Robert Hunziker, Author at CNCL

World’s Premier Marine Ecosystem at Risk

Robert Hunziker — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 06:15:23 +0000

The Southern Ocean is 10% of the world’s oceans. Yet, it is arguably the most significant ecosystem of the planet for marine sea life as well as regulation of CO2 and ocean heat, serving as a buffer to climate change and thereby benefiting the entire globe. It is the final frontier of life support for Earth.

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Kiss the Amazon Goodbye?

Robert Hunziker — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 09:42:18 +0000

As devastating as Trump was for the environment, President Jair Bolsonaro has one-upped Trump. He’s single-handedly destroying the world’s largest rainforest. It may be the single most important ecosystem for the survival of Homo sapiens.

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Is There Enough Metal to Replace Oil?

Robert Hunziker — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 01:32:30 +0000

The short answer: No, not even close!

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Breakdown of the Marine Food Web

Robert Hunziker — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 06:18:25 +0000

For the first time, a significant loss at the base of the marine food web has been detected. The Scottish research vessel Capepod reported the findings in equatorial waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Greenland Threatens

Robert Hunziker — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 22:35:02 +0000

Greenland is sending signals to coastal metropolises around the world that it’s never too early to start building seawalls. These are not mixed signals from the big ice island. Rather, they are straightforward signals indicative of rapid breakdown of average ice thickness of 5,000 feet sooner than ever thought possible.

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Will Egypt Drain the World’s Second Largest Wetlands?

Robert Hunziker — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 22:34:35 +0000

Sudd is Africa’s largest freshwater wetland at roughly 3,500 square miles in an otherwise dry region of South Sudan. It’s under threat by a megaproject named Jonglei Canal that has the potential to devastate this ecological gem.

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Buckle Up! The Arctic’s Sizzling

Robert Hunziker — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 04:37:58 +0000

The Arctic is turning into a dream come true for doomsayers. It’s heating way too fast! Nostradamus is dancing in the street.

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India – Birds Drop Out of the Sky, People Die

Robert Hunziker — Thu, 26 May 2022 02:24:27 +0000

Death by humid heat in India equates to the tolling of bells, slowly, repeatedly, as black pennants flutter along the distant horizon. Another one has died and another, and one more, and another and another, as the monotonous tolling becomes an atrocious irritation.

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The Biomass Peril

Robert Hunziker — Mon, 23 May 2022 22:51:54 +0000

By all appearances, woody biomass is an unstoppable behemoth initiated by the EU, which is now scrambling, as it tries to undo a monster of its own creation.

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Japan’s Toxic Dumping Faces Growing Protests

Robert Hunziker — Sun, 01 May 2022 00:07:04 +0000

The Japanese government’s decision one year ago to dump radioactive water from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant storage tanks into the Pacific Ocean, starting in the spring of 2023, is facing increasing pressure to back off, especially in light of the facts that not only is it illegal but also morally reprehensible as well as a despicable disregard for the lifeblood of the ocean.

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The Collapse of Industrial Farming

Robert Hunziker — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 06:13:30 +0000

The most upending event of the past 10,000 years is the advent of engineered food as fermentation farms displace factory farms. “We are on the Cusp of the Fastest, Deepest, Most Consequential Disruption of Agriculture in History.”

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Climate Change is Killing Trees

Robert Hunziker — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 23:29:33 +0000

Just once in our planet's long history, nearly all of the trees died - during the Permian-Triassic 252 million years ago, and event known as "the Great Dying." It appears that such an event may be re-appearing. Throughout the world, trees are dying en masse.

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