Adidas Wants to Turn Ocean Plastic Into Sportswear
Lorraine Chow – Would you buy shoes or clothes made from trash that is recovered from the ocean?
TAG: pollution
Stunning Photos Capture Devastating Worldwide E-Waste Problem
Lorraine Chow –These shocking photos will hopefully serve as vivid reminders of how we should properly dispose of our e-waste.
The Deliberate Trashing of Planet Earth
Zen Gardner – Underground bunkers or not, the rapid deterioration of our environment is leading toward a dead planet if their machinations aren’t halted some time very soon.
Inside the Garbage of the World
Dr. Mercola – While you may not directly feel the impact of garbage while going about your day to day life, it’s quite literally choking the life out of our ecosystem…
Must-see Smog Documentary Hailed Then Banned by Chinese Officials
Cole Mellino – This may be the most important documentary film made, and the Chines government is afraid that you’ll see it.
What Might Happen if We Continue Living Single Serving Lives
Video – Are you a single serving type of person? Perhaps we should all reconsider the benefits of convenient single serving foods and products versus what happens to all of that extra packaging. Just watch!
The Maldives are Turning into Something Truly Shocking
Video – A truly shocking video about something you wouldn’t ever imagine about the Maldives!
22 Facts About Plastic Pollution (And 10 Things We Can Do About It)
Lynn Hasselberger – It seems nearly impossible to escape plastic in our every day lives, and we can’t escape plastic pollution, either.
5 Reasons Allergies Are Mysteriously Increasing
Dave Mihalovic, Prevent Disease Waking Times Are you seeing more people sneezing and tearing up every allergy season? Studies show that allergies are on the rise in developed countries, including the United States — not just seasonal allergies, but allergies of all kinds. Officials say they can’t quite pinpoint the mysterious cause behind such a …
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. …
Great Barrier Reef to Be Dredged and Dumped to Make Way for Coal Port
Bridie Jabour, The Guardian Waking Times Three million cubic metres of sediment from dredging to expand a coal port will be dumped in the Great Barrier Reef marine park, after the park authority approved the move on Friday. The spoil resulting from the Abbot Point port project is to be dumped 24km away at a …
Gulf of Mexico Deep Sea May Need Decades to Recover From Oil Spill
Nicholas St. Fleur, Mongabay Waking Times The catastrophic explosion that spewed some five million barrels of oil deep into the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010 will take a heavy toll in the ocean’s lowest layers for years to come. That’s the stark conclusion of seafloor research conducted six months after the Deepwater Horizon oil …
FUKUSHIMA: A Nuclear Catastrophe of Epic Proportions
Cosmic Convergence, Guest Waking Times Never before in the modern era has humankind been confronted with a nuclear disaster the likes of Fukushima. Truly, Japan has become the location of the greatest nuclear catastrophe in history, one that has defied countless attempts to resolve it. Although it was once imagined to occur in China on the …
Contaminated Water, Land Damage, and Earthquakes: The Legacy of Waste Injection Wells
Elizabeth Hand, De Smog Blog Waking Times Early scientific analysis predicted that the risks associated with hazardous waste injection wells would be negligible. Unfortunately, experience has indicated that disposing of hazardous waste deep underground has been linked to water contamination, destroyed ecosystems, toxic leaks and earthquakes. Now we are learning that there is a difference between scientific …
Fracking, Fracking and More Fracking
Stefanie Spear, Guest Waking Times It’s virtually impossible these days to read, listen to or watch a news program that doesn’t mention hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Nearly every day, EcoWatch posts at least one article on fracking and last week was no different. Big news last week was the announcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that …
Chemtrails: An Obvious Overhead Pollutant Ignored and Denied
Paul Fassa, Natural Society Waking Times Have you ever seen those long smoke-lines in the sky and wondered what they are? Some may be jet vapor contrails, but others are known as chemtrails. Most of the population doesn’t know, but these trails, loaded with heavy metals that have been measured in the water and air …
The Convenience of Plastic Is Killing Our Oceans
Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer Waking Times About 300 million tons of plastic are produced each year. In the US alone, about 30+ million tons of plastic waste is dumped into the solid waste system, including various plastic containers, bags and other types of packaging, with only about 10% being recycled. Plastic, which was once regarded …
Lose Your Lawn
Jill Richardson, Guest Writer Waking Times Turning your lawn into something more beautiful and useful would save time and money while curbing pollution and water usage. Have you taken your hounds fox hunting lately? You haven’t? Well, maybe you’ve gone to visit a friend’s estate in a horse and carriage? You haven’t done that either, …
5 Fracking Consequences You’ve Never Heard About
Lisa Garber, Natural Society Waking Times We know fracking isn’t exactly the safest of practices. We’ve heard of its propensity to pollute our air and drinking water and thereby raise human health concerns. The media, however, isn’t talking about the massive sinkholes pockmarking the nation, the radiation leaks, and other lesser known but no less earth-shattering effects …
We Want To Live In A World That Is…
Marco Torres & Michael Forrester, Prevent Disease Waking Times Free from the limitations that currently exist on Earth. A world of endless possibilities filled with nations of cooperative families and communities who have one goal–to function as a unit. One that can only survive through the purest, positive intent to benefit humanity. This is our …