How Do We Stop Our Dangerous Addiction to Plastic?
Dr. Mercola – For the second year in a row, The Coca-Cola Co. was found to be the most polluting brand in a global audit of plastic trash.
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Ocean Cleaning Device Succeeds in Removing Plastic for the First Time
Jordan Davidson – An enormous floating device designed by Dutch scientists for the non-profit Ocean Cleanup successfully captured and removed plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
India is Banning Single-Use Plastic and the Rest of the World Should Too
Emma Fiala – “The world should join India in putting an end to single-use plastic.”
Seeing Through a Geoengineered Reality
Rosanne Lindsay – Why blame Climate Change only on human behavior with the evidence of climate manipulation by government-sanctioned corporations?
San Francisco International Airport Bans the Sale of Plastic Water Bottles
Mandy Froelich – To halt the consumption of single-use plastic, the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) banned the sale of bottled water.
‘It’s Raining Plastic’: Researchers Find Microscopic Fibers in Colorado Rain Samples
Brett Walton – “We’re seeing plastics virtually everywhere we look,” U.S. Geological Survey researcher says.
Historic Agreement to Reduce Plastic Waste Reached by Nearly Every Country in the World
Elias Marat – The United States refused to be part of the historic agreement.
Record-Breaking Diver Finds Plastic Bag in Deepest Part of Ocean
Olivia Rosane – They found a plastic bag and candy wrappers 35,853 feet below the surface.
Scientists Find Cocaine and Ketamine in Freshwater Shrimps
Mayukh Saha – The toxification of our planet is accelerating.
Farmed Salmon Contaminated with Toxic Flame Retardants
Dr. Mercola – Another warning about the harmful nature of farmed salmon.
C60: Currently the Best Known Life Extender on the Planet
Makia Freeman – C60 (Carbon 60) is the newest health sensation in the natural health and longevity worlds.
Most of Us Are Ingesting Plastic Fibers Without Even Realizing It
Anna Hunt – This is an increasingly important ecological crisis.
Cool Device Eliminates Trash Before It Can Reach Deeper Ocean Waters
Christina Sarich – This new device filters plastic bottles, bags, and even floating fuel, from marine waters without harming wildlife.
Plastic Waste Ingested by Worms Threatens Marine Food Chains
Nicholas Barrett, Mongabay Waking Times Small fragments of plastic waste are damaging the health of lugworms, putting a key cog in marine ecosystems at risk. Published in Current Biology, a new study by scientists at the University of Exeter and the University of Plymouth shows the impact of microplastics on the marine worms’ health and behavior. …
Fracking Up The Future of Pennsylvania
Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer Waking Times Fracking, or hydraulic gas fracturing, is the process of extracting natural gas from shale rock layers deep within the earth. The process pumps pressurized hazardous chemicals down into the ground which then forces a soup of hazardous chemicals mixed with oil and gas to be extracted from the rock …