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Blame it on "guano mania." A craze for natural fertilizer made from bird droppings spurred the U.S. to take possession of a group of remote Pacific islands in the 19th century, and now those islands are home to the world's largest marine reserve.
On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced an expansion of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument to cover nearly 490,000 square miles, six times larger than its previous size. (See "U.S. Creates Largest Protected Area in the World, 3X Larger Than California.")
The Guano Islands Act of 1856 made it possible. The United States long ago used the act to claim islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean as territory, which means that today the U.S. government has the legal authority to protect waters up to 200 miles out from each island, an area known as the exclusive economic zone.
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For the Pacific Remote Islands preserve, this includes Palmyra, an atoll of about 50 low-lying islands that were first claimed for the United States in 1859 under the Guano Islands federal statute, which remains on the books. In all, the law claimed five Pacific Remote Island Areas now in the reserve, including the triangular Kingman Reef and tiny Baker, Howland, and Jarvis Islands.
Ultimately, the islands of the newly expanded monument owe their present-day good fortune to the digestive tracts of the abundant seabirds that inhabited them a century and a half ago.
White Gold
Guano was fertilizer as good as it got at the time for fertilizing farmer's fields to feed a growing world population, before the development of synthetic ammonia fertilizers in the early part of the 20th century.
"American farmers first learned of the powerful fertilizing properties of guano in the mid-1840's," wrote legal historian Christina Duffy Posna of Columbia University Law School in New York in a 2005 essay on the American "guano islands."
Peruvians had known about it for centuries and enjoyed a monopoly over the Chincha Islands, where birds had deposited tons of what came to be known as "white gold." Hundreds of thousands of seabirds can nest on a single island, and migrating birds overwinter on them as well. The tightly packed birds cover the small islands, which receive little rain and intense sunlight, perfect conditions for drying out guano deposits.
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Bird Droppings Led to U.S. Possession of Newly Protected Pacific Islands
Building on a legacy left by President George W. Bush, President Obama has extended the reach of the Pacific Remote Islands National Marine Monument sixfold to nearly half a million square miles, turning it into the world's largest marine sanctuary, one fully protected from commercial fishing and deep-sea mining.
The move came via a presidential proclamation Thursday, issued under the 1906 Antiquities Act. The act allows a president to set aside for preservation structures or objects of historic or scientific interest on federal lands.
In 2009, former President Bush established the monument, centered on seven islands and atolls the US administers in the central Pacific Ocean. Each island or atoll was protected out to a distance of 50 nautical miles, giving the monument an area of 83,000 square miles.
In his proclamation, Mr. Obama extended the monument's reach out to the full 200-mile limit waters falling within US's exclusive economic zone around three of the islands and atolls. This raises the monument's collective area to 490,000 square miles.
Had the president included the other four islands in the expansion, the monument would have covered about 780,000 square miles. But after taking into account public comments, as well as the administration's own scientific assessment, the White House concluded that the expansion that became official today represents appropriately tailored and meaningful protections, according to administration officials.
Marine-conservation specialists are elated by the move.
"We're really thrilled. It's a huge step forward for the ocean. It's going to help spur other countries to take action," says Sarah Chasis, who heads the oceans program at the National Resources Defense Council in New York.
The White House signaled its intention to expand the marine monument in June during an international conference in Washington that focused on marine conservation. Secretary of State John Kerry convened the two-day meeting to build support for more-ambitious efforts to safeguard the environmental health of the world's oceans.
The key threats include over-fishing, pollution, and rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels and from land-use changes. Rising CO2 levels have triggered global warming, and the oceans have become increasingly acidic as they take up much of the CO2 humans have pumped into the atmosphere.
The impact of warming on the oceans on marine life already is appearing as warm-water species migrate northward out of their historic ecological regions. Meanwhile, acidification threatens corals and many types of shell-building marine life, and by extension, the animals higher up the food chain that rely on them, researchers say.
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Building on a legacy left by President George W. Bush, President Obama has extended the reach of the Pacific Remote Islands National Marine Monument sixfold to nearly half a million square miles, turning it into the world's largest marine sanctuary, one fully protected from commercial fishing and deep-sea mining.
The move came via a presidential proclamation Thursday, issued under the 1906 Antiquities Act. The act allows a president to set aside for preservation structures or objects of historic or scientific interest on federal lands.
In 2009, former President Bush established the monument, centered on seven islands and atolls the US administers in the central Pacific Ocean. Each island or atoll was protected out to a distance of 50 nautical miles, giving the monument an area of 83,000 square miles.
In his proclamation, Mr. Obama extended the monument's reach out to the full 200-mile limit waters falling within US's exclusive economic zone around three of the islands and atolls. This raises the monument's collective area to 490,000 square miles.
Had the president included the other four islands in the expansion, the monument would have covered about 780,000 square miles. But after taking into account public comments, as well as the administration's own scientific assessment, the White House concluded that the expansion that became official today represents appropriately tailored and meaningful protections, according to administration officials.
Marine-conservation specialists are elated by the move.
"We're really thrilled. It's a huge step forward for the ocean. It's going to help spur other countries to take action," says Sarah Chasis, who heads the oceans program at the National Resources Defense Council in New York.
The White House signaled its intention to expand the marine monument in June during an international conference in Washington that focused on marine conservation. Secretary of State John Kerry convened the two-day meeting to build support for more-ambitious efforts to safeguard the environmental health of the world's oceans.
The key threats include over-fishing, pollution, and rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels and from land-use changes. Rising CO2 levels have triggered global warming, and the oceans have become increasingly acidic as they take up much of the CO2 humans have pumped into the atmosphere.
The impact of warming on the oceans on marine life already is appearing as warm-water species migrate northward out of their historic ecological regions. Meanwhile, acidification threatens corals and many types of shell-building marine life, and by extension, the animals higher up the food chain that rely on them, researchers say.
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Joseph Andrey, 91, just wanted to go home to die.
The reasons he couldnt constitute todays must-read piece in the New York Times that reveals anew that our health care system is broken.
He was stuck in a nursing home. The forces of the health care system hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, insurance companies, and the shifting crosscurrents of public health care spending conspired against Andrey and his daughter.
A hospital released him to a nursing home for rehabilitation. But no rehabilitation was happening. He was only getting worse.
He ended up back in the hospital and, this time, his daughter wanted to honor his wish to go home to die.
But in the health care system, the wishes of a dying patientand hisdaughter dont matter.
Theres money to be made. The nursing home gets nearly $700 a day from Medicare.
Home care agencies abruptly dropped or refused high-needs cases like her fathers as unprofitable under changes in the states Medicaid program. Hospitals, eager to clear beds, increasingly sent patients to nursing homes. The nursing homes were often too short-staffed to reliably change diapers but still drew premium Medicare rates, ordering hours of physical therapy and other treatment that studies showed was often useless or harmful.
Even hospice was limited. Now mostly for-profit, hospice companies would provide supervision and visits at home a few times a week through Medicare if a doctor certified that Mr. Andrey had only six months to live. The hidden catch: He would lose all Medicaid home care, the daily help he needed to be home at all.
A home-care agency refused to help because he was in an out of the hospital too much and the girls as the office manager for the agency reportedly referred to the aides couldnt make any money.
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CTV Montreal Published Thursday, September 25, 2014 9:02PM EDT Last Updated Friday, September 26, 2014 7:05AM EDT
Quebec's health care system is in for a major shake-up thanks to Bill 10, a plan to cut bureaucracy and improve direct health care services.
Under the plan, Quebecs 18 regional health boards will be eliminated and hospitals and other institutions will lose their administrative boards. Only the island of Montreal, due to its higher population, will be allowed to have more than one local health care agency -- it will have five.
In all, 1,300 managers will lose their jobs. The government says this measure will save $220 million a year.
We want to seize this opportunity to make what we consider to be a necessary change in the culture of our network, in order to make sure that once and for all the system will work for the patient, period. Not for themselves, not for their boss, not for me, not for the prime minister, to the patient, said Health Minister Gaetan Barrette.
Barrette says Anglophone institutions will still have input even though they will lose their administrative boards.
The law will stipulate that health ministers must appoint members of cultural and linguistic minorities to the boards of the new super agencies that will take over.
Some of the unions representing health care workers say the bill doesn't attack the real problems with the health care system, overcrowding and the wait lines.
They say the minister needs to go much further and that they're worried about how the bill centralizes a lot of power into the minister's hands in terms of his control over pointing the boards and directing local health care delivery.
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Even before Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarked on his US visit, the Sangh Parivar has come out with its demands. Vijnana Bharati, a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-inspired organisation working in the field of science, told Modi, through an open letter, not to invite any sort of investments in the field of genetic engineering technologies to produce seeds in India.
"Indian farmers and scientific community are engaged in a relentless war against the field trials announced by the Union government and the introduction of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) without adequate research," said A Jayakumar, secretary-general, Vijnana Bharati.
According to Jayakumar, the PM had already mentioned he would seek investments in the biotechnology sector during his US visit.
"While investments in other fields of biotechnology might be desirable, investments in genetic engineering for producing seeds should be strictly avoided due to certain critical factors. Most importantly, genetic engineering technologies go hand-in-hand with royalties. The monopoly of Monsanto in Maharashtra has led to serious debts incurred by farmers resulting in large-scale suicides," the open letter said.
The letter noted the experience in the US, where herbicide-resistant GMO seeds have led to the emergence of super weeds, which are uncontrollable.
"As the Technical Expert Committee appointed by the Supreme Court has rightly recommended, there is no place for herbicide-tolerant GMO crops in small farms of India. Besides, organic, agro-ecological systems are proven over the tides of time to be the best path to food security," it said.
Sangh Parivar organisations such as Swadeshi Jagaran Manch and Bharatiya Kisan Sangh had been instrumental in the government holding back its decision on allowing field trials for GM crops. There is a feeling within the Parivar that the government is under pressure from US seed companies to introduce GM crops in India.
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