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Messenger Finds Blue Goo on Mercury

For many years, scientists believed that Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, was similar to the moon. New photos of the planet... more

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Tiny Mercury Had Huge Volcanic Eruptions

"Our solar system's smallest planet has seen an enormous amount of volcanic activity, according to scientists studying... more

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Coal's time bomb

Every year, South Carolina's power plants burn enough coal to fill 10 large football stadiums, leaving behind a stadium-size... more

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8 Facts the FDA does NOT want you to know about canned tuna

Americans consume more than one billion pounds of canned tuna every year, yet most people are unaware of the neurotoxic risks from... more

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Artemide Mercury Suspension Chandelier

Contemporary lighting by Artemide consisting of decorative and architectural lighting.The new Mercury lamp in two simple, elegant... more

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Mercury as never seen before

Oct. 7, 2008: Yesterday, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft flew past Mercury and photographed a broad swath of never-before-seen... more

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NASA's probe captured never-before-seen views during second encounter

A NASA probe has begun beaming back stunning new images from its successful second flyby of Mercury, the planet closest to the... more

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OEHHA Says You Need to Eat More Fish No Matter What the Health Consequences

The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Evaluation (OEHHA) has decided that you need to eat more fish, no matter what the health consequences. The state now says that the solution to our obesity and heart disease epidemics isn’t eating less In N’ Out double doubles, but to consume more sport fish caught off the shores of California. Don’t worry that many species are riddled with harmful chemicals. And don’t be troubled by the fact that factory fishing has led to the collapse of most major fishery stocks. We can always lean on fish farms and our remaining struggling fisheries to put fish on the table.

In its new report, OEHHA reduces the acceptable cancer risk to fish consumers from 1 in 100,000 to 1 in 10,000 people. Maybe OEHHA figured we didn’t have enough DDT and PCBs in our diet. If that wasn’t bad enough, the new guidance is based on a fish consumption rate of eight ounces a week, about two average meals. Ironically, the new guidance does a horrible job of protecting those people that eat a lot more fish than eight ounces of fish a week. So subsistence anglers and members of the Asian community, especially Pacific Islanders, will be far less protected than the 1 in 10,000 cancer risk. I’m not sure why OEHHA didn’t work with the Health Department and Cal-Fish and Game to promote consumption of clean, sustainable fish instead of carcinogen-laden fish, but that’s the choice they made.

OEHHA has come up with a health guidance that is less protective than that of the Bush administration. The national Environmental Protection Agency uses a 1 in 100,000 or 1 in a million cancer risk when deciding whether to issue health warnings. The EPA, as well as Heal the Bay, strongly opposed the new guidance, but to no avail. Now the state will use the guidance to issue health warnings to consumers of contaminated fish. They just won’t be very protective to people that eat a lot of fish. Also, the new guidance will probably mean that contaminated ocean floor hot-spots may not need to be cleaned up as much — if at all — based on the new higher risk thresholds. All in all, a horrible health protection strategy that puts both the consumers and fish populations at greater risk. Read Heal the Bay’s tips on eating fish from the bay.
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Popular fish tilapia potentially worse than bacon

Farm-raised tilapia, one of the most highly consumed fish in America, has very low levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids and,... more

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Smallest planet shrinks in size

Data from a flyby of Mercury in January 2008 show the planet has contracted by more than one mile (1.5km) in diameter over its... more

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Shrinking planet

Mercury, the smallest planet in the Solar System since Pluto was deemed not to be a planet after all, seems to be shrinking as its... more

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Jupiter could cause Mecury to smash into the Earth

Three separate groups of scientists have used different computer simulations to predict the same frightening outcome. It is... more

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Danger of toxic mercury fillings exposed in groundbreaking lawsuit

"The FDA has, for decades, ridiculously insisted that mercury fillings pose no health threat whatsoever to children. While dismissing hundreds of studies showing a clear link between mercury amalgam fillings ("silver fillings") and disastrous neurological effects in the human body, the FDA denied the truth about mercury and effectively protected the mercury filling racket that has brought so much harm to so many people. For over a hundred years, a cabal of "mercury mongers" made up of the American Dental Association, mercury filling manufacturers and indignant dentists have reaped windfall profits by implanting toxic fillings into the mouths of children, all while insisting that mercury - one of the most toxic heavy metals known to modern science - posed no health threat whatsoever.

Today, that reign of toxicity is about to end. Thanks to the tireless, multi-year efforts of people like Charles Brown, National Counsel for Consumers for Dental Choice (www.ToxicTeeth.org), the FDA has now been forced to acknowledge a fact so fundamental that, by any measure of honest science, it should have adopted the position decades ago. What position is that? Simply that mercury is toxic to humans.

The FDA's stonewalling on this issue has been nothing less than a circus of politically-motivated denials, much like the Big Tobacco executives swearing under oath that "Nicotine is not addictive." In similar style, the FDA insisted for decades that "Mercury is not toxic." Both statements, as any sane person can readily conclude, are the outbursts of lunatics. Sadly, those lunatics somehow remain in charge of our nation's food, drugs and cosmetics (and dental care), meaning that any real progress to protect the People must come from outside the FDA.

And that's exactly what just happened. Consumers for Dental Choice teamed up with Moms Against Mercury (www.MomsAgainstMercury.org) to sue the FDA and its commissioner whose name sounds like an evil-minded villian right out of a Marvel comic book: Von Eschenbach. The lawsuit, entitled, Moms Against Mercury et al. v. Von Eschenbach, Commissioner, et al was concluded earlier this week with a reluctant agreement by the FDA to both change its website on the issue of mercury and to reclassify mercury within one year, following a period of public comment (which the agency will no doubt try to drag out as long as possible in order to avoid actually sticking to the terms of the lawsuit agreement).

Remarkably, the FDA's website no longer claims mercury is harmless. The language has now been changed in dramatic fashion, reading: "Dental amalgams contain mercury, which may have neurotoxic effects on the nervous systems of developing children and fetus."

There's still a lot of fudging there. Note the careful use of the word "may," which means the FDA still isn't sure whether mercury is neurotoxic, but it might be. This is the FDA's way of continuing to stonewall this issue, even as it lost its lawsuit. For any FDA officials who don't yet think mercury is toxic to the human nervous system, I invite them to chug a few milliliters of the substance themselves and find out what the effects might be. It certainly couldn't make them any more mad than they are already!"

By Mike Adams// Natural News
http://www.naturalnews.com/023367.html

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Why Navajos oppose desert rock power plant and everyone should fight mercury pollution

Hear, see and read why every one should do something to stop mercury pollution from coal-fired electric plants and oppose the new $2 billion dollar Desert Rock Power Plant proposed for the Navajo Nation in the Four Corners area of the United States.

Make sure to click the link to OneEarthBlog for a more in depth exploration of this crucial issue, the impact of mercury pollution on the environment and the human brain, the scientific explanation of the causal connection between neuro-toxins like mercury and autism and other neurological disease, as well as solutions and calls to paradigm changes to change values to survive by indigenous leaders.

We've included videos of Dine leaders, scientist experts on neuro-toxins and the brain, Winona LaDuke speaking in Shiprock against Desert Rock Power Plant and about how much renewable energy the $2 billion dollar cost of the plant could bring the Four Corners.

There are links to government reports on how the Four Corners area was just named the biggest air polluter in the country, worse than our major cities New York, Chicago and LA. And information about how mercury emissions have increased and how mercury affects the environment and human health.

Watch the video of Jenny McCarthy where she explains how she discovered that mercury in vaccines and the environment caused her son's autism, and how she helped him, and today, he no longer fits the definition of autism.

Make sure to get to the bottom of the blog, so you don't miss the video of the elders talking about the paradigm shift we need back to indigenous thinking so human beings are brought back into balance with the earth. Onondaga Faithkeeper and Chief Oren Lyons talks about how we need value change for survival. "You've got to make the decisions for the seventh generation. That's not just a casual term, that's a real instruction for survival."

Indian leaders and grandmothers know from our oral traditions that this is not the first time in America that the actions of human beings have threatened our environment. There are many stories in our traditions that explain how people faced crisis when their actions were out of harmony with natural law. eg the Navajo emergence story.

Our indigenous leaders have lots to teach all Americans and world citizens about how to live in balance on the earth without destroying our home.

Spread the word.

From TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog for Earth Day 2008.Hear, see and read why every one should do something to stop mercury pollution from coal-fired electric plants and oppose the new... more