Can We Finally End The Global Plastic Pollution Crisis?
Op-Ed by Emily Thompson Over 3,300 delegates, with representatives from more than 170 nations and more than 440 organizations, just concluded their meeting in Busan,…
Pollution
Environmental Impacts of Satellites: Sign the Public Interest Research Group Letter to the FCC, and More
By Patricia Burke Dear FCC Space Bureau Chief Julie Kearney, ‘The new space race doesn’t need to create massive space waste.’ The number of satellites…
An Extinction-Level Threat Is Poised To Dramatically Reduce The Global Population And Most People Have Absolutely No Idea
By Michael Snyder We are literally killing ourselves and everything around us, and most people don’t even know that this is happening. But even if…
Something In The Water
By Rosanne Lindsay, Naturopath Rocket fuel (Perchlorate) is in the news…again. Rocket fuel chemical found in dozens of food items. Testing showed that “fast food…
“Experiment Gets An F-Minus”: Nantucket Residents Fume Over Broken Wind Turbine Blade Polluting Beaches
“The great Nantucket experiment gets an F-minus,” Kevin O’Leary, chairman of O’Leary Ventures, told Bloomberg, referring to the offshore turbine failure that resulted in broken fiberglass littering…
Belgrade’s Citizens Concerned Over Lithium Mining Project
By Emily Thompson Serbians are furious over a government plan to develop a lithium mine despite warnings that it could be detrimental to public health…
World Ocean Day – New Threat from Deep-Sea Mining
By The World Foundation for Natural Science Dear friend of Mother Earth, The seas and oceans of this Earth make her a unique, blue planet–a…
County Says Burning Trash “emits less greenhouse gasses than landfills and minimizes pollution”; Environmental Group Says Otherwise
By B.N. Frank If/when an entity ever convinces your municipality or county to burn trash in an effort to reduce greenhouse gasses and create energy,…
Experts Say No Way to Track Dangerous Space Junk Orbiting Earth that “could wreak havoc in areas like banking, communications, and GPS”
By B.N. Frank High-speed internet connections can be achieved via safer and more secure methods than wireless-radiation-emitting satellites. In fact, experts have been warning for…
29 U.S. Communities Committed to Reducing Light Pollution, Receive Dark Sky Certification; Will More Follow?
By B.N. Frank Some experts insist that LED light bulbs aren’t necessarily more energy efficient that incandescent bulbs. Additionally, LED light bulbs emit blue light…
Don’t Let Government Get Away With Poisoning Americans
Authored by Josh Hawley via RealClear Wire, This year, Americans had the opportunity to revisit the origins of our nation’s nuclear program with the blockbuster…
Researchers Inadvertently Discover “800,000 tons of hazardous oil and gas waste was unaccounted for in official records”
By B.N. Frank Fracking has been and continues to be recognized for causing significant biological and environmental harm (see 1, 2, 3, 4). Despite this,…
Household “Environmental Sensors” Will Be The Ultimate Panoptic Tool
By Mathew Maavak The installation of environmental sensors in our workplaces, schools and homes may be the next big thing, according to a Sept 4…
Playing Role of Citizen Scientists, Tourists Find Alarming Number of Microplastics on Arctic Beaches
By StudyFinds Staff Tourists are doing much more than taking in the view on remote Arctic beaches — they’re also uncovering alarming quantities of microplastics….