SANTIAGO, Chile -- A strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake has struck off Chile's southern coast, but the authorities say it wasn't felt on land and discounted the possibility of a tsunami.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake's epicenter was 336 miles (542 kilometers) west-southwest of Castro, Los Lagos. It struck Thursday evening local time off the coast of the Aysen region and at depth of 6.2 miles (10 kilometers).
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All during spring and summer I love to watch the huge fish hawks called Ospreys building up their stick nests, then incubating their eggs, and then raising their chicks. How many chicks, how many Ospreys for that matter, depends on how much food.
The same's true for people. But Ospreys can't make more fish for themselves. People, we're different. By fishing, we take food from Ospreys (and many other creatures). And by farming we make more food, something that the birds can't do.
In the latter half of the 20th century, humanity's food production tripled, thanks to new high-yield grain varieties, artificial pesticides and fertilizer (40 to 60 percent of the nitrogen in the human body now originates in a factory), and -- pumped water. Continue reading
This article comes to us courtesy of SF Weekly's The Snitch.
The kids over at Sun Valley School in San Rafael are lamenting the fact that the Crayola markers they use to draw, write, and color, are pretty ... pretty polluting.
And because the students are sick of seeing so much wasted plastic, they started a petition on Change.org asking the company to give consumers a convenient way to recycle the millions of Crayola markers manufactured every year. As the kids astutely note, currently there's no method to recycle the nearly half a billion markers made every year, which is they they are explicitly asking Crayola to create a "take-back" program, giving consumers a safe way to recycle markers.
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