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Where have all the teacup pigs gone? No one can say for sure. Anyone could have scattered those teacup bones in your back yard!

By Lars Kenset

happy Mothers day and every other dayof the year


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We LOVE gardening!
 
Ticking Meatmares
Lone star ticks hunt in packs and spread an allergy to beef and pork. Thanks to climate change, they're spreading.

By Zoya Teirstein on May 1, 2018

When Peter Coughlin was in his sophomore year at James Madison University in northern Virginia, he was besieged by a strange and unsettling illness. At random times throughout the night, Coughlin would wake up with hives, full body chills, and raging fevers. These episodes always ended up with him in the bathroom, throwing up until his stomach was empty.

After keeping a food journal for nearly a year, Coughlin realized his symptoms occurred after eating meat, primarily pork. “I essentially spent a week proving my point,” Coughlin says. “I’d eat a bunch of red meat, and go through a series of pretty severe reactions.”


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https://grist.org/article/lone-star-ticks-are-a-carnivores-nightmare-and-theyre-just-waking-up/
 

WATER SHORTAGE
?CHILE MILITARY GOVT CORRUPTION
Avocado growers rip off
people suffer a water shortage

like many
knew of this beneficial for health food
funny how the bulk of humanity are playing catch up in this age, suffer
western world people can be such dolts
had such trees here for years

-UNs supposed
eveyone has a right to water BULLSHIT
state crap but can never enforce it/may as well not say anything

Avocado - a positive superfood trend | DW Documentary

Published on May 1, 2018
From avocado toast to guacamole, this superfood has stolen the hearts of foodies and the health conscious around the world. But where do avocados come from?

Avocados have become a huge food trend in the Western world, where the creamy fruit has become readily available in shops, cafes and restaurants. The avocado is considered a superfood and is popular in Europe because of its nutritional value. Avocados are high in calories, contain mostly monounsaturated fat and are good for cholesterol. The fruit is full of essential nutrients, including potassium and vitamin C. But there's a darker side to the fashionable fruit popular on toast or in salads. In Chile, one of the world's largest suppliers, avocado cultivation has dramatic consequences and has been linked to water shortages, human rights violations and an environmentally damage. The province of Petorca has a long tradition of avocado farming. Once grown by small farmers, production has been soaring since the global avocado boom of the 1990s. Big landowners now dominate the avocado market there. And their business requires large amounts of water. It takes up to 1000 liters of water to grow one kilo of the fruit (about three avocados) - a lot more than for a kilo of tomatoes or potatoes. The region is suffering an acute water shortage, exacerbated by climate change. The riverbeds dried up years ago. Trucks bring tanks of water to families in need, while thousands of hectares of avocado groves just next door are watered with artificial reservoirs. Rodrigo Mundaca founded the NGO Modatima. He fights for the right to water - a right that’s guaranteed by the UN and that Chile has committed to. An aerial survey in 2012 revealed that 64 pipelines were diverting river water underground, apparently to irrigate the avocado fields. When the Modatima activists publicly voiced their criticism, they received death threats. Water became a commodity in Chile in 1981 under the Pinochet dictatorship, meaning it’s privatized. Those who offer the most money get water licenses, even for life, regardless of the potential consequences for the ecosystem. The avocado also has a pretty dire environmental footprint. They’re packaged to prevent damage and transported in air-conditioned cargo ships to Europe. The fruit then ripens in a factory in Rotterdam, before it’s sent "ready to eat” to German supermarkets. "Europe wants to eat healthily - at our expense,” says Mundaca.
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always LOVED my RURAL AUSTRALIA esp Qld
always did
live off the land for many years late 60s early 80s,mushrooms magic and luckily chose healthy edible ones as well
easily identifiable then
shame to see it partially decimated 2015 onwards

Woodchip export proposal for southern Tasmania passes first hurdle
A woodchip mill and export facility proposed for Dover in southern Tasmania secures the State Government approval it needs to go ahead.



Indigenous-grown rosella plant in hot demand as tea-drinkers embrace healthy bush food
Indigenous-grown rosella from the Northern Territory will soon be sold in cafes as tea-drinkers embrace healthy bush food.



Technology uses condensation and renewable energy to irrigate crops
An ASX-listed company develops an irrigation system that pulls moisture from the air using renewable energy.



'Potentially deadly' wild mushroom numbers on the rise
South Australians are being reminded not to eat or pick up "potentially deadly" wild mushrooms.



How do Queensland's land clearing laws impact farming profits?
The land clearing debate continues in farming communities across Queensland following laws passed banning the broad scale clearing of remnant vegetation.



Anger over Bight drilling plans spills over in Adelaide
Anger over controversial plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight has sparked a protest outside an oil and gas conference in Adelaide.



Mental health distress more prevalent among FIFO workers than general community
Psychological distress is significantly more prevalent in the remote mining and construction workforce, research has found.

 

sigh
keep you busy for a while
little more than 6 minutes i imagine

Nature | 6 min read


(Solent News/REX/Shutterstock)
Revealed: Wikipedia’s most-cited papers
Two papers that collect thousands of sequences of human and mouse genes are the most referenced scientific articles on English-language Wikipedia. A survey looked at 1.2 million references to sources with DOIs (digital object identifiers). Almost all the highly cited papers are science articles — and many of the most popular works are referenced more times in the online encyclopaedia than they are in the scientific literature.

Nature | 6 min read

as long as thats all it does NAS
love ya exploration innovativeness techniques etc,but would be pissed off if the drone started firing mini missiles into Mars to break it up for inst



NASA will put a helicopter drone on Mars
A small helicopter will accompany NASA’s next rover mission to Mars, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020. The autonomous drone weighs less than 2 kilograms and has a fuselage the size of a softball. The drone will test the viability of flight in the thin Martian atmosphere. “The altitude record for a helicopter flying here on Earth is about 40,000 feet,” notes Mimi Aung, Mars Helicopter project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “The atmosphere of Mars is only 1% that of Earth, so when our helicopter is on the Martian surface, it’s already at the Earth equivalent of 100,000 feet up.”

The Verge | 3 min read
 
Why is it that will speed up as fast as possible to get in front of you to get to the off ramp? There is no one behind me and it is much safer to just follow.
 
follow on from your warning 2 weeks ago

Plastic, mould found in dog food sparks call for regulation of industry
The Federal Government is facing growing calls to regulate Australia's pet food industry, amid reports of contaminated products and claims manufacturers have too much influence when things go wrong.



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Fly infestation captured on Simpson Desert cameleer's video creates social media buzz
Shar
NT Country
  • By Katrina Beavan

    Updated about 9 hours ago
    First posted yesterday at 19:55

    Cameleer Andrew Harper says thankfully most of the camels are not bothered by the flies.
    (Supplied: Outback Camel Company)
    In outback Australia it is not unusual to have large amounts of flies buzzing around, especially when travelling in remote areas.

    But a recent video taken in the Simpson Desert has highlighted how bad the insects have been as of late.

    When Andrew Harper from the Outback Camel Company was travelling through the western Simpson Desert in the last couple of weeks the number of flies he saw shocked him.

    The cameleer said he had never seen the flies this bad in his 22 years traversing the outback, which is why he subsequently took a video of them, racking-up hundreds of thousands of views on social media.
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    Cameleer Andrew Harper says the flies have been atrocious this year.

    (Supplied: Outback Camel Company)
    "With the extended warmer temperatures their life cycle is thriving."

    Mr Harper said the flies live for about a month and they were looking for moisture.

    The female flies were looking for protein.

    "There's about three females to every male in bush flies and they need protein to reproduce," he said.

    "That's why they get in your eyes, up your nose, in your mouth and in your ears. It becomes very annoying."

    Thankfully Mr Harper said there should be less flies on his next trip with the cooler weather starting to drive them away.

    "We just need one or two more frosts and that'll be it," he said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/20...Email||8940&utm_content=RuralMail_ArticleLink
 
New Zealand sheep lovers and other sheep lovers WW UNITE ... the decision to send pregnant ewes to the Saudi desert, an RNZ OIA request has revealed.
esp to the SAUDIS grrrr

Key: Saudi sheep deal helps Gulf FTA

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Labour also wants sheep investigation | Newshub
www.newshub.co.nz/nznews/labour-also-wants-sheep-investigation-2015081108
Aug 11, 2015 - ... probe into the Government's deal to set up an $11.5 million sheep farm in SaudiArabia. ... Labour MP David Parker (Simon Wong/ 3 News) ... in the middle of the desert to showcaseNew Zealand agricultural technology.

Saudi sheep deal: Govt accused of cover-up

Watch Murray McCully face questions from Lisa Owen on The Nation. Credits: The Nation
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Chernobyl Puppies Going Up for Adoption in the U.S.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...pJobID=1281892768&spReportId=MTI4MTg5Mjc2OAS2


A Botanical Wonderland Resides in the World of Rare and Unusual Books
The Smithsonian’s librarian and antiquarian Leslie Overstreet time travels, sharing centuries of horticultural splendors

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