Quand BP cherche à faire taire les scientifiques (slate.fr)
Le déclin du plancton menace l’espèce humaine (slate.fr)
Un programme sans précédent pour élucider la surmortalité des abeilles (lemonde.fr)

ARPAgeddon: Approximately 350 days until IPcalypse.

«Improving human mental health is having some serious unintended consequences for our friends in the ocean. Exposure to antidepressants makes shrimp five times more likely to place themselves in life-threatening situations, and the broader effects could damage the entire ecosystem..»

Source: io9.com

Source: Youtube: Rachel Maddow - The more spills change_ the more they stay the same

«Et s’il n’y avait plus rien à faire pour sauver l’humanité? S’il était déjà trop tard? The Australian nous apprend que pour le scientifique australien Frank Fenner, le destin de l’Homme est scellé. Cette éminence en ce qui concerne l’extinction des espèces est plus que sceptique quant à l’avenir de l’espèce humaine»

Source: slate.fr

See also: The Most Hated Companies Ever–How Did BP Score?

«According to internal BP documents obtained by Truthout, and after interviewing more than a dozen employees over the past month, the Prudhoe Bay oil field, in a remote corner of North America on Alaska’s north shore, is in danger..

“The condition of the [Prudhoe Bay] field is a lot worse and in my opinion a lot more dangerous,” said Marc Kovac, who has worked for BP on Alaska’s North Slope for more than three decades. “We still have hundreds of miles of rotting pipe ready to break that needs to be replaced. We are totally unprepared for a large spill” ..»

Source: truth-out.org
in French: rue89.com

«A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change, a UN report said today. »

Source: guardian.co.uk

«a massive, spontaneous sinkhole (”hundimiento”) that appeared today in Zone 2 of Guatemala City, after overwhelming saturation of rains from tropical storm Agatha. Not Photoshop, sadly: these happen from time to time during major storms in part because of unstable geology»

Source: boingboing.net
See also: flickr.com
and also: picture of the 2007 sinkhole
and: Some scientific explanation (fr)

«Scandale au zoo de Pékin: après avoir admiré les animaux dans les allées du zoo, les visiteurs peuvent les déguster dans leur assiette. C’est le journal chinois The Legal Daily qui a révélé cette aberration la semaine dernière: au menu du restaurant du zoo, on pouvait trouver de l’hippopotame, du kangourou, du crocodile ou encore des scorpions.»

Source: 20minutes.fr

A lire aussi: Les animaux moches sont mal barrés
Et aussi: «Dogdating» géant au Champ de Mars