—The poor may be the intended beneficiaries of Dow Chemical's dioxin-contaminated fish, in spite of public advisories against their consumption...Dioxin is a known cancer-causing agent, a hormone disruptor, and an impairer of the immune system. But even worse, it interferes with fetal development. |
CDC Covered Up Worst Lead Contamination in History—Tap water in parts of Washington D.C. between 2001 and 2004 was so polluted with lead that it should have been classified as hazardous waste. The nation's watchdog agency, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) knew about it—and covered it up...Lead permanently shrinks children's brains...reduces intelligence...makes children violent. |
PsychoCorp #2—You Thought You Knew What Happened in the Exxon Valdez "Accident"?—It's been 20 years since the Exxon Valdez disaster. What really happened? Exxon had refused to fix the radar system. Exxon claimed to have provided cleanup equipment, but that proved to be a lie. Exxon promised to pay for the losses. Then, they went about creating delays and obstructions to avoid doing just that. |
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PsychoCorp #1—FMC Product Banned in U.S. Kills Lions in Africa—FMC hypes its "Commitment to Stewardship" campaign while selling its pesticide to African nations after it was restricted in the U.S. and banned in Europe. The product, Furadan, is such an effective poison that Kenyan cattle herders have sprinkled it over carcasses to lure and kill lions. Oddly enough, its manufacturer, FMC, sees it a little differently. |
Mountaintop Coal Mining—The Greatest Environmental Sin of All (With Photo Gallery)—The scar in the earth shown in the picture on the right is the result of mountaintop coal mining. If the coal companies have their way, it's what will become of the rest of the Appalachian Mountains. As bad as it looks, the reality is even worse. The scars are not only ugly, they're toxic. The environment will never recover. It's poisoned. |
Coal Is the Worst Polluter of All—Image a list of the worst pollutants. Whatever is on your list almost certainly is produced by coal mining or burning, usually in greater quantities than any other polluting industry...Coal-fired plants produce 100 times the radiation of nuclear plants to yield the same amount of energy. |
Lead Shrinks the Brain and Causes Violent Crime—A landmark study of children from birth into adulthood shows definitively that lead exposure leads to violent crime, that there are no safe levels of lead, and that it shrinks the brain. Lead has no function in the human body. Unlike several other minerals that are necessary at low concentrations but poisonous at high ones, lead is always poisonous. |
Is Humanity Suicidal? A review of The Age of Stupid—A man has lost all his possessions to Hurricane Katrina, revs up his jet boat—and says he's an enviromentalist and ecologist. An African woman whose life has been devastated by an American oil company wants, more than anything, to move to the U.S. and be just like Americans...A woman self-righteously fights against wind power, then claims she cares about global warming. This is The Age of Stupid. |
Colony Collapse Disorder Is a Fraud—Pesticides Cause Bee Die-Offs—There is no great mystery about the massive bee die-off. Colony Collapse Disorder is poisoning with a known insect neurotoxin. Clothianidin, a pesticide manufactured by Bayer, has been clearly linked... |
New Neurological Disease Found in Pig Workers—We now have a new horrible disease brought by the same insane meat-raising industry that brought Mad Cow Disease and Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease...involves inflammation of the spinal cord, has multiple neurological symptoms, gets worse, and affects the immune system. |
Bananas Are Dying—Killed By Corporate Monoculture—Prepare to say goodbye to bananas. Do you remember back in the sixties when there was a change in bananas? It wasn’t announced, but those of us who love the fruit recall it...That change foretold what’s now coming—the near-complete death of bananas. They're dying, and their death is a precursor of what’s to come if we continue to accept corporate farming. |
WiFi and EM Radiation—The Rest of the Autism Story—It has been well documented, though distorted by mainstream media, that there is a clear link between vaccinations and autism, along with other neurological disorders. There is, though, another factor that has recently been clearly linked to autism: wireless technology. |