By Chris Melore More than half of American parents believe their kids aren’t spending enough time playing outside (55%). A survey of 5,000 parents of children between five and 13 — split evenly by state — finds that 57 percent worry their kids aren’t as…
A Summary Written and researched for Safe Tech International by Sean Carney, 14 June 2022. Inspirational ECI coordinator, biologist Pernille Schriver, with a prestigious team of experts, volunteers and specialists is driving the hugely important European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI), “Stay Connected but Protected.” The ECI…
By Thomas Lambert Scientists will use UK school children as guinea pigs, having organized workshops where bugs will be served as food to see their response to eating “alternative proteins.” “We want the children to think about alternative proteins as real things for now, rather…
By Sara Tipton An unusually high honey bee die-off in Canada is going to impact the world’s farming system. Bees are necessary pollinators and help in all agricultural industries. In 2020, the total estimated contribution from the Canadian honey and bee industry was between $4 to…
By The Counter Signal “We need to accept that there will be some pain in the process,” Braathen said. “The pace that we need [to end climate change] will open up for missteps. It will open up for shortages of energy. It will create inflationary…
By Julia Conley Despite outcry from local leaders and the Japanese public and warnings from environmental campaigners, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday gave its approval for a plan to discharge contaminated water from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, a move…
By Jon Miltimore On Earth Day, a 50-year-old environmentalist and photographer from Colorado named Wynn Alan Bruce lit himself on fire outside the US Supreme Court. Friends of Bruce, who subsequently died, said he was worried about climate change. “This guy was my friend,” said…
By Bjorn Andreas Bull-Hansen I have never seen destruction of nature on this scale before. Green energy, environmentalism, fighting climate change: They have become nice words for human greed at this point. The natural world must be protected! Subscribe to https://bull-hansen.com to be notified about…
By Michael Heberling At one time, “Saving the Environment” and “Fighting Climate Change” were synonymous. That is no longer true. The quest for Clean Energy through electric vehicles (EVs) epitomizes “the end justifies the means.” According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), an electric vehicle…
By Julia Conley Less than two weeks after scientists discovered microplastics in human blood, a team of researchers in the U.K. said Wednesday that the tiny particles have also been detected in people’s lungs. Researchers at the University of Hull and Hull York Medical School…
By Kenny Stancil A team of toxicologists found microplastics in nearly 80% of the healthy adult blood samples it analyzed, marking the first time that tiny polymer fragments—measuring less than 5mm in size—have been detected in human blood, The Guardian reported Thursday. Using techniques that…
By Meleni Aldridge & Melissa Smith “We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” — Aldo Leopold Have you…
By Center for Food Safety | Children’s Health Defense In defiance of science and public health concerns, Monday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the mass release of billions of experimental genetically engineered (GE) mosquitoes into the U.S.’ most populous and agriculturally significant states. The…
By Peter Caddle A school in the UK has decided to ban all meat options from its lunch menu over fears surrounding climate change. Barrowford Primary School in Lancashire revealed to parents in a recent letter that it had banned all meat options from its…
By Jessica Corbett Underscoring the value of collaboration, experts from around the world on Monday unveiled what they described as the first “truly global study” of pharmaceutical drugs contaminating rivers, which has “deleterious effects on ecological and human health.” The historic analysis, published in the…
Natural Blaze As we saw in Bjorn’s last video, the rate of deforestation is rapidly increasing in his area of Norway, as well as many other areas globally. In this video, Bjorn issues a new call to action to help document the destruction of nature…
By Mayukh Saha Can you imagine a scenario where you are looking through trees to a greener future? This scenario might be coming true as trees are replacing the clear pane glass in windows. FPL or Forest Products Laboratory researcher Junyong Zhu has worked in…
By Mayukh Saha You might not know but you are exposed to microplastics by ingesting or inhaling the particles. When you chomp on fried oysters, clam chowder, or scallops, you are consuming tiny pieces of plastics. Mollusks like oysters and mussels contain high amounts of…
By Michael W. Fox DSc, PhD, BVetMed, MRCVS with Patricia Burke, Reprinted by permission. Electropollution from the Earth-shrouding and penetrating cybersphere of telecommunications is a major emerging existential threat and One Health issue of this Anthropocene age. Extensive scientific documentation of this critical concern is…
By Naturalist Activist with Patricia Burke, reprinted by permission Remember all the hype about “the race to 5G” and how important it was supposed to be for economic dominance in the 21st century? Whoever “won” was going to have a huge advantage over other countries…
