By Jessica Corbett, staff writer A stay-at-home mother of four and trained medical assistant who led the effort to expose the water crisis in Flint, Michigan has recieved a prestigious award that honors grassroots environmental activists from across the globe. LeeAnne Walters is the North American recipient of…
By Gary G. Kohls, MD, guest to Natural Blaze (Not Mentioning the Hundreds of Leaky Tailings Dams or the Potential Catastrophic Breaches that will Likely Occur if Copper/Nickel/Sulfide Mining is Allowed in Northern Minnesota) The following group of 5 photographs were taken after the catastrophic Teton River…
By Carey Wedler Scientists with the Ocean Cleanup Company are gearing up to tackle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an expanse of garbage in the Pacific Ocean that contains as many as 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic and spans 617,763 square miles. Using a device designed by 23-year-old…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Did you know that there is an aquatic moss that clears 80 percent of arsenic from a water jug in less than an hour? When pollution strikes – or builds up over the years – leave it to humble water plants to…
By Catherine J. Frompovich Earth Day 2018 came and went with no significant discussion(s) about, and pertaining to, high technology devices, microwaves in the Gigahertz and higher ranges—e.g. 6G!, including transmission infrastructures, e.g., cell towers and mini-cell towers for 5G, and implementation protocols which are…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze New research in both Europe and the United States has demonstrated yet another disturbing link between insecticides known as neonicotinoids and their adverse effects on honey bees. Prior to the research, which was conducted at the University of Buenos Aires by Carolina Gonalons…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze The November, 2017 Keystone crude oil pipeline leak in South Dakota turns out to have been the one of the largest U.S. inland oil spills since 2010. Robynn Tysver, TransCanada Corp spokeswoman, told the Aberdeen American News that some 9,700 barrels of…
By Kathleen Rogers By now most of us have read that plastic, that incredibly useful product that all of us use every day, is fast becoming public enemy number one. We have been using plastics for decades and as a result, plastic is everywhere: in our…
By Markab Algedi, Natural Blaze From my personal observation, the spraying in Northern California has significantly decreased in general since the escalation I witnessed in 2016 and to a lesser extent the first half of 2017: the skies being sprayed with geoengineering materials. This article will make…
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…
