![]() ![]() Unlikely as it might seem, there is a thread connecting these events, and Rachel Maddow follows it to its crooked source: the unimaginably lucrative and equally corrupting oil and gas industry. And in 2014, Ukrainian revolutionaries raided the palace of their ousted president and found a zoo of peacocks, gilded toilets, and a floating restaurant modeled after a Spanish galleon. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia - including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove - was sold at auction for more than one million dollars to a guy who was, officially, just the lowly forestry minister of the tiny nation of Equatorial Guinea. ![]() In 2010, the words earthquake swarm entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. “A rollickingly well-written book, filled with fascinating, exciting, and alarming stories about the impact of the oil and gas industry on the world today.” ( The New York Times Book Review) Big Oil and Gas versus democracy - winner take all ![]()
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![]() ![]() The second is known as the "enrichment-opportunist stage," where smaller organisms comb the surrounding sediment for decomposing tissue. "Like your family coming from all over the country for these events, different species come from all over the deep sea to feast on this huge amount of carbon that has just arrived," she says. But every so often, something larger reaches the sea floor.ĭiva Amon, a deep-sea biologist and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Natural History Museum in London, likens the arrival of a whale fall to a Thanksgiving buffet. ![]() ![]() These species have adapted to live in the extreme environment of the deep sea: a cold region of immense pressure and intense darkness.ĭown there, most creatures subsist on dead and decaying material that falls from the surface, forming " marine snow" - dead plankton, dead animals shells, fecal matter, and other inorganic material. Whale falls are places of evolutionary novelty, sheltering species first discovered on the bones of dead whales. Whale falls become ecosystems unto themselves. Their carcasses - known as "whale falls" - become an energy-rich habitat, drawing a wide variety of organisms from across the deep sea to feast. What happens after a whale dies? Most fall. Fallen whale carcasses, abundant in the deep-sea, are now studied as ecosystems unto themselves. ![]() ![]() ![]() The original book is taught to students around the world. This prequel was written in 2008 by Budge Wilson to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the book series. It was the first of many novels Montgomery wrote numerous sequels, and since her death another sequel has been published, as well as an authorized prequel titled Before Green Gables. Since its publication, Anne of Green Gables has been translated into at least 36 languages and has sold more than 50 million copies, making it one of the best-selling books worldwide. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way through life with the Cuthberts, in school, and within the town. ![]() Set in the late 19th century, the novel recounts the adventures of 11 year old orphan girl Anne Shirley sent by mistake to two middle-aged siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who had originally intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in the fictional town of Avonlea in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children's novel since the mid-20th century. ![]() Written and set in Canada, published in the United States Īnne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L. ![]() |