By Elias Marat The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has suspended its annual surveys of the honeybee population as the federal agency increasingly turns toward representing big agricultural interests rather than regulating them. Citing the need for budget cuts, the Trump administration’s suspension of the…
Human waste might be an unpleasant public health burden, but scientists at the University of Illinois see sanitation as a valuable facet of global ecosystems and an overlooked source of nutrients, organic material and water. Their research, directed by civil and environmental engineering professor Jeremy…
By Elias Marat Not only did Southern California’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake rock the homes of millions of residents on Friday, but it also ripped a massive new crack into the landscape. Residents of the small desert town of Ridgecrest suffered the worst of the largest…
By Amanda Froelich The Golden Eagle might be classified as “stable,” but environmentalists are nonetheless celebrating the bird’s return to the Santa Monica mountains after a nearly 30-year hiatus. While conducting a survey on nearby private land, a consultant found a nest containing two chicks….
By Mayukh Saha With Armageddon creeping in closer and closer, experts are warning us of the possibilities of a total insect wipeout, that would emulate the dinosaurs’ extinction millions of years ago. According to a Global Scientific Review of research, already 40% of all insects…
By Daisy Luther Since Thursday, Southern California has been hit with a series of earthquakes and aftershocks all the way up to two that measured 6.4 and a whopping 7.1 magnitude. The epicenter of both quakes was near the town of Ridgecrest, with a population…
By Jessica Corbett Austria is on track to become the first country in the European Union (EU) to fully ban the world’s most commonly used herbicide after the nation’s lower house of parliament passed a bill Tuesday that would outlaw all uses of the endocrine-disrupting…
By Elias Marat A humongous mass of heavy, stinking seaweed stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to West Africa has already become the biggest seaweed bloom in recorded history, according to the journal Science. And the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, as it is now known,…
By Daisy Luther If you were caught up in the midst of a massive earthquake – the kind that takes down buildings and buckles roads – would you know what to do? I’m not talking about a minor temblor that shakes a glass off the…
By Mayukh Saha In true Scottish fashion of bringing something new to the world, Linkwood Steadings Housing development present in Elgin, Scotland has built a road using about 17000 bags of plastic. But how does one do that? Well, flexibility is an advantage, but that’s…
By Catherine J. Frompovich The “hurry up” 5G rollouts have been instituted in various cities around the United States within the last few months. These locales include, but may not be limited to, selected areas of: Atlanta, GA; Austin, TX; Charlotte, NC; Dallas, TX; Houston,…
Adolescents exposed to elevated levels of pesticides are at an increased risk of depression, according to a new study led by Jose R. Suarez-Lopez, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at University of California San Diego School of…
By Michael Snyder Even though most people don’t seem to realize it yet, we are in the midst of a major extinction level event. And even though it is happening in slow motion, given enough time we would see most life on this planet completely…
By Catherine J. Frompovich Imagine this weather shift: 88 degrees, then 6 feet of hail from an ice storm dumped on Guadalajara in northern Mexico on Sunday, June 30, 2019. If you don’t believe that, just check it out in this report from CBS News….
In a recent study with 3 to 7-year-old children provided an example of how children’s daily living environment and motor skills are closely related in the Finnish context. The main finding revealed that residential density is related to children’s motor skills, engagement in outdoor play…
By Elias Marat With the world’s oceans awash in plastic, beaches and islands across the globe are waging an uphill battle in the struggle to manage the plastic debris washing ashore—especially the millions of tiny microplastics that are nearly impossible to sift from the sand. In Hawaii,…
Bees are valuable to humans not only because they produce honey, but also because they pollinate wildflowers and food crops. They exclusively eat nectar and pine pollen. So in areas where intensive agriculture is practised, they suffer from the thin supply of flowers in May…
Researchers from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Wildlife Investigations Laboratory present their results from a toxicological investigation into a mortality event involving songbirds in a new publication in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. On 17 March 2017, residents in Modesto, California, reported dead birds…
Decline detected in ovarian reserve related to particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide in atmosphere Ovarian reserve, a term widely adopted to reflect the number of resting follicles in the ovary and thus a marker of potential female fertility, has been found in a large-scale study…
By Derrick Broze On June 11, President Donald Trump quietly issued an executive order to “streamline” GMO regulations in the United States. The order, titled Modernizing the Regulatory Framework for Agricultural Biotechnology Products, is the latest move by the Trump administration aimed at promoting the use of…
