Karla Mendes – Producers say their supply chains are green and sustainable, but prosecutors cite a long record of land grabbing, deforestation, pollution, and human rights violations.
Elias Marat – Disposable face masks can take more than 450 years to break down.
Johan Augustin – With the problem growing more acute, local organizations and youths are spearheading the fight against plastic waste.
Elias Marat – In America, polluters are protected and those whose lives are disrupted are ignored.
Anna Hunt – This 85-week remarkable beach cleanup effort resulted in one of the most dramatic beach makeovers, ever.
Super absorbent sponge is capable of rapidly soaking up oil both underwater and on the water surface.
Anna Hunt – Oil development in the Amazon continues to rise.
Alex Pietrowski – It has become perfectly acceptable to drink water contaminated with chemicals.
Sofia Adamson – She designed a water purifier made from common household waste.
Vic Bishop – Plastic fishing, started by company Plastic Whale, is an innovative approach to cleaning up the waterways of Amsterdam.
Christina Sarich – This new device filters plastic bottles, bags, and even floating fuel, from marine waters without harming wildlife.
Video – A video that focuses mostly on the ongoing debate about fraking, how it may address our growing demand for energy versus the dangers it poses to our drinking water.
Mike G, DeSmogBlog Waking Times West Virginia officials are reporting that a coal slurry line at the Kanawha Eagle Prep Plant, which belongs to Patriot Coal, ruptured and spilled a toxic byproduct from the coal mining and preparation process into a creek that feeds the Kanawha River early this morning. More than 100,000 gallons of slurry spilled, and …
Dr. Mercola Waking Times Polluted drinking water is a significant health threat that is sorely under-reported and oft-ignored. A recent article in the Star Tribune1 highlights the very real struggle to access clean drinking water right here in the United States. “Debbie Carlson can laugh at the irony: She’s the wife of a well digger who can’t …
Kelsey Coy Waking Times Think you know what pharmaceuticals you ingest everyday? Think again. Several decades worth of research, most recently and notoriously an April 2008 AP Investigation, has confirmed the pervasive presence of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) in our nation’s water supply. Lesser known sources of water pollution, these drugs include antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones. …
