Egyptian Girl Discovers How to Turn Plastic Trash into $78 Million Biofuel

October 2, 2016 Environment

By Vandita At 16, Azza Abdel Hamid Faiad, a teenager from the Zahran Language School in Alexandria, won the European Fusion Development Agreement award for inventing a cost-effective way to turn a million tons of plastic trash that Egypt produces every year, into biofuel worth $78 million. Impressed with Faiad’s trash-to-fuel formula to address the country’s […]

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New Study Blames Fracking For Spike In Oklahoma Earthquakes

October 1, 2016 Environment

By Whitney Webb For years, scientists and other have speculated that the spike in earthquakes in Oklahoma was linked to natural gas extraction via the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as “fracking”, is hugely controversial due to its permanent destruction of groundwater and drinking water as well as its use […]

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Alert: 218 Million Americans Poisoned with a Cancer-causing Toxin that Erin Brockovich Fought Against

September 29, 2016 Environment

By Amando Flavio In 1993, the environmental activist, Erin Brockovich, despite not being trained in the law, built a case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) of California. Erin’s case against PG&E claimed the contamination of drinking water, saying  the dangerous cancer-causing substance hexavalent – or chromium-6 -existed in the southern California town of Hinkley. […]

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Over 20 Arrested After Militarized Police Raid NoDAPL Prayer Ceremony

September 29, 2016 Environment

By Lauren McCauley, NB Water protectors say that “with state police protecting Dakota Access Pipeline,” President Obama’s “words are meaningless.” According to photographer Rob Wilson, who documented Wednesday’s raid, “roughly 150 peaceful Water Protectors gathered for prayer near construction sites of the Dakota Access Pipeline…and were met with a heavy show of force by authorities.” (Photo: […]

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“Environmentally Friendly” Products Can Be Seriously Unfriendly to You and the Environment

September 28, 2016 EnvironmentHealth And WellnessTop

By Heather Callaghan, Editor Unfortunately words like “environmentally friendly,” “green” or even “biodegradable” may just be a form of green washed, sleight-of-hand that have nothing to do with your or your pets’ health. Since the 1990s, we’ve had a virtually unregulated uprising of chemical products. Back then, there were an estimated 80,000 to 120,000 [1] unregulated […]

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Investors Call on 16 Global Food Producers to Divest From Factory Farming

September 28, 2016 Environment

By Derrick Broze Investors worth trillions of dollars have launched a campaign calling on the world’s 16 largest food companies to begin investing in plant-based protein to combat environmental and health risks associated with animal agriculture. The Farm Animal Investment Risk and Return (FAIRR) has organized a group of 40 investors in a campaign to […]

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Even Legal Levels Of Monsanto’s Glyphosate Damage The Environment

September 25, 2016 EnvironmentGMOVideo

By Whitney Webb A new study published by a group of Brazilian researchers in the journal Phycologia shows that Monsanto’s most popular herbicide Roundup negatively affects life in freshwater ecosystems. More specifically, legal levels of Roundup, as well as those of its main ingredient glyphosphate, can alter and kill macroalgae (i.e. freshwater seaweed) by inhibiting […]

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Will the Gulf of Mexico Remain a Dumping Ground for Offshore Fracking Waste?

September 25, 2016 Environment

By Sue Sturgis When you think of a fracking site, the image that comes to mind is probably a bare-scraped well pad in a rural or maybe suburban landscape, topped with a drilling rig and other industrial infrastructure, and a fleet of trucks to haul materials needed for the controversial process that involves high-pressure injection […]

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Wake Up Call — Bumble Bee Just Proposed for U.S. Endangered Species Status

September 22, 2016 EnvironmentNatural Health News

By Matt Agorist Earlier this month, mosquito eradication efforts in South Carolina, gone horribly wrong, resulted in almost total devastation to the indigenous bee populations. The pesticide used to target the Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti species of mosquito, which can carry and transmit the Zika virus, killed off millions of bees. This single incident […]

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Why Is Environmental Damage Of War Considered A Taboo Subject?

September 22, 2016 Environment

By Diane Mantzaris While Australia’s so called progressive left has been hollering about the environmental damage caused to our planet and lamenting the impact of climate change, they still find it “too difficult” to make a call for an end to Australia’s participation in the US/allied dirty war on Syria. This resistance to speak out […]

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Corporate Media Silent as States Declare Emergency In Aftermath Massive Pipeline Rupture

September 19, 2016 Environment

By Claire Bernish Since an Alabama mine worker first alerted Colonial Pipeline officials to a massive rupture, more than a quarter million gallons of refined gasoline have poured into a waterway, threatening the environment and health of residents in Shelby County. Colonial insists the spill has been contained in a mining retention pond and booms […]

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Riot Police Begin Mass-Arrests at Dakota Access Pipeline, FB Censors Video

September 13, 2016 Environment

By Nick Bernabe North Dakota — It didn’t take long after the National Guard was activated in North Dakota for militarized law enforcement to descend upon the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Today, mass arrests began as riot gear-clad police attempted to break up Native American opposition to the construction of the pipeline, which has […]

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Justice Department Overrules Court, Dakota Access Pipeline Construction Halted

September 12, 2016 Environment

By Nick Bernabe North Dakota — On Friday, a federal court sided with Energy Transfer Partners, allowing the company to continue construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline. The ruling came after the Standing Rock Sioux tribe attempted to halt the pipeline’s construction through the justice system because they claimed it would violate federal laws and […]

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North Dakota Governor Activates National Guard Against Pipeline Protest

September 9, 2016 Environment

By Nick Bernabe North Dakota — Previously peaceful protests at the construction site of the Dakota Access pipeline have officially been militarized. North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple has called on the state’s National Guard to reinforce law enforcement at the construction site where Native American protesters are currently blocking further development. Over the weekend, peaceful protests turned […]

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California Shrugged Again – Govt Set to Expand Pollution of Potential Drinking Water Reserves

September 8, 2016 Environment

By Abrahm Lustgarten, Pro Publica California and EPA Poised to Expand Pollution of Potential Drinking Water Reserves A little-known program under federal environment law is being used to permit oil and gas companies to inject waste into the state’s aquifers, even as the thirst for groundwater grows. As the western United States struggles with chronic water […]

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South Carolina Prepares for Round 2 of Bee-Killing Zika Spraying

September 7, 2016 Environment

By Brandon Turbeville Apparently in South Carolina, a million dead bees are not enough. Fresh on the heels of the annihilation of millions of bees in Dorchester County, as a result of the Zika hysteria, Charleston County Mosquito Control is planning to conduct aerial spraying from Sept 7 – Sept 12 “on standing water.” According […]

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Cleaning up 2014 Nuclear Waste Disaster in United States may Cost more than $2 Billion

September 4, 2016 Environment

By Amando Flavio In February 2014, radioactive materials leaked from a damaged storage drum in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), located in the state of New Mexico, United States. According to United States federal government officials, the WIPP is the world’s third deepest geological repository, licensed to permanently dispose of transuranic radioactive waste for 10,000 years, […]

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Costa Rica Has Been Thriving On 100% Renewable Energy For 113 Days (And Counting!)

September 4, 2016 Environment

By Amanda Froelich If Costa Rica continues to thrive on renewable energy sources, it will likely match the record it set last year when it ran completely on renewable energy sources for 285 days. And, if this is accomplished, the Latin American country will prove once again that fossil fuels are no longer necessary to keep […]

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Millions of Bees Dead After South Carolina Aerial Zika Spraying Despite Toxicity Knowledge

September 1, 2016 Environment

By Heather Callaghan “Nuked” bees. A little known aerial, pesticide spraying campaign in South Carolina led to a devastating instant mass bee death… Zika virus hysteria has now reached untold heights. First it was the morbid but questionable association with microcephaly, the strange timing of releasing genetically engineered mosquitoes, vaccine development at break-neck speed, and […]

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What Do Smart Meters And Vaccinations Have In Common?

August 19, 2016 EnvironmentVaccines

By Catherine J Frompovich Jerry Day of Freedom Taker.com has produced an exceptional new video wherein he explains in detail what Smart Meters and Vaccinations have in common.  It’s called “Conditional Acceptance,” a term and a legal tactic whereby you can refuse anyone who pressures you to sign either an “opt-out” agreement for a Smart […]

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