Averting environmental crisis

Averting a crisis by 'add'ing up the clues.

To cite: Patell R, Dosi R, Sheth S, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014204685 DESCRIPTION An urgent medical consult was called for refractory postoperative hypotension, without any apparent obvious cause, in a 50-year-old previously normotensive woman following bilateral hip surgery under spinal anaesthesia. Blood pressure was persistently ...

Conservation. Averting lemur extinctions amid Madagascar's political crisis.

The Looming Environmental Crisis

water contaminants and bacteria that increases the risk of becoming ill (9-11). Even more worrisome is that this only appears to be the beginning since the global shift in climate and temperatures are expected to worsen in the coming years, since the world appears to be committed to several more decades of warming (9). An equally worrying trend has also been observed in air quality and the pote...

Averting Educational Crisis: Funding Cuts, Teacher Shortages, and the Dwindling Commitment to Public Education

Recent data shows that two-thirds of states are funding education at lower levels than in 2008. Some states are 20% or more below levels of just a few years earlier. The effect on schools has been devastating. States are only exacerbating the problem by reducing teachers’ rights and benefits. These attacks, combined with funding decreases, have scared many prospective teachers away from the pro...

The U.S. Environmental Movement: Crisis or Transition?

We address the debate surrounding the current status of the U.S. environmental movement. Using measures of ecological and public policy impact, we show that the U.S. environmental movement has failed to prevent the continuing negative growth of the U.S. ecological footprint and, since the early 1990s, has been blocked in its national legislative agenda. We trace this failure to the dominance wi...