By Cap Allon At the risk of writing the most redundant statement on the web: Today’s scientific establishment has been utterly corrupted. Those ‘scientists’ at the higher echelons, the ones effectively in control of a given field are firmly rooted – knowingly or not –…
By Jon Hersey Fionn Fereira grew up on the majestic southern coast of Ireland, but by the time he was twelve, he was noticing a strange sheen in the water. It was caused by microplastics, tiny plastic particles no more than 5mm long, which no…
By Tyler Durden Fukushima officials have admitted that they have “neglected to investigate” faulty exhaust filters that have been put in place to prevent radioactive pollution from the premises. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, who operates the plant, disclosed the revelation on Monday of this…
By Jessica Corbett Following decades of protests and demands over the damage done, Royal Dutch Shell on Wednesday finally agreed to pay $111 million for oil spills that have polluted Nigerian communities for more than a half-century. “They ran out of tricks and decided to…
By Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres The fact that microplastics can accumulate organic pollutants from the environment and transport them has been known for some time. What is new, however, is that metals can also be transported in this manner. In addition, the smaller…
By Tyler Durden Following the World Health Organization’s formal declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world quickly mandated the use of face masks in public spaces. This led to a massive demand shock, prompting factories to begin producing disposable masks at full capacity….
By Amal Jayasinghe More dead turtles washed up on Sri Lankan beaches Friday, underscoring the environmental blight caused by a container ship fire off the country’s coast. The Singapore-registered MV X-Press Pearl was carrying hundreds of tonnes of chemicals and plastics when it caught fire…
By Hom Dhakal, University of Portsmouth Plastics are very useful materials. They’ve contributed significant benefits to modern society. But the unprecedented amount of plastics produced over the past few decades has caused serious environmental pollution. Packaging alone was responsible for 46% out of 340 million…
By Elias Marat Over 27,000 barrels of the toxic insecticide DDT have been found so far on the seafloor about 12 miles off the coast of Los Angeles, in what could be one of the greatest examples of industrial pollution uncovered in recent memory. The…
By Tyler Durden The American Lung Association has released its 22nd annual State of the Air Report. Statista’s Niall McCarthy details that it found that 135 million Americans live with polluted air that is putting their health and lives at risk. It also found that the…
By Kathleen Haughney Pollution from minuscule pieces of plastic, or microplastics, has been a growing concern for scientists, public health advocates and environmentalists as these nondegradable items have increasingly made their way into waterways and even the air we breathe. Now, a team of Florida…
American Chemical Society Tomatoes are an important and popular crop, but the tasty ketchup, salsa and pasta sauce they yield comes at a price: overuse of chemical fertilizers. Now, researchers report in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry they have recruited a fungus to…
By Matthew Jones, University of Bath and Jack Payne, University of Bath It’s impossible to imagine everyday life without plastics. Lightweight, durable and cheap, these materials outperform many others in a diverse range of applications. Plastics have brought about positive change in ways we often…
By Patricia Burke There are unresolved issues about blanketing low earth orbit (LEO) with satellites, in order to provide wireless telecommunications, surveillance, and military activities from space. As we count down to the March 19, 20th Global Protest actions, coinciding with the Equinox, we’re looking…
By Patricia Burke There are unresolved issues about blanketing low earth orbit (LEO) with satellites, in order to provide wireless telecommunications and surveillance, from space. In Part 1, we looked at the fact that “there are no trashcans in space.” “NASA scientist Donald Kessler warned…
By Mayukh Saha The strait of Messina is the submarine bridge that separates Sicily from the peninsular region of Italy. It has recently been observed that the Messina Strait area has the world’s largest density of ocean floor littering. The density of marine litter in…
By Mayukh Saha What are microplastics? How are they generated? What impact do they have on the environment and human health? Can it be eradicated from the planet? These questions have started haunting the human mind and we need immediate answers to them. Consequently, well-organized,…
By Elizabeth Claire Alberts Jana Winderen finds it hard to get away from human noise. As a sound artist, she’s traveled to some remote parts of the world — from the Barents Sea to the North Pole to a small fishing village in Thailand —…
By Andrea Germanos Global environmental justice campaigners heralded a Dutch court’s ruling Friday that Royal Dutch Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary must pay punitive restitution to Nigerian villages for oil spill contamination that brought death, illness, and destruction to Nigerian farmers and communities. “After 13 years, justice!”…
Underwater seagrass meadows may trap, extract and carry marine plastic debris to shore, thereby helping to remove plastic litter from the sea, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. Previous research suggested that most plastics end up in the seafloor and that some are…
