By Matthew J. Hoffman, Rochester Institute of Technology and Christy Tyler, Rochester Institute of Technology Awareness is rising worldwide about the scourge of ocean plastic pollution, from Earth Day 2018 events to the cover of National Geographic magazine. But few people realize that similar concentrations…
By Melinda Cafferty, Natural Blaze The idea of a backpack that could draw water out of the air is one that is in development but is already causing people to count the possibilities. A mechanical engineering professor started out wondering how to treat waste water but then…
By John Vibes According to a recent study conducted at Duke University revealed that hydraulic fracking is having a catastrophic impact on water supplies throughout the US. The findings of the study suggest that fracking is using far much more water than before, and putting…
By Catherine J. Frompovich Fire season 2018 has taken an incredible toll on the planet, its people and wildlife, and the entire ecological infrastructure which has provided life-sustaining habitats for all forms of life. That “balance of Nature” has been messed and mucked with by…
By Carey Wedler A nuclear power plant in Southern California that was shut down in 2012 continues to leak radioactive material and poses a threat to nearby communities. The aging San Onofre, located in San Clemente, CA, was shut down in 2012 amid a leak…
By Jessica Corbett Rejecting what critics have called the Trump administration’s “illegal rubber-stamp” of the Keystone XL pipeline, a federal court in Great Falls, Montana has sided with opponents of the project and mandated a full environmental impact review for the proposed route. “The court saw through the sham…
By Jessica Corbett While the Trump administration recently moved to roll back a ban on neonicotinoid pesticides in U.S. wildlife refuges, conservationists are celebrating Canada “for recognizing the overwhelming body of scientific evidence on neonics and phasing out these dangerous pesticides.” SEE: Trump Reverses Ban On GMOs And Bee-Killing Pesticides In…
By Richard Gross, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Synthetic plastics have made many aspect of modern life cheaper, safer and more convenient. However, we have failed to figure out how to get rid of them after we use them. Unlike other forms of trash, such as food…
John Meeker, University of Michigan One of the main problems with plastics is that although we may only need them fleetingly – seconds in the case of microbeads in personal care products, or minutes as in plastic grocery bags – they stick around for hundreds…
By Jessica Corbett While regulators in other regions of the world have recently worked to ban bee-poisoning pesticides called neonicotinoids that scientists have long warned could cause an “ecological armageddon,” the Trump administration just reversed an Obama-era policy that had outlawed the use of neonics and genetically modified crops in…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Mexico’s newly elected President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will step into office on December 1. His first order of business as the leader of Mexico is the immediate ban of hydraulic fracturing – aka fracking. Obrador is already gaining a reputation as “the…
WASHINGTON – Four commonly used neonicotinoid pesticides can harm bees and other pollinators, according to a new analysis by California’s Department of Pesticide Regulation. The study found that current approved uses of the “neonics” on crops like tomatoes, berries, almonds, corn and oranges exposes bees to levels…
By Jon Rappoport The giant pig farm disaster: a medical hoax and cover story… The full truth has never been told—until now. “To handle all that [pig-farm feces] waste, farmers in North Carolina use a standard practice called the lagoon and spray field system. They…
By Melinda Cafferty, Natural Blaze Portugal is getting by with a little help from … goats! The U.S. is not the only nation with drought-ridden regions that are extremely susceptible to wildfires. And while the U.S. has quietly employed goats for about a decade to help stall…
By Catherine J. Frompovich With just about everyone in food services and food distribution tripping over themselves about plastic straws, which they should have done ages ago, there now comes a new problem to affect individual rights. Those are the rights of incapacitated individuals who…
By Phillip Schneider Last week, German clothing company Adidas announced its commitment to begin making their products with 100% recycled plastic by 2024. As reported by the Financial Times and picked up by CNN and other outlets, the company has pledged to fully “eliminate the use of ‘virgin’ plastic” in…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Most bees are colonial collectivists. Heck – a bee hive is the quintessential metaphor for a collective group. If someone is behaving from a “hive mind” – well that image says a lot! But one species of bee stands out as a renegade…
By Melinda Cafferty, Natural Blaze Farai Chinomwe didn’t set out to bring awareness to bee decline, but his life has changed drastically in the last decade. He always enjoyed marathon running and eventually was inspired to run backward. Meanwhile, he made one very life-changing decision that most people…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor 30 million extra trees now grace the world thanks to these Web searches What is the least amount of effort one could exert to make the world a better place? Tooling around the Web, right? In other words, almost nothing. Seriously – unless you can…
By Gary G. Kohls, MD, guest to Natural Blaze Seven (Of Hundreds) Environmental Nightmares Created By Open Pit Mines (and the Obligatory Tailings Ponds) that have Caused Irremediable, Highly Toxic Contamination Downstream 1) The 2014 Mount Polley Environmental Disaster (British Columbia, Canada) Aerial view of the outlet of…
