Water Pollution

Jason South/The Age/Getty Images How Big Oil and Big Soda kept a global environmental calamity a secret for decades March 3, 2020 Every human on Earth is ingesting nearly 2,000 particles of plastic a week. These tiny pieces enter our unwitting bodies from tap water, food, and even the air,…

WASHINGTON – About a third of the delegates needed to secure the Democratic presidential nomination are up for grabs in the voting bonanza known as Super Tuesday. To put it in perspective, there were 155 pledged delegates available in the race's first four contests, which were the obsession of the candidates, voters, pundits…

©Linda Alterwitz, from the series Lost Ground This week, our Art + Science Editor, Linda Alterwitz, shares the work of photographers making work about the phenomenon of Nature and Nurture, where nature is a force for healing and renewal, but also a force that needs care and consideration. Linda states:…

In addition to longstanding objectives like the reduction of chemical fertilisers and pesticides, the European Commission envisages setting three more targets in its new flagship food policy, EURACTIV can reveal. The three new objectives relate to decreasing the use of antimicrobials for farmed animals, increasing the EU’s land area dedicated…

Despite its claims of being a ‘Smart City’, there seems to be no solution to Pune’s garbage disposal problems with residents of Uruli Devachi and Phursungi villages stopping the civic body’s garbage trucks from dumping waste in the landfill near their villages for the fifth consecutive day on Saturday. The…

Renewable energy is clean, does not deplete and competitive alternative source of energy. This implies that renewable sources are replacing fossil fuels in power generation because of its abundance, diversity, and most of all it does not give off greenhouse gases to the environment. However, not all renewable sources are…

CARTHAGE, Mo. (AP) — A manufacturer of commercial explosives will pay a $2.9 million civil penalty and make substantial improvements to plants in Missouri to settle a federal lawsuit contending it discharged excessive amounts of pollutants into two waterways.The Environmental Protection Agency sued Dyno Nobel Inc. in 2019 for violating…

Photo by Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash Every business on the planet, no matter how small, has a responsibility to dispose of waste properly, as well as to participate with the global community in a search for answers. In this post, we discuss some common waste disposal problems and suggest some useful remedies. The…

Representative Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) introduced legislation today that would set a national goal of reaching net zero carbon emissions from the U.S. agriculture sector by 2040. The Agriculture Resilience Act also introduces sweeping changes to federal conservation and agriculture programs to reach that goal.“It’s definitely the biggest, most comprehensive climate…

Pronghorn and barbed wire fence, Paradise Valley, Montana. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Recently the Greater Yellowstone Coalition announced they were working to reduce the wildlife impacts of fences. Not by removing the fences but by changing the wire on them to facilitate easier wildlife passage. Fences, as the Coalition noted,…