A new poll shows that most Americans now think that climate change is one of our biggest problems. Here at unknowncountry.com, we take some of the credit for that awareness. While the subject of global warming is rarely raised in the US national media, WE don’t ignore it. A new poll reveals that the general public is finally waking up to this threat as well.
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There is an emergency going on in the world’s oceans that most of us know nothing about: as certain species of fish that are overfished or stressed due to pollution or changes in water temperature become drastically reduced in number, this changes the whole balance of the ocean ecosystem, causing more species to go extinct, etc. Since many societies in the world rely on fish to eat, this is a disaster in the making.
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Here at unknowncountry.com, we sometimes like to investigate strange smells. Scientists are people who like to ask questions about things that the rest of us take for granted?like WHY do things start to smell when they decay?
Microbes compete with large animal scavengers by producing repugnant chemicals that make the food sources they invade stink, in order to deter higher species from consuming them first. Biologist Mark Hay says, “Microbes that can hold onto these resources and use them for their own growth would be advantaged over microbes that could not prevent their resource from being consumed by animals.” Hence the stench.
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Daniel Pinchbeck caused a sensation on Dreamland with his book “Breaking Open the Head” about his adventures with exotic psychedelics, and his conviction that they open the mind to real alternate universes. Now he’s back with a stunner about a universe that’s very definitely real: our own, and what the ending of the Mayan calendar in 2012 means. Then Linda Howe interviews an Air Force officer who had a personal UFO encounter in 2003 that involved intervention in our radar systems. Stunning show!
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