By John Vibes The wildfires that are current ripping across Australia have gotten only passing mention in the global media, but they are actually far more serious than similar events in recent years. Very few people around the world are aware of the magnitude of…
By Elias Marat Australia’s bushfire crisis has ravaged local animal and plant life as ecologists warn that the potential loss of nearly 500 million mammals, reptiles, and birds—including 8,000 koalas—could devastate the country’s biodiversity in an unprecedented manner. Despite the terrifying scope of the tragedy,…
By Phillip Schneider The Japanese government is refusing to allow independent testing of contaminated water found in the nuclear power plant at Fukushima, which has been leaking ever since a tsunami and earthquake devastatingly hit the facility in March 2011. The decision not to allow…
By Carly Wood, University of Westminster As many as one in six adults experience mental health problems like depression or anxiety every week. And not only is mental ill-health one of the most common causes of disease worldwide – it’s also on the rise. Finding…
By Elias Marat Thousands of locals and vacationers were plunged into nightmarish conditions Tuesday as fast-moving bushfires tore through southeast Australia, ripping through popular tourist sites and forcing people to seek refuge on nearby beaches. Coastal towns filled with tourists who hoped to usher in…
By Emma Fiala According to a 36-count grand jury indictment, a Seattle company used a hidden drain to dump a highly-corrosive chemical solution directly into the sewer system. The King County sewer system eventually reaches the Duwamish Waterway and the Puget Sound. After “a sensitive sewer…
By Michael Snyder The West Coast never stops shaking, but lately the shaking has gone to an entirely new level, and this has many people deeply concerned about what may be coming. Last summer, a series of alarming foreshocks immediately preceded the two historic quakes…
By Eoin Higgins Australia is on fire. The country on Saturday saw delayed flights on the second day of a national state of emergency due to raging brushfires near every major city and choked out smoke conditions. Australian reporter Saffron Howden used a map from the Government…
By Elias Marat A research team at the University of Central Florida has successfully used artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a special liquid called “perovskite” which they hope can eventually be used to create spray-on solar cells. The new development, dubbed “perovskite solar cells” (PSCs),…
By Jessica Corbett The revelation Monday that a blowout last year at an Ohio natural gas well owned by an ExxonMobil subsidiary was one of the country’s largest-ever leaks of the potent greenhouse gas methane provoked impassioned calls for a rapid, just transition to 100%…
By Manuel García Aguilar In 2013, 18-year-old Dutch inventor Boyan Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup in his hometown in the Netherlands to develop a system to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Pacific trash vortex. The patch is an immense…
By Elias Marat We all know that consumerism is a force that’s destructive to the environment, but too frequently the blame is placed on cultural factors — for example, our personal habits as consumers. However, the enormous burden placed on the environment is primarily due…
Northwestern University synthetic biologists developed a simple, inexpensive new test that can detect dangerous levels of fluoride in drinking water. With one drop of water, test detects fluoride levels that exceed EPA standards Test costs pennies to make, is easy to read and requires no…
By John Vibes Air New Zealand has recently come up with a great new way to reduce waste on its airline. Earlier this month, the airline announced that they will be introducing edible cups on their flights and airport lounges to cut down on plastic….
By Michael Snyder Something is causing the waters just off the West Coast to heat up dramatically, fish are dying off in staggering numbers, birds that feed on those fish are also dying off rapidly, and scientists have discovered 15,000 holes in the ocean floor…
By Rosanne Lindsay What if you could decode the narrative presented in the mainstream to show that seasonal weather changes are intentional? What if you could prove that weather systems are created by aerosols and ionospheric heaters to steer the rivers of the sky? What…
By Matt Agorist Nothing highlights the radical disparity between different parts of the globe more than food. As children and adults starve to death at a rate of 25,000 a day across the world, the United States throws away enough food to fill the Willis…
By John Vibes According to a study published in the journal Biomass and Bioenergy earlier this year, planting more hemp could help to maintain bee populations which have become dangerously low in recent years. The study was conducted by researchers at Colorado State University, who…
Reductions in air pollution yielded fast and dramatic impacts on health-outcomes, as well as decreases in all-cause morbidity, according to findings in “Health Benefits of Air Pollution Reduction,” new research published in the American Thoracic Society’s journal, Annals of the American Thoracic Society. The study…
By Mayukh Saha Extruded polystyrene, or Styrofoam as we know it, is among the top polluters after plastic. This non-biodegradable, inflammable material is mostly used as packing material, but the consequences are quite drastic. Since it retains the temperature of the product, Styrofoam is also…
