GAIL'S BLOG

The New Canary in the Coal Mine

Back in the old mining day miners would put caged canary birds on the floor of the mine area where they

were working.  They knew that if the canary died while in its cage, it was not too long before the miner would also be felled by the air that was in the mine.  It was the miner’s warning to get out of there and to do so quickly.

Today, we have signs of potential danger from nature and its various species, frogs, bees and human blood cells.  I like to follow trails and the clues left on them to see what is coming up for the current “miners” working in our daily lives.    In the last few years we have received scientific reports of frog mutations and mysterious deaths of the honey bee.  Since we cannot survive very long without the honey bee pollinating our crops, I thought you …

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