By Catherine J. Frompovich What is AIR and how do we define it? Air can be defined as the gaseous substance that inflates balloons and automobile tires. Air is composed of gases—mainly oxygen and nitrogen—we breathe in the environment (plus pollutants). Air is a life…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze It seems the trail of destruction left behind by the use of heavy pesticides is never ending. Besides the well-known negative effects of pesticides such as glyphosate on human health and the use of certain chemicals on the bee population, there is…
By Catherine J. Frompovich Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) Samuel Taylor Coleridge Even though the above verse describes a setting of a mariner lost at sea with water all around, he still does not have…
By Catherine J. Frompovich Donald J. Trump, where is your common sense, Mr. President? How is nominating Peter C. Wright, an attorney who spent much of his professional career helping Monsanto and Dow Chemical Co. avoid cleaning up their toxic pollution and messes, to be…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze In what has now become common place in the United States, a leak from a Marathon Petroleum Corporation pipeline was detected last Tuesday evening. In all, 42,000 gallons of diesel spilled into Big Creek and Posey Creek, Indiana before the leak was…
By Matt Agorist With great technological advances—like the industrial revolution and the subsequent oil boom—came a great impact on the environment. As more industries began to flourish, increasing the quality of life for billions of people around the world, the quality of air began to…
By Vic Bishop A recent viral video of a diver swimming through a sea of plastic is a stark reminder of what we are doing to the world’s oceans. We’ve been reporting on this issue since 2012, watching the development of a massive gyre of…
12By Catherine J. Frompovich Does it seem as if it’s getting a little harder to breathe? You may not be mistaken. That may not be just a figment of your imagination, especially with all the varied and unsuspected sources of air pollution resulting especially from…
By Markab Algedi It’s 6:20 am, on a hazy morning in San Luis Obispo County, California. The year is 2025. A gentle mist of Glyphosate decorates the eerie scene, as robotic bees provided by Wal-Mart pollinate avocado flowers to produce the fruit being purchased by the…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor WHO launches health review after microplastic fibers found twice as high in popular bottled water brands versus tap. Although people are grossly over-paying for shelf-stable, bottled water – they are gulping down double the plastic nanoparticles than they would if they drank tap,…
By Gary G. Kohls, MD, guest to Natural Blaze A Photo Gallery of Seven Preventable, Catastrophic Tailings Ponds Disasters Related to Hard Rock Mining (and one pipeline disaster) (If a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, the DNR and PCA Will Have no Rational Choice Other…
By Gary G. Kohls, MD, guest to Natural Blaze Here is an incomplete list of some of the culprits: A) Foreign Mining Corporations (PolyMet, Glencore, Twin Metals, Antofagasta, etc.); Minnesota’s Elected Politicians/Accomplices (both Corporate-influenced “Liberal” Democrats, and “Conservative” Republicans); Minnesota’s “Regulatory” Agencies that are Supposed to…
Op-Ed by Catherine J. Frompovich Anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD) is defined as “environmental pollution and pollutants originating from and in human activity.” But who actually and really is to blame for anthropogenic activities? Is it you, me and the other billions of humans on the…
By Markab Algedi Thiamethoxam is a pollinator killing pesticide that is known to be a bad decision if people who insist on using pesticides (because the agrichemical industry tries to cultivate a situation where average farmers have little option but to use some kind of pesticide)….
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze Fresh on the heels of a report issued by Iowa State University researchers and repeated ad nauseum by mainstream corporate media, the U.S. Congress has issued its own report blaming the Russians for yet another destabilizing movement in the U.S. – opposition to fracking…
By Markab Algedi On Friday, President Trump made another decision to do the exact opposite of “drain the swamp.” He chose another chemical industry insider to manage the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) office that oversees cleanups of the infamous highly toxic Superfund sites across America, and handles emergency…
By Melinda Cafferty, Natural Blaze The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced late Monday that it is dissolving a program that funds studies on the effects of pollution and chemical exposure on America’s children. Critics are calling the move “truly wicked” and another unsurprising sign of the Administration’s…
A federal judge on Monday halted California’s plan to require Monsanto to place warning labels on its Roundup products, saying scientists haven’t shown a clear connection between glyphosate and cancer. U.S. District Judge William Shubb sided with the St. Louis-based chemical giant in its First…
By Kevin Samson Fresh water supplies continue to be assaulted on multiple fronts. Front page news at the moment is the unfolding disaster in Cape Town, South Africa which could be completely without water by June. According to some, this is as much the result…
By Eric Sorensen, WSU News WSU researchers have found that salmon face a double whammy when they swim in the stormwater runoff of urban roadways. First, as scientists learned a couple years ago, toxic pollution in the water can kill them. WSU researchers have now…
