Tag: Hawaii

  • Ocean fish acquire more mercury at depth

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    Reposted from Science Codex: Mercury—a common industrial toxin—is carried through the atmosphere before settling on the ocean and entering the marine food web. Now, exciting new research from the University of Michigan and the University of Hawai’i at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) combines biogeochemistry and direct marine ecology observations…

  • Hawaiians fight back against GMO experiments

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    By John Upton The state of Hawaii has become a lot like the island of Dr. Moreau. Except that instead of Dr. Moreau — the mad scientist in H.G. Wells’s 1896 novel who vivisected animals into beast-people — Hawaii is ruled by the GMO industry. Shutterstock: The Island of Dr. Monsanto. Monsanto, Dow AgroSciences, Syngenta, DuPont Pioneer, and BASF…