Water Pollution

It has slowed down the spread of infections; air and water pollution have also come down TopicsCoronavirus | Supreme Court | Lockdown At the end of May 3, the 40th day of the lockdown, there were 42,505 cases of infection and 1,391 deaths. The hardship the lockdown has imposed on the country is well…

Industrial animal farming has caused most new infectious diseases in humans in the past decade – and risks starting new pandemics as animal markets have done, experts are warning. Experts from both the UN and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) have pinpointed animals or food of animal origin as…

In early April, as much of the East Coast continued to sink into COVID-19 crisis mode, a heavy storm dumped rain across Massachusetts and New Hampshire, overwhelming local wastewater treatment plants. Plant operators would later report that millions of gallons of raw sewage overflowed into the Merrimack River, which supplies…

Water pollution is real and a menace that can ruin the quality of life for the generations to come. In addition to uncontrolled fishing and dumping, the use of luxury yachts and ships is a potential problem – which if unchecked, could ruin the environment. However, helping us with a…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain On March 1, New York State instituted its plastic bag ban, joining seven other states in an attempt to lessen litter, garbage in landfills, ocean pollution, and harm to marine life. March 1 was also the day that New York acknowledged its first coronavirus case. And…

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has ruled that a lawsuit can proceed challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to update national standards to control water pollution from slaughterhouses. Wednesday’s decision, in a lawsuit filed by community and conservation groups late last year, deferred for later consideration…

Thomas Jefferson was an amateur paleontologist and published a scholarly paper on the prehistoric Megalonyx—a giant sloth. John Quincy Adams had a passion for astronomy. Abraham Lincoln applied for and received a patent for a device to lift boats off of sandbars. James Garfield developed a mathematical proof of the…

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This story was originally published by Grist and is posted here as part of an ongoing collaboration. Pedestrians have taken over city streets, people have almost entirely stopped flying, skies are blue (even in Los Angeles!) for the first time in decades, and global CO2 emissions are on-track to drop…

“Supreme Court: Dimming the Light of Sinai.” The New York Sun has published this editorial. “Why a case about jury verdicts could spell trouble for Roe v. Wade”: Columnist Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The Washington Post. “Originalism and ‘Dual-Track Incorporation'”: William Baude has this post at the…